HTML - Onhold - Old School Blazin' [v0.6.6] [ikkabod]

Really like the game. it is really sexy and i especially love the gym dude, its a really sexy seduction type method. i do wish there was a way to go submissive route without feminisation, but it is what it is.

I love the aesthetic of this game. The 90s nostalgia added such a unique flavor. I really enjoyed the writing as well. I just wish the paths were more distinct. Like, if I'm playing the alpha path why is Bonnie suddenly cucking me after confessing her love to me on the literal previous page? Why are Jan And Kate forcing me to cross dress? Stuff like that makes the game feel more kinetic than anything. Like, if you wanna make a transformation game, do it. But don't give the player the illusion of choice in the matter. (Also thought using a pic of Fat Joe for Gary was super corny.)

3* for a jumbled mess with potential.

Fuck it! I tried...

This game has been on my list of "to play" for a while. Weed, rock, and the nineties? Sounds like a nostalgia trip for me. The problem is this game is incoherent at best and very back and forth railroaded. It seems straight forward at first. MC wakes up, goes to school, can talk to a friend, goes to classes, lunch, gym, home.

My real issue is there is no hook, no set up, no reason for us as the player to really care about anything. Then, while not really careing and trying to give the game a chance, I got to the like third or fourth drama class at Bonnie's house. The one that makes Gary the worst person in the world to ever be called a friend, and honestly makes no god damn sense at all. MC is railroaded into eating Gary's cum, the man who is suppose to be one of his best friends, and then after freaking out about it, as any 90's teenage boy would, he willingly stays and eats his own cum for this crazy bitch. Who I can only imagine enjoys inflicting the most emotional pain possible onto people. Tricking them just to stab them in the heart and right at the end, making sure to twist the knife slowly for good measure.

This isn't even counting the first encounter with Will that made me want to stop playing right then and there. None of these are realistic reactions to any of the situations presented.

I actually enjoy transformation games, both quick/instant or slow, including gender swap, sissy, bimbo, male or female MC's. It's kind of my favorite category. But this game within the first few hours of playing and reading don't give me any reason to care or feel like there is any need for a transformation. Nor was there much of one, but I could quickly tell this wasn't going down a rabbit hole, it was jumping of a fucking cliff.

There is a reason why so many of these types of games are about a debt to the mob, blackmail, or some sort of driving force as to why the events of the game take place, and why the MC is willing to bend their personal rules in order to keep up with that driving force. This didn't have any of that and then get to the scene that did nothing but piss me off...

Let me explain this scene for you, it's the first week of school. MC has some friends who he hangs out with here and there. Gary is one of them, and MC describes Gary as being one of if not his best friend. MC met a girl, Bonnie, in drama class, and has been hanging out at her house for said classes. Bonnie after a few days, still in the first week of school mind you, Bonnie invites MC over, like normal, and as he walks into the living room where she is, Gary jumps him and essentually breaks MC's nose. Bonnie seems nice and rushes off to get MC a towel. Now it was at this point I was assuming that Gary, who I have no idea why he was there, decided to rough house or play fight, jumping MC and hit too hard. Understandable, but no that is not the case. As MC waits in the living room for Bonnie to get him that towel Bonnie is actually blowing Gary, but MC doesn't learn this until she comes back and starts taking care of his nose and giving him a kiss to push Gary's cum into MC's mouth. Gary watches and laughs and the walks out the door. During MC's understandable freak out Bonnie explains that she thought he would like it seeing how he, again unknowingly, sucked Gary's cum out of her pussy the day before. Which just makes MC freak out even more, again to be expected. Then this crazy whore manhandles MC, forcefully sodomizes him with her fingers while milking his cock with her mouth and then goes to kiss MC, to feed him his own cum, which he now accepts willingly.

And none of this is ever really hinted at before to the reader, it's just as much of a shock to the reader as it is to MC, which might be the point, but it's going to turn away a lot of people because again we are given no reason to care about MC's story at this point. We care about MC because we are controlling him, but that's it. It takes all agency out of the hands of the reader/player. It surprises the player/reader out of left field with an un realistic situation and outcome. And that's just one scene. But that was just what broke the camel's back for me. I was expecting a mature game, but this feels like it's being written by a high schooler who doesn't know reality just feels like it would be funny to torment MC.

