ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Tokimeki Memorial

[@ActionButton]

there is quite an egregious audio error somewhere deep into this video. it lasts about five seconds. please don't ask me if it's "intentional." it's not. why would that be intentional? it happens to involve copyrighted music, as well, which is the worst thing. oh well: this is what happens when you have like 19 audio tracks under your video lol feel free to guess what i was saying there. and sorry if it gets real loud all of a sudden! also you could back me on patreon if you want me to be able to afford to hire more people to help avoid stuff like that in the future . . . !! if i get 1,000 thumbs ups on this comment i'll re-export a fixed version of the video. though in that case, you all gotta comment again . . .

[@Dontrel3030]

What album is #4 on your list of favorite albums? It looks so familiar but I can't place it. I've been looking through lists of black and white album covers by even the most obsessive people on rateyourmusic and can't find that album with a sketch of a girl.

[@JoaoFederle]

id rather you kept the views, tim! errors like these are fun, theres no worries, the video is still a masterpiece.

[@no_stunts1649]

I’m kinda into it. It’s vibes

[@robertnicolae2226]

I might be tainted by my dirty subconscious, but is 'orgasmed' the word you intended to say? 🤔

[@ActionButton]

oh! that's not the moment. there is something much worse later. that part was intentional. doom shotguns / demons = always intentional. the other thing, wow, absolutely not intentional lol

[@lolwwuttt]

hey listen I know there's a lot to take in here and there's a lot of really dense good stuff, but I think we need to pay some attention to the fact that the ball roll athletics game unearthed that the avatar character has an absolute dump truck ass

[@ActionButton]

i would pin this comment if the current pinned comment did not contain more boringly valuable information

[@scarletnight1077]

@@ActionButton how dare you imply this is not equally valuable information

[@cyberninjazero5659]

@@ActionButton I have never played this game in my life but I have played similar games and hearing you discover that "hair combing" is just general grooming was gold. It's one of those abstractions that's become so common place that it's always a trip to see someone experience/discover it for the first time. Like going through most of Megaman X2 or 3 without Dashing and then finding out about it two thirds of the way through

[@whostolehonno]

holy fuck I read this comment early on confused, and when I saw it a few days later I was crying

[@GameboyFanatic]

@@cyberninjazero5659 And that’s why you start with X1

[@MarcosVinicius-fb8kk]

"Some of us are so ashamed of even the most inoccent aspects of who we are that eventually we run out of people to be". This quote will pop in my mind everytime I'm not being true to my self from now on.

[@Mickyfitz96]

Yeah that cut deep

[@kaleidoscopickait]

Holy shit, yeah that resonates

[@jewymcjewjew9939]

That's called social anxiety

[@nathan-christopheredouard7876]

@@jewymcjewjew9939 People be givin' bad vibes out there man, majah suss.

[@dontnutt]

I legit think about this quote at least once a week. The mask is rough.

[@davidmatoushek9111]

Who here is watching this around the time that Tokimeki Memorial is up for nomination for the World Video Game Hall of Fame in 2024?

[@Zazzlebips]

This was the last video I watched together with my best friend before she died. Action Button, thank you so much for these last moments you gave us together.

[@romanista9776]

🥺

[@microdavid7098]

super sorry for your loss

[@person_people8134]

Hope ur doing well ❤

[@thatguy6227]

My bunghole don’t work so good

[@oyoyoyo7624]

A loving memory of an important part of your (and your best friend’s) friendship history

[@yakkocmn]

I am currently one hour into this review - you haven't even talked about the game yet, but I am fully invested in your thesis AND your life stories. Are you the final boss of video essays?

[@Peroshy]

Something something the dark souls of video game reviews

[@jac1011]

never thought i'd see someone who made multiple videos on gacha games here.

[@purple_yoshi77]

Dude makes the best shit

[@Dzumeister]

You must be new here

[@momamario]

Consider the old screenwriting adage that one page of dialogue equals one minute of screen time (yes I know this was most likely not written in script format )

[@WritingOnGames]

Can't get over that person messaging you about reviewing games literally no one cares about when I'm several hours into this and it's easily the most intriguing game you've talked about/most gripping video you've made so far

[@martinhendry2683]

Always a pleasure to see you commenting as a loyal fan of Mr Rogers, Mr Black.

[@muffinzetta3670]

yeah this is the most interesting thing I've seen in weeks

[@babbaganush9659]

Literally

[@deepyjay]

Agree to agree

[@jessedarko]

What he said.

[@maddoggnick96]

If anyone is curious, the Top 11 Albums that flash by at 39:12 are: 11. Mind Game by Miho Nakayama 10. No Fuse by Naniwa Express 09. Gokutsubushi by Jagatara 08. Thanks Giving by Ra Mu 07. Aventure by Taeko Ohnuki 06. Purple Rain by Prince and the Revolution 05. Goat by The Jesus Lizard 04. Sappukei by Number Girl 03. Starbow I Tanpopo hata de Tsukamaete by Starbow 02. Our Connection by Ayumi Ishida and the Tin Pan Alley Family 01. Wispy, No Mercy by Citrus

[@dommurruga]

there goes my hero

[@y.bowcat7782]

it was cool to see Ra Mu and Starbow to get love in a gaming video essay of all places, they are pretty under-loved even in the 80s kayo community

[@GROUDONTIRANITAR93]

The real MVP right here

[@gonkdroidincarnate4237]

Your a superhero. Real MVP here.

[@GreatistheWorld]

I love you

[@reiyun]

This man willed a remake into existence slay king.

[@jdhathrisen]

Oh my God he did..... They say your name too....that's a day one purchase for me

[@Holographichaven]

When Tim balls, he goes hard

[@p4k7]

And the new version can have the girls say “bonki-kun”!

[@MegaTheman25]

Remake of what?

[@ryanmintus3323]

Elden Ring

[@_RKev]

I'm gonna be honest, I'm here because John from Super Eyepatch Wolf recommend this, which only makes it more baffling that I apparently already watched half of this video, but I can't remember this, I feel cursed

[@breakmanradio2530]

Lmaooooo same, I'm here because of The Wolf

[@breakmanradio2530]

How many views do you think The Wolf is gonna get this video? An extra 100K maybe? Over the next month or so.

[@RetepAdam]

That’s actually incredibly troubling lmao. Either that or you started it once, then fell asleep and your phone eventually died. 😅

[@mf-h3659]

maybe you got timestamp linked?

[@breakmanradio2530]

@@mf-h3659 The Wolf didn't timestamp his link, the wolf doesn't play games like that. He is the alpha.

[@conradburroughs]

This is my first exposure to Action Button, I'm completely floored.

[@jerrymcmillin5053]

Watch Let’s Play - Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Kills me every single time

[@BakaryD]

@@codexnecrogeddon That Japan article was fucking garbage

[@naheemquattlebaum2267]

Watch is Dragon Quest XI review. It's what got me into his stuff.

[@jerrymcmillin5053]

@@naheemquattlebaum2267 this something that I should play dragon quest before watching or will it still hit?

[@naheemquattlebaum2267]

@@jerrymcmillin5053 His review is why I bought the game in the first place.

