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Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story

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Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story

Apr 2, 2011

Main game

3.21 average rating based on 78 ratings

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A spiritual sequel of sorts to Digital: A Love Story, set in a prestigious private high school, and on the social networks of 2027. Seven students, three endings, one eavesdropping teacher. A full length visual novel about the erosion of privacy, gay drama, young sexuality, and the perils of modern online life for a high school literature class.
Developers
Love Conquers All Games
Publishers
Platforms
Android, Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Genres
Adventure, Visual Novel
Themes
Comedy
Release Dates
Apr 02, 2011 (Worldwide)
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Mar 12, 2014 (Worldwide)
Android
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User Stats
148
In Collection
41
Wish Listed
3
Playing
23
Backlogged
How Long Is Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story?
Main story: 3.2 hours
Total completions: 2
FredLobster
FredLobster gave Nov 6, 2013
FredLobster gave Nov 6, 2013
FredLobster's review of Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story

Dtip,b,ijays is weird, even by the standards of a genre notorious for uncomfortable weirdness, but only on account of the subject matter the game focuses on. Set in the near-future, you play as a young teacher recently assigned to a school that has given up on making their kids stop using social media in the classroom; instead, you are given the ability to follow all of their posts and activities, in the hopes that a teacher honestly informed about his student's lives will be better able to serve them. From this unusual premise you wind up with a railroad-y visual novel that covers such generally-untouched issues as online privacy, child abuse, bullying, gay rights, and how totally awesome Battle Royale is, all presented through a really top-notch script and with just enough branches in the story to make you feel like you have actual agency. Unfortunately, the game does get a little overwhelmingly soap-box preachy at times, has a first chapter that could easily turn you off to the rest of the experience, and the graphics resemble the kind of stuff your kind-of-talented anime-fangirl junior high buddy used to draw back in the day, but none of these issues were …

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Dtip,b,ijays is weird, even by the standards of a genre notorious for uncomfortable weirdness, but only on account of the subject matter the game focuses on. Set in the near-future, you play as a young teacher recently assigned to a school that has given up on making their kids stop using social media in the classroom; instead, you are given the ability to follow all of their posts and activities, in the hopes that a teacher honestly informed about his student's lives will be better able to serve them. From this unusual premise you wind up with a railroad-y visual novel that covers such generally-untouched issues as online privacy, child abuse, bullying, gay rights, and how totally awesome Battle Royale is, all presented through a really top-notch script and with just enough branches in the story to make you feel like you have actual agency. Unfortunately, the game does get a little overwhelmingly soap-box preachy at times, has a first chapter that could easily turn you off to the rest of the experience, and the graphics resemble the kind of stuff your kind-of-talented anime-fangirl junior high buddy used to draw back in the day, but none of these issues were enough to keep me from playing and enjoying. If this sounds like your sort of thing, give it a shot; it's cheap as free and available for download here: http://scoutshonour.com/donttakeitpersonallybabeitjustaintyourstory/

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