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Last Topic's Ratings:
Dragon Knight 4 - GG - 100% (2)
Heart of Darkness - GGAGGAA - 79% (7) (1 SR)
K-1 Oujya ni Narou - GG - 100% (2) (1 SR)
Sled Storm - GGGGG - 100% (5)
Tsuukai: Slot Shooting - AB - 25% (2)
Weakest Link, The - AAB - 33% (3)
A pretty high-rated topic for having a fair number of games that weren't especially well-known. I feel like Sled Storm in particular kind of came out of nowhere.
Games for this topic:
Alnam no Kiba
Bike Race: Kamen Rider
Eagle One: Harrier Attack
Excalibur 2555 AD
Pool Academy
Tokimeki Memorial
To be honest, it was never my intention to cover Tokimeki Memorial. When it comes to Visual Novels and Dating Sims, it's generally my belief that although current translation tools make them somewhat playable, it's hard to evaluate them accurately for two reasons. First, the quality of the writing is critical to the quality of games like these and you simply can't gauge this accurately using translation software. Secondly, the sheer volume of text to translate also butchers their pacing and makes them feel overly slow even if this wouldn't have been the experience for a native speaker. As such, the game I was originally planning to cover for this topic was instead Mitsumete Knight, though while looking into it I found out that it is basically a spinoff of Tokimeki Memorial and shares almost the same gameplay. I also quickly found that I recognized a lot of its mechanics from various other games, both ones we've covered here and more recent games like Accel World Phoenix Festa, so I figured we probably needed to evaluate it after all. There's actually a fair number of english guides that can explain how to play the game, as well as a fan translation for the slightly downgraded but still largely similar SNES version, so it shouldn't be inordinately difficult to play for english speakers.
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