Sometimes I really want to read a short summary of what to expect from a game with a very particular description that CATER to my OWN SPECIFIC interests, so here we go.
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what to expect from EXPELLED!
This is part of the "Overboard!" games (now just two!: Overboard! and Expelled!) in the sense that they are narrative games about a mystery to solve, and where clues can be accumulated through multiple playthroughs
You play as Verity, a 16 years old girl at an all girls school in the 1920s. The game starts with the headmistress expelling you for throwing another student out of a window
As Overboard! the tone is more humorous than serious but there are plenty of serious themes
Verity will then narrate to her father what really happened
Like Overboard! the game as a limited time for Verity to play/replay the events: the accident happens at around 7am, and you have till 4pm to show the headmistress and the whole school that you are innocent
You can click on different locations in the school, and do differnt things (talk with characters, steal things, pickpocket, put clues into other's pockets etc.) and you can decide to frame someone, trick, lie, tell the truth, be the best girl ever or the worst girl ever, find secret etc.
The game also has an "evil" counter, the more mean, trickster-like and bossy you are the more your counter rises (and there will be certain consequences)
I won't go into details into the story, as there are a lot of surprises, just know that the game is not over once you fail once, as you restart with all your previous knowledge stored into your diary
I played more or less 6 hours and managed to solve the main mystery, but not yet some secondary ones
Some queer subtext, up to you if some love confession is romantic love or not, I decided to interpret it as such
plot? You play as Verity and you have been accused of pushing a schoolmate out of a window. You only have a school day to prove your innocence.
gameplay? narrative game, point and click, choices and dialogues
characters? All the characters are quite distinct, and are mainly the five teachers, the gardener, and your classmates
sadness level? very low
death? none that I could see
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