Bitch Squad [v0.4.7] [IcarusLabs]

Sup Baby, I want a threesome with Charlotte and Kate

I like the game, my only complaint is the dialogue. The story and plot is interesting but when you don’t make the conversation flow the game becomes a bit heavy and instead of entertaining you and wanting to continue reading you want to press the button Skip so you don’t fall asleep. I insist I like this game, I have this problem with most games. With this game only a little when the conversation becomes very technical and long and on top of that, since I am not a native English speaker, so I do not understand everything.

This isn’t the worst game I’ve ever played, but I doubt it’s one I’ll ever go back to, or continue to look forward to updates of. I’ll finish what’s there, delete it and forget about it.

Why? A couple of reasons. Starting simple, the renders are okay. I’ve seen much worse, but I’ve also seen much, much better. And the animations are terrifying. The author has no talent for it, and the scenes would be a lot better if they just left them out entirely. The story itself is somewhat unique if not original, and starting out you really sympathize with the bullied trio of protags. For a little while.

**Big Spoilers Past This Point to v0.4.6**
So why don’t I like the game, even though it just sounds pretty basic? The author starts out by giving you the vague illusion of choice of morally driving your character forward. But the author either gets bored, lazy or finds themselves in over their heads, because the choices basically stop.

From one chapter to the next, you’re given the choice of whether or not to molest one of the female antagonist through coercion. You can either say ‘This isn’t right’ or ‘You deserve this’, with differing outcomes.

In the next chapter, the author wants to move the story in a very specific direction, so no matter what you’ve chosen before hand you’re required to go on a date with the sweet, shy girl who up until this point has never really done anything. She’s part of the antagonist group, but more as a hanger on than an actual baddie. She has an agenda, but it’s not a malicious one. You’ve earned her trust up until now, so she comes out of her shell a little to try to get you to help her finish her Pledge Week list to get into the sorority. This is clearly a huge step outside of her shell, and her first time. She has to give you a blowjob.

So far, okay. I can deal with forcing the date to move the plot along. But she has to have a witness. And her witness is one of the main antagonist, the batshit crazy one. At this point, I wanted to pull the plug, but you’re not given the choice to. You have to finish to completion, even though your character should know it’s an incredibly stupid idea and morally wrong. Your previous choice – of not giving in to coercion – doesn’t come into play. You play out the exact same scene where with Sarah as you play out with Kate, except you’re not given any control.

Fine. I don’t like it, I felt cheated, but whatever. I was a bit pissed at this point, but moving on…your fellow protagonist get a copy of the ‘proof’ of Sarah giving you a blowjob, And decide to ‘ruin this bitch, hah!’ and release it online as revenge porn. You’re given the choice to say, for no real reason, ‘Yea! Fuck this shy, cute girl who’s never hurt anyone! Let’s destroy her!’, or “This isn’t right, absolutely not.”

Here’s the problem. Your choice means nothing. You choose the release photo path, you cheer on your shitty friends as they do something shitty and watch the fall out and the next scene is you celebrating the next day with your friends a job well done. You choose the moral path, your friends say, ‘fuck you buddy, we don’t care what you think’ and release the pictures anyways, you watch the fallout, and the next scene is you celebrating a job well done with your buds the next day.

So I know this is long winded, but I wanted to give an honest review. These two interactions are what define the game for me. They made me feel like shit because any perceived agency I had as the MC was taken away, and used to really hurt a character they make you care a lot about just because the author was too lazy to write himself out of a narrative hole. And it’s something that would have been so easily avoidable with just a few extra lines of dialogue.

This isn’t the only problematic situation where you lose all agency, but it’s the one that made me decide to quit and write a review.

i Like this one. Girls, animations, plot, Girls xd