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Thursday 29 October, 2009
During this session I actually started to get into the violent portion of the game. It took me awhile to figure out how to navigate through the hallway and realize the items on the walls were not drinking fountains but were actually security cameras. such problem caused me a good 10 minutes of frustration and indicates the determent of the graphics. Once the bombs are planted you return back to a cut scenes of the discussion of frustration the characters have against the school and those within. It is apparent their intention and the target of the anger. Once the characters realize that their bombs are not going off they move into the school and start killing students. I was surprised by the turn based style of kills in the game. Once a person is approached you see a profile of what kind of student they are and at your leisure choose the appropriate weapon to kill them. These profiles seemed to include: jocks, preppy, popular, school and sheltered students along with staff. It didn't seemed to matter the profile and you will basically mow down anyone you approach. There were a few exceptions which didn't seem to make sense. I suppose people that showed them any remote sense of empathy or friendship were excused and told to leave. As you navigate various cut scenes appear with the actual pictures/footage of the events. Some cut scenes were remember the past bullying they endured which helped fuel their anger fire. An interesting connection with them as terrorists is made by showing the crashes of 9/11 as one of their thoughts(which happened 2 years later.) The end sort of brings the player back to reality by showing pictures of those heartbroken by the events and then shows the killers as they grown up and how they were just everyday people.
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