WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK.
After YEARS OF SLUMBER (five months), the weather has cooled enough for me to continue where I left off in playing some good ol' DDR, and coincidentally I just recently finished the banger that is tokimeki memorial 2, so this game being both a DDR game and a tokimemo spinoff that stars miyuki, bro the stars have aligned for me to play this.
Being a spinoff game focusing on the very small 2-week period that is summer break, this game is more of a VN rather than your simulator-y stat-growth time-management beats that are in the main game. The main bulk of gameplay is done through dialogue choices and the occasional round of DDR. The plot basically consists of Miyuki wanting to play some DDR with you at the arcade, where by playing she accidentally manages to do an all-perfect FC and get scouted to a local DDR tournament. In reality, she sucks at DDR and it's up to YOU to not only train her to not entirely embarass herself at the tournament, but also convince either Yae or Miho to be her partner. Hilarity ensues. Considering the fact this game is a much more straight-laced VN, there's not much else I can say in the gameplay department.
My only minor complaints with the game are that in the entirety of the main scenario there's only one song that you play over and over and over again on the basic difficulty, with the final song being the same song on Another difficulty. I get drilling one song over and over again to get better at it is part of the DDR gitting gud experience that this game seeks to portray, AND the one song is sung by Donna Burke of Metal Gear fame, but the repetition gets a bit old and the sudden difficulty jump at the end def caught me off guard a little bit. I also wish there was a way to actually play DDR with the characters themselves as player 2, as you can watch them play or play yourself, but never really both. If I could play DDR with tokimemo characters, my life would have been complete right then and there, but alas, some things are not meant to be. It is certainly amusing to play through an entire VN with a DDR pad, ngl.
What else do I really need to say? Tokimemo 2 is based, DDR is based, combine the two and I'm a happy man. It def is weird hearing the characters mention DDR by name though. Like I get that its all konami so there's really no issue, but it's still strange. Completing a run unlocks the full DDR TokimekiMix game to be played, which has 6 bonus songs to play through from previous tokimemo games. It honestly is a good way to slowly get me back and acclimated to the ol' mat again.
i miss when konami was good
After YEARS OF SLUMBER (five months), the weather has cooled enough for me to continue where I left off in playing some good ol' DDR, and coincidentally I just recently finished the banger that is tokimeki memorial 2, so this game being both a DDR game and a tokimemo spinoff that stars miyuki, bro the stars have aligned for me to play this.
Being a spinoff game focusing on the very small 2-week period that is summer break, this game is more of a VN rather than your simulator-y stat-growth time-management beats that are in the main game. The main bulk of gameplay is done through dialogue choices and the occasional round of DDR. The plot basically consists of Miyuki wanting to play some DDR with you at the arcade, where by playing she accidentally manages to do an all-perfect FC and get scouted to a local DDR tournament. In reality, she sucks at DDR and it's up to YOU to not only train her to not entirely embarass herself at the tournament, but also convince either Yae or Miho to be her partner. Hilarity ensues. Considering the fact this game is a much more straight-laced VN, there's not much else I can say in the gameplay department.
My only minor complaints with the game are that in the entirety of the main scenario there's only one song that you play over and over and over again on the basic difficulty, with the final song being the same song on Another difficulty. I get drilling one song over and over again to get better at it is part of the DDR gitting gud experience that this game seeks to portray, AND the one song is sung by Donna Burke of Metal Gear fame, but the repetition gets a bit old and the sudden difficulty jump at the end def caught me off guard a little bit. I also wish there was a way to actually play DDR with the characters themselves as player 2, as you can watch them play or play yourself, but never really both. If I could play DDR with tokimemo characters, my life would have been complete right then and there, but alas, some things are not meant to be. It is certainly amusing to play through an entire VN with a DDR pad, ngl.
What else do I really need to say? Tokimemo 2 is based, DDR is based, combine the two and I'm a happy man. It def is weird hearing the characters mention DDR by name though. Like I get that its all konami so there's really no issue, but it's still strange. Completing a run unlocks the full DDR TokimekiMix game to be played, which has 6 bonus songs to play through from previous tokimemo games. It honestly is a good way to slowly get me back and acclimated to the ol' mat again.
i miss when konami was good