Good Lord 2: Tokimeki Memorial

There are some times in an anime fan's life when he wonders if he's hit the proverbial fan and become a loser. Apparently, I have found the apex of determining such: If you think this game is fun.

Tokimeki Memorial is one of the highest acclaimed clean Dating Sims out there. Of course, being the ONLY CLEAN Dating Sim out there, this isnt too hard. Also, coming out for the SNES, it wasnt hard to convince Bobby that along with his Mario he could flirt with false 2D chicks.

Its no real suprise why this never really had any cult following in America until the debeut of the Internet and Internet-sites-devoted-to-wussy-Dating-Sim-players. First off, this game is really really long and text filled. Such screens as this make me take my Japanese-English dictionary and throw it at the nearest animal:


Regardless, I played this game for all my loyal readers right now going "Oh god, not another wussy article by Kirk". So let's get started.

First off, I present my translated version of the main screen:

All of you people getting ready to make fun of Japanese pronunciation of "Memorial", start your engines. I should have named this review "Tokimeki Memoriaru". But that would confuse people using Google to search for "Tokimeki Memorial Porn", so I wouldnt get hits off that. But whatever.

The first thing you do is set up your character. I imagine this might be fun for someone who doesnt have to read the text like an idiot, but I spent a good while trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Anyway, I just BS-ed it and gave my character the name "Kusanagi Kei" (Onegai Teacher fans, eat your hearts out.). Note: I did it purposely backwards, as Japanese people have their family name first, because god forbid you put it the other way you'd sprout blonde hair, magically have blue eyes, and pull out a pistol yelling "WHOA COWBOY".

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