Happy somebody is continuing this story. It's hard to give an opinion on something that's so short for now (which is why I'm not writing a review just yet), but I'll try anyway.
I like that all the OG characters are still there, the fact that the humor is more present, and that it's overall a bit more Cliché. I think that when doing a game like this, where you play student teens discovering the joys of college life, having cliché American-Pie-style events but deep and developed characters is the best way to make for an interesting game, and I like that a lot about this new game.
Sadly, the game's graphics have a much lower quality than the original. I know cranking up the quality would either require a much better rendering PC, or would make for way shorter updates (which I don't want, lol). I just hope at some point the game will generate enough money to fix that issue.
I liked the use of music, there's never enough music in these games, it's often overlooked but so important if you plan on having any depth in your story. I also liked the transitions between scenes. In the original game, I sometimes felt there were not enough transition renders, that the story would skip ahead too much, but I didn't feel that in this game.
I don't really like that the mansion is the same mansion as the one from another game of the same genre that I won't name. It's a very famous and popular game too. I get that finding assets for a decent price might be hard, but at least not have assets that are the same as those from very popular games of the same genre would be great for the immersion.
I like the addition of the phone, it generally really help with the immersion, and it's a nice way of having some variety of content + it helps making the game less linear, which is great. That said, navigating the phone is a bit of a pain when you don't know how. There should be a bigger and more visible "back" button in my opinion, or a mini tutorial that tells you you need to click on the very bottom of the screen to go back. Also, in the stats tab on the phone, there are four icons at the bottom of the tab, one that looks like it's for copy / pasting, the 2 hearts, the discussion bubble, and a "your profile" icon. None of those icons do anything (so far), which isn't a problem in itself, if they are only meant to make the phone UI more realistic, but the chat bubble icon is bothering me, because there's a red circle on top of it, which usually means "unread notification". It makes you wanna click on it, but of course it doesn't work, and it's annoying to be fair, because it breaks the immersion, because it constantly reminds you that none of these icons work and that it's a barely functioning phone. Just removing the red circle would be a nice and easy fix, I think.
Anyway, thanks for continuing the story, and best of luck to you, I'll be following this game with great interest.
