When I got to try People of Note back in February, I was generally pretty impressed with what I was seeing. The hands-on demo itself was fairly short, but it gave me a pretty good sense of the concepts this game wanted to capture. Like I said then, when it comes to games published by Annapurna, you can typically expect quality, but Iridium Studios really sold me on its genuine passion for making something really special.

I don’t know if I can say People of Note exceeded my expectations, since they were already pretty optimistic, but it was definitely consistent in confirming my predisposition. It’s a game that takes one core idea and hooks everything on it so completely and so creatively that it’s almost a miracle it didn’t fail. I guess it does pay off to do one thing right, if you’re going to do that one thing REALLY right.

The story of People of Note concerns Cadence, an aspiring pop star whose only dream is to compete in the Noteworthy Song Contest in... Read more