About This Game Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date your classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree."Community College Hero: Trial by Fire" is a thrilling 168,000-word interactive novel by Eric Moser, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.You’ve won a scholarship to the nation’s newest college course for heroes! But can you discover your classmates’ secret identities before they learn yours? Choose your costume and your mask (and maybe your date for this weekend) and get ready to fight crime and dazzle the citizenry! Be an acrobat, sharpshooter, detective, or soldier, with all the abilities that come with each. Wield brass knuckles, a slingshot, or even retractable roller skates in your shoes. Will you investigate the big bad, or wait until you’ve had more training? Escape liability for damaging other people’s property as you learn to control your new powers, or pay up what you owe? Will you be a brooder, charmer, traditionalist, or trickster? Step into your new super identity, and claim your place as a Community College Hero! Learn to become a costumed crime fighter at the nation’s newest hero-training school in this 176,000-word comic book-inspired adventure! Strive to stop a mysterious new villain causing chaos in your city! Fully customize your character! Will you be a wisecracking acrobat? A brooding detective? A charming sharpshooter? The choice is yours! Everyone seems to have a secret! Will you uncover your classmates’ secrets and protect your own? Find romance among six potential romantic interests, embark on crazy adventures with your classmates, and ace your exams to earn cool equipment upgrades. Explore every side adventure, relationship and study session to discover 46 different accomplishments! Play as male, female or non-binary. Play as gay, straight, bisexual or asexual. 6d5b4406ea Title: Community College Hero: Trial by FireGenre: Indie, RPGDeveloper:Hosted GamesPublisher:Hosted GamesRelease Date: 4 Dec, 2015 Community College Hero: Trial By Fire Download] [portable] Batman Training Simulator. I've played or read many, many of these CYOA titles at this point and there is a very distinct difference between those I like and those I don't and it comes down to how the 'choices' are implemented. In the ones I like, there are rarely any 'correct' decisions, instead there are just different ways to do things and the story adapts to whatever choice you make to feel like YOU are guiding the story. In the ones I do not like, they are basically text adventures with intermittent multiple choice quizzes spinkled in (although there are LITERAL quizzes in this as well.). Unfortunately, CCH falls in to the latter category.What this design decision does is essentially undercut the entire point of a CYOA game where instead of choosing what you would do, or want to do, you just try to choose the answer you believe the author wants you to choose. It is antithetical to the design of a 'choice based' game. Additionally, this CYOA is very light on choice in comparison to most of these titles. The majority of your 'choices' are just questions about how you feel about what is going on that has no discernable impact on the direction of the story. It's a kind of 'smoke and mirrors' tactic that I felt was pointless.So in conclusion, this is a fairly poor example of what the CYOA genre can offer and I regret both buying and playing it. I do not recommend it to others and will not purchase any further titles from this author.. No matter how hard I tried, all my attempts to romance other characters, even the girl with essentialy the exact same personality as me, failed (why don't you like me, Stoic????).real life\/10. I have played through this twice. The second time I played through the way I wanted to play through it. Honestly, it took me half the first playthrough to get what was happening. I cannot wait for the next installments.Also, I never play these types of games, but the idea of a community college choice oriented super hero game attracted me to this game. If you are debating getting this game because you are interested, give it a shot, it's worth it.I'll also say this, some decisions you make do not change the outcome of specific events, but there are choices that influence the majority of game play. I hated my first gameplay and I played again with a new idea behind my super hero and did a 180 flip with my character and he's at a place where my first character was not even REMOTELY close to. It's very reminiscent of those old novels that you would make a choice and go to "page ___ to continue."TL;DR: It's fun. Don't deny it because its text based. It isn't completed, its a series similar to most episodic video games. Give it a shot, it's cheap, worth the money, go for it!. I very much lked "Choice of Robots" and "Tin Star", but did not find "Community College Hero: Trial by Fire" nearly as entertaining. Some of the characters are interesting (the most intriguing aspect of the game is trying to find out each student's secret) and the game definitely has its moments, but writing is a bit ham-handed and there were two major issues that greatly reduced the enjoyability for me: - The plot is strictly rail-roaded. There are several occasions where you are offered various choices, only to see the game tell you that what you chose was not possible after all and some of the choices you did not pick occurred instead. There are several odd non-choices, where you are just asked to select an opinion that has no effect on anything. And the worst bit: none of the choices you make actually affect the course of the main story;.basically your choices only affect which relationships and skills are advanced, there are no multiple possible storylines. All these shortcomings are in direct contrast to what I'd expect from a quality multiple-choice game.