As a high school "dating" simulation, Konami's Brooktown High for PlayStation Portable is worth a gander simply because there aren't too many games like it (here anyway; they're all the rage in Japan).

Sadly, it's not a particularly thorough game of boy-meets-girl, mainly due to the fact that all the characters therein are gross stereotypes inducing little empathy; geek, jock; preppy, and greaser. Conveniently, there's also just four classes to attend, coinciding with these character classes – Physics, Phys Ed., French, and Art.

For better or worse, there are only a couple dozen students to interact with at Brooktown, and your multiple choice conversations with each are basically a lesson in teen angst movie trivia where you're trying to figure out what you are expected to say or what requested favor to undertake in order to remain popular and get a date -- either that or stay home and play the hopelessly gauche face-sucking mini-game that will apparently boost your stats. It helps if you've seen Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club and Revenge of the Nerds -- you're dating yourself if you have and so have the designers of this game.

Anyway, the gag-me-with-a-smurf gameplay with a solid rock n' roll soundtrack is novel enough (and if menu-driven gameplay is your thing), just not particularly intelligent nor extensive.