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Don't understand all the hate this series has recently been getting on this site. It all just mostly feels like really sensitive people missing the point and getting butt hurt over nothing. I saw a review here saying the first game is xenophobic, despite the game very obviously making fun of it. I even sometimes see posts of people thinking the game is on Nicole's side. It isn't, with multiple routes here either having her being criticized for being a garbage person or her facing serious repercussions for her actions, sometimes both happen in a single route. The game does has a very dark and cynical sense of humor, and if those kind of jokes don't tickle your funny bone that's fine. However, it does not support shitty people or ideas. It's just portraying certain people within a certain time period in an exaggerated fashion. In my opinion, both games are incredibly funny and handle their subject matter well.

Anyways, this one is much better than the original. It's just as funny, while also managing to make the characters and story routes even more interesting and complex.

Possibly one of the most offensive games I have ever played but with probably the best and funniest dialogue at the same time.

Characters speak exactly how they should in real life, and, unlike every other VN, the game’s auto-text is manually timed to make the dialogue flow perfectly which makes every joke land. The naturalistic writing is supposedly like “It’s Always sunny in Philadelphia” but I’ve never seen that. I like it a lot.

Do not play this if you can't handle sensitive content I'm being 100% dead serious. This game is VERY mean to a lot of people and I would only recommend it to some very specific friends. I also can't really figure out the author's position on some stuff so I won't give them much.

This game isn't perfect.

But I'm giving it a perfect score anyway. I haven't gotten as much emotional enjoyment out of a game's story in so long. Nicole is a very interesting character in this one, and to be honest all of the students are.

Love it - support the kickstarter.

I really didn't like this one after like an hour or two of also playing with friends. While the original one was crass in a few ways it still managed to build up to jokes and do something really funny while this one has had an eyebrow-raising assault of crude sex jokes... that kept getting repeated over and over to the point of being uncomfortable. Sure, the original had a few of these, and those fell flat to us, but I thought it was about trying new things and making new jokes yet I seriously can't remember ANYTHING from our routes with this so far while I could remember many of the events in the original. It's seriously just "sex funny haha expletive" on loop. Which feels weirder and uncomfortable given the high school setting. Not like it makes it better for the original but, y'know, it was actually funny.

For my money? Don't bother.

After finishing this, I'm completely at a loss for what I should rate it. On the one hand, by committing so hard to making a game about Fucked Up Shit, you're going all-in on your jokes landing with the audience and they definitely do not always land. It's pretty easy to see why people are comparing this to Always Sunny (especially early IASIP) but one of IASIP's big strengths is weaving together A- and B-plots while peppering in other jokes, and the truth is that Class of '09 never has as much going on as IASIP does in any given episode, so you kinda gotta be on board with whatever sociopathic shit Nicole is getting up to. There are entire endings whose comedic premise just did not work, leaving us grimacing for 15-30 minutes straight as Nicole accidentally gets roped into an actual hate crime. It's got some clever jokes but you're just as likely to run into a 5-minute bit where the entire joke is "this person is being horrendously mean for literally no reason". (Note: I haven't played the first game, so I've almost certainly got some misplaced sympathy)

I gotta admit, though, it was a blast to stream this thing in a Discord call. It's got some really solid voice acting and the auto-text does a lot for comedic timing that could've easily been ruined if you let players click through this at their own pace. The game loves presenting you with some wild-ass choices too, so a lot of the fun is clicking shit like "commit charity fraud" or "skip school with the violent alt girl" and watching things immediately spiral out of control into "multiple felonies" territory. Emily is the greatest character of all time.

(this whole thing has me wondering what we're in for when that 20-year nostalgia cycle really hits)

new millennium princesses

one of those incredibly special stories that resonates so hard and reminds u oh YEAH i was a rlly bad person oh yeah im still physically the same person and even if I think ive changed for the better that doesn’t necessarily mean the ppl ive hurt think the same but yeah whatever oh well it’s like the baby thinks im a piece of shit sketch from i think u should leave

in love w how midwestern this feels like everything just happens at dairy queens or dave and busters or diners. there’s nothing to do in towns like these so it makes sense why some incredibly privileged ppl end up the way they do. still find nicole’s story to be incredibly empathetic and cathartic for me

the backgrounds for each scene r so underappreciated in how they look, consistently blurring the lines between reality and not, dude could make like a rlly good horror game one day this is like basically one tbh