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Tim Rogers / Action Button Nearly 6 Hour Review of Tokimeki Memorial
- Thread starter Maiden Voyage
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Knightime_X
Member
If it takes 6 hours to get the point across in a review I'm not playing the game.
Fuck... that....
Fuck... that....
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Unless you’re fluent in Japanese you’re not playing the game because of your own inability to buddy.
Knightime_X
Member
Literally don't see an issue with this as I've been doing this for at least 40 years now.
Valonquar
Member
Tokimemo 1 & 2 are pretty good strategy visual novel simulation anime girl dating games. I actually played through Tokimemo 2 while in college taking Japanese 102. I used a terrible PS1 screen capture card to grab screens and use them to practice translating common Japanese conversations. The games play so much fan service to every video game, and pop culture references. I wrote a mini-FAQ to the 2nd game's childhood section back in the day. There's really not anything else like them. That said I'm sad they remained Japan only games. I think they would have been successful enough to influence other western games. Maybe if that influnce had taken place, the dating elements and writing in western games wouldn't be clumsier than a sex scene in a GRRM novel.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Sorry for the bump--the English patch has been completed.
SF Kosmo
Banned
Ok, so this thing is crazy impressive. They used the MSU-1 "chip" (a spec chip used for expanding ROMs beyond the SNES limit supported in emulation and via FPGA in some flash carts) to add back in CD cutscenes and some voice acting. It's nowhere near the amount of voice acting in the CD versions but it's still extremely cool and if this is the best we've got in English, then it's still pretty great.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
Not my kind of game, but thanks
Maiden Voyage
for bumping the thread. Been meaning to find this Youtuber's channel again, so the bump helped xD .
Maiden Voyage
for bumping the thread. Been meaning to find this Youtuber's channel again, so the bump helped xD .
Power Pro
Member
I finally watched this video, few years late on this, but I was always not sure I wanted to sit through 6 hours of this.
In a way, I'm kinda wishing I hadn't watched it, because dammit I really wish I could play a game like this. So many people like Persona games for their dating sim parts, but that isn't the main part of the game, and really have very little choice to them. This game looks like it does what I've wanted to see for a long time, where it gets rid of all the action and fighting and just has a story built around the social linking. I feel like I've wanted to play a game like this for a while, where forging relationships was the real goal, and it had the production value that Tokimeki Memorial seems to have. Sure there are a lot of VNs, and even dating sims, but they all seem so cheaply made compared to this with far less options, and variety of locations and outfits, and dialogue from the look of it.
Now after having watched such a long video on it, I'm so bummed that I can't really play it unless I really brush up on my Japanese. Yeah I know they finally managed to translate the SFC version a couple years ago, but I'd rather play this PSX version from the look of it.
In a way, I'm kinda wishing I hadn't watched it, because dammit I really wish I could play a game like this. So many people like Persona games for their dating sim parts, but that isn't the main part of the game, and really have very little choice to them. This game looks like it does what I've wanted to see for a long time, where it gets rid of all the action and fighting and just has a story built around the social linking. I feel like I've wanted to play a game like this for a while, where forging relationships was the real goal, and it had the production value that Tokimeki Memorial seems to have. Sure there are a lot of VNs, and even dating sims, but they all seem so cheaply made compared to this with far less options, and variety of locations and outfits, and dialogue from the look of it.
Now after having watched such a long video on it, I'm so bummed that I can't really play it unless I really brush up on my Japanese. Yeah I know they finally managed to translate the SFC version a couple years ago, but I'd rather play this PSX version from the look of it.
Toots
Gold Member
He unfortunately got shot down by a Mark David Chapman look-alike.
"Imagine a ten hours review of an obscure japanese game.
It's easy if you try..."
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cash_longfellow
Member
jufonuk
not tag worthy
I just remembered that guy reviewed games,
but it is the most time rogers thing to do, go on about a game for 6 hours on a random subject that relates to the game somehow. I remember this was part of his appeal. but good good man.. 6 fucking hours.
but I still ain't watching it.
but it is the most time rogers thing to do, go on about a game for 6 hours on a random subject that relates to the game somehow. I remember this was part of his appeal. but good good man.. 6 fucking hours.
but I still ain't watching it.
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Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I’m just glad it wasn’t that Mia Khalifa thread like usual. That’s the one thread I created that will haunt me for all eternity.
Perrott
Member
The joke is that the making of his upcoming L.A. Noire review will be as long as that game's eight-year development cycle.
Shake Your Rump
Banned
It's a good game, but this video is ridiculous. It would be like watching a six hour review of the Star Wars trilogy instead of just watching the movies. I don't want to hear any of you clowns complain about having a backlog or not enough time to play games when you are watching this.
bender
What time is it?
Being ridiculous is the whole point.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
He's amaaaazing.
butane bob
Member
He still does a podcast and streams on twitch (not playing games, just sitting around talking about himself of course). But yeah he hasn't done anything to earn that patreon money in a very long time.