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Message: [QUOTE="Gorse, post: 20502, member: 73"] When I read this line, my eyes just about popped out of my head! These games are friggin' everywhere nowadays, and I'd argue that they're actually more popular than ever – everyone was talking about the TokiMemo remake when it was announced on that Japanese Nintendo Direct, and they were also talking about that [I]Date Everything [/I]Switch game that the equivalent English Direct announced at the same time. And that's just Nintendo! Think of how many Japanese-influenced American indie games include references to dating sims, nowadays – they're everywhere, and I'm pretty sure anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the gaming scene is aware of them. And they're getting translated (probably poorly) all the time, too – remember the whole Muv-Luv translation that happened recently? And then that YU-NO anime series just came out a few years ago... That all said, I think the modern incarnation of "traditional Japanese-developed dating sims" are all either A) straight-up pornographic PC games or B) mobile games aimed at late-20s/early-30s women, of which the iOS App Store is rife. I'm not really au fait with any dating sim (aside from [URL='https://retrogametalk.com/threads/pc98-why-so-beautiful.343/post-2294']May Club[/URL] <3), but even an ignorant lummox like me knows that games where you "date" fictional characters are probably bigger than they've ever been. As someone who isn't a fan of this genre, I'm not sure what could draw me into it beyond generally well-written characters, which are anathema to most dating sim games (by design). Every generation beyond Gen-X seems to have lost the ability to perceive legitimate romance, let alone write fiction about it. [/QUOTE]

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