Bully: Scholarship Edition

Bully is easily one of Rockstar’s most underrated games and honestly one of their best. I had a great time with this game. The whole idea of taking Rockstar’s open-world formula and putting it inside a school setting is still incredibly fun, and Bullworth Academy feels like a world full of personality. The story is great, the characters are memorable, and there is so much random stuff to do outside of the main missions. The classes, fights, pranks, side activities, carnival games, arcade machines and just running around causing chaos never really gets boring. The combat is simple, but it works perfectly for the kind of game Bully is. The game also holds up surprisingly well considering its age. It has that classic Rockstar charm that a lot of modern open-world games struggle to capture. I genuinely wish Rockstar would make a sequel because there is so much potential for another Bully. That being said, the PC version is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rough. The game crashed for me quite a lot, even after installing mods and fixes. It's ridiculous that a game this good still has these kinds of technical problems. The mods definitely helped, but the crashes were still annoying as hell, so save often. Despite all of that, I absolutely loved my time with Bully. It's one of those games that feels different from everything else Rockstar has made, and that's exactly why it stands out. Great story, great characters, fun gameplay and a world that is still incredibly enjoyable to mess around in. Rockstar, just give us Bully 2 already.

this is definitely one of the games you can always come back to but still kind of crazy after all this time rockstar hasnt updated it to run on modern devices but there are fixes but otherwise amazing game

I LOVE THIS GAME

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love it so much

Brilliant game... that plays like crap on this port. It reminds me of some of the awful ports made in 2010 or so. Controlling Jimmy feels more like your mouse is emulating a thumbstick. Play it on a console.

nostalgia

I genuinely cannot in good faith recommend this, as good as this story is. I lost a good chunk of progress because of some extremely stupid bug that soft-locked me in a cutscene during Discretion Assured. I could not move, I could not press any keys. Yeah I definitely should've saved before doing any of this, but now I can definitely confirm that even with the patch everyone recommends (and is a good mod), you should not play this version on PC. It is not worth all the tussling, fighting, and turmoil.