What does /v/ thinks of tokideki memorial?

>>714486009 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-DtICmPTY

>>714486009 (OP)
Played the super Famicom version and I loved it, very fun. Saki is best girl and my wife

Dating sims lost to regular VNs for a reason, I don't miss them. Guide Dang It gameplay gets boring.

>>714487159
how would you remake them for the modern audience?

>>714486820
This better not be the fucking Action Button video

>>714487601
N-no anon. Its a different video! Promise!

>>714486009 (OP)
I'm thinking why is there no English translation yet

>>714488125
because you need to learn japanese in order to find love... or you can play the snes version

>>714487528
No clue. Play with different genres, I guess. Like, say, Dragon Commander.

>>714488220
Just read pure wuv VNs, it works better.

Visual novels seem to just be, well, novels these days with miniscule amount of choice making. Is there anything with stats and/or lots of choices today? Even something like Season of the Sakura with its branching paths you could go down sometimes without even knowing, seems like a lost craft.

>>714488759
vn are boring, i like Tokimeki Memorial because it is actually a game, unlike VNs. Tokimeki Memorial is pretty much a strategy managing sim and that taps on my autism in ways i didn't even knew

>>714489184
You could play any of the numerous romance games with regular gameplay. Even if you can't nip, plenty are translated.

>>714488220
I don't wanna play the inferior version, i'm seriously just confused why fan translations hit SNES a while back but the CD based ones are out of the question.

>>714489625
probably because of the FMVs and voice clips if i had to guess, more to translate, i dunno. the SNES version is charming enough for me

>>714489478
well, i'm open to it, which ones would you recommend?

>>714486009 (OP)
Its too random

>>714490348
Just like women irl, right? haha...

>>714486009 (OP)
probably whatever the latest eceleb video told them about it
my first exposure to it was a Kochikame episode

>>714487528
Konami had a good thing going with Love Plus, they should just expand on that (by making an actual new game instead of mobile slop)

>>714487159
the reason being that devs are lazy and VNS are cheaper and less of a risk

Lover Kiss was based, maybe the last hurrah of the genre

>>714491061
wasn't that a game about dating dudes?

>>714491351
No its about trying to photograph underage schoolgirls while befriending them at the same time, your character still has stats you can increase and there is a calendar system

>>714490817
I vaguely remember playing this? Pretty sure I romanced that girl. Don't really remember much about it other than I think you held the DS like a book like the Kyle Hyde games, I think?

>>714491579
oh, i confused it with those Tokimeki spin off games

>>714487528
It has already been perfected in Amagami which is a wholly deterministic setup on a grid. No RNG bullshit, routable down to an autistic degree if you want to try and chase multiple girls during a single run, lazy enough that you can just focus on one girl and time skip when necessary.

>>714491897
Those are called "girl side" and they made way too many

>>714491894
That's right, and the standout feature is that it runs on a real-time calendar/clock

>>714486009 (OP)
Your best friends little sister was always my target in this.

>>714487528

>>714492339
Yumi is a cutie but don't tell her that or she'll get mad, hehe

>>714492401
This shit doesn't make the game any better or more fun to play.

>>714486820
I refuse to watch this
How cringe is it? How often does he use the word problematic?

>>714486009 (OP)
>ときできメモリアル
never heard of it is that a sequel or?

>>714492675
Its not that type of video, the guy is a weeb. And insufferable.

>>714486009 (OP)
I like it.

>>714486820
So I saw that there was a vtuber that got Shiori on her first playthrough. Which seems like it completely undercuts this entire video's premise. So does this guy just suck ass at video games?

>>714486009 (OP)
I hope this remaster was a success so they also remaster the sequel

>>714494003
Shiori isn't really that difficult as long as you know what you're doing.

>>714494003
>>714494283
Shiori is just higher maintenance than the other girls because she doesn't walk with you after school inmediatly like the other girls and her affection decreases if you aren't taking her out to places and stuffs without getting a bomb

>>714494003
you can just get lucky

>>714486820
i love tim rogers
he makes excellent """reviews"""
he makes excellent games
but the LA Noir video is like 40 hours long, how am i even supposed to?

