I think this is the first time I am rating a game less than 3 points. This one has OK graphics, but it's an unplayable Engrish mess full of contradictory information.
Here is how my attempt to play went: After I chose an 'avatar', which apparently determines some game stats, I was woken up by my mother and could look up a lot of information about her. Apart from the choice to do this (and apparently unlock some things thereby) or not, everything I experienced from this point before getting stuck was purely kinetic. My mom told me to buy a gift for a friend. While she was in the shower, the game decided for me that I would write a petition asking for the castration of some idiots who were making noise outside with their cars. Then instead of buying the gift I had no choice but to go to school, where for some reason I listened to the radio and watched an older guy (a teacher? the director?) being roughed up by thugs. I had no choice but to ignore this. I had no choice but to enter my classroom and look at three girls while still listening to the radio. Then I automatically told the teacher to sign my petition, which she very happily did without reading it. Apparently she did so because of my immensely high reputation, which I somehow had despite my mom's incredibly low reputation. At that point I was apparently thrown into a sandbox or something, but the only thing I could click was my own profile. My own profile was mostly empty, but included a lot of personal information written by my dad that totally contradicted my mom's profile. As I couldn't find anywhere to click to advance the game, I gave up.
Maybe all of this was just a practical joke. A punishment for choosing the 'wrong' avatar? But I don't even remember which one I selected. I am not going to try again with other avatars to see if there is one that works. And I am not going to spend hours pixel hunting to see if there is a way to advance the game.
(Added later: I did try once more. Turns out the interface behind the jukebox icon -- the only thing that is clickable -- is actually the inventory rather than just a jukebox as it seems to be on first sight. I found out when I thought about whether spending all my money to change the song might advance the game. Turns out the petition is in your inventory and you have to 'use' it to give it to the teacher so she signs it. No idea why this one non-optional action is singled out in this way. After that the game became kinetic again. School was over almost immediately, and I met some people. As this was yet another totally weird social situation, I gave up for good and deleted the game.)
If you like the graphics a lot, play the old version. I haven't tried it, but others wrote it was OK. Then if you want to look at the new images, just use unrpa to extract everything from game/pictures.rpa. The file structure of the extracted archive is chaotic, so you may want to sort the images differently.
But personally I don't think the graphics are worth a 9 GB download.
Here is how my attempt to play went: After I chose an 'avatar', which apparently determines some game stats, I was woken up by my mother and could look up a lot of information about her. Apart from the choice to do this (and apparently unlock some things thereby) or not, everything I experienced from this point before getting stuck was purely kinetic. My mom told me to buy a gift for a friend. While she was in the shower, the game decided for me that I would write a petition asking for the castration of some idiots who were making noise outside with their cars. Then instead of buying the gift I had no choice but to go to school, where for some reason I listened to the radio and watched an older guy (a teacher? the director?) being roughed up by thugs. I had no choice but to ignore this. I had no choice but to enter my classroom and look at three girls while still listening to the radio. Then I automatically told the teacher to sign my petition, which she very happily did without reading it. Apparently she did so because of my immensely high reputation, which I somehow had despite my mom's incredibly low reputation. At that point I was apparently thrown into a sandbox or something, but the only thing I could click was my own profile. My own profile was mostly empty, but included a lot of personal information written by my dad that totally contradicted my mom's profile. As I couldn't find anywhere to click to advance the game, I gave up.
Maybe all of this was just a practical joke. A punishment for choosing the 'wrong' avatar? But I don't even remember which one I selected. I am not going to try again with other avatars to see if there is one that works. And I am not going to spend hours pixel hunting to see if there is a way to advance the game.
(Added later: I did try once more. Turns out the interface behind the jukebox icon -- the only thing that is clickable -- is actually the inventory rather than just a jukebox as it seems to be on first sight. I found out when I thought about whether spending all my money to change the song might advance the game. Turns out the petition is in your inventory and you have to 'use' it to give it to the teacher so she signs it. No idea why this one non-optional action is singled out in this way. After that the game became kinetic again. School was over almost immediately, and I met some people. As this was yet another totally weird social situation, I gave up for good and deleted the game.)
If you like the graphics a lot, play the old version. I haven't tried it, but others wrote it was OK. Then if you want to look at the new images, just use unrpa to extract everything from game/pictures.rpa. The file structure of the extracted archive is chaotic, so you may want to sort the images differently.
But personally I don't think the graphics are worth a 9 GB download.