Review friv game of No School No Rules

No School No Rules from Russian developers is an example of how not to make games. Ugly, uncomfortable, and downright nasty, it's no match for Bully, which it's trying to look like, much less GTA. We tell in the review what is wrong with the friv game from an online game developer Friv2Online Studio.

The place of action is the usual, from the point of view of the authors, Russian school : shabby classes, hooligans in the corridors, obscene graffiti on the walls, and an eternally drunk Trudovik. Graduates go in all directions: one is destined for the path to prison, the other - to the maternity hospital. In general, such a satire on the education system, very angry and very implausible.

Our main character studies at this school, holding a grudge against everyone - evil teachers, upstart nerds, gopnik drug addicts. Trying to take a place in the school hierarchy, the protagonist will challenge everyone who gets in his way.

And he will start with a rusichka that somehow crossed his path. No School No Rules does not bother to introduce the players to the backstory of events, so we immediately begin to take revenge on the teacher: first, we steal a class magazine to dip it in the toilet, then we steal the teacher’s mobile phone and post compromising photos of her all over the school, and when she finally leaves ourselves, we meet face to face in a fair fight - right in the Russian language classroom.

All this could be interesting and exciting; in the end, Bully offered to do about the same thing that made the friv game a cult. Only here, where Rockstar used subtle humor and satire, the developers of No School No Rules hit on the forehead - vile ridicule and obsceneness. Here the player must laugh at jokes that a classmate gave birth to twins, a Trudovik sends schoolchildren to revenge yellow snow, and beef anuses are served in the dining room. Not very funny, to be honest.

It doesn't work well with missions either. To get the task, you need to run to the marker, which is always somewhere in the middle of nowhere, and then head towards the goal in order to perform a simple action, like stealing the same magazine. Combat quests involve a fight using the most boring combat, consisting of attacks and blocks. The student corrects his shaky health with the help of first-aid kits scattered around the school.

The apogee of despondency for me was the task of posting photos: the hero had to attach five pictures to different bulletin boards, while there is no school map or markers indicating the direction to the goal in the game. I had to wander around the floors and offices for a good half an hour, exploring places suitable for completing the task.

In this episode, I seriously wanted to quit the game and never return to it, but then it was decided to give a second chance - as it turned out, not for long: another batch of disgustingly written dialogues completely killed the desire to continue passing.

Absolutely everything is terrible in No School No Rules. Clumsy animations, poor character models, NPC clones, stupid AI, annoying soundtrack. Schoolchildren freeze in unnatural poses and randomly wave their arms, imitating conversations, fall through walls and doomedly scurry along the same routes. Compared to the Bully released in 2005, it was worked out much better, and somehow looked more comfortable.

Don't buy No School No Rules. This friv game is below your dignity. Its gameplay is dull and unprincipled, the script is written by threesomes (seriously, the dialogues are full of spelling and grammatical errors), and the “jokes” are disgusting. If you want to support the domestic game industry, pay attention to much more noteworthy works - for example, such as Black Book, Loop Hero, "Remember..." or Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.