I berkata it before and I will say it again here and probably again in the future, but I Cinta it when Rockstar does other stuff than GTA. It usually feels lebih experimental and always feels like it pays off. And one of my kegemaran of their lebih experimental games is, oddly enough, their T rated game, Bully.
Bully follows Jimmy Hopkins, a good kid in a bad place, as he is dropped off at Bullworth Academy, possibly the worst school in the country where students are broken up into groups and where strict rules and cruel bullies are a common occurrence. One such bully, Gary, has it out for Jimmy and tries to make him look bad all across the school. But Jimmy isn’t one to take that kind of stuff, and so, with the help of other students, does what he can to overthrow the bullies rule over the school to bring some sort of peace to the campus. Let me tell you, this game feels a whole lot like high school… minus the extreme bullying. Just slight. The feeling of having to get to your classes on time, the open ended grounds all around you, and just the feeling of seeing familiar faces every time anda walk to your seterusnya class atau are on your way home, atau in this games case, the dorm rooms. It just gives me that nostalgic feel of going to school. Weather that is a good feel atau not, I don’t know, but I find it charming for Bully. anda got a lot of classes to go to, which are broken up into minigames, such as dissecting in Biology, scrambling letters in English, doing wrestling moves in Gym, and much lebih than that. anda also get the chance of unlocking the town once anda are done, and this is when the game really hits close to utama for me. Growing up in a small town where everyone knows your name, it felt really nice to ride a bike around the town and listening to that charming little soundtrack… Only to get hit with a firecracker sejak a bully in just two seconds. The world is a lot of fun to explore, allowing anda to cari for gnomes to destroy, cards to collect, rubber bands too, I guess. Each one having their own rewards. Some are just cash, and the gnomes just give anda a suit, but collecting the rubber bands unlocks the rubber band ball, which if used in doors, get ready for some chaos. And anda can also be a bully yourself, if anda want. I would never condone bullying… That being said, sounding the alarm in the boys dorm after setting up a marble trap makes up for a fuck ton of fun. The game’s combat is also a lot of fun. Rockstar’s hand to hand combat has never been their strongest point, but Bully really gives anda a lot. Aside from punches, anda got kicks, leg swipes, spears, and all sorts of wrestling moves. All that mixes with insane weaponry like firecrackers, marbles, stink bombs, and a potato launcher make for something I don’t think schools would allow. And Bully was one of the few games I not only 100% but also unlocked every achievement for on the Xbox 360. And the reward is pretty cool. anda get a sick pergi kart, go kart to drive down the jalan like a maniac, and hit people if anda want, but just get ready for the cops to be hot on your trail in less than a second. And once again, I gotta elaborate, that soundtrack. That nice bass gitar mixed with those chimes really give this game a sort of style. It all feels like a sort of boarding school feel, kinda like Harry Potter in a sense. It’s easily a kegemaran soundtrack of mine, honestly. But I’ve berkata that about a lot of games at this point.
Bully was the right kind of game for Rockstar to release. It gives that nostalgic feel of when anda were a child and all anda had to worry about was getting your homework done on time. No worries, no fears, nothing, minus the crazy bullies. It was just an keseluruhan fun and charming game, and I can totally see why people are begging Rockstar for a sequel. Come on, Rockstar. Bully 2. Make it happen.