Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Jun 17, 2014

  8/10, loved the game, but friends saw me playing it.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 26, 2014

  This isn't just a game about high school antics and comedic integrity. It's a game about the importance of friendship. This game taught me that you should always follow your dreams, and that's a lesson everyone should learn.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 20, 2022

  Seeing this game delisted brings a great sadness :(
• gamedeal user

  Sep 13, 2014

  this is a cute Non Dating Sim. instead of meeting guys and choosing your "love" you make friends for your comedy club, i snagged this on sale. also there is a FREE DEMO OF THIS GAME , so just give it a try. thats what i did and i fell in love with the demo. XD so i gots it!!
• gamedeal user

  Oct 11, 2014

  First off; I am going to say it is like a dating sim, in that you build relationships and meet people. The game is simple and doesn't try to be anything else, it doesn't shoe-horn in mini games to pass time, it tells a story and introduces you to interesting and funny characters; the more you learn of, the more you discover how deep they all are. The game can be tough, you play a highschool student and have to maintain homework, limit fatigue and all while also trying to maintain knowledge of various topics to discuss with potential friends and peers. If you want a visual novel type story with plenty of interaction and decent length of gameplay, pick this game up
• gamedeal user

  Nov 1, 2014

  Great! This game has lot of fun! +Pros: The story Artwork,i love it -Cons: Music need more variation Too short,you can clear this game in about 1-2 hours
• gamedeal user

  Nov 7, 2014

  [h1]EDIT: In the last few weeks since I played this game a dewesternised version has come out, which I have yet to play. I will update this review once I've played the new version, but I think most of my points are still valid.[/h1] + Free demo! + No bugs whatsoever! + You can transfer your Repertoire plus Targets' likes and dislikes to the next save file. + ...So if you didn't make it the first time, you'll definitely get a good ending with the next playthrough. + There is a sequel, which is out now! +/- 2 hours per playthrough. +/- Sugary sweet story, very innocent. +/- Perfect for kids. +/- In the westernised version, the translation is aimed at Americans who don't (necessarily) know anything about Japanese culture, even though there are shrines and cherry blossoms - but it works nonetheless. +/- In the westernised version, there are lots of references to (American) pop culture. +/- Simple art style, quite nice but not eye poppingly awesome. - Repetitive gameplay. - Not very original in its genre, both with gameplay and characters. - 2.5 playthroughs needed for full completion and no way to skip the last week or two (which is annoying if you've finished both your Repertoire and your Target list halfway through April). [h1]Conclusion: not very original, but still enjoyable. Get it on sale.[/h1] (I played it while offline, so Steam didn't register my gaming time. :< )
• gamedeal user

  Nov 22, 2014

  Warning: Lengthy review incoming! Cherry Tree High Comedy Club is an interactive visual novel with the gameplay of a dating simulator. Before I get into the review, I want you to know, that I played the westernized localization of the game. I’m going to talk about this in a little bit more detail at a later point of this review. You play as Miley Verisse, a young comedy fanatic, who’s planning on forming her very own Comedy Club at her school. Miley’s roommate has already been compelled to join the club, but the problem is that school clubs have a minimum number of required members, which means that Miley has to find three more people to join her club until the end of the club trial period. That means you’ve got two months to manipulate and befriend as many people as possible. This is where the dating simulator gameplay comes in. There are six different characters that can be recruited and you befriend them by talking to them about different topics. You raise your skill levels by reading magazines or visiting places and occasionally you can also find random stuff on the ground that raises your skills as well. The higher your skill for “fashion” for example is, the more the friendship level of a character will be raised when talking to them about this topic. This type of gameplay can get a bit repetitive, since you do the same thing every day. You get up, talk to a character, talk to another character, watch some TV and the day is over. Repeat until some special event happens or until the friendship level of a character rises. To get a character to join your club you have to get them to friendship level 5, which is pretty much impossible to do for all 6 characters in the first playthrough. Fortunately there is a new game+, which allows you to keep all your skills and only resets your friendship levels. The whole game has a lot of jokes, because, you know… Miley’s a comedy enthusiast and stuff. There were some jokes that are right up my alley that I found really amusing and then there were some others that just fell flat for me. The characters are rather diverse and even though some of them seem pretty spineless in the beginning, you find out that they have a really interesting background story after befriending them. On the other hand, there are also some characters that still seem rather spineless after you convince them to join your club and their background story is by far not as interesting as you’d expect. A big problem I had with the game is, that it only supports a resolution of 640x480 and if you want to play it in fullscreen mode, the game window gets stretched to fit the height of your screen and you get two beautiful black bars next to the game to fill your screen. The settings of the game are also pretty limited, but hey, it’s a visual novel and not some fancy AAA game title, so I guess that’s expectable. At the time I bought this game, no original version was available in English, only the westernized version, with different names and locations. With the release of the sequel of Cherry Tree High Comedy Club on Steam we finally get to play the game in English with the original names and the same places as in the Japanese version of the game. For example, Miley turns into Mairu and Cindy suddenly is called Haru. Also, chilli dogs turn into rice omelets, because, you know, western people only know chilly dogs and can’t comprehend rice omelets or something. All those extremely western sounding names feel a bit out of place, because everything feels so Japanese and all those cherry trees in the background for example definitely don’t make me feel like I’m in the US either. I’m going to be completely honest with you: Cherry Tree High Comedy Club was the first visual novel I ever played, so I might judge this game a lot differently than some of you visual novel veterans out there but for someone new to this type of medium, this game was a really good entry point and even if you’re usually not a big fan of those type of games, you might still enjoy all those cute characters and the nice setting. The multiple endings and the new game+ give the rather short game some replayability, since you will not be satisfied with only knowing the background story of for example 3 of the characters but you will want to know the background story of all of them, even though they might not be as interesting as you’d expect. All in all, Cherry Tree High Comedy Club is a pretty decent visual novel for veterans and casuals in this medium. It might have its flaws but it is still a really enjoyable game to waste some time with. If you’re a diehard action fan who needs explosions, headshots and a lot of gore to enjoy a video game, or someone who detests reading and dislikes games that heavily rely on text in general, you might want to sit this one out. Everybody else: [b]Should you play Cherry Tree High Comedy Club? Yes. Yes you should.[/b]
• gamedeal user

