Let's School Review (PCichigo)
I rarely say this, but this is the best school management I ever play right now.
First, let's do a quick review on some of school management game that I played:
Two Point Campus - Great graphic and animation, many mechanic but feel plain.
Academia : School Simulator - Simple graphic, similar to prison architect, but fewer mechanic.
Pocket Academy - Cute and charming pixel art style and animation, but very shallow mechanic and limited option since it is focusing to be on mobile.
So, when Let's School first show up, I'm very skeptical about it. It took me a few months before I decide to get it. But once I start playing, oh boy, it is very addictive. The longer I play, the more and more mechanic I discovered. And it got tons of them!
Needs, relationship, training, stats, items, classes, responsible position, research, parking lots, z-dimension building, other school diplomacy, competition events, seasonal events, community upgrade, selection which product to sell, garbage cleaning, fire, earthquake, room upgrade, club, dormitory, and more.
And you know what I love the most? The management system in this game!
It let you create an organization chart, where you (the headmaster) is at the top, and you can see the tree down of each subordinate under you, each person have their own management value, assigning to much responsibility under them will cause stress, but each one below will get management buff from the one above.
So, it is incredible fun to drag and drop, split, combine, assign person to each position based on the facility that you got in your school, try to find the best organization chart that benefit you the most, and I never see any game did something like this before. It make you feel like you really manage a school as whole and their relationship in each department.
Still not everything is perfect, there are some rough issues. For example the animation is far from smooth, you will see people waking walk through object, teacher put their bag floating in the air on the deck, etc. Some translation need to be clearer, and I spot a very few place where text is still Chinese. I did found a few bug, where people stuck sometime, but reloading the game will fix it.
Nevertheless, I can overlook all that flaws with so many fun mechanic to play and great performance despite 300 people plus uncountable cats running around in my school at x4 speed, it still working well without lagging issues.
As of my review right now, I got all achievements in around 75 hours (except 1 because of new update patch), I would said that this is probably the best time and money spend decision that I ever made in a while.