Brooktown High: Senior Year

by Konami

Product Features

• Create your own male or female character
• Interact with other students with their own unique personalities
• Go on dates in locations such as the movies, the beach, the mall, etc.
• Interactive mini-games

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000L422L0
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4 x 0.8 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: May 22, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,028 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #5 in Video Games > Sony PSP > Simulation > Life

Product Description

If you only knew then what you know now. Here's your chance to re-live your high school days by entering Brooktown High. Choose to play as male or female and create your own unique character. Interact with other students, each with their own distinct personalities and cliques. Find your niche and hang out with jocks, nerds, preppies, and more. This is your senior year and your chance to find the guy or girl of your dreams!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If only the kids in my high school looked this good..., June 1, 2007

By 

PSP Player (Rochester Hills, MI United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Brooktown High: Senior Year (Video Game)

I'll try and stick with the specifics of the gameplay and avoid too much commentary. This game is OK, but it could have been a lot more.

I would describe this as a "round-based, relationship game". A round is one school week. Your character gets up on Monday, gets dressed and has a little time for the computer. Then it is off to school. You have probably time enough to talk with 2 or 3 other kids before you have to get to class. Talking with other kids is VERY important, because this is basically the only chance you get for any given round, and talking is how you advance your relationships. Here is where things got a little weird; you flash-forward to Friday afternoon (there is no Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning, etc). Here you have either your job or your after-school club. By the way, you don't do anything at a job or club; these are strictly for earning money or improving your grades. Your character then wakes up on Saturday morning and can either study (all day) or goof off and call people on the phone or go on the computer. If you have a date, that happens Saturday night. That is pretty much it for a round. For some reason, there is no Sunday.

This game is all about relationships. There is no free-roam or things in the environment to interact with (except the computer and the clothes closet). Your character can't leave their room except to go to school or out on dates. You can't go hang out at the mall or go to a friend's house. Each round is very fast-paced. You rush to school, find who you want to talk to (if you can) and then run to class to avoid the hall monitor.

The game is about relationships, but there is very little time to develop them. There is absolutely no way you could talk with everyone in the game and go through their "story". This does give the game some replay value, in a strange way. The game lasts for one school year, so it is probably about 30 rounds or so.

The dating part is kind of interesting. You definitely have to get to know the person in order to get them interested. I didn't get too many dates, partially because I sometimes couldn't find the person I was looking for! On dates, you go to different places, but you only talk with your date.

I started to enjoy the game play style, because there was always something to look forward to; someone you needed to talk to or do a favor for. It is a decent hand-held game, because the rounds are pretty short. It would give me a headache if I played it too long. However, right when I was just figuring things out, the school year was over.

The good:
- Graphics and soundtrack are good
- Some of the characters are pretty interesting
- The round-based gaming can be pretty compelling. I usually couldn't wait until the next round so I could find the person I was looking for.

The bad:
- It can be really hard to find the other kid(s) you are looking for. There are lots of them and you only get once chance per round (aside from phone calls).
- You can't call people until you get their number, and you can't get a phone number unless someone gives it to you. (no yellow pages)
- It got frustrating trying to figure out how to advance some relationships. You have to talk to the right people to get tidbits about others. If you try talking to the same people again, you will just have the same conversations over and over. You have to find something out about them first, and that can be kind of hard (there isn't too much conversation time in any given round).
- There was very little time to interact with the other characters. If you accidentally started talking with the wrong person, you probably will miss out on finding who you were looking for.
- For me, the worst part was no free-roam, no ability to explore.


Overall, it is OK. It is certainly very different. However, those who are looking for a SIMS-like experience will want to avoid this one.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Major bug makes game unplayable, June 1, 2007

By 

M. Pessoa (USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Brooktown High: Senior Year (Video Game)

This game has so much promise, but in its current state it's unplayable. There is a known bug (go to the FAQ section of the Konami website where they coyly hint at the problem) that prevents you from saving the game if you're using anything but a Sony-brand 256MB Memory Stick. I have a SanDisk 4GB card that the game won't save to. Trust me, there's nothing wrong with the card. The card, game and PSP were all brand new, bought the same day.

I'm currently fighting it out with Konami to get a refund since the store I bought the game from won't allow you to return a game that's been opened.

Bottom line -- if you don't have a Sony 256MB Memory Stick, you can't save, so unless you like starting from scratch each time you turn on your PSP, forget about it. Maybe they're working on a patch, but till then, stay away.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I LIKE GIRLS, October 22, 2007

By 

Andrew "Andrew" (New York) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Brooktown High: Senior Year (Video Game)

i haven't really played many dating sims, but this one had me glued to the psp til it was done, which thankfully didn't take too long, as the game is very short. i mean, you literally get to the end in what, 4-5 hours? but that's good, cuz it was kinda addictive while it lasted

anyway, jody's obviously the one. she's the best combination of looks and especially brains. courtney's not bad, if that's what her name was, i forget. the pink-haired one's okay. the blonde queen-ish one isn't bad either. the rest are kinda off. the guys are actually modeled better than the girls, if you ask me. like that one black guy

anyway, i'd like to see more dating sims. sure, they get crappy scores, but they're a near-10 in my book, since i'm a loser ;D

but i can't believe it got a T rating. a game mentioning 'scoring' so often usually warrants an M or even an A. well, they don't really show anything to warrant an A, i suppose, besides those suggestive phallic symbols near the end, of an oil rig, a screwdriver, etc., but still, aiming a game at teens and then tellin em to fornicate isn't exactly keepin it coshure in the kitchen, if you catch me. that one girl with the sunflower in one of the earlier videos is hot. whoa suga'

gameplay: not really 'fun' so much as 'addicting.' the problem is, it doesn't even really warrant playing a 2nd time, unless you absolutely love more than 1 of the girls. i was happy enough maxing out my "rel" ("relationship") with jody and seeing (more like 'reading') the ending

lasting appeal: a superficial jolly, at best. i suggest final fantasy tactics war of the lions, and field commander, and jeanne de arc (whatever it's called). you can pretend you're dating jeanne. hint: she likes axes. go get'er, tiger ;)

i just wish you could be a girl and then date girls. i tried that but i kept getting rejected for some reason. "hey starlight, how'd you like to come over to my house this saturday? okay, okay... your loss, 'sister'." go fig

anywho, that's that. more dating sims, please. just ignore the awful sales!:D