Class of '09 is a 2021 visual novel created by SBN3 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Android. The game is publicized as an "hostile to visual book" and a "dismissal sim," with a plot that puts the player in the job of Nicole, a well known secondary school young lady who can insult and control her family, individual understudies, and teachers.The game contains mature topic including various references to rape, self-hurt, sociopathy, political radicalism, and illicit drug use, albeit a disclaimer in the game's choices menu determines that these depictions are generally not supports.
Gameplay
Class of '09is a visual novel made with Renpy with expanding story ways and substitute endings. Interactivity comprises of exchange between characters that works out progressively, with players having the choice to settle on choices on the most proficient method to coordinate these discussions that influence the story. A large portion of the choices include whether Nicole ought to attempt to control others or allow them to control her. Each line of exchange is joined by voice acting; the cast incorporates Kayli Plants, Marissa Lenti, and Kira Buckland, and Nicole is voiced by Elsie Lovelock.An early PC work of the game incorporated a "breadcrumbs" include which left text records on the player's PC subsequent to arriving at explicit endings. This element was subsequently taken out in an update that fixed cutscene crashing issues, however the text records are as yet accessible in the game's documents.
Plot
Class of '09 happens in America between the years 2007 and 2009. It includes a few references to 2000's American mainstream society, including pop-punk, Myspace, and the music of L-ascorbic acid and Soulja Kid. The narrative of the game follows Nicole, a secondary school young lady whose family needed to move a few times in her experience growing up. After Nicole's dad ends it all and faults her in his self destruction note, she chooses to abandon carrying on with a typical composed life and exploit her sociopathy and young engaging quality to control others around her for her own entertainment. The game's maker SBN3 expressed that "each character and situation the player can investigate depends on genuine encounters and experiences."
In one situation, Nicole can take torment prescription from a muscle head who got harmed playing lacrosse. Another situation includes Nicole's P.E. instructor physically propositioning her; she can endeavor to coerce cash and medications from him, yet there's plausible of a consummation where Nicole is physically attacked and killed. At the point when Nicole finds that her photography educator is a white patriot endeavoring to begin a psychological oppressor cell in the school, she can decide to go along with them and go to prison or report them to the Country of Islam. There are fifteen potential endings the player can arrive at in Class of '09. A large number of the game's endings include Nicole getting attacked, killed, dependent on drugs, or imprisoned, however Nicole's capacity to control others for her own closures can bring about better endings, like turning into the valedictorian of her school or raking in some serious cash and moving to Los Angeles.
Reception
On the Steam marketplace, Class of '09 has over 100 user reviews with an average rating of "Very Positive." On the Google Play Store, the game has a 5-star rating with 9 user reviews. Game reviewers praised the writing and voice acting but panned the simplistic visuals and high price for the PC version.[10][11]
