3/17/2021 0 Comments Bully Scholarship Edition Review
Passing your lesson means gaining a new reward, whether it be new clothing, new melee combos, or better aim with your slingshot.Thats the first indication, but hardly the last, that this version of Rockstar Games boisterous look at schoolyard folly is just a quick cash-in.There seems to be little regard for the platform here: The game suffers from numerous bugs and glitches, the keyboard and mouse controls are awkward, and for a game that hardly pushes the capabilities of a halfway decent computer, it performs poorly.Its too bad, because at heart, Bully is one of the better gameplay experiences in recent years, letting you break a drunken schoolteacher out of an asylum, help the lunch lady drug her date, steal panties from the girls dorm, and take pictures of snotty kids sitting on the lap of a homeless Santa.
But with little in the way of meaningful additions and all sorts of platform-specific problems, Bully on the PC just feels rushed. Assuming you can look past all the frustrations and dont mind eschewing the keyboard and mouse in favor of an Xbox 360 controller, youll find an entertaining experience with heavy doses of humor and attitude. As new-kid-on-the-block Jimmy, you find your sneering self dumped at Bullworth Academy, a private school populated by the usual cliques we all came to know and hate in our own adolescences. By fulfilling missions, youll progress from one chapter to the next, alternately gaining sway over one social circle while alienating another. One of Bullys many brilliant aspects is the variety it throws into these tasks. At one point, youll man a potato-spewing turret to defend arm-flailing, bedwetting nerds from invading jocks; at another, a professor instructs you to infiltrate the preppies dorm and kill a prized Venus flytrap. The story at the heart of Bully is incredibly involving, and Jimmy is both charming and exasperatingly cocky. Hes also believable and is likely to remind you of at least one person you know or knew in your younger years. First off, you have an incredible script bursting with both cringe-inducing realism and snort-out-loud one-liners. A romantic interest says Im such a player after flowers and a kiss; cafeteria cook Edna tells you that hawking a loogie into the mystery stew gives it flavor. At first glance, these moments seem to play to stereotype, but each character transcends labels and comes across as remarkably individual. Second of all, the voice acting is utterly spectacular, from the main cast to the hysterical quips from minor characters you overhear in your travels. Youre hardly stuck moving in a straight march from one mission to the next. As you play, more and more of the academy and its surrounding community open up, giving you plenty of leeway to explore Bullys many unique nooks and crannies. If you choose to stay on campus, you can attend class in the morning or afternoon. In biology class, you must carve open a specimen and remove its vital organs in an allotted amount of time--and its much tougher than it sounds. In geography, you must place the appropriate flag on its corresponding country. Math takes a Brain Age approach by asking you to quickly solve simple math problems, whereas music class involves a rhythm-based minigame.
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