History VideoGame / HighSchoolStory

* CrossPlayer: Sakura played as [[Franchise/MassEffect Male!Shepherd]] and romanced Tali.

* OddFriendship: Koh and Kallie. Koh is the main characters' resident rebel, anti-authoritarian, quick to punch first and ask questions rarely, abrasive and ready with a sarcastic quip for every occasion, and a biker who fits in just fine with rough crowds. Kallie is shy, [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals owner of multiple plush-toys]], not good with large crowds or social scenes, extremely sheltered due to having [[OverprotectiveDad overprotective]] [[MyBelovedSmother parents]], and possessive of [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness a very extensive vocabulary of big words]]. Despite this, the two girls get along quite well, with Kallie even looking up to Koh as a CoolBigSis and Koh giving Kallie a leather jacket (granted, their initial association in-game started off on rocky footing).

* GenderNeutralWriting: A ton of it, especially in the quests given out by various random students or when referring to you or your date. Instead of making sure students are referred to with the appropriate pronouns, the game just avoids saying "he" or "she" entirely. This is important especially when someone is referring to their ex, as the game has no way of knowing if you believe a certain created student is entirely straight, gay, or bi, even if they are currently dating someone.
** This is also true even with named main characters. Mia talks about how her dad disapproved of "the person [she] liked" but only uses the pronoun "she" in reference to this person ''once'' in the entire dialogue; [[HideYourLesbians you could be forgiven for thinking it was a typo]]. [[spoiler: At least until you start approaching Katherine's recruitment point...]] Although during the Clan Craft storyline, Mia at one point is irked that chauvinist gamers are thinking of her as an ice queen who just needs a knight in shining armor to thaw her out, ''as if one of those gamers were what she wanted.''

* BetaBitch: Mia, at Hearst High. [[spoiler:When she transfers to your school, she becomes a FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch]].

** Katherine is the closest thing to a definite canon example. She used to have a thing with Zero, but also has a lot of flirty scenes with Mia in later levels and [[spoiler: after Katherine joins your school, if you have her date Mia, they will almost immediately be acknowledged as a couple in a main story quest.]]

* FallenPrincess: [[spoiler: When Mia helps you out because she thinks her fellow cheerleaders' pranks have gone too far, the others ditch her. She transfers to your school and has to learn how to actually ''be nice to people'' in order to become popular again, instead of just assuming that everyone will automatically love her.]]

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* LovableAlphaBitch: Mia has shades of this [[spoiler: once she's no longer the BetaBitch at Hearst.]]

* OddFriendship: Koh and Kallie. Koh is the main characters' resident rebel, anti-authoritarian, quick to punch first and ask questions rarely, abrasive and ready with a sarcastic quip for every occasion, and a BikerBabe who fits in just fine with rough crowds. Kallie is shy, [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals owner of multiple plush-toys]], not good with large crowds or social scenes, extremely sheltered due to having [[OverprotectiveDad overprotective]] [[MyBelovedSmother parents]], and possessive of [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness a very extensive vocabulary of big words]]. Despite this, the two girls get along quite well, with Kallie even looking up to Koh as a CoolBigSis and Koh giving Kallie a leather jacket (granted, their initial association in-game started off on rocky footing).

--> '''Student 2:''' No. Like, you ''stink''. You smell bad. You need to take a shower. And use deodorant. And soap. [[UpToEleven And burn your clothes]].

On July 16, 2022, PB announced that High School Story and Hollywood U will shut down on August 10, with in-app purchases disabled on July 20.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: New student types are added in almost every update, and many players find it safest to have at least one of each gender just in case.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** The Auto Club help quest is not really a "help quest" as compared to every other help quest. Instead, you are trying to learn more about the club for a newspaper article.
** The Goth isn't the one who needs help resolving an issue; your friends question the Goth's gloomy style and try to get them to try things.

* InsultBackfire: During the quest in which you first meet Koh's ex-boyfriend Razor, your band camps outside his apartment and sings all kinds of impromptu insults, in addition to playing the music really loudly, in an effort to aggravate him...except he's a fan of loud rock music and ''[[ActuallyPrettyFunny actually likes your lyrics]]''.

* BlackAndNerdy: Nishan, and you can naturally make your own nerds black, AmbiguouslyBrown, or AsianAndNerdy as you please.

* HideYourLesbians: Mia is canonically not straight, but it's easy for an inattentive player to not notice this. She mentions her ex twice, but only uses the pronoun "she" ''once''. She also has quite a close relationship with Katherine (whom Pixelberry introduces as Mia's [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre ''very special friend'']]) and [[spoiler: if a player put them together as a couple, they're acknowledged as such in the main story quest]], but their relationship ''could'' be seen as just a [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship very close friendship]]. And even though there are several strong hints and [[DoubleEntendre double entendres]] about Mia not being very interested in boys, it's always done very subtle, and never mentioned outright. Most likely this is done so that players who have Mia paired with a boy won't feel bad, but they could've easily been clearer about her not being straight and just avoided mentioning what exactly her sexuality is.

Has an official forum [[http://highschoolstory.boards.net/ here]].

