
Freshman Year is a vignette game about an ordinary night in the life a college freshman named Nina. Nina's best friend Jenna invites her to meet up at a local bar with some classmates. Jenna is sort of flaky though, so Nina has to navigate the party by herself.
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Can't find a way to unlock sex scenes. This game is a disgrace to the genre of Visual Novel.
Freshman Year is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which presents the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?" This e-book is autobiographical and deals with the very serious topic of sexual assault. I have said this many times before and I'll say it again: Steam is for video games. It is not a platform for airing complex social or political agenda. It's pointless and even harmful to try to use this platform for something it's not intended for. All this does is cause harm to the game developers who do the right thing and create genuine games for gamers. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuine games to play. This "game" isn't successfully pushing the social/political agenda of the author, it's just making gaming worse for gamers. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. Because this is not a game, I can't recommend it to gamers.
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positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
[b]Freshman Year[/b] presents us a one night in the life of a college freshman – [b]Nina[/b]. And given that it’s just one night, it is a very short journey filled with a few choices you, the player, is supposed to make. It’s a story portraying a very unpleasant experience that the protagonist had to go through. And it’s something that everyone else was oblivious to. It’s showing something that unfortunately happens in real life to people and is meant to open our eyes that such situations need us to react. The game might be short, but shows a topic that we should not avoid talking about. In fact it can be considered a call that if we encounter situations like one presented in the game or something similar, we should act. Also [b]it's free[/b], so play it. I played it on YouTube (very long time ago) and at the time might have not caught the message correctly, but now definitely understand it way better. https://youtu.be/Sx0SwjeJIJA
No me gustó. No se entiende la historia y está mal hecho el juego. Ni lo descarguen.
A short story that will be relatable to anyone who has been in collage. Works well in a video game format.
short and succinct visual novel about sexual harassment. takes about 5 mins to play through
Freshman Year, Nina adında bir üniversite birinci sınıf öğrencisinin hayatındaki sıradan bir geceyi konu alan bir hikaye oyunudur. Nina'nın en yakın arkadaşı Jenna, onu bazı sınıf arkadaşlarıyla yerel bir barda buluşmaya davet eder. Jenna biraz dengesiz olduğundan Nina'nın partiyi tek başına idare etmesi gerekiyor.
Эхеммм, я бы пожалуй даже не минусовал эту игру, т.к. здесь есть довольно много выборов (из 2 вариантов ответа), хоть она и довольно короткая, в особенности если хорошо знаешь английский... вот только она открывается в дико маленьком окошке, при растягивании которого ничего не происходит, а лишь добавляется чернота снизу и справа от игрового поля.
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Tres minutos. Una experiencia desoladora... y lamentablemente común.
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