Snoot Game

**Snoot Game** is a parody visual novel developed in Ren'py by Cavemanon Studios, released in 2021 after the announcement of KO\_OP's "Goodbye Volcano High." Snoot Game features both the characters from Goodbye Volcano High, as well as original characters made by Cavemanon.

## Background and Development

HearsayUnfortunately, many of the original sources for the development of this game have been lost, meaning mostly secondary and tertiary sources have been used.
On June 11th, 2020, Sony revealed the trailer for Goodbye Volcano High in a lineup of upcoming games for the PS5. The reception of the trailer was mixed at best, with heavy criticism being levied upon the character design and the themes of Goodbye Volcano High. The lead writer for GVH, Kate Gray, being exposed as a pedo and fired soon after also did not help the game at all.

This game also caught the attention of many users of 4chan, who made mocking imagery of Snoot Game. Eventually, though, a small community formed around Snoot Game inside 4chan, and around June of 2020, drafting/ideation of Snoot Game began. Around May of 2021, photos of snoot game would be leaked, and on June 5, 2021, Snoot Game would be publically released.

## Story

> "You play as Anon, a lonely, faceless, nobody, reject who finds himself in the dinosaur themed acid trip of a school named Volcano High. Here Anon meets the qt ptero known as Fang and their clown-vomit colored posse of reject friends and other associated thorns-in-the-side." - Synopsis from the Snoot Game website
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Snoot Game's story revolves around you, Anon, moving to Volcano High from a different high school due to being socially isolated and bullied in your old school. You, initially, don't have the best lucking making new friends, but eventually meet Naser and Naomi, who introduce you to Fang, who introduces you to Reed and Trish, who introduce you to Stella and Rosa.

## Endings

### Point System

In Snoot Game, there exists a point system that determines the ending of the story. Both Fang and Anon can gain points by the player making certain choices, which reflects on how much they have individually matured. Points cannot be lost.

**Choices that gain Fang points:**

* Speak up
* Heads, ask for Fang's help
* Stay quiet
* Ask Fang
* Play the guitar

**Choices that gain Anon points:**

* Explain it to her honestly, she should understand by now
* Stay quiet
* Wait for Fang
* Leave the stage as-is
* Wait for Trish

### Ending 1

*You get this ending by both Anon and Fang having less than 3 points. This ending is the result of never or rarely supporting Fang at all, nor improving yourself.*
Leading up to this ending, after leaving the band, Fang is drawn back in by Trish who, not only convinces her to play at the prom, but even forces Anon to apologize to Trish over her embarrassing Anon. By this point, Anon and Fang are much worse than they were at the start, and even Naomi loses her calm demeaner berates Anon for making Fang worse. Fang's band plays at the prom, which ends even worse than their auditorium show, with Fang even getting food thrown at her.

Instead of blaming herself and the band for their poor performance, she blames Naser and Naomi. She goes to Anon's apartment and, upon being told that Naomi put her and Anon together intentionally, wrecks it and assaults Anon. The next day, she shoots up Volcano High. You bypass the police surrounding the school and enter the building, encountering a dead Naomi and see Naser on the edge of death on the floor, as well as many other students lifeless on the ground. You walk up to the roof, encountering Fang, who accidentally shoots you in the leg. She then jumps off the side of the building, killing herself.

Anon is taken to the hospital. The press labels him a hero who took a bullet to stop Fang, and he is not visited by anyone besides reporters, who he does not talk to. He is discharged, and visits the graves of Naser and Fang after the funeral is over and everyone else has left.

***After this ending, the game closes itself***

### Ending 2

*You get this ending by Anon having less than 3 points, but Fang having more than 2. This ending is the result of supporting Fang, but not improving yourself.*
The lead-up to this ending is pretty similar to ending 3, except fang does not shake off the influence of Trish. Fang and Anon skip prom entirely and decide to just get drunk and figure out their "pansexual relationship," which Anon is not accepting of. They eventually decide to go to a "post-extreme neo-indie experimental hardcore-mathcore-grindcore industrial heavy punk metal" Bigly Die concert which Fang won free tickets to, which Anon gets knocked out at. Anon also starts picking up the habit of smoking.

During prom, they hang out at a beach, get drunk, and shoot fireworks while complaining about everybody else. Anon eventually reveals while drunk that Naomi has been trying to "fix" Fang and makes transphobic comments towards Fang. Fang smacks Anon and they get into an argument, Fang saying that Anon hasn't improved from the immature bigot he was when she met him at all and that he's just like everyone else at school. This argument reaches its apex when Anon calls Fang mentally ill and an f-slur, and Fang breaks up with him.

