What makes Tokimeki Memorial so addicting is the way in which it gameifies highschool life, reimagined as a "survival game" of managing your responsibilities, passions and relationships. Not too exciting of a game, since winning the heart of any girl that isn't Shiori Fujisaki is disappointingly easy, but seeing the years go by as your bond with the cast of wonderfully diverse, decently characterized girls evolves can be incredibly immersive. An ugly amount of repeated dialogue hurts this immersion, though, and the ways in which you can interact with the girls are extremely brief and limited.