Bully: Scholarship Edition
This entry was posted on March 16, 2008
Ever since I got my Wii at Christmas, I’ve been determined to have fun with it. One of the reasons the novelty of my PS2 wore off was that it just wasn’t enough fun. Eventually, I got bored. With my Wii, however, I have not once been bored with it.
One of the first things I did on my Wii was make my Mii, and you can see MiiRachael over on the right. It’s almost like looking in the mirror, except I have better proportions in real life.
Over the past few months I’ve bought some new games for my Wii, the newest being Bully: Scholarship Edition. The trailer for the game makes it look quite violent and at first I was a bit unsure about the game, but after having played it for a little while I have completely changed my mind.
The game centres around the character of Jimmy who is the new kid in a boarding school. He has a past reputation of being a bully and thus some of the students at the new school have it in for him. It’s all rather fascinating.
One of the things that shocked me with this game was just how easy it was to be violent. It’s quite a ‘free’ game in that you’re free to roam around the school grounds and interact with other students. The nunchuck and the wiimote are both used in this game, and as such, you can literally walk up to anyone and punch them in the face. I’m not a violent person, and I don’t like violent games, so that was a bit shocking for me to experience. However, if you punch people it’ll get you in trouble. Punch enough people and the school prefects will come and lynch you.
I’m now on a mission to make Jimmy be a reformed bully. From now on he’s going to be nice and not get in trouble. He’ll defend himself, yes, but he won’t go looking for fights. Well, unless I’m bored and need to release some stress, but that’s just horrible. Violence is wrong. Don’t hit people.
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