True Love Story

For animated film, see True Love Story (2014 film).
True Love Story
Genres Simulation
Developers ASCII
Platforms
Platform of origin PlayStation
Year of inception 1996

True Love Story (トゥルー・ラブストーリー) is a series of four dating sims[1] (as distinct from the similar but unrelated title True Love). True Love Story and True Love Story 2 were released by ASCII for the PlayStation. True Love Story 3 and True Love Story: Summer Days, and yet... were released by Enterbrain for the PlayStation 2.

The True Love Story land are notable for their gekō (下校), or walk-home system. When the player asks a girl to walk home with him from school, the game enters a special conversation mode. In this mode, in addition to the usual long-term, strategic "love meter", the girl you are conversing with has a short-term, tactical "heartthrob meter" representing her level of immediate interest in the conversation with you. The player is given the choice of approximately 30 topics of conversation to choose from, and the heartthrob meter will increase or decrease based on the appropriateness of his selections. High heartthrob can then be leveraged to ask the girl out on a date, or simply to effect a permanent increase in her love meter.

Later True Love Story games added further complexity to this system, such as a "combo" system measuring the number of consecutive good choices of conversation topics. In large part because of this system, True Love Story is one of the most gameplay-rich dating sims.

An OVA based on the True Love Story; Summer Days, and yet... story was released in 2003. It was 3 episodes long.

Games

There have been 6 installments in the True Love Story. All of them have been developed by ASCII except True Story 3 and Summer Days, which were released by Enterbrain.

Main series

Fandiscs

References

  1. Note: Citation for dating sim is needed due to common confusion with the visual novel genre. Since the official website calls it a "恋愛シミュレーションゲーム" (love simulation game), it is considered a true dating sim.

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