by Jillian Hahn

Created on: July 05, 2008   Last Updated: December 02, 2010

Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble game review
Rating 2/5

Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble is a take on a vintage board game much like Clue. To progress the storyline, the game also takes on an RPG quality, which puts it into a unique category, a type of turn-based RPG Focused on the time period of about the 1920's. The game play, graphics and sound are reminiscent of a board game and characters of this period.

At the opening screen, you are allowed to choose one of many characters to play, each with their own personality and quirks, reminiscent of the traits of high school girls. There is the "newbie" girl, the "flirt", the "artsy girl", etc. The amount of characters there were to choose from impressed me, and apparently the full version holds even more!

After you choose your main character (I chose the flirt, Myrtle), the next step is to enlist three girls to your "cause". This part brings you onto the "game board", where most of your play is centered. The boarding school on the game board is divided into different rooms, and the events and people that can be interacted with are marked with a silver game piece.

To enlist girls, you are introduced to another major facet of game play: the mini-games. There are four mini-games in the demo, and even more in the full version. To win your gang of girls, as well as uncover information from the other players, you play Taunt, Fib, Expose, and Flirt. Taunt is much like the swordplay in Monkey Island, where you cannot know the comeback to the insult until you have heard it. Expose is a reveal-a-word game much like wheel of fortune; in Flirt you must expose a pattern to win the boy, and Fib is a poker type of game.

Your gang of girls and yourself wander the school talking to people and exposing secrets. The new maintenance man, Maximillion, spent a lot of time "fixing" up the school over winter break, and now there are accidents all over the place. The nurse appears to be covering up for him. To get to the bottom of what is going on, you randomly interact with characters on the game board to gleam information, and get into some of these so-called accidents yourself.

When the demo version cuts off, you are just starting to piece together the whole story and are about to go confront the nurse. According to the "sales agent" you run into when you go and talk to the nurse (which I found to be a very tacky tactic), the full version includes a larger host of characters, new games, new stories, and new men to date.

I gave this game a rating of 2/5. It was a very original game, with a very original storyline, but lacked cohesion. There wasn't much direction to the game, and you just clicked until new and interesting things happened. The games started to get old very fast, as they were not incredibly original either. It barely kept me entertained for the entirety of the demo, but I would not purchase this game based on the demo.

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