[@PhilLube]

2:47:04 - “The emulator reloaded so quickly that I felt guilty, so I downloaded an mp4 of the original PlayStation bootup sequence off the internet and played it in VLC.” Only a man of culture and respect for the art would burn daylight for the sake of achieving true 1995 immersion. I salute you, good sir.

[@fonkyfesh-old]

The sociopathic rampage you have to go on in order to win over Shiori in this game is more intense than playing Dark Souls blindfolded

[@thaianh12345]

@RandomPasserby OnTheInternet I believe Shiori's requirements are much stricter. You have to satisfy ALL of her parameters, make her go into Tokimeki state, and trigger the event that leads to her confession. Fail one of these three requirements, and it's time to reload.

[@arlekino0792]

@RandomPasserby OnTheInternet Her req. are health = 30; culture, logic, art = 130; sport, insight/trivia = 110; looks, spirit = 100 and stress lower 50. (I think you could raise culture art and logic the first year and trigger girls. In the second year raise other stats but not high enough to trigger girls. On third year new girls can't appear.)

[@arlekino0792]

@RandomPasserby OnTheInternet the info is from english wiki. It just happend that I had screenshot nearby.

[@maybepolly_]

@RandomPasserby OnTheInternet the worst part about playing kei's route is dodging sakuya while it takes 20 million years to get kei from :| to :)

[@CB-L]

Kinda ironic that the difficulty around Shiori made players enjoy the game even more(back then) like - Try really hard to get her attention, *or* completely ignore her and hang around with other girls.

[@tomis3151]

I really hate it when people say they could disscuss a topic for hours without any intention to do so. That's why I watch ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS BY TIM ROGERS

[@Peroshy]

If you were wondering, I can confirm that playing the shotgun sound effect at various speeds and volume levels and flashing a contextually relevant thing on the screen bright red did not get boring during these 6 hours.

[@desperson]

Makes me laugh every single time!

[@victorbucaille4184]

I don't think many English speakers would know this, and I don't know of a better place to put it: the quote "What is a man ? A miserable little pile of secrets" comes in fact from the French writer André Malraux who, in his memoirs published in the 60's wrote "Pour l'essentiel, l'homme est ce qu'il cache : un misérable petit tas de secrets". (For the most part, man is what he hides, a miserable little pile of secrets). I have no idea how it got to Castlevania. That would be an interesting story ! Does it in turn predate Malraux ? It seems like something that could be in Shakespeare. Is it a complete coincidence ? Bonus fact: Malraux only wrote the sentence to refute it: in the book, it's a sentiment echoed by a character that is immediately put down by the author surrogate, who replies: "L'homme est ce qu'il fait !". (man is what he does / his deeds)

[@HellPe]

I've brought up that point in the Discord and someone helpfully pointed me at this video from Easy Allies giving some context on the quote: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXy1ZGxop9CDgpo Turns out the Japanese version does not quote Malraux at all, so Tim may just be trolling us there, since I'm positively certain he both knows about the Malraux reference and the fact that Iga dit not wrote that line at all. Still, could you think of another French writer quoted in a popular video game? (Does Cioran in MGSV count?)

[@victorbucaille4184]

@@HellPe Good video!

[@drybones3967]

Hey nice!

[@drybones3967]

Nice post

[@OMGmyFACE]

Great post. When I first heard about Malraux and the quote, I checked out Man's Fate and it was awesome.

[@preachermansam86]

During the chapter 'The Itch The Freak Scratched', I was reminded of your earlier reference to Groundhog Day. In the film, Phil Connors uses his days on repeat to learn all there is to know about Rita Hanson (or at least what he initially thinks counts as 'all there is to know'). At the end of his first almost-but-not-quite successful wooing of Rita, she says, "You don’t even know me." "This whole day has just been one long setup." "What are you doing? Are you making some kind of list or something?" "Did you call up my friends and ask them what I like and what I don’t like?" "Is this what love is for you?" "I could never love someone like you, Phil, because you’ll never love anyone but yourself." He objects, but the audience knows the truth. He spends the rest of the film trying to become the kind of person that Rita could love. It seems that in Tokimeki Memorial, the player takes an opposite journey, having high intentions of becoming that person for Shiori, but in the end resorting to what can be gleaned from repetition and meticulous note-taking. I'm sure there are more comparisons to be made...

[@Hdx64]

yep... The conclusion is "If you focus too much on the objective, you will lose yourself during the journey"

[@troyevanthompson]

I'm sure someone has mentioned this, but if not may I suggest that Tim is the equivalent of a "method actor". Listening to era appropriate music, playing sequels and spin-offs, watching episodes of full-house and fresh prince...thank you for your sacrifice so that we may be entertained.

[@disk3001]

"a game where you date girls and not stab men? thats GAY" is probably the funniest way to summarize 90's culture XD

[@sp4cehouse]

guys, is it gay to date girls?

[@DrNuyenVanFaulk]

Same. Pretty sure I heard this line in my teens. In fact, I was called "gay" in college when I joined a hip-hop class. My "friends" who called me "gay" came to one of the classes to "laugh" at me. But they stood and watched me dance with 100 women, intimately, jovially. I clearly had the last "laugh". (I put "laugh" in parenthesis because nobody actually laughed).

[@LucasPatricio]

ROFL

[@nathan-christopheredouard7876]

@@DrNuyenVanFaulk Hyper promiscuity does actually turn you bi tho. That and meth.

[@nathan-christopheredouard7876]

@@sp4cehouse Only if they dated other guys before you

[@apugalypse_now]

I had to know, so I counted. He uses the Doom shotgun sound effect 260 times in this video. For those interested in the breakdown by section: Introduction: *9* (3.46%) "The First Dating Simulator?" (No, actually): *13* (5.00%) intermission #1: *0* (0.00%) let's talk about the game: *8* (3.08%) intermission #2: *1* (0.38%) Let's Play Tokimeki Memorial (playthrough #1: no-research shiori attempt (failure)): *68* (26.15%) Let's Play Tokimeki Memorial (playthrough #14: no-guide shiori attempt (success)): *57* (21.92%) intermission #3: *0* (0.00%) The Point: "The Itch the Freak Scratched" (or, "Myself Isn't Here"): *20* (7.69%) The Bottom Line: *48* (18.46%) The Post-Review: *36* (13.85%) Yes, I probably got a few wrong as some of what I believe are Doom shotgun sound effects are unrecognizably pitch-shifted. No, I'm not going back to double-check that the number I came up with is accurate. No, it wasn't worth it.

[@jayoftheabyss3197]

Vehemently disagree that this wasn't worth it, I am enthralled. Thank you.

[@LucasSampaioMaia]

Thank you for your sacrifice

[@dandon1968]

anyone know what's going on with tim? did he turn full patreon since then?

[@LucasSampaioMaia]

@@dandon1968 he is filling a thread on twitter with a lot of problems on the upload of his new video for days now

[@jayoftheabyss3197]

@@LucasSampaioMaia @dan don The good news is that it's just up to processing now, which is waiting on whatever happens with that on KZbin's side. But the apparent immensity of the video as well as a more general trend that some KZbin creators have noticed lately for processing times to be much longer than expected means that processing is taking much longer than expected. But it's just a matter of time now.

