Hated High School? Surviving High School Now

In as much as I had wished someone would have helped me wade my way through those horrible years in high school and no one did, I realize of course that fun though it is, a mobile game like Surviving High School probably would not have helped either.

I took up the challenge of the adventure-based Surviving High School simply because I liked the name of it and I had experienced great difficulties in high school myself. I had always been the 4-eyed kid they picked on but this kid had different problems ? he had been transferred in the middle of school. You see how he tries to adapt and your heart really goes out to him as you know how difficult it must be. Surviving High School gets you really involved.

The aim of the game is, well, to survive and it is split up into different chapters, the first one being Football in which you (the transfer student) have to make the football team. You also have to try and find a dream date and win the homecoming crown ? all those terrible events that set you yourself back in your teens and no doubt filled you with dread, unless of course you were one of the cool gang, which most of us were, sadly, not. You do get a bit of a helping hand from the school guidance counselor who asks you about your likes and dislikes, at which point the game adapts to these responses.

You have classes where you have to answer questions correctly and thus improve a grade; social opportunities with fellow students; choices during the day of what to do with your free time; flirting; and all the other things high school kids have to do. It is your choice ? correct or incorrect that will determine the amount of points you get.

You really do feel like you are back in those old teenage years as Surviving High School even uses the lingo of teens. It is a nostalgic place to be, or for others can be a dreadful reminder of those terrible teens. It is a long game and the choice of how to view it is entirely yours but for me it did bring back memories that for the most part bought a smile to my face, despite my horrors in those days.