Skool Daze: Reskooled

Skool Daze: Reskooled is a 2D reimagining of Skool Daze, with updated graphics and gameplay. You play as Eric across three schools: Skool Daze, Back to Skool and the newly created Nu Skool. Complete tasks that act as checkpoints, unlock codes and finish each level while avoiding expulsion for exceeding 10,000 lines.

Eric’s school troubles

In Skool Daze, Eric needs to remove his school report from the staffroom safe before the Headmaster sees it. The combination has four letters, each known by a different master, with the Headmaster’s letter first. To discover the combination, you must hit every shield hanging on the school walls. Some can be reached by jumping; others require tricks such as bouncing a pellet off a seated master’s head or climbing onto a boy you have knocked down to jump higher.

After stealing the report near the end of term, Eric spends the holiday forging teachers’ signatures and handwriting to make it look as though he is a bright, sweet and helpful pupil. He then has to get the report back into the Head’s safe. Notes in invisible ink in his elder brother’s copy of the School Rules reveal what to do; the paper must be held over a bonfire made from the swot’s cap to read them.

In Back to Skool, Eric has moved to a more modern school but continues to misbehave. His exam results and other records are stored in the school’s computer database, which he must access and delete to maintain his good-boy image. An elderly brother of one of Eric’s new friends has left invisible-ink notes in a copy of the School Rules, revealed by holding the paper over a bonfire made from the swot’s maths book.

School rules

The timetable determines which lessons the boys attend. Because Eric cheated in the exams last year, he always has the same lessons as the swot. Attending lessons does not earn points, and boys caught in the wrong place may be given lines. More than 10,000 lines means immediate expulsion.

Boys must stay out of the staffroom and the Headmaster’s study. During playtime, they should be playing rather than in classrooms. They are not allowed to hit schoolmates or fire catapults, and should walk quietly in the corridors rather than run or sit there. School dinners are compulsory.

School activities

You go to classes, write naughty messages on the blackboard and answer questions by raising your hand. You can use punches, catapults and water pistols as you make your way through the timetable, and the game also includes a scooter stunt mode.

The difficulty can be adjusted across a broad range. If you want an easier game, you can raise the expulsion limit to over 20,000 lines. You can also unlock and play as any character, using their bonus skills, such as catapult aiming.

The school cast

• Eric: the hero.
• Boy Wander: the good-looking one.
• AngelFace: the bully.
• Einstein: the brains.
• Hayley: the love interest.