
The Dangerous Back-to-School Season is a pixel RPG where players guide the protagonist through cybersecurity threats . Using dialogue choices and mini-games, players must help the protagonist make the right decisions to ensure a safe enrollment.
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The game is a pixel RPG with a cool concept, where you help the protagonist deal with cybersecurity threats. The pixel art is great, and the game is easy to play with intuitive controls. However, the story is very short, and the choices you make don’t seem to change much beyond leading to a game over. This makes it hard to want to replay and try different paths. The idea of teaching cybersecurity is important, but the game itself feels too simple and doesn’t dive deep enough in the story to keep you engaged for long. Instead of an instant game over, the game could utilize those choices to have different endings or dialogues based on that apart from the hacker kidnapping and telling the answer. It can be hard to find the correct places to click in certain points, highlighting relevant objects can solve this issue. It's also possible to get inventory items stuck on the screen if you just quit the inventory instead of clicking `Stop Looking`, which can be solved by reopening the item and closing it properly. Also, found some typos such as `Aracadia` and `secnarios`. Overall, it’s a good-looking game with an interesting idea, but it could have been more fleshed out. Worth a try if you’re curious, but don’t expect much replay value. I do expect updates and I'm curious about how the developer will improve the game. With some bug corrections here and there, this can become a masterpiece. Hope this helps!
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Can't leave the library, after the "catphishing" part.
Oyuncuların kahramanı siber güvenlik tehditleri arasında yönlendirdiği bir piksel RPG'sidir. Siz, diyalog seçimleri ve mini oyunlar kullanarak, kahramanın güvenli bir kayıt sağlamak için doğru kararları almasına yardımcı olmanız lazım. Haydi operasyon başlasın.
Not for me. It's buggy and the story is not good enough.
[h1]#tinygamereviews[/h1] [code]A cute little cybersecurity exercise that's just a step above reading an e-mail to watch out for phishing.[/code] [list][list] [*][b][u]Overall Score[/u][/b]: 2/5 [/list] [hr][/hr] [h1][b]Curator: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42137521/]Nostalginauts[/url][/b][/h1] [h1]Full Review[/h1] [table] [tr] [td]Playability[/td] [td]3/5[/td] [td]Some wonky borders (that you can sometimes walk around and out-of-bounds, anyway) and looping points in gameplay.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Difficulty[/td] [td]1/5[/td] [td]There's nothing to it. Heck, it even interacts with half of the things [i]for you[/i] when you get close enough.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Graphics[/td] [td]3/5[/td] [td]Pretty good on the whole for a free RPGMaker title; some mismatched art between backgrounds and sprites (and even among sprites - especially portraits), but nothing horrible.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Sound[/td] [td]2/5[/td] [td]Extant, but track styles seem mismatched and sometimes less-than-appropriate to the setting.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Story & Writing[/td] [td]2/5[/td] [td]Odd-seeming dialogue with handful of straight-up errors make it feel like a rushed job or written by somebody whose first language isn't English. Not bad, but could've used a once-over.[/td] [/tr] [/table] [list] [*][b][u]In-Game Purchases[/u][/b]: None [*][b][u]Learning Curve[/u][/b]: Easy [*][b][u]Replayability[/u][/b]: None [/list]
The Dangerous Back-to-School Season is a story about your protagonist as you guide him to get through of cybersecurity threats and cyberbully players must help the protagonist make the right decisions or get hack by the hacker it a ok game it very short game and a good side about this game is it show you what to be careful of link and qr code or trusting some random person
Игра 'The Dangerous Back-to-School Season' - это забавная, хоть и несколько странная визуальная новелла. Сюжет вращается вокруг возвращения старшеклассников в школу после летних каникул, но с очень необычным поворотом: школьники обладают сверхъестественными способностями и постоянно ведут опасные игры друг с другом. Графика в игре простая, но очаровательная, а персонажи довольно запоминающиеся, несмотря на их эксцентричность. Юмор в игре специфический, но если вам нравится абсурд, то вам, скорее всего, понравится. Несмотря на то, что сюжет временами кажется немного бессвязным, он все равно держит в напряжении, и вам захочется узнать, что произойдет дальше. Разветвленные пути и несколько концовок добавляют игре реиграбельности. В целом, 'The Dangerous Back-to-School Season' - это странный, но приятный опыт. Если вы ищете что-то необычное и немного безумное, то эта игра может вам подойти. Оценка: 7/10.
In a time where many projects suffer from an over-abundance of ambition, this game suffers from a SEVERE lack of it. It could be a masterpiece if it had an actual story written for it. The art style is nice, the sound design and animations are pretty good, the concept is AWESOME, but i finished the game while taking i believe all possible paths in less then 20 minutes. Also the game offers you choices but essentially forces your hand, making the wrong choice just leads to a game over instantly. This is made worse by the fact that the correct choice is often unclear, as sometimes you HAVE to make the wrong choice from a cybersecurity standpoint for the game to proceed (inputting your data to a computer that is clearly not in a good state and appears to have been tampered with). I hope the dev learns from this projects and builds an actual story-line and a full length game, i think there is a lot of space for a game of this type. I feel if these issues were rectified and the game was to be re-released with an appealing plot and a lot more explanations of actual cybersecurity it could be both incredibly fun and have a huge positive impact on society, and i encourage the dev to pursue this, however at this current state i wouldn't recommend anyone to spend any money on this game.
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