{"id":18063,"date":"2025-03-12T09:37:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T08:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/expelled-review-turning-the-tables-on-the-private-school-class-hierarchy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T08:37:47","slug":"expelled-review-turning-the-tables-on-the-private-school-class-hierarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/expelled-review-turning-the-tables-on-the-private-school-class-hierarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Expelled! review \u2013 turning the tables on the private school class hierarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo Switch, iPhone\/iPad, Mac, PC (version played); Inkle
<\/strong>Inkle\u2019s latest game revels in lying, stealing and blackmail as you resort to any means necessary to avoid expulsion from a posh school<\/p>\n

As with seemingly everything in the UK, it all comes back to the class system. Verity Amersham, a scholarship student at Miss Mulligatawney\u2019s School for Promising Girls, is accused of pushing the hockey captain out of a window, and the school\u2019s fearsome headmistress is determined to expel her despite the flimsiest evidence. When Verity protests her innocence, Miss Mulligatawney remains unpersuaded, spelling out her reasoning in plain terms: as a northerner with working-class parents, Verity simply isn\u2019t the \u201cright sort\u201d.<\/p>\n

The injustice of it all is a potent driver, ensuring I set about my goal of preventing Verity\u2019s expulsion with determined zeal, much like Matilda defying the hateful Miss Trunchbull. As in developer Inkle\u2019s 2021 game Overboard!<\/a>, you\u2019re given a time limit to work within and a handful of areas to move between, from the library to the sick room (AKA the \u201csan\u201d, where the school\u2019s grumpy matron lurks). Each area has characters to talk to and objects to find, and each action moves the clock forward. The game follows a rigid school timetable: at 2pm, for example, all of the students will troop up to the library for Latin.<\/p>\n

Expelled! is out on 12 March<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a>
\nNintendo Switch, iPhone\/iPad, Mac, PC (version played); InkleInkle\u2019s latest game revels in lying, stealing and blackmail as you resort to any means necessary to avoid expulsion from a posh school
\nAs with seemingly everything in the UK, it all comes back to the class system. Verity Amersham, a scholarship student at Miss Mulligatawney\u2019s School for Promising Girls, is accused of pushing the hockey captain out of a window, and the school\u2019s fearsome headmistress is determined to expel her despite the flimsiest evidence. When Verity protests her innocence, Miss Mulligatawney remains unpersuaded, spelling out her reasoning in plain terms: as a northerner with working-class parents, Verity simply isn\u2019t the \u201cright sort\u201d.
\nThe injustice of it all is a potent driver, ensuring I set about my goal of preventing Verity\u2019s expulsion with determined zeal, much like Matilda defying the hateful Miss Trunchbull. As in developer Inkle\u2019s 2021 game Overboard!, you\u2019re given a time limit to work within and a handful of areas to move between, from the library to the sick room (AKA the \u201csan\u201d, where the school\u2019s grumpy matron lurks). Each area has characters to talk to and objects to find, and each action moves the clock forward. The game follows a rigid school timetable: at 2pm, for example, all of the students will troop up to the library for Latin.
\nExpelled! is out on 12 March Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nintendo Switch, iPhone\/iPad, Mac, PC (version played); InkleInkle\u2019s latest game revels in lying, stealing and blackmail as you resort to any means necessary to avoid expulsion from a posh school As with seemingly everything in the UK, it all comes back to the class system. Verity Amersham, a scholarship student at Miss Mulligatawney\u2019s School for …<\/p>\n

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