i think about this game a lot because, yeah it was a fun flash game i played A LOT when i was a kid, but it's such a perfect combination of all the types of flash games i liked. the simple quests, the constant progression, the "moral choices", the stupid references and meta humor. it all perfectly portrays how i remember basically every game i liked playing back then. there just aren't games like this anymore. i'd love a more modern game like this. just a small open world where you do jobs and buy houses and marry girls and it's all populated by jokes that will be outdated in a month. i guess games like that do exist but they're about youtubers or some kind of bad micro-transaction clicker thing.

putting aside its bad sense of humor and relatively small amount of content, it's just a great game. i loved it when i was 13 and i still like it now. i don't know anything about the people who made this game, but i hope they've kept making games and also have matured since 2011.

As a flash game, this was a cute and novel time waster that was fun to return to. If we're judging this as a flash game, I'd say it does a pretty good job. If we're judging this as a game that's ten more dollars than it needs to be on Steam, though... yeah, two-and-a-half stars. It has performance issues, the RPG part of this RPG feels underdeveloped, sidequests and characters aren't engaging, and a lot of the content feels superfluous. Again, all of that worked when this was tied to a web browser that you had open while you were on your lunch break at school. But on its own, it doesn't hold up.