This game could easily have delivered if it went a more light-hearted route, stopped trying to build up the bullies into invincible baddies in more and more outlandish ways, and actually allowed the MC (and not one of the other cronies) to gain a few small but mounting victories against people who clearly deserve it. ![]() Instead, you get the developer dangling the possibility in front of your face while bait-and-switching you with another, much inferior story altogether. The literal hook of the game, getting revenge on these horrible bullies from your past, is actively impossible. The optimal way of playing this game (in terms of the getting the most points and seeing the most scenes) is to go along with the bullies, which completely defeats the purpose of the revenge fantasy the game tries to set up. Worse, all it takes is one of the bullies to show a little skin and suddenly he's a mewling lamb who can't think with anything but his dick.Įven worse still, the game actually penalizes you for trying to gain revenge. ![]() Even the women in his life just kind of fall into his lap without any real effort on his behalf, despite his constant 'woe is me' attitude. Which honestly isn't surprising, considering he spends most of his time victimizing himself and whining rather than strategizing or trying to succeed. The MC manages to squander all the advantages-they start by literally cloning their phones in the first act-and somehow manage to get outmaneuvered through their sheer pettiness and ineptitude. You don't even have any anger towards the bullies anymore, anyone stupid enough to still think they're good people deserve to be controlled like the mindless sheep they are. But no, this game does the opposite, and dumbs down everyone else to the point of eliciting eyerolls and facepalms. You would think that if they were as bad as they are, set their sights as high as they do, and create as big a system as the game alleges, that there would be plenty of people who see their true colors or work against them. The girls feel like they have plot armor, and the author seems to be completely unable to think of any kind of "bullying" that doesn't involve involuntary nudity or somehow getting a bunch of 100-pound girls to "manipulate" men into beating up the MC. The writing is literally all over the place. Then, they leak the sorority's nudes and their charter gets revoked (see the theme here? apparently the only way to bully or humiliate someone is revenge porn). They can literally display revenge porn in front of the entire freshman class and get off without so much as a slap on the wrist, but gain sympathy and power when someone leaks their nudes. Are these bullies the fucking CIA?ĭespite the fact that certain members of the bullying clique are transparently assholes, apparently no one else notices anything, even going so far as vehemently defending them when multiple people have very public horror stories. The game has quickly spun out of control in premise and execution. The MC's inept, ragtag bunch have the support of one the richest and most powerful people in the city, the dean of their university, and some spy tech that lets them spy on their communication and is still nowhere near taking them down. You're immediately taken out of the story because there's no way this is a fair fight. The dramatic whiplash between these apparently invincible bullies and the completely inept MC and his overmatched shitty Justice League is simply too much. They're completely over-the-top awful, yet somehow no one else seems to notice that they're mustache-twirling, monologue-delivering assholes who view everyone but each other as subhuman morons. The "bullying" girls are apparently a mix of impossibly naive and ignorant (Sarah, Annie), to bad for the sake of being bad/annoying (Charlotte, Emma), to supervillain criminal masterminds (Kate). They're basically your average fare you expect this level of visuals in a modern VN. But the renders are often grainy, particularly in the dark (which the developers use a bit too liberally for how often the renders degrade), and none of the visuals are particularly well-shaded or structured. They aren't by any means spectacular, but there are a decent number of animations, and a reasonable render-to-panel ratio where it doesn't feel like the dialogue is just overwhelming the scenes. Unfortunately, that potential isn't realized with Bitch Squad. You want to root for the MC to take down his tormentors and see them get their just desserts. A wide cast of power-abusing it girls, many of whom are intensely unlikable, and a long-suffering MC who has every reason to take them down make for fine ingredients for a good comeuppance story. ![]() On the surface, this game should have a lot of potential as a revenge fantasy.
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