>>714494441
Also Megumi forcing herself to you once she shows up. And she will show up during a Shiori run.

>>714494283
>>714494492
Well the entire premise of that overly long review is that a blind first try Shiori is impossible. That's the entire jumping off point for the discussion about love as an objective and the absurdity of chasing perfection and everything else that the guy is pontificating about for six hours. So if someone can just go in and get Shiori on their first try without looking things up ahead of time, then the entire video is now suspect.

Arino also got the shiori ending first try when he did the episode

>>714494986
does some dumdum with no prep winning the lottery of love by mere chance really discount the concept that chasing perfection being absurd? to my mind that only reinforces the notion.

>>714488125
There is a fan translation.

>>714494986
The mechanics of Tokimemo are not that hard to figure out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXLDrvC8Zvw&t=832s
Even Arino managed to get Shiori even after quite a few fuckups.
https://archive.org/details/05c0d90c765cbf426d316fc597b47f18

>>714495974
Winning the lottery isn't in your control but winning a game is, so it's less cosmic absurdity and more dandori issue.
So this situation then is more like that webcomic where the game journo dies to the first goomba in Mario and writes an article about what an insightful experience it was.

>>714495869
you've either got IT or you don't
and Arino is a fucking pimp

>>714490817
Love Plus was too good for this world. If they make a phone app that's Psudo AI it will ruin lives.
Rinko is best girl.

>>714494003
vtubers have chat backseating for them. But yeah he oversells it a little bit

>>714487528
I mean it's the reason Persona games are so popular. People really want ikusei dating sim gameplay so even a super dumbed-down, simplified version of it plays well to general audiences. God knows the dating/school-life sim gameplay is the main selling point over those copypaste dungeons.

Lots of modern gacha use it as well, umamusume just came out on Steam and is doing well despite being the same ikusei shit from Tokimemo at core

The demand never went away, they just pretend it's something else

>>714494518
It's only 9 hours long.

>>714486820
Why is this video getting shilled so much?
He takes over one hour to finally get to the actual game itself and even then he talks about is the scrolling checkerboard background.

>>714498870
because
>video LONG hehe
that's it

>>714496683
My one complaint with Love Plus is that there's only so much dialogue so eventually you run into repeat conversations, implementing AI to make each conversation fresh would be amazing

>>714499380
Exactly. The technology is there. Someone just needs to figure it out. Anime waifus are real!

>>714486009 (OP)
It's a top 3 Game Center CX episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVinxZqPe3Y

It's my girlfriend's favorite game. I enjoyed the fan translation of the SFC version, but I wish the PlayStation version would get translated.

>>714500556
Its the difference just voice acting

>>714500556
I wish the second game would get translated but
1. Playstaion games are a bitch to replace text
2. It has a a fuck ton of text that needs to be done

>>714489625
translating PC VNs is actually pretty difficult as the games dont have native support for english fonts, you have to do real coding work rather than just replacing text. SFC/SNES games have their text stored as textures rather than as fonts so its much easier.

>>714486009 (OP)
Haven't played
I have however played GS 1-3 so I assume some of that translates to normal TM
Overall, they're boring. Each playthrough has you sit through every week of a 3 year time span and there is very little actual content within that time. If you know what stat you want to raise then from what I remember at least you'll be finished by the start of year 2 and then you're doing actually fucking nothing for the rest of the playthrough. This problem is even worse if you're trying for one of the secret characters since they only exist in isolated events, you can't go on dates with them, pretty sure they don't show up for christmas or anything.
However, the secret characters themselves are great. The conditions for even seeing some of them to know they exist are complete bullshit, especially in GS3, where the conditions are shit like clicking on the correct faceless NPC in the first classroom background CG twice or checking an ingame homepage in a specific month of the second year and then go to town repeatedly. It's fun that they're there though, and they're largely much more interesting than the default characters who were frankly kind of boring overall.
GS4's default characters seemed a little better from the bit I read with my ebic N5 skills but I could barely even get through a couple months of the game with my pace so fuck that. There was someone that claimed they were in the proofreading stage of a translation in March but no idea what's going on there.

I'm also not sure why Konami made a GS4 but continued to do nothing with basic TM. Is it just more popular or something