Friday, October 10, 2014

Mobile Apps : 01 : High School Story!

Hey there, marshmallow-sized sweetdrop cookie hats!
Waaaaaaaahh...ttttt... Never mind that. Hehe.
Using the title of this post as MILD HELP, what is this review about?
Da-da-da-da!
This post is revising... you know, the time I was enjoying that nice green frosted doughnut and then I realized that I was almost gonna be late for school HIGH SCHOOL STORY!
Yes! Finally, Sparkle and I found a way to convert mobile-device screenshots onto the computer! Well, I found out how to, but... who cares! She gets credit, too!

Yup! High School Story!
It's a fun game, but I don't suggest it being your hourly point of fun. Unless you're new at HSS. Then the quests are quicker, so you should probably keep your eye on that app until you're around level 5 or 6, where the quests will probably lengthen to 2-3 hours instead of, like, 15-45 minutes.
So, onto the basics!
The above picture is a picture of a school with a good amount of students. MY school.
There are nine main characters (as you continue and start leveling up, you will unlock more characters that must be earned through quests). These characters are: Payton, Autumn, Nishan, Mia, Julian, Ezra, Wes, Sakura, and yourself.
Most quests will involve these characters, but there are side quests where you pick from three of your own classmates. Different types of classmates, such as mascots, gamers, class clowns, wallflowers, and many more, will have different quests to them. Maybe it could be a back-story or their personal issues. These quests are especially fun to page through!
Okay! Let's review the hangout areas!
First up, in the order that they are provided when you first start the game...
The jocks!
This is a leveled-up version of the Jock Hangout (I think all my hangouts are upgraded to the highest version possible. Oops!). Leveled up, you can keep five jock-personality classmates in there. (I think it's five. Maybe it's four.)
You can only get a certain amount of hangouts per level. Doesn't matter what hangout. For level 16, you can only have 16 hangouts. You could have 6 jock hangouts, 3 nerd hangouts, 4 prep hangouts, 2 artist hangouts, and 1 slacker hangout, but whatever way you decide to split the five hangouts, you can only have 16 in total.
Julian is a jock from the main-character list. He is bold, strong, and has a nice soft side to all that bulky manliness. And I'm pretty sure he has feelings for Autumn.
This is the Nerd Hangout. Though NERD is a slightly offensive term. I would have called it... you know what, I really don't know!
I'm more of a nerd than a prep, to be honest, but since I'm girly (and the nerd girls look less girly than the prep girls), I picked the prep option. Not much of a social butterfly, but still. I don't often wear plaid on lined socks with a color-coordinated skirt, either.
This is also a leveled-up hangout. Sorry, again. But this one can hold FOUR nerd-personality classmates, not five.
Nishan is one of the nerds in the main-character booklet. He likes sci-fi, facts, and has a crush on Sakura the gamer-girl.
I like the style of the Prep Hangout. Looks like a nice campus cafe with room to sleep on the top floor. I would SO live in that (if I had to pick from all the hangouts).
Preps are (supposedly) social butterflies. 
Anyways, this ALSO-leveled-up hangout can hold five prep-personality classmates. You saw that coming, right?
One of the early classmates that you'll meet is Payton. She is the main prep in the main-character scroll of official-... ness. She is bouncy and loves throwing parties and all that.
She's a prep. What did you expect, a mountain-climbing expedition that takes five weeks to get to the top of a cliff that is supposedly packed with gold?
No. Hehe. Preps are normal. Mostly.
Mia is a cheerleader (cross of prep / jock). Sakura is a criss-cross of nerd / jock (she's a gamer). And both of them are incredulously feisty. For classmates that have criss-cross personalities, you can put them in either one of the hangouts they belong to.
Moving on. The Artist Hangout can only hold four artist-personality classmates, like the nerd hangout-place. It's, um, made of glass. Any privacy?
I don't think so. Like... WHY.
Autumn is the artist of the main-character-ness. She is a gentle character.
I like her the most.
Apart from my own character.
Continuing on.
The Music Hangout (is that what it's called?) can hold up to five music-personality classmates.
I'm tired of typing this enormously long post.
No wonder I shortened the Mineplex review!
Bleh. Musician. Um. Ezra is the main character of music-ness.
He's got a nice side to his usual braggy, stand-alone self.
The Slacker Hangout (I think. Is it called that? What?) holds up to four classmates.
Wes is a slacker. Slinking around for clues. Hiding off in the shadows to listen in on conversations. Makes good gossip, doesn't it?
He is a huge help to the group.
He helped when the, uh, other rival school (forgot the name. Oops. Sorry.) tried to trick my school, beat us in games, and so on.
Okay! Last part of this!

There is a partying area, courtesy of Payton, where you can have unnaturally long parties and meet new classmates. You can play matchmaker in the Tunnel of Love. And the YOUR VOICE addition lets you take polls and share. And on the front loading page, you get tips on HSS.
Bye guys!
My fingers hurt!

~AkoriKitty xx
A true, true friend... will buy you a sundae. If you want one. Strawberry, please.

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