Anon doesn't take the breakup well and flunks out of school with no friends. He joins the navy and spends four years on the brink of suicide in the navy, being tormented by other sailors. He returns home to his old apartment at Skin Row, drifting through life, staying in his room all day living off of his pension. Anon eventually leaves his room and goes to a stagnant old pizza place, where a now unrecognizable Fang is playing a show at, her looking absolutely miserable. She doesn't recognize Anon, and after a bit of contemplating, Anon leaves without talking to her.

### Ending 3

*You get this ending by Anon having more than 2 points, but Fang having less than 4. This ending is the result of mostly improving yourself, and by not focusing on Fang.*
Leading up to this ending, after leaving the band, Fang completely cuts off contact with Trish and Reed. She starts to live with Anon, who constantly needs to help her with her issues with self-harm, and although he never addresses the root issue of why she is doing it, Anon manages to get her to stop. Fang, without the influence of Trish, also de-transitions back to Lucy. Anon also fixes Lucy's relationship with Naser by unknowingly getting them both into Moe's pizza at the same time, with Moe stepping in and resolving their issues.

In a last-ditch attempt, Trish tries to get Lucy to rejoin her friend group after pressuring Anon to get her and Lucy to meet up in the auditorium. She, of course, betrays Anon and prevents him from intervening as she tries to manipulate Lucy, who manages to resist Trish's attempts. Trish, despite being firmly told by Lucy that Lucy wanted nothing to do with her, involuntarily signs her up to play for the prom. This goes horribly, as Lucy manages to tell her that she wants nothing to do with Trish, and the show is cancelled.

Anon, early in the game, said he was told by his father that he was either going college or the military. In this ending, he joins the military and goes overseas to a desert country, leaving Fang behind, promising to return to her. After returning from a 3-year deployment, he encounters Fang who is now a teacher for preschoolers. After catching up, you learn Naser has gone to medical school and that she has lost contact with Trish, Reed, Naomi, Rosa, and Stella, and has abandoned her music career, although Anon suggests to her that she might want to become a music teacher.

### Ending 4

*You get this ending by Anon and Fang having more than 3 points. This ending is a result of being completely supportive to Fang and yourself.*
Leading up to this ending, Anon is both mature and extremely supportive of Fang, repairing Fang's relationship with Naser by addressing her trauma regarding with Naser's injuries. Fang also stops talking to Trish, but doesn't entirely cut her off, becoming much more assertive towards her and not falling for her manipulation tactics. She decides to play for the prom after the principal suggests she does, and goes to the prom with Anon. Anon also manages to completely tear down Naomi's scheme to "fix" Fang, with Fang smacking Naomi across the face. During the prom, Anon manages to make up with Trish, and Fang manages to play beautifully at the prom (which makes Naomi further seethe).

It's three weeks later, after graduation. Fang, Naser, and Anon throw a party out near the beach. Naomi is still seething, especially after Anon posted a picture of her online, and everyone, including Trish and Reed, hang out around the fire getting drunk on expensive beer. Naomi and Naser are both fake-drunk on non-alcoholic beer and Stella is pestering Anon, but despite that, everyone is enjoying themselves.

Five years later, Anon is back from college with a bachelor in sound engineering, and is visiting a high school reunion at Volcano High. Everyone is much different; Reed *apparently* owns a pharmaceutical business, Naomi is a housewife married to a "Kanyesauraus" who ran for president, Naser is still at college, Trish works for a company that styles horns, Spears is a car dealer, and finally, Fang - now Lucy - is a teacher's aid for the band teacher. Lucy gives a closing speech, and everyone but Anon and Lucy leaves, to which they go to the rooftop. Lucy is complaining about a student, and Anon reflects on how she and him were just like him when they were in school.

### Bonus Chapters

You can unlock bonus chapters by completing endings of the game. There are 9 bonus chapters in total.

## Reception

Snoot Game was praised for almost every aspect of the game; its writing, character design, art direction, and storytelling, although it was unpolished in early versions, being praised as being even better than its source material despite being released before it.

However, despite going over very well with fans, it did not go over well with the developers at KO\_OP and, especially, journalists (AKA the "fun police"). Kotaku would write an obviously biased smear article on Snoot Game, being possibly paid by KO\_OP to write this article as Kotaku has a history of paid journalism. They even go as far as to directly interact with the developers at KO\_OP when writing the article, whom they frame as heroes standing up to targeted harassment.

Kotaku would call the game an "Alt-right 4chan Harassment Troll Project," saying that Snoot Game's creation was motivated purely by homophobia. It even frames the game itself as being directly harmful in the quote below... somehow, when trying to frame KO\_OP's seething over the game as justified.

> "What may seem like a harmless image of one of the game’s characters could actually be Snoot Game fan material, something which, according to KO\_OP’s rules, shouldn’t be posted." *-Kotaku trying to justify KO\_OP banning people from their Discord for even saying the word "snoot"*
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## Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye\_Volcano\_High
2. ↑ https://yurimother.com/post/620850619109064705
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/cloutsocks/status/1588002133948997633