Voltage does it again with their newest addition, After School Affairs, except this time, with new additional features that are quickly becoming a norm in the Japanese dating sim world. You start the game as a homeroom teacher who works at an all-boys school called Kasuga High School. Right after class ends and you begin making your way back to the teacher’s room, the vice principal calls you over in a panic. One of the students you teach has just been caught peeping on the girls’ locker room from a neighboring rich, well-bred, girls-only school that caters to the best of the best. After a brief discussion with the seemingly austere yet alluring 2nd year head teacher from the neighboring school, Shinichi Kagari, you manage to squeeze your student out from possibly getting suspended. That same day, you move into the new teacher’s dorms where you meet your new neighbors who are all beyond good-looking and overly attractive.
By an unexpected twist of fate, the next day, you come to find that the two schools will merge together due to the financial strain your school is under. After finding out you will not only work together with your new neighbors who are as elite as they come, you are then paired up with one of them to raise the scores of your students to the acceptable standard assigned by the new head mistress of the newly formed Seishun High School.
If that wasn’t torture enough, as one of the previsions for this new union, it is forbidden for both students and teachers to be in a relationship until the new head mistress removes the ban.
Will you be able to hold off, or will love blossom between you and the man of your dreams in a hidden after school affair?
This story may seem slightly cliché, but what games of theirs aren’t? The appeal for a forbidden relationship in the midst of adulthood is both strong and highly alluring in this newest addition to the Voltage franchise.
Voltage’s popularity has steadily continued to grow thanks to their imaginative and thrilling stories filled with both charming and egotistical men.
What makes their newest addition to their dating series so interesting, is their new romance scale, called “The Love Meter”.
While response choices have always been an imperative part of the gaming system, they have taken it to the next level. Instead of one particular ending for the main story line, now the player has two options – ‘Climactic Ending’ and ‘Amorous Ending’. Either sounds appealing, right? As an add-ed bonus, if both endings are acquired, an unlockable video with your chosen character will be available where he says a message to you. These additions may not be unfamiliar to the experienced Japanese dating sim player, but they still add an extra umph that heightens the normal standard for their typical gaming experience.
In addition to the added features are the type of characters they offer this time around. The men still range from egotistical Adonis to the I’m-sweet-on-the-outside-but-probably-really-sadistic-on-the-inside, to the lazy, cool type, all of whom make the girls swoon in desire and destroy any hope for finding men as good as them (thanks a lot, Voltage).
Even though the prologue and only one character play through is available right now through the character Rikiya Mononobe, the fact Voltage lists their future additional stories and that they have a slightly different interface, makes this game all the more interesting.
It does help this time around that the men’s characteristics are extremely different from one another. While confident, egotistical men with seductive smirks are worth playing a game for repeatedly, it’s always nice when a few unexpected spices are thrown into the mix.
In fact, while I’m sure the general Japanese dating sim game-playing populous can agree on the fact that each game has been a masterpiece thus far, this one might actually just take the cake next to My Forged Wedding and The Baddest Bidder.
If a game that speaks to your inner teacher and hidden desire to have an affair a person of this status is what you’re after, then this is the one for you.
Rules are meant to be broken, right?
If you’d like to check out more about Voltage, Inc.’s games, please visit their official website at: koi-game.voltage.co.jp.
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