For instance, a thing I really like in *Tales from the Loop*: the scenes (by rule) alternate between scenes that progress the investigation of the mystery and "slice-of-life" scenes centered around one kid.
It captures a lot of the feel of the "kids on bikes" genre, it naturally creates rising and falling tension w.r.t. the monsters/bad things; it forces immersion as players take roles in another character's private life; and IME it creates the frenetic "I have to go spy on the lab *and* get my sister home from soccer practice" feel of a kid in, say, Hawkins, Indiana.