[@fabamatic]

So, if Edge reviewed this game they would rate it 7/10 "if only you could shoot these girls!"

[@soma8756]

this is so goddamn funny

[@barkdongston5814]

Still the Goated comment

[@StevenSeagull123]

Goddamn

[@GameboyFanatic]

Gal Gun moment

[@Trish-vj4qn]

(Doom shotgun noise)

[@joelman1989]

Alternate title: Shiori Fujisaki: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

[@bubbus5183]

this is one of the best comments i have ever read

[@yukinagato4319]

Buena!

[@chromiumex2384]

I’m now convinced tokimeki memorial is one of the most important video games in history

[@FinneyTheHuman]

“Much like in real life, every girl has a birthday” These words are like the devil playing a circus organ in my brain as I consider the birthdays I have neglected

[@MaximusRedman]

what?

[@drewathan]

That’s a really good image.

[@Narokkurai]

According to an uncited entry on TvTropes (the most reliable source on the internet), if you progress down Nozomi's route to the point of guaranteeing her confession, and then STOP dating her completely for the last few months of the game, she will grow her hair out to look more girly as she confesses her love to you under the tree of legend. To describe the level of detail in this game as "insane" would be an injustice to the entire field of psychology and would necessitate the drafting of an entirely new DSM.

[@arlekino0792]

You can get long hair ending if go for the Nozomi second time. Not sure about this method.

[@grinkobaba9226]

That put a pit in my stomach, my gosh.

[@heiro7572]

1:48:45 I don't know if Shiori is the greatest final boss in video game history, but the line "Shiori Fujisaki, history's softest, smiling final dracula, sits upon an endgame throne as tall as the moon, ready to reveal every miserable secret in your little pile." certainly makes me feel like it!

[@thomaslichman5365]

Your first playthrough is the most accurate representation of high school I've ever seen. It's basically just 4 years of you hanging out with people that barely like you, but if you don't hangout with them enough they spread rumors about you.

[@genpri1010]

Except in the game you are forced to date people you met only once, otherwise they spread rumors about you so the girl you actually like hates you. This game is so messed up, it's like the opposite of reality.

[@erikpope1305]

@@genpri1010 Idk I heard that Gen Pri was an incel. I flirted with him and he didn't even ask me on a date. Probably a hentai perv.

[@reallyWyrd]

This is true.

[@jackrussell3084]

I felt this man, well put.

[@greyskies5115]

Was this the experience people had in highschool? Only my mortal enemies talked shit about me and deep friendships were common in my class...

[@zunokan]

Is that time of the year again: The beginning of it

[@GreatistheWorld]

Oh my god, best comment

[@nhall129]

The comment we all needed

[@narcspector]

I understood that reference

[@TheEquinox100]

@@narcspector 1:19:21

[@ArchaeologyTube]

“Is love the verb or the object in the sentence that is life?” Is just plain good writing

[@TheStrix]

It's a long sentence, but I think I prefer being in here to being outside.

[@imacg5]

Love is the adverb

[@wariowarecomix]

I read this the moment I got to that point in the video

[@TwoandaHater]

Did you trick her into loving you- or did the game trick you into becoming her ideal boyfriend?

[@RetepAdam]

Y...yes.

[@Pandor18]

Jesús Christ this gave me goosebumps

[@Jellomancy]

Holy shit....

[@jonhanson8925]

One thing I noticed is that when he's talking about he scene at the cultural festival with the caricaturist he suggests that the way Shiori behaves suggests she's in love with the protagonist, at least, in some way. And yet at the end the video talks about tricking Shiori into loving the protagonist. This isn't a criticism or anything, just something interesting I noticed.

[@pan2990]

SHOOK

[@TheSphereHunter]

I've never been so excited to watch a six-hour-long video.

[@ActionButton]

hello! i was going to DM you about something video-content-related on twitter . . . maybe i'll do that soon . . .

[@narcspector]

Tim's collab-crazy in 2021! Big plans! 😲

[@moejuggler6033]

Hell yeah me too!

[@j.g.3737]

This is the collaboration we all need.

[@VaSoapman]

If this Collab happens that means Tim Rodgers will only be one step away from the Castle Super Beast guys.

[@jlkjlkjkljklj9162]

Me: "I don't care for tropes" Tim: "She called me BUBBUS" Me, sobbing: "Oh my god she called him bubbus"

[@carlo_m]

Can anyone timestamp? 🙏

[@teatime_fmt]

@@carlo_m 3:39:13

[@___xyz___]

@teatime The hero we need! @jlkjlk jkljklj Take notes

[@Skelterz]

@@carlo_m mmmmmmkmmmmmmmkmmmm lol

[@v_input_output]

"touched a book unsuccessfully" and "deja zoo" have both absolutely sent me into the stratosphere

[@Weldingization]

I've started playing this myself, and found that, as the review states, this game has bonkers amounts of STUFF in it. In my game, Megumi had, by year 3, actually worked up the courage to come and introduce HERSELF to ME /without/ needing Shiori's help, OUTSIDE the Christmas party's gates when I wasn't let in. As this seemed to go completely against her character as I had understood it from watching this video, I was left speechless.

[@MiloKuroshiro]

Tokimeki has CRAZY variety and path divergence. It's really impressive for such an early title.

[@FieryRedmond]

your game might just be haunted

[@thelastcarnival]

Every copy of Tokimeki Memorial is personalized

[@hexyoutubeaccount]

me at the beginning of this video: of course you didn't translate the whole game that would be crazy me at the end of the video: god i wish the game was translated

[@gregathol]

looks like i'm studying japanese now

[@jdhathrisen]

I really hope this video spurs some benevolent soul to translate it

[@LucasSampaioMaia]

Yesterday i found people on Reddit organizing themselves to translate the game. Can't wait!

[@PredictableEnigma]

Tokimeki Girls' Side 2 and 3 are fan translated apperantly

[@frozec8568]

as someone whos studying the language this game is a godsend

[@civilian666]

This video series has come along way since Pac-Man

[@ganjafi59]

Like one video

[@mechamonkeymancityboat7785]

Tim Rogers has come a long way since Final Fantasy VI

[@BlueSpiceSpace]

There is an idea of a Shiori Fujisaki, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real Shirori, only an entity, something illusory. Although she can hide her cold gaze, and you can shake her hand a feel flesh gripping yours, and even sense your lifestyles are probably comparable, she simply is not there.

[@dia8183]

i went into this video thinking that the arboretum was a perfectly acceptable location for a date. i know realize that the reason why the most serious romantic relationship in my life ended is because our final date was at the arboretum. the correlation is clear now.

[@nataliapatolamoosmann8290]

Oh my god you’re right. I too have experienced a final date in a serious relationship at an arboretum. I was dumped like a week later. Never take hot girls to arboretums.

[@nsalegit9482]

Brb gonna try this. Will respond with results.

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

You barked up the wrong tree. You branched out, tried to put down roots, and then she had to leaf you

[@keinname1896]

@@PanAndScanBuddy oh my god.

