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arielluva

midsummer’s night dream redraw/study/whatever but its utenanthy

original reference under cut

cacique-art

I'm ALIVE!!! and drew new art by Revolutionary Girl Utena

aurawra21

i think they should have been girlfriends instead of what happened to them. Kelly and Ari deserved better than wtf happened to them

finalfivecarts

dear brother has found its target demographic and ruined the brain chemistry of another teenager (me)

aurawra21

Is there anything about the flipside you liked? My favourite thing about it was the sharing trauma ending and it is my headcanon ending for the series as it shows how Nicole is good for Jecka and is in character to how Nicole bullied jeffery to get in trouble with the pedo just to Jecka could smoke in peace.

yes, there are parts i liked!

I liked the route where we saw Jecka's pov when Nicole committed. i wanted it so badly like i wanted to know her side of it b/c those texts messages from the previous game had me spiraling. Jecka going to Nicole because she didn't feel safe at home or at school. Nicole wanting Jecka to hangout with her more so she doesnt have to hangout with other people who make her depressed, quite literally BEGGING her bc she's her only real friend:

like, the two of them at their lowest just wanted to be around each other. they both sought each other out bc they needed each other so bad

i liked the Jecka and Kelly dynamic, they were funny af trying to figure that riddle out, they just wanted their paychecks uwu, we do not talk about the ending

i liked that in the ending where jeffery d!es, Jecka is literally like, people may hate Nicole but she's kind of necessary to me, in a fucked up way, she helped me, the little smiley face she put at the end was cute, despite the context

the little gay comments they would make, ex: "but will you be my girlfriend after?"

Jecka having kissed Ari AND Kelly is like yes ty i know she's a girl kisser but more confirmation never hurt

Emo Jecka route and we get passenger princess Nicole, like we KNEW THAT but i love the confirmation. like, it's funny that even in that moment, no matter how drunk out of her mind Jecka is, Nicole is nOT giving up her passenger princess rights. a passenger princess that backseat drives Jecka LMFAO

anyway yeah, there were stuff i liked. this is how i played the first games anyway, take what i liked and run with it!

grendel-art

I forgot I had this account 🥹 Massive backlog of art is coming!

mihtya

Haven't painted with watercolors for a long time, decided to fix this

aldebarangel

the charm of the first two class of 09 games were the balance of satire and realism (which are enhanced by the voice acting) that redeem the 'anti-visual novel' intention too well. class of 09 was fun because we get moments that feel real. there's nicole's arguements with her mom and the conversations between any of the teenagers are time-period accurate despite the cartoonishness

the comedy works because the dialogue flows well. the dark humor and shock value are carefully executed. the edginess works because of the writing knowing its limits

it knows when to be funny (mr lorre meeting up with nicole) and when to take itself seriously (nicole talking about her experience as a myspace escort)

i really think that nicole being a bad person without bigotry (most of the time) is what makes its comedy work.

flipside fails miserably and feels like a disconnection from the other two games. when jecka suffers it's just for the sake of suffering. it isnt like in the other two games where nicole suffers as consequence. honestly, flipside just looks like what class of 09 would be without the proper care it was given. it focused too much on trying to be edgy and funny that it doesnt execute the realism. nicole's mom was written in a way that feels real. her multiple divorces are comedically cartoonish but when she's on screen and voice acted she actually behaves like a real life mother. jecka's dad has none of that. he just says things and yells when he wants to.

ignacia-redhead-vampire

There is No Class of 09 the Flip side.

But for real

I was in a constant state of this expression through my entire play through

It's literally a Jecka torture porn game. I'm not a single ending does Jecka "win"

Her best ending is still her being a Foot prostitute and only stopping because Nicole killed Jeffery

Like holy shit Sbn3 is actually sent by the devil

On top of Jecka torture porn, he absolutely assassinates Nicole's character

And it's 15 dollars for less gameplay than the past two games like wtf man

Not to mention it being a slap to the face to the fans who actually engage with his charactera

09 and the Re-up felt like they were made with some heart and soul meanwhile The Flip side has like one good story beat why is it so shit---

OHHH

He was only in it for the money

Fuck that dude

kwamiwayzz

Tbh I'm not really surprised by how shocking and edgy Flip Side is because that's what I expected in the original and in Re-Up. But my main issue with this game, sbn's weird kinks aside, is that flip side felt more like jecka torture porn. it's either her getting verbally abused by her dad, dating her pedo teacher with no payoff, or just her going off the rails

how do you have 5 endings but none of them seem to have a decent ending for her. i guess you can argue that the jeffery dying ending is somewhat of a neutral ending for her, but the route in that seemed like it encompassed 50% of the game

the only ending i can say was probably the best written one was the nicole suicide ending since it was treated seriously and the player got insight to what was going on in jecka's head after nicole committed. i also like her whole talk with ms ames about how no one at school really gave a shit about her or nicole after all that went down, and then it just ends like that

i was honestly hoping there would be more routes where this game overlaps with the first two, but i guess that's wishful thinking.

the only positives i can really say about this game are the stellar voice acting from kayli mills as jecka (and also everyone else), and the use of more CG panels

other than that, the lack of content in this third game is not worth $15 just save your money and give it to a c09 fanartist/content creator or something

kwamiwayzz

Flop Side

I haven't yapped this much about something since Citrus...

But shipping aside, the criticisms in this game are warranted because of lack of content, lack of choices, and inconsistences from the first two games. It also doesn't help that SBN has straight up admitted that he barely tried in this game. Also, where does the $15 justification come from? Because when compared to Re-Up, I don't think the increased amount of CG art in Flip Side is enough to justify it. Is it to offset paying for the VAs performances? Maybe I can see that as a justification, but the original VN was only $10 and had 15 different endings so...

Compared to the previous times I've talked about how weak of an installment this is, I'm mostly talking about how weak it is from a VN standpoint. From other reviews, I've seen people say that there's only a total of 6 choices that you can make Jecka pick for each route. After those 6 choices are up, Jecka is just locked in the route and the rest of it becomes a Youtube video you'd be playing on the side while you're washing the dishes. The game is also 3 hours max with getting all endings, which is only half the time of the previous two games.

At that point, you could've just made Flip Side into a side series instead of a $15 video disguised as a game.

Also, this is probably a cold take at this point, but I never saw Class of 09 as an "anti-VN", even when I was first getting into it. It was just a Western VN that played off as a rejection simulator with late 2000s edgy humor. It's kind of hard to really see this as a meta on Japanese VNs when visual novels like Higurashi, Umineko, Fate/Stay Night, and Steins;Gate exist. I don't know, I just think the creator happened to accidentally write something good that resonated with an audience that he didn't intend, and instead of just ending it there or building off it, he just took it out back and shot it point blank.

Oh... and what the fuck was the point in mentioning Palestine in the sex slave ending? If you want to be edgy, then okay, but where's the tact and decorum with everything going on right now?

I feel bad for the fans who latched onto the characters and found something relatable in all of them only to be tainted by this slop.