Important Importables: Tokimeki Memorial – Girl’s Side 2nd Season review

Title: Tokimeki Memorial: Girl’s Side: 2nd SeasonPrice: $48.90System(s): Nintendo DSRelease Date: 2/14/08Publisher (Developer): Konami (Konami)ESRB Rating: N/APros: Improved skinship mode, more guys, lots of extras for the DS release, bombs are easier to defuse, extensive voice actingCons: If you don’t speak Japanese, you’ll need a guide for your first play-through. CG scenes are harder to get.Overall Score: 10/10

Tokimeki Memorial: Girl’s Side: 2nd Season is amazing, and is now my all time favorite DS title. Before you start thinking this is some single 20-something’s chance to recapture her youth, check out Amazon Japan, where TMGS: 2nd Season has been in the top 25 DS sellers for months. TMGS: 2nd Season is a quality game and an example of how all ports should be executed. It features additional content, characters, voice work, mini-games and extras without tarnishing the memory of the original title.

I just completed my first play-through about fifteen minutes before writing this review. Since much of the gameplay is identical to the original TMGS: 1st Love DS game, I will use the review to chronicle my first TMGS: 2nd Season adventure.