Love Plus
Nintendo DS dating simulation Love Plus by Konami has just been released and it looks like its a very very popular game.
Perfect for folks who are feeling ronery this Summer.
For ronery folks who want to feel extra special, you can date all the girls.
While on a date, you can touch her anytime with the touch pen.
You need to get the girls to confess that they like you and if you cant manage that in 100 days then you get the bad ending - the Nice Boat ending? @.@
And when you are not with your girlfriend then you can dream about her doing things...
Would love to have this case! Lets check out some of the play screens.
Folks who want to really get into the game can practice their three-timing techniques...
I think this is my fave girl. Reminds me of Mio.
...which means that you need 3 NDS and 3 sets of games...
And for you tsundere types.
Folks who want to feel extra extra special need to spend more moolah.
Also comes with nice poster for when batteries run out. Does not look liquid proof though.
Currently available at Amazon for 4482 yen.
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???Confused???
Hm wonder if that case if only for the DS or would it also work on the DSi...
カタイ－ガクセイ
Its on a DSi, so I think you're in luck. ^^ Hence the camera opening on the right side. =P
College Freshmen
I wasn't aware there were any games that would work on a DS but not a DSi.
I would play it if it was in English, but I still have a bunch of of visual novels I'm behind on. I think I have a stack of 6 that I'm supposed to be finishing.
Student
http://youtube.com/ciaela
They were talking about the case, not the game itself ;)
pervert
girls look cute.too bad i have a backlog of eroges on the pc
Student
I wish I could say that :(
Dirty Gentleman
http://cantstanzya.wordpress.com/
Me thinks 'Ecchi Plus' will be more popular.
*tap tap tap*
Part-Time Blogger of Moderately Useless Jibberish
http://www.k-jessop.co.uk
I'd so try that.. Though it's the kidna game where I'd get bored after either a few hours, one failure, or would complete it in one day and forget all about it..
All the same, I'd forget I owned it by the second day.. xD
Poet (not)
If you have a yandere amongst the girls, then a NICE BOAT ending is almost a given ^^
Jaina Solo Fan-boy! umm...Frozen food mangaer
http://jediwannabe24.wordpress.com/
Shivers*
Student, Otaku, She-Geek(Sheek lol)
http://meimi132.wordpress.com/
Heck, I'd buy it if it were available in english, but I doubt it will... sucks... cos I like dating sims.
Student
http://the-home-planet.blogspot.com
Same here. I'd like to play it but it's highly doubtful it will be released in English...
Ninja / Engineer / Sensei / 魔法少女 (What!?! I can't be, I'm a guy...)
All the more reason to learn Japanese. XD
Young Grasshopper
http://miragestrike.blogspot.com
It's good to know that Nintendo is living up to their slogan.
"Touching is good".
Jaina Solo Fan-boy! umm...Frozen food mangaer
http://jediwannabe24.wordpress.com/
The girls look very cute. I would probably get it, if it were available in English, which I doubt it will be.
Student
Interesting Concept, but the DS's 3D Capabilities aren't too great.
Wearing a NEET Touhou shirt at work to be contradictive
Ooh, can't wait for an english patch. I could finally play something else girl-related with my R4 other than Kikae and Toloveru. Yay!
Student, Musician, PHP
http://www.tojikomori.com.ar
I like Rinko most, and a bit Manaka. Didn't know that 100 days limit, I'm on the 40th (秋) and still none confessed to me T___T. Started played today. Only for education purposes, of course... I practice my reading speed and pronunciation (I read loud "my" lines).
I want that DS case too
Illustrator / Photographer / DDer
http://kiwira.deviantart.com
the girls are cute ^^;
Chinese/Viet restaurant waiter, no post secondary
I have this coming in the mail from Play-asia. I know I can't read it, but I can understand some of the voices. And it looks likea really fun game.
Student, Musician, PHP
http://www.tojikomori.com.ar
Also, what could you do with the microphone? You can set the sensitivity on the settings. Can't wait to see it ^^
http://xcomprandomness.co.uk/
That's the "Love Plus" part of the game... You can have simple conversations with the girl.