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: One ring-purchased quest series has the students go on a field trip to [[BlandNameProduct Magic Funland]], an obvious expy of Disneyland, complete with appearances by beloved childhood character [[CaptainErsatz Mikey the Magic Moose]]. However, Disney ''also'' exists in the HSS universe, because it’s been explicitly mentioned by Payton and Julian on separate occasions.

* CrossOver: With ''VideoGame/HollywoodURisingStars'', with which it shares the same universe. As of this writing (October 16, 2015), it has also done this with ''VideoGame/MonsterHigh''.

* TheEveryman: The player character, obviously, since he/she is based on you. They still don't really follow the stereotype of their chosen clique though.

* HideYourLesbians: Mia is canonically not straight, but it's easy for an unattentive player to not notice this. She mentions her ex twice, but only uses the pronoun she ''once''. She also has quite a close relationship with Katherine (whom pixelberry introduces as Mia's [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre ''very special friend'']]) and [[spoiler: if a player put them together as a couple, they're acknowledged as such in the main story quest]], but their relationship ''could'' be seen as just a [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship very close friendship]]. And even though there are several strong hints and [[DoubleEntendre double entendres]] about Mia not being very interested in boys, it's always done very subtle, and never mentioned outright. Most likely this is done so that players who have Mia paired with a boy won't feel bad, but they could've easily been clearer about her not being straight and just avoided mentioning what exactly her sexuality is.

* JerkAss: Jack Carver.

--> '''Student 2:''' No. Like, you ''stink''. You smell bad. You need to take a shower. And use deodorant. And soap. And burn your clothes.

* RealityEnsues: Several times during your movie star student's help-quest, it's revealed that Hollywood has made them extremely WrongGenreSavvy about a number of the typical high school expectations. Among other things, the movie star removes a nerd student's glasses while expecting the nerd to [[BeautifulAllAlong suddenly become extremely hot]], only for the nerd to be BlindWithoutEm.
--> '''Nerd:''' Crazy as this sounds, some people wear glasses TO SEE.

* FunWithHomophones: Causes some trouble between Nishan and Payton in the Pi Day quest, where Nishan wants to celebrate the titular mathematics-themed day, but Payton misinterprets it as a celebration of ''pie'' (i.e. the pastry), which isn't helped by [[PoorCommunicationKills neither of them outright explaining what they mean]]. While the misunderstanding eventually gets cleared up at the end of the quest, Nishan then starts talking about throwingt a possible party to discover the origin of genes (genetics), which Payton proceeds to think is referring to jeans (clothing).

* FunWithHomophones: Causes some trouble between Nishan and Payton in the Pi Day quest, where Nishan wants to celebrate the titular mathematics-themed day, but Payton misinterprets it as a celebration of ''pie'' (i.e. the pastry), which isn't helped by [[PoorCommunicationKills neither of them outright explaining what they mean]]. While the misunderstanding eventually gets cleared up at the end of the quest, Nishan then starts talking about genes (genetics), which Payton proceeds to think is referring to jeans (clothing).
--> '''Main character:''' [[HereWeGoAgain Hoo boy...]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The art supplies purchased at the beginning of the artist help quest include "a book of tasteful nudes." For reference, of course.

* FunWithHomophones: Causes some trouble between Nishan and Payton in the Pi Day quest, where Nishan wants to celebrate the titular mathematics-themed day, but Payton misinterprets it as a celebration of ''pie'' (i.e. the pastry), which isn't helped by [[PoorCommunicationKills neither of them outright explaining what they mean]]. While the misunderstanding eventually gets cleared up at the end of the question, Nishan then starts talking about genes (genetics), which Payton proceeds to think is referring to jeans (clothing).

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Ezra's "[[Disney/{{Tangled}} smoulder]]" apparently works on Julian even when he's targeting the cute Heartthrob across the dance floor.

''[[http://www.highschoolstory.com/ High School Story]]'' is a 2013 [[AndroidGames Android]] and [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS]] game which allows the player to build a high school to attend. It's developed by Pixelberry, the creators of ''VideoGame/SurvivingHighSchool'' (with which it also shares a universe and several characters). The player creates a student and then helps direct the development of the school by building classrooms, purchasing books, and admitting more students. Quests can be completed to upgrade the school, help out a fellow classmate, or just advance the plot.

[[caption-width-right:300: [[EarWorm It's the first day]]...]]

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In SurvivingHighSchool, Autumn was an all-around artist, but her true passion and specialty was photography. Here, however, she's almost always shown painting and her photography skills are rarely brought up anymore.

''[[http://www.highschoolstory.com/ High School Story]]'' is an Android and iPhone game which allows the player to build a high school to attend. It's developed by Pixelberry, the creators of ''VideoGame/SurvivingHighSchool'' (with which it also shares a universe and several characters). The player creates a student and then helps direct the development of the school by building classrooms, purchasing books, and admitting more students. Quests can be completed to upgrade the school, help out a fellow classmate, or just advance the plot.

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** Your Punk Rock student's band goes to play for a rather conservative venue, but initially play soft-rock ballads instead of the hardcore stuff they're more used to. Eventually they rebel and start playing their preferred tunes, getting mixed reactions from the crowd and ultimately getting thrown out...but the smiles on their faces indicate their belief that being true to themselves was worth getting canned.