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> Results: Brooktown High: Senior Year
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Sexual Themes: GamerDad played a tongue-kissing simulation among other activities. Simulated Gambling: 21 Knickers is pretty much strip poker. Strong Language: There were plenty of examples of F and S-words used throughout by the 'cool kids'. While I had no interest in going back to being 17 and a senior in high school, I was pretty intrigued by this game. The social gaming phenomenon in Japan has never hit here aside from The Sims, but this looked interesting. Unfortunately it takes the wrong approach to pretty much everything. Your suspension of disbelief is challenged from the 'who are you' quiz at the start, which is filled with every bad high school stereotype you can imagine. You determine your 'stats' by answering questions, and then start your year. This consists of a quick niblet of school to help boost stats surrounded by all-important social interactions. The actual challenge of the game is in learning what it expects - once you know what to do when, the rest is trivial - and boring. Controls make moving around a nuisance, and you are at once rushed and bored. That is because there isn't much to do, but what you do need to do has to happen really fast. Many of the interactions seem nonsensical - it is as though your stats place you right on the edge with some people so they seem to veer between love and hate and in the same breath tell you they want to be closer and then that they are not interested in you that way. It would be one thing if they were trying to emulate fickle behavior, but it seems like that is just incompletely implemented - like everything else in the game. My advice - skip this Senior Year ... you aren't going to learn anything useful.  
Yeah, this game is targeted at tweens and early teens, but the content clearly says GamerDad Age Seal 14+. You start with a 'lite' version of strip blackjack, and go from there. The focus of some things is to get a date and make some 'progress'. There is a 'kissing' game (I can't recall getting kisses as nasty as in that game - maybe I was lucky) as well as dancing and other mini-games. None of this is an issue for your 14 year old, but is less appropriate for your 10 year old.
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