So yeah, in a way, it’s pretty much like real high school.įor all of Brooktown High’s many obstacles - not to mention the PSP’s waning popularity - it’s still worth taking out on a couple of summer dates. You get to create your own character male or female, interact with people from school, go on. This is a High School simulator, if you are feeling nostalgic and would like to relive the high school period then this is your game. What’s even more frustrating: You’re given disappointingly little time to skirt-chase between classes, while the rest of the game is spent customizing your wardrobe, studying (lest your parents ground you), listening to mall-worthy pop-punk songs, and losing your patience during the PSP’s long-ass load times. Brooktown High is a Simulation video game published by Konami released on May 22nd, 2007 for the PlayStation Portable. Hopefully this review will give you enough information to decide if the game is a good fit for you. Will Brooktown High be the one That is up to you to decide. These games are very popular in Japan but have never been able to break into the American market. In other words, when a cheerleader asks whether you have school spirit, answer “Yes! Go team!” and you’ll be in her pants before study hall. Brooktown High (Konami for PSP) is a dating simulation game, or date-sim for short. The AI is stiff and robotic, and landing a date amounts to agreeing with everything the hottie says and picking obvious responses to her questions - whether you agree or not. In terms of actual game play, however, Brooktown High gets a Saturday detention. Who knows?” Subversively, you can even sell cough medicine to kids looking for a cheap buzz, upping your “cool meter” in the process. Maybe it’s something in the water, or maybe the publisher thinks it’ll sell more units. For a dialogue-heavy game, it makes the grade: On your first day you’re told, “Even the ugly people at this school are smoking-hot. Try playing a round of the PG-13 Strip Blackjack mini-game, and you’ll start to wonder whether Dateline is recruiting suspects for a “To Catch a Predator” sequel.īut once you get past these bizarre cosmetics, each flirtatious conversation with Brooktown High’s students - a stereotypical Breakfast Club mix of preps, jocks, nerds, and goths - is actually clever, biting, and often hilarious. And you’re supposed to make out with these things to raise your score? Creepy. The kids inhabiting this drama look like slutted-out versions of your little sister’s Bratz dolls. The most jarring thing about Brooktown High is its character design. Screw becoming valedictorian: Winning here means landing a hot date in time for the prom. Just agree with everything everyone else says, and you'll be the most. In the meantime, you’ll have to keep your grades up and run errands for friends in exchange for, say, their sisters’ phone numbers. With nothing really changing from week to week, and without much to actually do, Brooktown High gets tedious quickly. Like a twisted episode of Quantum Leap, you have taken over the body of a high-school student, navigating halls and hitting on the opposite sex to score points (and digits) think World of Warcraft with booty hunting instead of bounty hunting.
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