Okay, I wrote a few pages back and complained about the writing, but I've been mulling over the game for the day and now I'm annoyed as hell. This game currently screams waste of potential. Regarding gameplay, it's solid. It's basically Summertime Saga and it "just works" alá Todd Howard. It has a VERY unique artstyle that reminds me of Shelley Duvall for some reason, but fuck it, it works. The characters all have a distinct look that makes them easy to identify and the high school premise thing may be cliché but once again, it fucking works.
The first thing to annoy me however is the linearity. It's as straight as a arrow, there are literally no choices or way to pick dialogue yet the game is almost a match made in heaven for that. You have stats like corruption and immorality and the game features a creeping split personality. It has been made for player choice yet there is none. Speaking of stats, the way to increase them is hilariously off-putting. You can told to increase your immorality but the way to do that is to just... talk to people. There's no choice, no player interaction. It's a fucking VN at this point which requires nothing of the player.
Secondly, the writing. Holy shit this is what drags it down. Let me just say; I get it. People like humiliation and degradation, but there are ways to go about it. Look up Perverted Education or Secretary. Both games feature this kind of content but it does so slowly and methodically. It doesn't just corrupt the PC, it corrupts the player while doing so (granted those games are about feminzation and shit but you get the picture). In those games characters are fairly unrealistic, but they get away with it because of good writing that hooks the player and creates immersion, and if you cannot do that, use comedy. A excellent example here is Summertime Saga. It's a easy game to get into because it has a comedic undertone, so when something unrealistic happens your mind happily accepts it because it knows that it's partially a comedy.
In TT I didn't find any kind of comedy to "glue" together the game. It starts out with bullying, sexual harrassment, and a split personality that frankly should have gotten the PC expelled for his comments. You stand up against bullies only to be hit by a car and later surrounded by students taking pictures of you. The owner of the car then casually says she will send the repair bill to you later to pay for the dent in the car. The scenario is outlandish as fuck and there is no single way in hell I can suspend my belief long enough to immerse myself in the game which is furthered hampered by the lack of dialogue choices. The only time I got invested into the game was when the black dude's dog took a shit on your lawn, and your landlady/mom went out and confronted him about it. Her whacking him in the head and his reaction was fucking hilarious, but it ended as quickly as it started as the dialogue then went about its merry business to sow Bloom&Gloom™ because fuck you apparently.
I want to like the game but damn, it made me so annoyed I wrote this whole fucking post about it. And I'm not even one bit less annoyed now that it's done. Holy shit I should contemplate my life.