The Prince Of Tennis Sweet School Festival ~♡-40 And More…~ Review

Decades ago, we lived in a world where you were lucky to see games from Japan make it to the West. A lot of those games that were made in the 90’s and early 2000s would remain in Japan. Some of those games would be licensed games for Anime or properties that weren’t very popular in the West. The Prince of Tennis was a series that I would watch but not consume much else. I was super excited to learn that one of the games that was made for PS2, The Prince of Tennis Sweet School Festival, would be making its way to the West for the first time. Let’s see how good the Japanese gamers had it, shall we?

Game Name: The Prince of Tennis Sweet School Festival ~♡-40 and more…~
Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC
Reviewed On: PC
Developer(s): Konami
Publisher(s): Konami
Release Date: July 30th, 2026
Price: $49.99

In The Prince of Tennis Sweet School Festival, you play as a female protagonist assigned to help with the school festival. You can choose any of the junior high schools that show up in the series to help out with. The junior high school you choose will determine the characters you can interact with. There are a ton of characters in the series present in this game.

The Good

The art of The Prince of Tennis Sweet School Festival is basically the anime series art. It puts you in that world, and the design of the game makes the moments shine. There were some CG art scenes that got redrawn for the game, and you can swap it to classic with just a button press when those art scenes happen.

There are over 30 romancable characters in this game. That is insane! It isn’t very difficult to romance a character for the most part. A lot of the narrative of this game is helping build the stall for the school you choose to represent in the beginning. So you will be with a handful of characters every day. You can only romance one character per playthrough, but you can keep a save for each school so you can focus on the other characters before you lock in to the character you want to end up with.

Playing The Prince of Tennis Sweet School Festival reminded me a lot of those older Newgrounds dating sims and Otome games. You get generic topics to talk to the person you want to try and get closer to. How they feel about you will determine whether they answer that question or make an excuse, forcing you to lose time trying to talk to them. You have to play a guessing game at first to find the topics that the character will answer for you. Now you can save scum and keep trying topics until you find one they will answer. It is relatively easy with that. I used a macro to bring up the save menu and another for the load menu. So I could quickly save and load, granted I didn’t use it very often. It is an option, but I don’t like doing that personally, especially since even if you don’t use your time the most optimally, you still have a lot of opportunity to get closer to these characters.

The Bad

A playthrough in this game is rather short. It took me two hours to finish my first playthrough. Note that the first playthrough I did was with my wife and reading everything aloud. If I did it by myself, it would be in a shorter time frame. I chose Hikaru Amane because I am a sucker for puns! This is a game that wants you to try and romance everyone. You can certainly do that, but if you want to only romance a few people because you have a few favorites or because you dislike certain characters in the series, it may not feel worth it.

Not every CG scene was redrawn or reworked. Some were simply upscaled. The quality of the upscale differs, though. Some scenes look extremely blurry, and it can be jarring to see that but then see another scene that looks crisp. The facial expressions can sometimes seem off. When a character is sad, they don’t always change the expression on their face. It is awkward to have someone have a happy expression but have a sad line of dialogue. There can be an expression of sadness but the line of dialogue that is given is happy.

The models in the game look great, but there is very little diversity in the fashion. Most of the game, the character you will be romancing will stay in their school uniform. That is fine and dandy for being at school and working on the stall. That is weird when you go on a date at the beach or the aquarium, though. I was pleasantly surprised, though, that characters do have swimsuits for the final event of the festival. Don’t know why they didn’t use that model for other activities, though!

The Verdict

It is great to be able to get a game of generations past from Japan after all this time. There are a large number of games I wish we got here from Japan. Seeing this game come here gives me hope we have opportunities to get more. The Prince of Tennis Sweet School Festival is an Otome game that has a lot of characters from the series. I do think it is a relatively quick game, and it does remind me of those games from Newgrounds with its layout and design, but it is still a decent time. If you are a fan of The Prince of Tennis series, definitely give it a look. I am disappointed, though, that this game wasn’t in a bundle that included the game that was released at the same time, The Prince of Tennis Doki Doki Survival. I think I would have an easier time recommending this game if, instead of $50 for just one or the other game, you spent like $60 to get both of them.

The Prince of Tennis Sweet School Festival ~♡-40 and more…~ is available for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC.

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