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Environments cycle between day and night, often with effects on other aspects of the game.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
Many have attempted to make an English translation based on the Super Famicom version, but none have ever been completed. Complete fan translations exist for the DS versions of the Girl's Side games.
Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side is a female-themed spinoff series which flips the script on the series and puts a red-headed female in the PC role.
These games were popular enough to warrant an anime, whether it was a full television series, an OVA (original video animation), or a feature-length movie.
Harem is a term used to describe Japanese works wherein a single average male character is surrounded by numerous attractive females, most of whom are romantically interested in the main character.
A love triangle is when three (or more) people are in some kind of romantic relationship with each other. They can become messy and complicated. It may or may not be competitive.
Moral dilemmas presented to the player that often have a significant effect on the story or other characters.
A game created for the female demographic which puts the player in control of a female protagonist who tries to win the hearts of attractive men. Also called GxB (Girl x Boy) games by some Western fans.
Pixel art refers to digital images composed of visible pixels, drawn with individual pixel-level intent and precision.
These are the characters who may or may not wind up in a relationship with the protagonist of the game. Sometimes the player gets to choose if this relationship will develop, while in other instances it is just left up to your imagination at the end of the game.
In a number of games, characters often talk about friendship and the importance of friends, some sacrificing themselves for one another.
Much like Harem, but this applies to a lone lead female character with several attractive male character's that she can be romanticly involved with.
Romance in video games can either be interactive, in which the player attempts to woo another character, or an unchangeable part of the story of a given game.
Games designed to use the mouse accessory for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Many of them were released on PC platforms of the time.
A personality archetype with a name that arose from Japanese fandom. It describes a person with cold, aggressive, or confrontational exteriors that are rather soft or kind deep down inside.
Three spin-off games were made that eschewed the simulator aspect in favor of a traditional visual novel format that included some mini-games. All three games were directed by Hideo Kojima who used his director's experience from Snatcher and Policenauts.
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