And I get it, most of these games are unrealistic. I'm not looking for a Life Sim over here. But let's take a few examples shall we? Perverted Education, MC gets caught in a compromising situation, teacher is going to narc to the principle which will be bad both at school and at home, but she compromises and essentially blackmails MC into bending a little to "make up" for his indescressions. This starts MC down the rabbit hole of feminization over time. Next The Good Son, debt to the mob story, has to make weekly payments, needs to make money to save himself and his mother. Gets a job where he has to wear costumes and dress up, slowly things start to change, the more he changes the more money he can make and keep up with the payments. Once you get someone to bend once due to a third party force, they bend more easily and the next choice isn't that big of a problem. And so MC goes down the rabbit hole. The stories might be far fetched but each individual scene is believable. The character reactions to them are believable. Old School Blazin' isn't believable.

Hardly any content despite being around for quite a long time and already at 0.5.0. Whole game currently has less than an hour of real content to see. The fact that the dev leaves in placeholders for future content only highlights how little has been done, because every update the placeholders remain.

I really enjoy this game. The different possibilities. How easy is to try something different.
And it's nice to see that after a long time without update, it's back on track with regular update.
I usually skip the RPG part, but it seems Ikkabod spent a long time on it. So maybe I should check it out.

I found this to be a very interesting, well-written game.

Good:

--The story is fairly sophisticated and well written. Currently, you can play both alpha and omega roles in the game. It's well scripted and uses real porn images.
--You can play this gay, sub to femdom, or alpha, though there is currently more content for the subpaths.
--You can opt-out of the gay content and it is possible to avoid gay content if you want.
-- if you love D&D stuff, the content here is interesting but there is a lot more content for the subpath. It also has some real puzzles you have to solve.

Bad:
--Too much effort was put into the D&D game and it can be distracting if you are not interested in the content.
--there's a lot of text to read. If you're only interested in porn this may not appeal.

Ultimately, there's an alpha/beta transformation at the end of what I consider episode 1, and the Dev is devoting a lot of development to the subpath in episode 2, so there is currently very little alpha content in ep 2.

Note that you start the game as a neutral male and fighting back is what increases your dominance and submitting to abuse is what seals your fate as a gay/submissive to femdom in the game. So, people will try to humiliate you even when you're on the alpha path. This is a similar approach to the Blacked and Whited game. You start in a weaker position and its how you deal with the challenges that put you on the alpha or the omega path.

If you want to start out as an alpha and remain an alpha there are many games you can play out there that will fit the bill. This probably isn't one of them. Personally, I found the idea of earning your alpha status as refreshing.

Note: I've played both the pure alpha and omega/beta paths for this game.

I've only played until day 5 so far on what I guess is the non sissy path, but I could tell right away that this game is a real gem. If you are a 90s kid, it will definitely hit you with nostalgia. The writing is one of the best I've seen. It's mostly a coming of age/slice of life kind of story as far as I can tell. The whole thing is very much grounded in reality and has a certain charm to it that you don't usually find in these games.

Edit: Ok I may have reviewed the game too soon lol. Towards the end of the first week, the story makes a sharp turn. Things get very heavy and start spiraling out of control for the character. There is a big surprise in the form of a magic blunt at the end of week 1 and that is where the version ends for the most part. The plot twists make for a big change in tone but the writing is still great. Eagerly waiting for updates!

The game has some really good writing. I love the scenarios that play out in game, they're seriously hot. This is probably the only game that has hit all the right spots for me. It also has a good choice system. Fav HTML game.

A game which combines two of humanity's most beloved things: drugs and sex. There is a bit of an exposition dump at the start where you're introduced to a bunch of characters. For now, the game ends right as things get interesting for a wide variety of story lines, but it can be assumed that most of them will be continued.