Mía thought it was just a walking sim. A nostalgic trip through a sun-drenched, idealized Mexican village: papel picado fluttering, an old abuela making mole, a boy trying to impress a girl during the lluvia de estrellas —the August meteor shower. Version 0.2.4 had been charming. Broken, but charming. The boy would get stuck in a wall. The guitar minigame would crash the engine.
La Cucaracha Studios employs a vibrant color palette heavily influenced by Mexican folk art and modern urban aesthetics. The backgrounds in v0.2.5 move away from the static, grey-scale backgrounds of traditional noir-visual novels, utilizing saturated yellows, pinks, and blues to create a sense of heat and vitality. A Summer in Mexico -v0.2.5- -La Cucaracha Studios-
Narrative Design and Cultural Representation in Interactive Media: A Case Study of A Summer in Mexico (v0.2.5) Mía thought it was just a walking sim