[@dia8183]

@@user-ns3nj1jr8h it just seems to be cursed somehow. i mean it sounds like a good idea on paper right?? it's basically a park that's been landscaped specifically to be beautiful to walk in. but i guess theres some malicious arboretum spirit that refuses to let couples be happy.

[@ADSRM]

5:29:58 "I wish I could talk to more people about Tokimeki Memorial 2" Sorry, I had to find copies of both Tokimeki Memorial and Tokimeki Memorial 2 and play through them both. I'm here now. Tokimeki Memorial 2 completely owns, hi.

[@TheNumnutRandomness]

If Tim Rogers single-handedly brings the Tokimeki Memorial series to the states, it will be a hot day in frozen hell.

[@lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598]

Sorry to crush everyone's hope, but remember that Konami isn't a video game company anymore. No localization will ever happen.

[@RabidDogma]

@@lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598 a fan translation is much more likely to happen. "Official" is not the only option in 2021.

[@colinr0380]

@@lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598 I wonder if they will ship over a pachinko machine or two? :P

[@relaxed8365]

Sorry to disappoint you, but the Tokimeki franchise is too much attached to otaku in Japan. There won't be a real push for this franchise on America, unless it is viewed as an historical artifact (like this review), or paraded ironically by people pretending to like it to get virtue points.

[@odolowa1]

*heck

[@waffletaco]

I feel like shiori fujisaki did her grindset during elementary or middle school because she had a crush on the MC. In her journey of self-improvement to catch the MCs eyes, she realized she outstripped him and now can only accept him if he chooses to undergo his own transformation for the sake of her love. She realizes her standards changed and is overwhelmed with joy when she finds you to be exceptional. Seems pretty toxic to me

[@questioningespecialy9107]

Alternatively, Shiori cannot date someone her peers believe to be beneath her (or rather, not on her level). And thus the problem. Her childhood crush is only an option, her childhood _dream_ is only obtainable if MC becomes popular. Tim Rogers voice: Becomes... _desirable_ to other women. o.o

[@DarkLordFluffee]

"rejection is easier to take from a machine" tell that to lil kid me who cried when Mr. Resetti in animal crossing yelled at me because i couldn't save my game due to a power outtage lol

[@peytonlong2000]

The twist that fucking Suda51 gave you wisdom to romance a digital girl is just amazing

[@SalientLamprophany]

I'm pretty sure he was making that part up for an absurdist laugh. If not, WOW.

[@definitelynotethan7959]

​@@SalientLamprophany i mean he literally worked with him on no more heroes kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnm2Z2uQp7hmmJo

[@video_ouija7114]

@@definitelynotethan7959 that was great, thanks

[@zaniel148]

If you wanna be Shiori's lover you gotta get with her friends.

[@Amcsae]

Playthroughs last forever-- this game(-and-its-sequels) never ends!

[@MOZZQUESTVANYALI]

But not too with her friends

[@dudewithhair111]

This is the joke I wish I made...

[@Kageryushin]

16:15 "Honestly, when I review a Persona game, it's going to be Persona 2." Instantly subbed. Combined with a 6 hour review of TokiMemo, I can only surmise that you are my sworn brother and I will stand with you against any foe from henceforth until the end of days.

[@sharkosupreme]

Episode 2 of season 2. The Time Draws Near

[@larsnyman2455]

@@sharkosupreme no LA Noir ?😟

[@HolyDeviant1]

"You wouldn't learn Japanese for just one game, would you?" "I... Look, the man spoke about a single game for six hours uninterrupted and only managed glowing and effusive praise, what am I gonna do, *not* play it?"

[@curiousjapan]

Perhaps someone could make a custom textbook that only covers the grammar and vocab used in this game... sort of like those "Passport to ..." pamphlets Clyde Mandelin wrote for Zelda / Mother 2, but more on the scale of "À la recherche du temps perdu".

[@mrf4ncyp4nts]

Hey to be fair, he did say he wishes you could save the game more often - that's technically a criticism I guess

[@basementninja676]

My Japanese is honestly pretty bad, but I started playing it because of this video. As long as you have some way of looking up words you don't know, (I use a mix of an OCR app on my phone and a handwriting keyboard for Japanese), I see no reason you couldn't learn enough Japanese to play this game in a month or two. The grammar is very straightforward, and you only need to know nine words to understand what's going on with the core gameplay mechanic of choosing how to spend your time. I'd reccomend you learn hiragana, get your hands on some Tadoku Graded readers, (and read them as intended!), and you'll be ready to play the game by the time you're fairly competent at level 3 tadokus. The game gives you as much time as you need for each of its textboxes other than the opening, and the music is nice enough that I honestly don't mind spending extra time listening to it. Another game that you can play without many issues, even if you Japanese is really bad, is Final Fantasy VII. Unlike Konami, Square has actually made their game available, so you can buy FFVII on basically any platform. Playing Tokimeki Memorial Legally is another story....

[@RialuCaos]

My Japanese is at about an intermediate level after roughly five years of study, and the catalyst for my learning Japanese was actually an untranslated Corpse Party video game.

[@Ratralsis]

@HolyDeviant1 It's been a few years, how's it going for you? Learning a lot?

[@nafinapkin5439]

Fun fact: Tim Rogers says "aboretum" way more than the word "anime" in this video. That's impressive

[@manjackson2772]

I believe you implicitly

[@Hdx64]

I believe the world is Arboretum as the latin word for "Where trees grow", but hahah funnily enough i believe the word is neither... It was meant to be Greenhouse

[@glowerworm]

@@Hdx64 Arboretum means tree park

[@sageseraph5035]

I love how he mentions an actual date from his own life with no context and does not explain it at all. This happens multiple times.

[@spencechan]

... I wanted to know what happened in September 2015

[@violetseren5169]

Maybe that's one of those "hidden jokes" he puts on the video in which only he and maybe some people that know him can laugh about it (like the chronicle of a tennis monster quote he did at the end of The Point). And i think that's actually quite nice ahahahah

[@ciscornBIG]

welcome to putting up with Timmy rogers! maybe he'll tell us what soda he was drinking while playing

[@MrJohnOHM]

Maybe he wants to prove that he can have real life dates too

[@ciscornBIG]

@@MrJohnOHM when he was younger, chubbier, and greasier he some how used to bed japanese 4's.

[@gpmradirgy8953]

My first encounter with this game was a fan translated episode of Japanese TV show Game Center CX where comedian Shinya Arino was challenged to reach the Shiori Fujisaki ending after getting married the week before. He got the ending on his first try by going entirely off his own real life wisdom. After watching this video I now realise that it may be one of the most impressive things ever done in the entire series.

[@THOUSANDSofAPOLOGIES]

I totally forgot about that episode. Thanks for the reminder to rewatch it!

[@gpmradirgy8953]

@@corvaes The copyright holder has clamped down hard on uploads but you can still find it on daily motion by searching "game center cx tokimeki memorial"

[@jamesderiven1843]

Man I had forgotten about Game Center CX. There was a period there where... I think Kotaku was behind or supportive-of a paired-down half-hour translation of the show.

