George Pigula can’t get a prom day. With about 24 hours until the dance, Sims 4: High school years The lead producer is reliving one of the most painful experiences a teenager can have: rejection, rejection, rejection.
Pigula’s plight is self-inflicted, as both an architect and a player, but he’s hardly alone as an adult having to revert to being a kid. “The teen years are very important,” Pigula said at a press conference for New expansion pack. “They are being formed. It’s time to find friends and find relationships. You have the opportunity to overcome these challenges, the joys of young love, whether it is the happy period of the lover, the marriage proposal or the difficulties of a breakup. “
School settings are a staple of video games, even if they tell stories about teen experienceoption murder and chaosor balance wariness with do your homework. Adolescence is an important time when people get to know who they are, but it’s also fraught with heartache, shame, loneliness, and scores of other victories and traumas. And the genre that grows around it is thriving. Outside High school yearsreduced on July 28, yes Persona 5 RoyalNintendo Switch release coming soon and brand new titles like Necrosoft Games’ announced recently Demon School.
However, Necrosoft’s approach has a much more mature tone than The Sims. Demon School pull influences from Italian horror cinema and Atlus’ Shin megami tensei and Persona series. The game is set on an island with two defined locations: the university and the prison. This special school is the last chance for students who will either graduate or go to jail. Faye, the game’s heroine, is the last in a long line of demon hunters. A little warning — no one has seen the devil in hundreds of years. They were legends, until suddenly they weren’t.
The school scene makes many people interested, Demon School director Brandon Sheffield told WIRED, because “for a lot of people, it symbolizes an era of freedom — intellectual freedom, where you’re not bound by certain social ideas, you’re still not trapped stuck on the way to work. There are many hopes and possibilities ahead of you. “
Demon SchoolThe more mature setting also puts the characters in situations different from their high school days Sims partner. “We specifically chose the university because you have characters who can become friends or have romantic relationships,” says Sheffield. Sometimes games like Persona for you to have sex with an adult even if you are underage. “It always makes me feel a little weird about all the high school things you guys can be romantic about,” he said. With Demon SchoolIt is important for everyone, Sheffield said, to be “of the age of consent.”
Not all of these youth reinventions are about relationships or being prom royalty. In Demon School, the panic of growing up is paired with realistic horror scenarios. Faye and a few friends look at demonic apparitions while her classmates write essays and do math homework. The game operates on a calendar where events take place in a weekly structure and specific events in each day. It’s a more limited version of games like Persona or Yakuza, Sheffield noted is the influence. How does he like the series? Persona or Shin megami tenseifrom that Persona Serialization of the series, use bargaining to convince demons to join your team. “There’s some push and pull there, rather than just a mass of demons without a face that you have to destroy,” he said.