Jaina Solo Fan-boy! umm...Frozen food mangaer
http://jediwannabe24.wordpress.com/
I've always wondered with these types of games, could you get the girl to confess her love for you, and then reject her. You know break her heart? Sorry if it sounds cruel, but the thought did occur to me.
university film student | ecchikid | the Archivist
http://www.vimeo.com/longhim
LOL - well, that's certainly a thought. The assumption is that you're not that cruel, but it's an interesting question.
I guess it'd be a Niceboat Yandere ending?
Mad scientist
Isn't that possible in School Days? Girls don't take nicely to that scenario.
High School Student
This is one of those DS games that NEEDS to be translated into English, otherwise it'd be VERYYYY hard to beat for non-Japanese readers... Will try to play it ASAP and see how far I can get XD
Full-time geek/Part-time student/Part-time musician
http://randomgeekness.livejournal.com/
*sigh* i wish i had a job or money .... and could learn japanese... D: for now my ronery days will keep going with nothing to ease them... ToT LAWL!
animetard and a writer
http://kluxorious.blogspot.com/
What about the girls? We need some love too!
Jaina Solo Fan-boy! umm...Frozen food mangaer
http://jediwannabe24.wordpress.com/
Well, there is no reason that girls can't play the game. You can play it for fun if you want.
http://sparklingzone.blog124.fc2.com/
There's always the Tokimeki Memorial Girls Side games (also on DS!) and a bevy of other games. XD But yeah even if it's aimed at male players... I want to try Love Plus too. It looks really good.
Terrorist ? =)
<3 Nene <3
Regarding the mic, apparently there are times when you are require to say "something" to continue the game ?
Student, Musician, PHP
http://www.tojikomori.com.ar
Yup, I switched off the DS and next time playing I got scolded by Rinko-chan, and you can't continue until you say 「ごめんなさい」. 恥ずかしい
High School Student
http://scorchnroses.wordpress.com
Lol looks interesting :D I want to try it ><
Student
http://foxkey.blog126.fc2.com/
Looks like a very interesting purchase, have yet to play a dating sim on the DS. I've done VN's and eroge but never a dating sim. It looks very impressive too for a DS game at that.
anime/cosplay events organizer
http://www.cosplay.ph
I so want to play this...if only I could understand Nihonggo ^^;;;;
...
...am am i so ronery? ;A;
Nekophilia
DS is awesome for games like this. Needs one! but low priority. PC VN are fine, too.
student
http://listlessink.wordpress.com/
Eh... another dating sim.
http://animaticfigmation.com/
would be nice if these DS games got translated
Student
Now that's a non ending dating game!
Time Traveller/High School Student
http://thetsundere.wordpress.com
I see shimapan =O
The art style of this is kinda like a cross between Range Murata and the art from I"s.
Student
The first image looks stunning.
Terrorist ? =)
Wow, just wow, the game has real time interactions after you become the boyfriend of one of the 3 Heroines.. =O kinda a pain though, (Theres a skip mode too, havnt tried)
Pseudo-Graphic Designer, 触手 wrangler, H-Man
http://lightningsabre.blogspot.com/
You can always laminate the poster... and voila! Liquid proof! Why would you want it liquid proof? Gonna use it as a dinner table placemat? xP
I can't play any of these games just because they're all in Japanese... but it's nice they're bringing this type of game everywhere, lol.
Online Shop
http://wildarms.egloos.com
Reminds me of my younger(...) days when I was into playing Tokimeki Memorial, the true, very first dating-sim game >_< And what do you know, Love Plus is made by Konami as well... Those otakus who bought multiple copies of games and DSi are truly supporting the industry IMO lol.
Student, ACG Fans
http://modvisc.blogspot.com
wow, the girls are cute, too bad dun have a DS.