[@Scroogs]

What I love about that episode is that, at least how the show presents it, he wasn't even trying. He plays the field, he wastes time fucking up dates, and yet his innate sensibilities still got him a win on the first try. Might still be his most impressive feat.

[@wm2990]

Thank you for letting me know there’s an episode of GCCX on this game 🙏

[@BatCorkill]

Tim: "Do you want to listen to the junk shop music uninterrupted for 30 seconds?" Me: Buddy you got me for 6 hours, carry on.

[@Cambone13]

I don't know why, but the doom shotgun sound effect never gets old.

[@Shadowonshadows]

He has a sound board for his occasional live streams and it Really ever gets old, then.

[@AlexRN]

@@Shadowonshadows ever or never gets old? For what its worth it does work on me. Always made me chuckle quietly inside.

[@jimmykeffer7401]

Honestly angry that three hours into the video he’s still using the same gag, and I see it coming, yet it *still* sends me every time somehow 😂

[@Jeff-sc1hf]

It's the "That's actually not that bad!" that gets me

[@danceyrselfkleen]

The demon death sound byte doesn’t either.

[@xcelentei]

Nietsche would love this. His existentialism was tied to "Amor Fati," the idea that you should live your life so as to happily live it again, on repeat, for eternity. When you think "oh, I wish I could have done high school differently and dated that hot girl," this game illustrates that even if you could, the actions would have to be so artificial and improbable that no logic could ever lead you to them. So you have to love what you live rather than obsessing over a future that only a time traveller could bring about. It's like how Majora's plan in Majora's mask is perfect. Aside from a time traveller using bullshit out of nowhere, it was literally. Literally impossible to stop the moon in time and save everyone. Even if you do a perfect run before beating the game. Even in SPEEDRUNS which use precognition of the player, you still have to live out three days as a powerless deku scrub before getting the ocarina and solving the problems. So in an absurd universe where everything is possible, even dating Fujioka, you have to acknowledge the limitations of the self and love it anyway. For what you can do in the liberated and terrifying present. Also as a fellow IUB alum who was born in Indianapolis I can confirm that an arboretum date is, in fact, a gentle way of friendzoning someone. You can sleep soundly knowing that someone across the internet empathized with the precise intricacies and personal and historical context of your arboretum joke, lol.

[@Parisella]

Thematically, sure. But the fact that we have dating sims at all would probably cause Nietzsche to spin in his grave.

[@radioactivehalfrhyme]

@@Parisella The fact that we even have dating was more than enough to get Nietzsche spinning pre-grave.

[@sadpanda57]

I want to leave a comment on yours merely so I might find my way back to it quicker.

[@cacampbell1989]

That first run-through where you tried to just at least keep a friendship going while everything collapsed around you leaving you broken and alone at the end was a little bit too real for me

[@blankspace2185]

This is the modern equivalent of a travelling man sitting down by a hearth of a social gathering place and telling about his travels with useful info, jokes and weirdly personal and heartfelt anecdotes mixed in, to anyone who'll listen. You have a way with words mr. KZbin man.

[@andrew_cunningham]

Truly the Heart of Darkness of dating simulator reviews.

[@kingcrimsonwashere8736]

@@andrew_cunningham On cocaine!

[@aaronhallene6364]

insanely high quality review. it feels both professional and intimate at the same time without over stepping the boundaries of either. That's an insanely hard thing to do.

[@ActionButton]

thanks . . . to be honest i am barely even getting started so please stick around lol

[@aaronhallene6364]

@@ActionButton oh i sure will! thanks for replying

[@nahhchill]

Intimate?

[@ciscornBIG]

say insane again

[@hevil93]

*5 months later*

[@ellusiv5121]

"a game nobody cares about" One reason I watch videos like this is because it makes me see other people's perspective and makes me care about things I otherwise would've never heard of. No corporate channel will make or can be in-depth with random topics like this. Who've seen Fredrik Knudsen's video on Wings? Never heard of Wings and I don't have an interest in that part of gaming in particular yet I watched it and I loved it. How about Ahoy's video on the history of BARRELS in games? Ever heard of Dan Nainan? I haven't but Oki's Weird Stories will tell you about him. You can literally make anything interesting as long as you have the passion for it. I feel like that person only said that because they have an aversion to the anime art style like a lot of people for no reason other than their close-minded impression from it. For crying out loud, it's just a style. A style used by many different people in many different walks of life. 4:46:43

[@mf-h3659]

yeah but ... could just go play fortnite amirite

[@jasonhunter2819]

Knudsen's video on the hurdy gurdy was one of the best videos on a subject I'd never even thought about wondering about, and I will move heaven and earth to watch anything Ahoy puts out, the only negative thing I can say about either of them is I wish I had more of their stuff to watch. With those in your opening, I'll have to check out Oki's channel. A quick look at his topic list kind of reminds me of Whang! so cool, thanks for giving me more rabbit holes to go down. edit: ok, that wasn't intentional I didn't even think about until just as I hit save....

[@feeshmusic310]

I can’t get over how good this is. The absurd length. The detail. The obscure choice of game that I’m now fascinated by. More like this please.

[@Kadaspala]

"Some of us are so ashamed of even the most innocent aspects of who we are that, eventually, we run out of people to be." Fuck. Been struggling lately with my social anxiety and timidness and just overall inability to adequately express myself to others. That quote hit like a brick, and was a revelation about myself I needed to hear right now. Thanks.

[@joearnold6881]

Solidarity, comrade

[@Aaron-g9b]

Start learning BJJ or muay Thai, that will get rid of your social anxiety and timidness in a few months.

[@TomBrienProfessional]

I'm 30 and have settled into not minding who I am or what it's all about any more and it HIT ME TOO.

[@GabrielCosta-xt1dv]

@@Aaron-g9b Really not how social anxiety works

[@Aaron-g9b]

@@GabrielCosta-xt1dv absolutely it does, problem is people fall in love with the idea that there is something wrong with them that cannot be fixed. 6-12 months grinding hard on the BJJ mats and you'll never feel insecure in situation knowing you can choke out anyone in the room.

[@beambox1421]

''She told me, and I quote: .... something I don't understand because I don't speak or read Japanese'' - Nice!

[@mandymoore6506]

The first one was "You've started looking stronger lately" the second was "Your fashion sense has been getting better/you're looking more stylish lately", and the third one was "You've gotten cool lately".

[@G00lden]

​@@mandymoore6506ohhh! Thanks you! now my soul can rest in peace :O

[@mothersbasement]

You are as precise and articulate in speaking about video games as Jonathan Blow is in speaking through video games. BTW, already rewatching this whole thing, a few weeks after I first watched it, because Super Eyepatch Wolf reminded me how great it is.

[@larsnyman2455]

Is that Geoff Thu of Mother’s Basement? Nice to see you’re a man of culture, though I already knew that.