  May 1, 2015

  I am Miley; the overly enthusiastic type of anime protagonist. My goal is to stalk 6 people who don't really want to join and nag them to join my Comedy Club while they deal with some actual issues. I have a friend called Harriet who I have decided to sign up to my club despite her lack of interesting and her having a part time job because I am more important. First was Sara; she is the quiet one who I follow about while she deals with her psychological issues; I got her to open up by knowing a lot about mystery novels which I had spent all night reading. Next was May; she is the cute little one who wants to develop a chest and is dealing with some serious choices about her families future; she decided to resolve them and join my club after I played some video games and stopped being such a NOOB. Next was my friend Cindy who was following her dream; through a combination of guilt playing and following her she finally gives in and joins me. My next target was Vivian, the hockey star who gets ill from people bothering her; I continue to bother her until she joins me through Stockholm Syndrome, ironic as she is Swedish. Tyler was stalking my friend; I give a potentially dangerous stranger my friends number without her permission and use Harriet to effectively trick him into joining. That's okay though, because I am too selfish to care. Then there is Male Student. He has a name, but you are supposed to talk to his father, hunt down his name through school and then ignore him not wanting to talk to me by threatening his social life until he joins my club. By doing all of this, I got the good ending.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 2, 2015

  I've never really played a "visual novel" style game like this before, but for my first time I really enjoyed the offerings. Cherry Tree High Comedy Club is a feel-good story about Mairu Hibisu, your typical 'I Wanna Be Hokage' type protagonist who dreams of becoming the next big international comedy senstation. Re-opening her school's defunct comedy club is the first stepping stone to her dreams; however, in order to form a club at CTH you need to have at least three members who want to sign up. And this is where the fun comes in! CTHCC is essentially Persona Social Links The Game, but it puts its own cute little twist on things. You run around town discovering new students to [strike]harass and blackmail into joining your club[/strike] hopefully recruit, and as you get to know each of the students you meet, you'll begin to level up your social standing with them. Get to know them well enough, and they'll eventually [strike]give in to your constant hounding[/strike] join up. One feature I really liked was how by talking to each character on a daily basis, you start picking up clues as to which converational topics they may or may not like. Some are made obvious, and some not so much. You also do better talking to students by increasing what you know about each of the conversation subjects. There are loads of ways to do this, from heading to the cinema or reading magazines in the library, to spending time at the arcade or listening to that weekend's guest speaker at the art gallery. There's genuinely loads to do all over town and many day/time specific events, which I personally enjoyed as it encourages you to get to know and care about the places & people you're interacting with. I also really loved the variety in each character's story, which starts to unfold as you level up your social standing with them. No story was similar and many were quite serious at times, but the sprites and character art remained adorable throughout, making it pretty hard not to find yourself endeared to everyone by the end. There's also a little re-playability value with the New Game+ mode (where you can start a new game with the stats you built up from the last one), but as CTHCC is just a quick bit of cutesy fun, you probably won't be picking it back up once you're done with it [spoiler]unless you want to see the perfect ending[/spoiler]. Would highly recommend this as a great introductory game to the visual novel genre. Quick sidenote: if you're looking for pantsu, this really isn't it. There are absolutely zero romantic interactions with any character, which I was more than happy with but I understand would be a turn-off for some.