Definitely not as cracked as I was hoping "dating party game by hudson soft" to be, but still pretty interesting nonetheless! It basically takes the concepts of stat/affinity/time management used in dating sims and puts it in a (comparatively) short competitive environment. You and 3 other lucky bachelors have 14 days to court the girl of your liking, and the first person to successfully confess their love and be accepted by any girl wins the game. Each day is split into 3 distinct times of day, and you basically choose where you want to go for each time of the day. There are items that can be used to cause shenanigans between other players and ruin their dates. Players have to manage a general looks and stamina stat by spending time staying home to bathe/rest instead of chasing girls. It's a bit of a handful to learn at first but once a few turns settle in things make a solid amount of sense.
My only problems are really from the games pacing and the cast of girls. The girls are pretty swagless all things considered, and the game kinda just railroads you down a particular girl (usually the first that you happen to bump into) to stay competing with the other players, personal feelings be damned. In my party of 3 there wasn't any particular character that got any real reaction out of us, which is kinda problem when the girls themselves are supposed to be the emotional motivators yanno? Each girl also isn't the most balanced, as I completely threw the game by going after a girl that barely talked and didn't follow any specific schedule. The game also definitely drags on a bit, a day takes about 10-20 minutes which makes a full 14 day run take several hours. My group got pretty exhausted by the end of the first week... Due to the dating simulatory nature of it, everyone's gotta do a lot of reading, which isn't necessarily something that everyone is gonna have the same attention span for unfortunately. Unless this game randomizes every girls personalities for every playthrough, I feel like this game would also absolutely favor those that play it more frequently as the girls generally have the same schedules which allows you to predict where to go, giving first timers a huge disadvantage. Lastly, there's the stereotypical ugly girl that functions as an FOE to be avoided at all costs, and while the game SAYS she targets whoever is in first place, I was in dead last the whole game and was stuck with her for THREE different days.
Overall it was okay. Definitely not as peak as I was expecting it to be, but still an interesting curiosity. I didn't even know this game got a full fan translation recently which actually allowed me to play this with my non-japanese-literate friends which was rad. That being said, if you want a more simple and fun party game based on the premise of being the biggest chick magnet, Koi Wa Balance on the satellaview is the way to go (and also miraculously fan-translated to english!)
My only problems are really from the games pacing and the cast of girls. The girls are pretty swagless all things considered, and the game kinda just railroads you down a particular girl (usually the first that you happen to bump into) to stay competing with the other players, personal feelings be damned. In my party of 3 there wasn't any particular character that got any real reaction out of us, which is kinda problem when the girls themselves are supposed to be the emotional motivators yanno? Each girl also isn't the most balanced, as I completely threw the game by going after a girl that barely talked and didn't follow any specific schedule. The game also definitely drags on a bit, a day takes about 10-20 minutes which makes a full 14 day run take several hours. My group got pretty exhausted by the end of the first week... Due to the dating simulatory nature of it, everyone's gotta do a lot of reading, which isn't necessarily something that everyone is gonna have the same attention span for unfortunately. Unless this game randomizes every girls personalities for every playthrough, I feel like this game would also absolutely favor those that play it more frequently as the girls generally have the same schedules which allows you to predict where to go, giving first timers a huge disadvantage. Lastly, there's the stereotypical ugly girl that functions as an FOE to be avoided at all costs, and while the game SAYS she targets whoever is in first place, I was in dead last the whole game and was stuck with her for THREE different days.
Overall it was okay. Definitely not as peak as I was expecting it to be, but still an interesting curiosity. I didn't even know this game got a full fan translation recently which actually allowed me to play this with my non-japanese-literate friends which was rad. That being said, if you want a more simple and fun party game based on the premise of being the biggest chick magnet, Koi Wa Balance on the satellaview is the way to go (and also miraculously fan-translated to english!)