Sotsugyou III: Wedding Bell

About

Sotsugyou III: Wedding Bell is a first-person simulator that casts you as a teacher navigating a secret marriage to a former student. Gameplay balances managing academic duties like grading assignments and coaching students to top marks with personal life tasks like scheduling dates and maintaining relationships. The story hinges on keeping your unconventional union hidden from the school principal while juggling responsibilities. Players pick from five different spouses at the start, each shaping interactions and outcomes through dialogue and decision trees. The game’s premise leans into a controversial dynamic that polarizes audiences, with its blend of schoolyard tensions and domestic roleplay. Released in 1998 for PlayStation and Sega Saturn, it stands out for its bold subject matter and early use of branching narrative choices. While not widely discussed in modern circles, it remains a niche artifact of late-90s visual novel experiments.

Storyline

The game begins with the teacher, who is the player married with one of his students. The principal finds out and asks the student to be expelled from the school. The teacher makes a deal with the principal that this secret life with his students will not be revealed to the public and he also promises that he will coach his students all the way to an A when they graduate.