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Originally posted by Nandemonai:
Gin Iro was mentioned; I own a copy, but have not played it yet. (That's true for a LOT of things, really ...) I have heard it's really good but quite tragic, like Kana. Be warned that tracking it down will be ... difficult, if possible.Same goes for Casual Romance Club. Own it, never played it, it's out of print, people rave about it.
There is Kanon. It's got a partial translation patch (54% complete, I think, with the last released patch) but you have to own the game.
Other than that, I recommend (roughly in order) Snow Drop, Private Nurse, Tokimeki Checkin!, and Critical Point.
As I mentioned somewhere before, a lot of story-driven bishoujo is dark--I was surprised when I played my first game and major characters started getting killed [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/eek.gif[/img]
I'm surprised to hear that Casual Romance Club is out of print--I only recently got my copy of the game... maybe only a couple of months ago. I wouldn't rave about it, though. For the price I paid, I thought it was pretty mediocre fare, although getting all of the CG's for all of the girls is pretty challenging (I still haven't done it). They bill it as a "bilingual" game, but the vocals are incomplete in both languages, and the English vocals are very badly read by the same Japanese woman for all of the characters. And I was disappointed that they didn't even bother to do the courtesy of "graphical emotions" for the speaking characters (you know... where they put an expression on the face and/or change body language to give an impression of the speaker's intent).
Someone mentioned Kanon on another thread, but I've never heard of it, so I don't know what I'd be in for... I'm also not sure if I want to go the route of fansub patches--aparently the jury is still out on them. How good -are- the translations, anyway, and is it worth buying a game and only having 54% of it translated?
I just got my copy of Tokimeki Check In, and am starting to pick my way through it. For a dating sim, it looks pretty promising (that was another problem with Casual Romance Club--it actually got pretty repetitive after a while). I may look into Critical Point as a future purchase, since that was a plot that had piqued my interest a little bit before. I've seen some screen shots of Snow Drop, and I'm not sure I really like the graphics (maybe that's a cheesy thing to rate a game on, but -I- do it anyway [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img] ). I hadn't really considered Private Nurse too seriously before--the blurb that I read on the game led me to believe that it wasn't a dating sim, and the plot didn't sound too interesting otherwise... at least from what I recall.