PC User Reviews

peak. one of a kind really. we dont see games like this anymore. if ı had a chance to play it again for the first time ı would play it again immidiently

The first constantly funny VN Ive ever played. While not as strong as the RE-UP, the first entry acts as a very solid starting point for the series.

generally fine, i think this game would be like 3 points lower if it didn't have voice acting

I was told that this game had very funny dark humor, was a good parody on dating sims, and an accurate piece to the late 2000s school experience. I found that this game hardly accomplished any of these goals. First and foremost, the humor. I am typically a fan of darker humor, but this game just falls flat with most of its attempts at humor. I believe the main problem stems from the game's main character: Nicole. I understand that it is no secret that Nicole is not a good person. However, Nicole goes beyond that into being the most insufferable, horrible, manipulative, intolerable, degenerate, unlikable character in any form of media I've ever experienced. The fact that she's our main character means we have to be around her the entire game. A lot of the attempts at humor come from Nicole's cynical quips and hardly any of them are actually funny. Although I hardly ever laughed when I went through this game, most of the times I did can be accounted for when Nicole received some kind of comeuppance for her actions. Then there's the idea that this is a parody of dating sims. It's marketed as a sort of "anti-dating sim", "rejection sim", etc. I guess in a way that is technically true since Nicole in most of the routes rejects the guys who make advances on her (I can think of maybe 2 or 3 times where she did, but it was usually short-lived, never going beyond a first date, and sometimes purely for self-serving purposes). While it does technically accomplish this purpose, I feel like this game's concept hardly works at all since with dating sims the routes you go down are often determined by which person you want to date. However, in a "rejection sim" you just reject every advance made towards you and go about your day and it kind of just ends there. This game does have multiple endings like a dating sim does, but hardly any of them actually involve Nicole dating anyone or involve her rejection of someone (I can think of one or two that did out of 15). If maybe the endings did involve the aftermath of her rejections more, I could maybe see this being a more effective "rejection sim". However, even then I just feel like this is just one of those attempts at being a trope subversion that just does not work. Finally, there's the idea that this is accurate to being in school in the late 2000s era, and I would say that this is half true. I was not quite in high school at the time this was set (I was in late elementary/early middle school at the time), but I still see certain parallels between this game's setting and my middle school experience (I do understand this was set in a high school, but I still saw certain parallels to my own middle school experience), and I would argue some of the tropes parodied in this game are still elements within high school to this day. They make all the right references for the time period as well, such as the relevant bands of the period. However, this game is definitely hyperbolic in its portrayal of its characters. I know there are some bad schools out there, but I question whether even some of the worst schools are as bad as the school portrayed in this game. Of the characters that get more than 5 minutes of screen time, I can't think of a single character that I can say I actually like except maybe Nicole's mother (although it's implied she's made mistakes in her past, she is still a decent person and probably the most likable of the cast in my opinion). Some characters I can tolerate a bit more than others like Principal Lynne, Crispin, and Jeffery, but even they do or say things that stop me from actually liking them. Everyone else with any meaningful amount of screen time is just intolerable. There's hardly even a single likable character among the whole cast, tolerable at best to horrible at worst. A visual novel/sim type game where you don't like any of the characters usually is not a recipe for a good experience, and that certainly is the case here. One positive I will give this game is that I do like that the entire game is voice acted and the actors typically do a good job in their roles. This game as a whole was just an insufferable mess that and arguably the worst visual novel or sim type game I've ever had the displeasure to play through. The only things keeping it from being a 1 or 0 are the voice acting and the (albeit hyperbolic) accuracy of the time period admittedly being somewhat nostalgic. In the end, playing this game was so painful to go through that it made me wish I had some Percocet.

Oh I thought the first game was funny or something, playing the other two made me feel like killing myself.

The game is well-written, nicely dubbed, fun to experience and somewhat relatable as a guy from that era. The game's first and second half is a bit disjointed. It has some problems and shortcomings but cannot deny its charm. 7/10 recommended for fans of the genre.

it is an excellent story that makes you think it's not just a game but a philosophical adventure that needs to be experienced by everyone. and the choices affect the story so much with 15 endings the story can show what it was actually like back then in school it is an educational story to those who were too young to remember what schools were like back then with the culture back then this is not a game it is an art and should be studied in schools everywhere.