iiotenki

The Tony Hawk of Tokimeki Memorial

A most of the time Japanese>English game translator and writer and all the time dating sim wonk.



As folks who followed me on Twitter might remember, I ended up selling off a small-ish portion of my game collection, partly to cushion my moving costs to Japan, but also to just straight up have enough space to bring everything that really mattered in the boxes I was allotted. One such game I sold off was Refrain Love 2, a dating sim (or as its director told me, a dating adventure game, which is more apt) from Riverhillsoft. Easily one of the best written games of its kind in that era, I only sold it off because the case came broken and it was one I figured would be worth hustling for a copy with an obi so the next time I owned it, it would be truly complete.

And now I do! Refrain Love 2 was pretty much the game that finally sold me on the Retrotink 5X's scanline generation capabilities because of how well they masked the compression artifacts of the FMVs on my last TV. While those flaws stand out a little more on my much nicer current set, with those OLED colors and HDR enabled for even better scanlines, it's frankly never looked better than ever. I think my time to resume my courtship of cover girl Yoko that started around New Year's will finally arrive in earnest soon and I for one can't wait. 😌

Anyway, dating sims, they're cool.


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