NEET part-time - Technical Support Officer - Network security engineer
http://burugureibi.blogspot.com/
The perfect excuse to get a DSi
*sigh*
http://moemoekyun.wordpress.com
game for lonely man >_<
trainee at German Telekom
http://grew.themania.org/
Looks ok. But I still hate Handhelds oO
Mechanical Engineering student
http://sabekujikaneda.multiply.com/
Hmm... I should by myself a DSi :D
Having in mind the ds 3d capabilities the girls modelling are great.Waiting for an english version to play it.
Otaku / Student in Networking
http://hayasaki-kun.blogspot.com/
Oh! Must try this game xD
IT, Programmer, Otaku, ...
http://blog.jpopdb.org/
I only they could make an english translation... but I'm going to try anyway ^^
Film Student
http://twitter.com/Zetsubou_Robert
As much as I would love plus to get this game, I get the feeling my girlfriend would kill me XD
Does anyone know the email to contact danny about log in error?.
apprentice otaku, collector of figures, sometimes sysadmin ^_^
http://www.giusepped.com
sometimes get the translations for us Italians after so long that the game is already dated. We always have to make do us in English. is a sin.
Mad scientist
Many translations are poor. First of all there is the time issue. Then there is the quality of the translation and then there is the risk of the translation to break stuff.
The latter is more true than people realise. For instance I once encountered some German software which needed to be installed in program files. It turned out that in German it's called C:\Programmen\ (or something like that) and then it didn't survive being put in C:\Program Files\ because of the whitespace. It wouldn't work unless it was in there either. This turned out to be a serious problem.
Another issue is that Blizzard releases their games on mac/windows discs. If you buy it in Polish the mac part has mysteriously disappeared. At least that's what the Polish guys have told me.
Apple once made a new MacOS (or was it even pre MacOS days?) where it worked fine and they translated it to all the European languages. For some reason one of them (just one) got really unstable because they had messed with something wrong and they had to start over with translating. They detected this before the release though, so I'm not sure if it really counts.
Another issue with translations is that I have noticed that even professional translators do Japanese->English->whatever. This means it moves even further away from the original. I first noticed this when watching Spirited Away (or Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) and it was a voice dub. I could hear them saying odd stuff once in a while because it was word by word translation from English. Basically the translation sucked because it wasn't even done right from English and I found a list of translation flaws in the English translation as well.
Because of this I prefer to get everything in the original language or a direct translation from the original language (which usually means English). I consider it a serious issue that we switch to English rather than using our native languages but reality is that we have to do so and it's an issue in a whole lot of countries.
apprentice otaku, collector of figures, sometimes sysadmin ^_^
http://www.giusepped.com
I sometimes think that perhaps I should do everything in one language, but which one? not all countries have opportunities to study. and then I myself have often serious problems in translating and writing sentences in English. I think that in fact the way things should be left with all the mistakes! ^_^"
For the question of routes of windows, it seems strange that nowadays, the software house do not use environment variables like %program files% rather than putting path as C:\Programmen\ or C:\Program Files\ or similar crap. should tell him to evolve .. ^_^"
thanks for the comment, very informative and constructive! ;)
http://shounen.chungyc.org/
With how game time matches up with real time, the game seems pretty pointless when you could be dating real people. Which means I must have it. :D
Programmer, DJ, 仮面浪人ｗ
http://findingtheblue.blogspot.com
I was going to buy it, but I don't know if Konami is up to the job and the art reminds me of Soramizu a bit too much and I've never been much of a fan of Ciel's games (Fault!! etc.) at least there are always PSP ports on their way.
Software Development Engineer in Test
http://anime.greywings.net
Still waiting for mine to arrive from Play-Asia. Wish I could get my hands on some of those pencil boards...
Student
I'm actually not a fan of dating sim games, however, this one might get me to start...if only it was in Engrish (^_^)
Mad scientist
You could always try Snow Sakura. It's in English and it's great. It's a bit slow in the beginning but it's needed to build up the story, which makes the game so great after a while. It's also full of humour which doesn't repeat itself so you will not grow tired of the humour ^^
Mad scientist
I don't get why people play games on DS. The screen is so small and the resolution is poor.
