| Review: | A short-but-broad CYOA-style game (input is through a menu of plot choices) about a guy's first day at a new high school, trying to win popularity. It took me a while to realize it, but it's actually fairly sophisticated as CYOA goes: the choices you're given in a situation depend on what you've been doing all along, thereby lifting the game above mere hypertext status. Some objectionable content - notably, in one plot branch, if you refuse to cheat on an exam, the authors deliberately leave the PC internal speaker on in order to punish you for making the wrong choice.
Rating: **
Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (22 Sep 2000)
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