[@exo-plosion9588]

Lmao aye it’s Geoff

[@sawtoothgrind1981]

ahh i remember you

[@blukins8]

I literally spent a few minutes thinking where I heard the way you've been reading your scripts recently, and finally figured it was Tim's inflexion, not calling you out or anything, legit feels so refreshing to see what I'd call his "finesse for words" with a completely different script

[@MF-Productions]

Resident shit bag

[@LloCiDul]

What Tim is referencing when mentioning "Idoru," and says "Tokimeki Memorial is a Cyberpunk artifact." Idoru is a book by William Gibson, as he says, but it's only after reading it that I understand what he means exactly now. It's a Cyberpunk novel about, basically, a man marrying an idol AI from Japan. That's not exactly true, but it's not wrong either. Read it yourself (you really should) to figure out where I lied. So, when the professor and author of that wonderful article speculates on the nature of "2D syndrome" (which had only grown more true over time) they were literally writing "truth" to a Cyberpunk book that had recently came out... to the creator of Cyberpunk. It's highly ironic, and ties directly into the theme of this season on the channel. In the sense that Gibson predicted such a scenario "Cyberpunk," that makes Tokimeki an "artifact" of Cyberpunk by way of definition. Artifact means "a human made object." It came full circle.

[@skalliedA]

hearing Tim Rogers say that he'll review P2 is like hearing Tim Rogers whisper "I love you" in your ear.

[@nathan-christopheredouard7876]

He better review BOTH Eternal Punishment AND Innnocent Sin or we RIOT

[@skalliedA]

@@nathan-christopheredouard7876 dude, think about who you're talking about. I'll be disappointed if he doesn't review the PS1 original versions AND the PSP re-releases

[@nathan-christopheredouard7876]

@@skalliedA We should hold his feet to the flame!

[@drcaligaridane]

I'm excited already

[@soma8756]

"The time of the first page of a romance novel had passed, and here we stood on the last page of a coming of age novel." a+++

[@nooodisaster]

I love how in the first 30 minutes of the review there's notices like "Please see the epilogue for more context." BITCH THAT IS 5 HOURS AWAY.

[@ActionButton]

in academia they call that "endnotes" lmao

[@inknose]

I'm new to your channel and enjoying all of your reviews, but I loved this one IMMENSELY in particular. I also wanted to let you know that - while it's not exactly "bubbus" - my parents' pet name for each other has always been "Bub." Kind of like Wolverine. When my dad proposed, he said, "Will you marry me, bub?" Since you said you found it funny to imagine, I hope this brings you a spark of entertainment 1/100th of how much I was delighted by this video.

[@ActionButton]

yeah, that's good

[@deku4850]

I'm really glad Super Eyepatch Wolf sent me over here. This was one hell of an experience!

[@coredumperror]

Definitely check out Tim's old videos from his Kotaku days. He's been pumping out content at this quality level for years, before he quit Kotaku to make Action Button.

[@tighegleeson1859]

Same, this was actually a great time.

[@vintheguy]

im at 27:00 idk wtf he talking about parts so i guess ill just watch the whole thing

[@coredumperror]

@@vintheguy Tim seems to go on really epic tangents, but trust me, it's all relevant. In a roundabout way.

[@vintheguy]

@@coredumperror i meant "wtf are parts?" like is he talking about the different segments of the video in the description?

[@quincylarsonmusic]

In case you're wondering, at 4:51:01 he says "間抜け野郎" (manuke yarou). This translates to "buffoon". I had to look this one up.

[@grappydingus]

Google Translate, renders it as "Stupid guy." I like that better.

[@kellybrower301]

In between offering freecodecamp, Quincey watches video game reviews.

[@shawnji6139]

I love 間抜け野郎 for a very specific reason. Tim can correct me if I'm wrong on this, but despite people saying it's more like "missing a beat," (which makes sense too, of course), I've always thought of it in terms of 間 being "an empty space between two objects," and 抜け being the "omission" of something. So, to me, the phrase has always been a not-so-subtle insinuation that "This guy's missing something between his ears."

[@thenightking503]

"I'd gone from zero to *_B U B B U S_* in just 8 months."

[@-nomi.-]

This is a game that I had the intention of playing for years on end. One day, when I felt my Japanese comprehension was enough, only then would I play. I watched an hour of the video, just for the historical context and left it there. But with Roger's personal relation to the game hitting me on such a personal level, being in a somewhat similar place in life at the time of his first playthrough, after a week of having the game constantly bouncing around my mind, I burned the disc. Just for later. I put the disc into my PS1s disc tray. Just to appreciate the art on my CRT while I was at home to see it. I picked the last save slot, so it wouldn't get in the way of my future, real playthrough. I played for 18hours. To my surprise, it was almost perfectly suited to my level of Japanese. Midway into the second year, I decided to try for Shiori. I don't really know why. Shamelessly (shamefully) I looked up Shiori's stat requirements and went to save-scumming, bomb disarming and watching the will and guts stats teeter on the balance. If only my PS1 wasn't skipping audio throughout the confession. At least it was stable enough for me to clearly hear the「好きだ」. God, the satisfaction. I'm just ranting because of the immediate impact of this game, but the point is: You probably don't read these comments, but regardless, thank you for the inspiration and the final push to just make me play it. I copied my save to slot one.

[@IAMNOTRANA]

3:40 what? 41 year old? Dude you look like you're in your 25-30. Damn, immortal

[@catonline878]

He looks like a permanently tired 20-something computer science graduate and I mean that entirely as a compliment.

[@ActionButton]

i promise i FEEL at LEAST ten years older than i felt when i was 25

[@patchdeepwood7758]

Eat right, exercise, moisturize. You too can look like you are 30 well into your 40s

[@_goopho]

@@patchdeepwood7758 I do none of these things and still look 10-15 years younger, people who don't know or remember my birth year consistently make some really hilarious misjudgements in the age department. Genetics, man. Edit: tbf, I don't own a car so I walk a lot, I don't drink often, I never smoked, and my diet's only weakness are the damn sweet snacks. So maybe start from these little things, people who happen to read this comment 😅

[@jazaniac]

Marathon-level cardio might have something to do with it. I’m in my 20s and watching this video has motivated me to run more lol

[@dragoon013]

"Politics of the day" shows a clip of Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla

[@ActionButton]

i lolled a lot at that. i was going to use a shot from the shin godzilla trailer though instead found a hi-res version of that trailer (godzilla vs space godzilla came out the same year as tokimeki!)

[@odolowa1]

It's a day later and I still haven't recovered from the description of the opening of Persona 5 as "[cancelling[ the gym teacher."

[@Gamegeneral]

I ended up playing the recently fan-translated SNES version of this game purely because you made what might be my favorite video game review ever.

[@spacerat0n]

@RandomPasserby OnTheInternet It's good. Not the "best" version of the game, but still good and worth playing, especially if your only alternative is not playing it at all.