The game itself looks like it has some interesting stuff. The girls move during conversation unlike all the dating sims I tried where it were just a bunch of still images. Sure it looks good but moving is better.
However somehow I don't think I would like this game. Something tells me that I wouldn't like the story and a VN is worthless unless the story works. I can't tell why I have the feeling that the story fails in this game, but that's my impression. I wonder if I'm mistaken though because it seems to be popular. Have any of you guys actually tried this one?
University Student, otaku
http://chenzen.org
Maybe I should steal my brother's DS. And learn Japanese x_x
Student, Uncle & hopfully a good husband..
Maybe it is a sign...i should change for a DSi?...
Student, ...someday...zzz
Never to be released for sale at American stores.
Let's hope someone will translate it D:
Graphic Arts Student
Sounds like an interesting game. If I was more fluent in Japanese, and had money, I'd probably give it a try.
Planeswalker
I actually like these games.
That will be until I learn japanese, and that will be until I finish learning chinese. >.<
.NET/Web Developer
http://scrumptious.animeblogger.net
Where can we get some of those merchandise? I'll try this out and see if I can practice my japanese with it. ^^
former Emperor of Britannia
http://reflectiarx.wordpress.com/
I want a DS now....
College Student, Computer Science Major
http://www.projectsaber.com
Translation to English please. >_>
Looks like some people bought way too many copies. Characters look nice though.
Student (Programing, Streaming, Gaming)
Looks like a kinky game. Wonder if it will come out in the U.S. Probably not. Hence another reason I need to learn Japanese.
Is the DSI worth getting??
Pastry and baking / Culinary
http://www.illidangdn.deviantart.com
that looks like a good game o.O and the graphics looks pretty nice fo a DS lol
nice art too O_o;;
Makes me wanna buy a DS =P
But im broke ;_;
Engineer
http://www.mechafactory.com
Cute girls, styling looks kinda eroge to me ^^;
Star Gazer
http://vixums.wordpress.com/
Oh, I think I saw pictures of this in the July Comptiq! Not really my favorite type of art style though. I wish there were some english dating sims ;-;
Slacker
Would love to play this on full blast in the supermarket.
Student
http://miri.textcube.com/
Ah, I remember posting on the Members News about that ages ago. Good to see it in real life.
...*imports*
Screenwriter Wannabe
'touch pen' lol.. eroge i presume?
http://twitter.com/phossil
http://www.animoe.net
very cool images. I would like to play it!!
Your local Otaku Cashier.
I want this game, but sadly won't be able to read it even if I had it.
Daigakusei [Consular and Diplomatic Affairs]
http://dixinfernal.wordpress.com
game looks nice, the poster looks nice & the DS case is awesome!
Student, Musician, PHP
http://www.tojikomori.com.ar
ヤバイ, it's highly addictive :S
Myself-finder
there wouldn't be any H scenes since it's portable, the most it would have is bikini and using the touchpen to touch the girls. squealing and moaning is allowed though, just rmb to use your headphones
Must buy NDS....
Not Enough Money...
Can't read Japanese...
In the end I can only look at it T_T(or borrow my friend's NDS ^_~)
Lazyass human
http://nipah.wordpress.com
From that few vids, I can see those girls are having problems trying to keep their heads straight xD
Nevertheless interesting... damn I haven't got a DS :/
Otaku/Illustrator/Mangaka
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/Kyukun
my handheld life would be a whole lot better!!!
this is awesome, tho i would rather have a real J-girl
Computer Engineering Student
It seems to enjoy all the best videogames you truly need all the consoles. The PSP and the DS have their own uniqueness. Wish I had DS and the language skills to read that.
Student
Questions:
1. Does it work on a U.S DS?
2. Do you need a DSI to play the game?
3.How much does the game cost in yen and U.S dollars?
Answers Please. (^_^)