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[Recommend On] Dating Sims
4rch3nemy
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I'm only doing this for the nookie.
My ladyfriend wants to play some dating sims in english. Everything is in japanese and without subtitles usually.. so does anyone have any recommendations that I can pass along to her? She can only take so much hentai, so hentai-free is preferable but if it has a good dating sim in it, meh, she'd probably accept it too. (I'd love to catch her playing a dirty dating sim :winky:)
I know this OP is bare, but give me a break, I know nothing of this niche genre. Take a lolcat or something.
I'm only doing this for the nookie.
My ladyfriend wants to play some dating sims in english. Everything is in japanese and without subtitles usually.. so does anyone have any recommendations that I can pass along to her? She can only take so much hentai, so hentai-free is preferable but if it has a good dating sim in it, meh, she'd probably accept it too. (I'd love to catch her playing a dirty dating sim :winky:)
I know this OP is bare, but give me a break, I know nothing of this niche genre. Take a lolcat or something.
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Or like... Harvest Moon affairs?
Afraid I can't help you too much there. Do you mean flash games?
Visual novel.. kind of like a text-based adventure? I guess she'd like that, but it's probably better to have stats and that sort of RPG thing in it.
Most of the good VNs that have been translated really have minimal to no romantic content. You could try Ever17. It might fool her long enough into thinking it's a dating sim instead of a sci fi thriller.
I picked Telsia Murphy over Kleeya.
Maybe in dating sims where you play as a male, you plebeian. In a game as sophisticated as Xtreme Beach Volleyball though you're already perfect as you are a woman, the most perfect creature on the planet Earth. You aren't some smelly man who needs stats. Therefore the other girls will not be swayed by stats as you have already arrived as perfection. Only material goods and victory in the Lord's game of volleyball will sway them to your side.
So may Riviera: The Promised Land, the Tales of... games and maybe Summon Night: Swordcraft Story.
All these games are basically JRPGs with Dating Sim elements. They're most notable in P3&4, though. For the others, they're more of an afterthought.
That said, games like Harvest Moon are uh... harvest moon games, including Rune Factory/Rune Factory 2. I enjoyed Azure Dreams' dating stuff, but that's PS1.
Symphonia's the only one that even approaches anything close, and that amounts to approximately two paragraphs worth of text variance for all of them but one and has absolutely no effect whatsoever on the ending.
Though those two paragraphs do translate into two somewhat notable scenes.
Where does the casino mini games fall into?
Besides, Xtreme 2 improves on everything (everything!) its predecessor lacked including a dumb down Wave Race clone.
Too bad Lloyd is too dense to make it worthwhile.
Genis X Lloyd
<< That, Persona 4 especially
AH I REMEMBER NOW. Thousand Arms.
Shit. The main character's name is Meis. How the fuck did I not remember that.
Wierd, I always thought Persona was more about shooting yourself in the head to summon psychic emo demons or something?
You mean Evoke, Evoke Personas, which are neither psychic nor emo, and yes the dating sim aspect of the game is hugely important (it's critical for levelling up your Personas)
Basically if you haven't played P4 at least you're doing yourself a huge disservice
But yeah, I think Persona 3 and 4 are the way to go for now.
The difference was, like in most games, once you've won the girl's heart, you get married or whatever and that's the end. This one went one step further and you and your chosen love go to a Japanese love hotel and bang the shit out of each other.
Sex controls and everything. I'm not joking.
Very, very graphic and very NSFW, which is funny, because up until that time, the game plays like a straightforward, normal dating sim. Go through the whole game, and BOOM! it turns into Make Your Own Money Shot.
ULTRA MEGA NINJA EDIT: I found it! It's a Flash game called Ganguro Girls. I'd link it, but due to the ending, I didn't know if it's be ok, and the one I found is embedded on a website, and I distinctly remember playing it on an offline computer, so there's a free-standing version floating around out there somewhere.
Although, respawning is a bitch.
Also, The Sims 3 is just around the corner (June, supposedly!) and I imagine it's going to have a pretty heavy dating/relationship element.
Oh man you totally play dating sims!!!1