If Jimmy's vision is really this impaired, it may be time for him to give up bullying and look into the acquisition of a sign, sunglasses, and cup full of pencils. Of particular annoyance is the failure of the lock-on feature to actually lock on to an opponent while engaged in combat with multiple opponents, the game would frequently forget who I was fighting and have me take a swing at the nearest opponent if I was lucky, or the open air if I didn't happen to be facing anyone. While it is entirely possible that this title is much more playable on other systems, the Wii unfortunately makes use of both the Wiimote and the Nunchuk in the course of combat, and neither control is particularly responsive. One of the big problems that immediately becomes apparent with Bully was the gameplay. From there, the story rapidly disintegrates into a series of side missions, pseudo-optional content, and thinly veiled plot devices that fail to engage the mind for more than a moment and serve to annoy than to inform or entertain. He quickly meets the incredibly cliché groups of students: nerds, jocks, greasers (apparently, this game takes place in 1955), and other various students who are little more than faceless drones.
At the beginning of the game, he is driven by his mother and father (who we never see) to Bullworth Academy, a boarding school with a darker side hidden just beneath the poorly presented veneer of respectability. Jimmy is a juvenile delinquent, a literal red-headed stepchild who is apparently guilty of vandalism, bullying, and other youthful indiscretions that have finally taxed the patience of his legal guardians. I am here to tell you the awful, well-concealed truth, faithful reader: Bully stinks. Bully: Scholarship Edition has received some rather favorable reviews from many other reviewers, most of whom cite the mission-based gameplay and the title's sense of humor as reasons to spend your hard-earned cash. There comes a time in every game reviewer's life where, having played a game, he must quixotically tilt against the windmill of other game reviews and offer up his own opinion, even when it differs starkly from the views of the bulk of the game reviewing community.
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