Paranormal Preparatory School

Saddly this is a no. You are treated to being mistreated, stuck with characters in situations you'ld honestly rather not be in, and it all together makes you feel disinterested. There is no motivation for your character to want to follow the plot. In a word its just not fun. On the positive side for those who complain a lot about stats not meaning anything and not being able to tell what choices use what stat, this story telegraphs that information from a mile away. To the point where the choices feel robotic and you just choose based on what "stats" you like and have built up. Honestly, as you can see from my play time I havnt even bothered to finish a single play through. The story killed my interest that quickly. As always YMMV.

I didn't think that it would be possible to make a story about a magical school filled with supernatural creatures with a portal to hell soon to be opening up boring, but the creator of this one pulled it off. I would stay away from this one.

The story is basically Twilight meets Harry Potter, with a dash of Lovecraft magic. It would have potential for a good story, but things move too fast and some things do not make sense. The school is billed as a school for the undead, only werewolves are not the undead nor immortal. The writing seems to imply that there is a town nearby with a pub, yet it is never really mentioned other than the start or in passing. And for a school for humans to be so close and next door, one would of thought that it would of been mentioned at the start and not just dropped in randomly. There are barely any classes beyond the gym class with the volley ball scene. Everything beyond that is just generic teenage drama. For all the stats offered, I get the sense that none of them can possibly get to 100 percent. A few don't even seem to become affected over time. Some hints in the dialogue and choices are too vague to tell which stat it is referring to, such as one question surrounding strength. Is strength the fighting skill, athletics, perhaps intimidation factor? I honestly can not say for sure. The romances happen too fast. My character in the first play through knew the werewolf for what seemed like not even three days, and already they are kissing. And while there tends to be choices in other Choice of Games stories to choose to go evil, there doesn't seem to be one for this game. It looks to be hard coded that the demon is either defeated in the end, or destroys the world. And I have yet to come across the latter. One would think that there would be a choice to side with the demon and then choose to take out one side or all sides. I spent over nine hours on this game only to be left disappointed. The ending is lackluster at best with everyone casually going on with their lives. At first I was hoping to even start a war between the werewolves and vampires in on play through, only it looks hard coded that everyone either gets along or just bears each other's presence more than usual. In the end the game is just basically Pretty Preppies with Paranormal Problems brought to you by the WB sort of story.

If you're looking for a good story, then this has it in spades. You will be hooked, pulled into the world, and thoroughly enjoy your time spent on this. I really enjoyed the world the author has built, I love the idea of a paranormal/supernatural boarding school, and was really impressed by the way the author managed to squeeze in world building between sarcastic commentary, stupid school antics, and threats to you and your classmates lives. I really enjoyed the subtle politics that would be behind the undead and humans trying to coexist and it never pushed the story or the characters out of the way. I really enjoyed the plot; the whole portal to hell is a good read, and this had a unique twist on it that really made it worth using what could be considered a cliche. The writing is excellent, and it keeps you hooked, you're pulled into the story, the world, as you read and make choices. Speaking of choices, there were plenty to keep you involved, and though you need to keep an eye on your stats, the game doesn't penalise you too badly if you mess up. You do look like a bit of a prat though, which, frankly, you would in real life if you messed up. The characters are all well done, and in a refreshing way. Despite there being typical tension between vampires and werewolves, there were enough nuances and new ideas to keep the idea from being stale. There were no caricatures, or stereotypical vampires, werewolves, or zombies in sight. In fact, the most terrifying character was the gym teacher. And he's supposedly human. And he was still absolutely hysterical. There was never a moment that fell flat, because the characters would have a witty or sarcastic remark, and I really liked the ability to help your friends and still stay in the middle and not be forced to pick a side. That being said, you can pick a side if you want to. Overall, I really enjoyed this game and will definitely play it again, trying different ways to get the good ending, and maybe even seeing what happens in the bad one. My only criticism is that the romances could have been better. They were good, but they took a back seat to the story and the world, and that's fine if it's your thing, but I'd rather all three were there. But yes, absolutely worth buying!

I want to like this book but it ends up being a lot of supernatural babysitting while you're shit on and left wondering why you're even in that position. You can focus on building up a romance/friendship with one of the vampires or werewolves, make ONE wrong skill check, and then that same person who supposedly has feelings for you will turn to you like you're the dumbest motherfucker they've ever met and make sure you know it too. If this game played out over some more time, or gave some more downtime to connect with NPC's before the main objective crops up over the course of a single night then maybe it'd allow room to actually like these people. Instead you're left with everything moving incredibly quickly right off the bat and navigating this plot while everyone essentially hates you except for maybe Michelle. It's not unrealistic because people don't get along right away, especially not with such a storied history between species, but the game expects you to be able to bring people together in an incredibly short in-game time frame. On a technical standpoint, the skill checks are almost always split into half. If you build an empathetic, sympathetic and kind character then half your choices benefit you and half are stats you probably never even tried to spec into because that's not your character. An easier way of saying it is that 50% of the time you're almost definitely fucked. You can go back and re-play the game over and over and over and over and over and over to spec into all the stats the game wants you to have in order to be balanced and pass every check but that leaves zero room for creating your own unique character with their own unique personality. No game should have your NPCs treat you like dogshit on their shoes for failing a single skill check and then you feel pressured to go back and restart again. This game is like the embodiment of one step forward two steps back when it comes to the issue of getting these fuckers to like you.

(play time is longer than shown, did like 4 more hours through the demo version after I bought it) I think for $3 (or $5) this is a pretty fun narrative game. Demo-ing 3 chapters gave a pretty good feel, and with the total amount being 10 chapters it seems a fair price. As for the game itself, I think the story was pretty interesting! I enjoyed the choice options, though I do wish that some of them were less in-your-face about which stat you needed to use/would be influenced by it. And in terms of stats, they were cool, but could have used some descriptions, or perhaps just more clearly updated? My saving the world bar was at like, 39% I think? Which was odd, since, well I did save the world LOL I feel like it should have been higher...? Despite it being a narrative game, I think that it would benefit a LOT from at least some background music. I ended up putting on some vibey/magic/spooky instrumental stuff on that really helped with the gameplay. And obviously this is more of a stretch, but art would be really awesome too, maybe of just some backgrounds or something. Granted that could just be me bc I'm an artist so that sort of thing stands out to me. All in all it was pretty fun, and I'll probably give it a replay for some different stat options. Cool stuff!

Its my 1st experience with this type of game but to be honest its actually really good on the 1st playthrough and then you can really fuck around and do whatever in the first time i was actually taken aback by how immersive a text based game is

I don't know how I was bored the entire time I was stopping some sort of apocalypse and dealing with 3 different levels of race issues.

Interesting story. Stat matter but it is not hard to figure out. Characters are interesting and well developed.

Every single choice is a skill check. Choices do not matter.

I enjoyed this game. The premise is interesting and I liked the writing style, which can tend a bit toward the snarky/sarcastic at times. I ended up appreciating the characters as well: it takes work to make the other students like your character, but it's rewarding when you do manage to get to know them. The fact that choices and the stats they correspond to are clearly signposted was also a plus for me, especially since you can't save as you go, so it's helpful to have a good idea of what you'll need in order to make a certain option successful before you choose it.

I kissed a zombie...and I liked it.

love it

Good