Review FredLobster 4/5 · Nov 6, 2013
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 …
Read moreDtip,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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