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1 stars
Version: Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble
"graphic violence, disturbing, upseting"
Pros: I didn't like anything
Cons: The game lulls you into a false sense of silly fun, then sucker-punches you with a graphic assault and attempted rape scene, followed by the victim's friends shooting her unarmed assailant in the head.
Summary: The light-hearted, "sassy" and "mischievous" tone of this game turns graphic and horrifying mid-way through the game. A high school girl is abducted and beaten unconscious by a college boy. Her friends find him with his pants around his ankles, about to rape her unconscious form. In order to get past this scene, you're required to shoot the would-be rapist in the head.
The developer of this game and the owner of Mousechief, the company that distributes the game, justified this scene as "promoting awareness of sexual assault and effective response."
He went on to say that 50% of women in the US have been assaulted, which is true. So why sucker-punch them in the middle of a cute game with having to relive what they experienced? Shooting an unarmed potential rapist is not an effective response, it's homicide. An awareness-raising response would have included the victim screaming "FIRE" and gouging the guy's eyes out with her car keys. She was rendered helpless in the story.
In another scene, a man drowns in human feces and urine. Big Fish Games yanked this game from its offerings for its graphic content.
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