- This does not feel llike a complete independent game. You start developing a character and following his\/her story, but in the end everything is just left hanging in the air and you get an advertisement for the sequel \u2013 you are told merely the opening chapters here. In my opinion this should definitely be marketed as part 1 of <n>, so that it would be clear that waiting and further purchases are necessary to get the full story.. Before I knew what had happened, it was 4am when I finished my first playthrough. Instead of studying for actual finals, I played an interactive novel where my character *ahem* negotiates for a higher grade and bombs another class on moral principles. I couldn't have asked for a better time.(+) Most importantly, the novel is well-written. As in, amazingly well-written. If this novel was published and in a bookstore, I'd scoop the novel up for $20.(+) Fun and inventive characters. It was impossible to choose a favorite, but Tress is a L'Or\u00e9al goddess.(+) Lots of character customization. My costume was a hot mess. Also, I love the inclusiveness with options for "asexual" and "non-binary gender."(+) Lots of romance options. Hey Mob ;)(+) Did I mention this game is well-written?(-) The story isn't complete. You'll have to wait for Part Two, but good things come to those who eat their vegetables.(EDIT: This doesn't mean that the game isn't "unfinished." This is the start of a trilogy and there's enough material in Part One to whet your appetite until Part Two is released. The ending is doesn't feel rushed or ends abruptly.)I cannot wait to see what happens in Part Two. There are so many unanswered questions! The spoiler contains a semi-spoilerific open-ended question for the author\/anyone who wants to answer. My character wished he had super strength as a kid, so when I knew about Mob's ability, I knew that was the RO for my character. However, there was one line that intrigued me. This line was around Downfall's final exam. Mob mentioned that he felt unusually stronger around the classmates and faculty, so is it possible that my character develops super strength despite not being a Z-Person? Or is it because of Downfall revealing her abilities? Or something else entirely? Who knows?10\/10 Would accidentally rename myself as Captain Powerless again. I don't leave reviews often, but this story hit a real sweet-spot for me for some reason. It's well written, has great characters, and the premise is fairly unique for the genre. If you're wondering why I'm being vague, it's because it's best to go in knowing as little as possible.Without being too specific:-You will laugh-You will cry-And people WILL diePick it up, it's a fantastic beginning to a promising trilogy! Plus it's rekindled my writing bug, so to speak. So hats off to Eric.. I love the game. The subject matter is something I am really interested in (Heroes and comics) and given how badly most comics are written these days (new 52,,, yuck) this is a breath of fresh air. This is like the movie Sky High, which I also loved (wish they had made a sequel) I have logged a lot of hours trying to get all of the sub plots (and trying to pick which one will be my starting point for the next installment). Be advised, this game is exactly what it says. Text based, with only a few images at the start and no music. Other than that, it is a lot like Long Live the Queen and Magic Diary. I am impressed with how much dialog is included, it is like a Choose Your Own Adventure ... novel. I think it (by in large) avoids the pit falls of the Choose your Own Adventure books, if you really think about the choices and the characters... the responses make sense. For the cost... it is a real steal. I recently got a little burned following Life Is Strange, but I think the developer of this game will come through with a lot of endings at the end that will please everyone. I think the problem with Life is Strange is that producing a bunch of endings when you have voice talent, music, and graphical images, and a lot of overhead, is very difficult. I have really high hopes that in the end of this game, if you make the right choices, some endings may actually be very rewarding. I wish it had a few more images, for key plot twists... but it is still fun to use your imagination.
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