[@TheRealAmericanMan]

I remember the first time my buddy accidentally crossed the “Sports Girlfriend Threshold” we were running on a bike path and suddenly he disappeared It was only after that I noticed the shimmering wall of reflected light where my friend had disappeared I never saw them again

[@ActionButton]

lmao

[@konamisatellite]

The Sports Girlfriend Threshold can strike at anytime. Hopefully he's in a better place XD

[@TheRealAmericanMan]

@@konamisatellite he isn’t 😌

[@drdoolittle8396]

i'm glad I found SMT instead of this

[@puer4787]

Me at the beginning of the video: there is no way this game is more interesting than persona 4 and chrono trigger Me an hour in: this game is much more interesting than chrono trigger and persona 4

[@jackwithahat8601]

That's until Tim makes a video about Chrono Trigger and Persona 4

[@TheLoneGamr]

@@jackwithahat8601 I look forward to the 10 hour Chrono Trigger and Persona 2 videos.

[@andrewkos5560]

@@TheLoneGamr The Chrono Trigger portion of that video is proceeded by a 3 hour biography of Yuji Horii, as well as a quick 2 hour primer of the Bible.

[@hobojo153alt4]

@@TheLoneGamr I look forward to the 10 hour reviews of both P2 games.

[@Viteaification]

you wouldnt have persona 4 without this game

[@brendanj6272]

He references it twice, but I don't think he ever explained it: "hitochigai" means "mistaking one person for another", and "nanpa" basically means "pickup". My best guess is it mean striking up a conversation with a stranger by pretending to mistake her for somebody you know. "Hey, if it isn't my good friend Yuriko! Wait, you're not Yuriko! Whoops, my bad! Such an embarrassing mistake! Anyhow, what are you doing later?"

[@owen-tj3yl]

Thanks for trying to explain it!

[@andyshepard2780]

"We are not controlling the protagonist, we are merely his thoughts and intentions, trying to steer him" Does that mean we can draw a line from Tokimeki Memorial to Disco Elysium, that is the REAL question

[@Caseman984]

Apparently Tim's ten (11) favorite albums of all time: 1. Citrus - Wispy, No Mercy 2. Ayumi Ishida & Tin Pan Alley Family - Our Connection 3. Starbow - Starbow I 4. Number Girl - Sappukei 5. Jesus Lizard - Goat 6. Prince - Purple Rain 7. Taeko Ohnuki - Aventure 8. Ramu - Thanksgiving 9. Jagatara - Gokutsubushi 10. Naniwa Express - No Fuse 11. Miho Nakayama - Mind Game

[@l4ndst4nder]

Jesus Lizard sticks out like a sore thumb in that list. Great album, but totally random

[@dengaideng]

Thanks, I couldn't decipher Number Girl from the image.

[@dtPlaythroughs]

@@l4ndst4nder He said before it was a pivotal album for him in high school and that he loved noise rock so much, specifically the Boredoms, that he moved to Japan (and eventually started his own noise rock band there). Find it hard to believe this is his real top 11 but maybe his taste changed.

[@ragnarokhead19000]

I’m not the same person I was before finishing this video. And I’m ready to go back into this masterpiece & find more of myself along the way again. What an incredible video.

[@garrettwilkes1674]

Tim Rodgers' videos are the JRPGs of video game reviews. You can't remember what you did before starting the video, and by the time it ends, you don't know what to do with yourself. All you remember is hearing him talk about Tokimeki Memorial. It's like, a part of your life now. So you just... start it over again.

[@spudsbuchlaw]

I'd add, a JRPG where the grinding is actually really fun. In this case, grinding stands in for long meandering yet related side tangents.

[@BrJPGameplay]

Indeed, it's my 3rd time watching this video

[@yodapopinski9265]

😂🤣

[@Jak132619]

It's time to rewatch Action Button Reviews all over again... ALL over again

[@warcheef]

While Tokimeki Memorial is one of the first and is definitely the most influential "genuine cyberpunk artifact" of a game, I'd say the LovePlus (ラブプラス) series go even farther - forcing the player to talk and sing into the microphone and evaluating their emotional investment through voice recognition technology and demanding the completion of daily and special limited events in *real-time*. What, you aren't hardcore enough to have a "real" short conversation with your cyber girlfriend whispering into your Nintendo 3DS every morning at 08:00-09:00 in a convincingly caring tone? Well, tough shit - cos' she is going to dump you, game over. You are in class or at your workplace in real life? Nobody cares! Your girlfriend is calling on the Nintendo 3DS and you better pick up that call, or you are in serious trouble. The rabbit hole of the madness of LovePlus+ is on its own level, honestly.

[@dedecoVGMDJ]

This is scary as shit

[@abaque24]

I regret playing loveplus, twice

[@okuyasu4480]

can Shiori really be the perfect girl if she doesn't like Sentai smdh

[@ActionButton]

exactly!

[@nathan-christopheredouard7876]

@@ActionButton Honestly, if Ubisoft wants to keep making Assasins Creeds games where there's too much content to really 100% complete the game, they should copy design structure from this game lol (HIDE Repeat CONTENT BEHIND INVISIBLE STATS)

[@xenobeers]

me an hour ago: "no one likes japanese adventure games more than I do" me now: shutting the HECK up

[@MrKiafp]

The use of the word "Heck" is so wholesome.

[@loopstratos4619]

42:14 Just saying that I appreciate that you literally had footage with "hit" (in baseball terms) in the background while you're talking about a hit (in sales terms) even though not many would pick it up. Got a small chuckle out of me.

[@unslept_em]

"accidentally joined the brass band, as one does" this is more or less what happened to me in real life, in both middle school and high school

[@grappydingus]

Same. Trumpet for me.

[@Saramusvasque2838]

@@grappydingus same

[@JohneAwesome]

You are a true legend may the algorithms bless you

[@dragoneye6229]

So this is where you go to get the diapers!

[@MrDarksol]

Hey look a random Johne!!

[@VelvaPandy]

Same here and I apologize for saying this here but both you and this guy are just really handsome.

[@elidasilva5558]

Johne my man!

[@siegfried7988]

👀👀👀

[@SmittsJimmy]

I’m a huge fan but, I’ll admit, I was luke warm when this game was announced as the next review. I’ll never doubt again, this is so far and away the best review you’ve done that I’m considering trying to learn Japanese again just to play this game. Well played Tim, well played.

[@ActionButton]

thanks . . . now the question is how do you feel about a cyberpunk 2077 review lmao

[@SmittsJimmy]

@@ActionButton honestly, at this point, I would watch a twelve hour Action Button review of Shaq Fu. I’m sure it would be illuminating and change my opinions about basketball, ancient fighting techniques... and also, prolly like, beauty, er some other nebulous and abstract concept. May you live forever and continue to speak verbosely and extended-ly about this thing we all enjoy.

[@sirbuster223]

@@ActionButton Cyberpunk's timeline is so teeming with subtext and history (in game and especially outside the game) that I think your format would work perfectly with it.

[@MrCheeze]

@@ActionButton The thing I worry about is that these reviews are all about giving the "full story". With the game basically incomplete at launch and expected to have years of updates, I wonder if that's really possible. I eagerly expect to be proven wrong.

[@pjarmitage8003]

Why does the Doom shotgun blast sfx gag make me laugh EVERY. TIME.

[@RobSomeone]

Oh man, Super Eyepatch Wolf wasn't kidding. I'm going to need to watch this in chunks like a series.

