gosokkyu

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Konami just announced they're porting the Tokimeki Memorial Girls Side trilogy to Switch, with high-res images, higher-quality audio, etc. They're primarily based off the DS versions of each game, and they look to have put in more work than most DS-based remasters in terms of configuring them for a single screen... I could be wrong, but I think I see one of the exclusive characters from the PSP version of 3rd Story in the trailer, too, so they might be going the extra mile to ensure they're not neglecting any content from non-DS versions, which certainly isn't typical. but for ¥5995 each, one would hope they'd be going all-out:

https://store-jp.nintendo.com/list/software/70010000068874.html
https://store-jp.nintendo.com/list/software/70010000068875.html
https://store-jp.nintendo.com/list/software/70010000068876.html

Tokimemo Girl's Side did get a new game, 4th Heart, in late 2021, and while Konami did virtually nothing to promote it and I don't think people were super impressed by the writing, it did extremely well by otome standards—they were trumpeting sales of 150k earlier this year, which put it just shy of GS2 & GS3, and I figure it must have overtaken them by now, which AFAIK would make it Japan's most successful console otome game ever. (I remember thinking the Angelique game due out around the same time would clean its clock, but I think that game ended up bombing...)


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in reply to @gosokkyu's post:

Angelique Luminarize as far as I'm aware has done fine for itself. It has several hundred Amazon Japan reviews and used prices have held incredibly steady over the years. I dunno that it's matched the series' highest highs, but it's definitely well regarded among the otome players I know at least.

oh, I should hope so... I never really checked in to see what people felt about it (I was counting on certain people to fill me in post-launch but they didn't, and so I didn't even catch that it was out until a while afterwards) but I remembered looking up sales numbers back when Konami started talking up GS4's sales and being surprised at the gulf between the two.