The game is unrealistic, just like any games, but makes a good statement. Personally, I would have liked a little for the game is provide room for improvement

The game is unrealistic, just like any games, but makes a good statement. Personally, I would have liked a little for the game is provide room for improvement (over a period of time) but also provide some attachment to ones choices. It should have been made like Oregon Trail. What the game does not really provide is the emotional baggage that comes with many of these decisions. For example, when asked what to do with the pet, I took him to the shelter (financially the best choice). In real life, I am not sure I could make that decisions (disclaimer I do not own any pets in RL). Similarly, with the best friends wedding in another state: In the game, flying to that wedding is a bad choice, but in RL, you would try to borrow money and go anyway. When you are poor, it is really hard to delay gratification, even though that is the best choice in the long run(and we all know what happens in the long run). Game should have been over a period of one year or so (roughly the period of the Nickel and Dimed and Scratch Beginnings).