[@coredumperror]

Heck, Tim *himself* suggests that! And he's not wrong. I watched it in two chunks of about 3 hours each, and that was still hard. lol

[@RetepAdam]

I’ve watched Metal Gear Solid 4 was a Mistake and Pathologic Is Genius, And Here’s Why. But this... this is the final boss of fantastic, feature-length (TRILOGY-length!) KZbin video game essays.

[@RKNELIAS]

@@RetepAdam My man have you ever seen MatthewMathosis? You might like his content

[@bes03c]

I watched it all within 24 hours at 2x speed. I had some weird dreams when I took a nap.

[@Michael_Raymond]

@@coredumperror I literally just had this on my second monitor at work and it took me three days

[@yaboiyuri9096]

Glad that two years of intensive Japanese learning and $100 on a pcengine mini can finally culminate into playing this game about picking up high school girls.

[@razjml]

tbh that learning must have been pretty intensive indeed if you have enough proficiency to play and understand a text-heavy Japanese game after only studying for 2 years. When I play through the Chinese version I still need a dictionary app by my side to look up phrases and figure out dialect choices and all kinds of stuff, and I started studying that language infinity years ago.

[@yaboiyuri9096]

@@razjml 2 years of intensive study was on top of many more years of casually study. I also still use a dictionary when I hit a few words I can’t figure out through context (an interesting challenging considering how hard kanji in a retro game font can be sometimes). Funny enough the biggest hurdle was naming myself because the kanji for names were sorted by their onyomi rather than how they’d actually be used in a name. Searching for 山 (yama) under や for 10 minutes until I tried さ was an unexpected battle.

[@razjml]

@@yaboiyuri9096 huh, yeah that is odd. The 16-bit font struggle is seriously real but also in my experience helps with sight reading. After a while you kind of just get used to it, but all the same it's *real* frustrating to struggle to figure out a character that you already know but is illegible in pixellated form. And I will never ever play anything with an 8-bit font, dear god no.

[@ZeldaFan0o0]

what does intensive japanese learning consist of? i want to replicate

[@MFMegaZeroX7]

@@yaboiyuri9096 Yeah I remember the font had me not recognize 着 initially since it turned the 目 into a 口. I think it did this for almost all instances of 目.

[@jord.an6123]

"You're not supposed to end up with the ideal, perfect person. No one is. Not in Tokimeki Memorial, and not in Real Life either." "Perfect is no ones 'type'" This is beautiful, tim.

[@jewymcjewjew9939]

"No one" is no one's type either, fyi

[@jord.an6123]

@@jewymcjewjew9939 Ummm aromantic and asexual people might have something to say about that, bud

[@jord.an6123]

@@jewymcjewjew9939 Oh and wow, with the rise of gross fascists everywhere, you should change your name before people think you're one of those anti-Semitic morons

[@InnuendoXP]

@@jord.an6123 that depends on what's meant by "no one" Do they mean the absence of someone? In which case you're undoubtedly correct. Or do they mean no one in the context of the aforementioned described someone as a hypothetical ideal that is impossible to exist & is therefore no one? Where even if it were person exists, they would be an inhuman two-dimensional entity that exists only as a manifestation of someone else's desire & limited imagination, & therefore, no one? Or maybe the person was simply trying to play on the structural rhetorical motifs established established in Action Button reviews & this comment section while poorly considering the substance of their words & soundly missing the landing? We may never know.

[@jord.an6123]

@@InnuendoXP lmao

[@birdie_cam]

I was almost brought to tears when he brought up that he actually did tell the girl on the swim team that he had a crush on her and they became friends. I really understood how much that meant to him

[@KuR58]

I am so happy this video exists. I knew about tokimeki memorial when I was in high school and I played the Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side 3 on a borrowed Nintendo DS pirated card with a translated file. I immediately fell in love. I played TMGS1 & 2 and when TMGS4 came out I waited anxiously for a year until the translated version was available. I desperately want to play the original title and I've tried before through translating every line of dialogue that comes up on the screen. But it's basically unplayable like that. This is such a beautiful game, I am yet to see a dating or just dialog based game that can make you relate and feel connected and nostalgic about fictional characters and a high school youth I had never even had. It's quite bizarre in an amazing way. Also no, being rejected by a machine is not easier at all. I remember on my first playthrough I was just playing intuitively and after weeks of arduous play I got the bad ending and...man it was kind of heartbreaking not even gonna lie.

[@jord.an6123]

This is a lovely story

[@elidasilva5558]

That's pretty sick and cool (expect the heartbreaking rejection part)..after this video, I have to check out the rest of the games in the series

[@aoi3508]

Having played the first TokiMemo, besides the fact that the characters and scenarios are slightly more varied and interesting (and sometimes MUCH weirder), I wouldn't say you're missing out much by only having played GS! I would like to see more PC98 games ported and/or translated though, including any TokiMemo game. Or for Konami to translate their games at all. Even Love Plus never got one.

[@TheAkashachi]

It is insane that I always say I don't have time to watch a movie or a series that is in my backlog for months but I've spent 6 hours watching this review/documentary about a game I didn't knew from a content creator I never heard before. You deserve as much praise as possible for creating this video. This is a masterpiece in every possible way.

[@andrewhudson7108]

“I can do this all day.” -Tim Rogers: Captain Indiana

[@danielgilbert8338]

"Never use the word 'literally' unless it's for a really good joke." "Now I found myself inadvertently and literally [...] romantically involved" Well done

[@sterilezorro]

This man has lost his bonkers. Tim is a legend.

[@yeetleslaw8529]

Legend? A legend is nothing but fiction. Someone tells it, someone else remembers, everybody passes it on.

[@narcspector]

@@yeetleslaw8529 I understood that reference

[@wildonionchase3934]

Legends are fictional, Tim Rogers is all too real

[@BigLennyBekowski]

How has weeb society gotten this far without anyone translating this game It is baffling to me that it hasn’t been translated by a fan even to this day

[@SadeN_0]

I see two obstacles: 1) sheer size and complexity, and 2) very low resolution with very little space for text. Latin letters require way more screen space than kanji or kana, so physically fitting english text on screen looks like it would be a constant struggle and not very fun for people not getting paid to even try. Modifying an arcane, old custom engine is also a hassle in general, so getting to the point of replacing text succesfully would probably require a whole lot of specialized hacking in the first place.

[@chanhjohnnguyen1867]

@@SadeN_0 text is easy to resolve with variable width font. The issue is in the programming side. Way too many random events

[@hundvd_7]

@@chanhjohnnguyen1867 _If_ you can get variable width fonts. "Modifying an arcane, old custom engine" is a huge obstacle in that

[@gayrozayppeli8431]

There is an exceedingly ridiculous amount of text in the game, plus a lot of stuff is tied to voicework. I cannot imagine the complexity of someone tearing the game apart and then translating everything.

[@paperluigi6132]

@@gayrozayppeli8431 so, best we can hope for is an official remake that gets localized. But since this is modern Konami we’re talking about, I’m more likely to find my dream girl before graduating college before that ever happens.

[@KirbyIsCute]

S-six hours to talk about a dating game!!??? ...... Can you cover the sequels next?