Playing the OG after Re-Up is a funny thing. Nicole is more vulnerable, everyone is viler, and the humor is 'good' instead of 'holy shit my sides are obliterated'. I will say that the tone is darker, with many more bad endings than good ones: my favorite is the one where perjury lands you a life of luxury. My primary issue lies with the autoplay and ren'py in general - the dialogue wasn't synced up to the audio as often as I would have liked, and error screens were definitely more common than in Re-Up. Technical limitations aside, the voice acting was incredibly strong with Max Field as Kylar putting in one hell of a performance. Guy had that douchebag cadence locked down. It's commendable how the game goes full in on how miserable high school is while being absurd as shit all the while.

So yeah, it's a roughly hewn comedy with plenty of edge. I think it's alright.

By the way, if you dislike this game you're a fucking racist chud.

Reviewed on Nov 26, 2023


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