True Love Story

nihongo|"True Love Story"|トゥルー・ラブストーリー is a series of four dating simsNote: Citation for dating sim is needed due to common confusion with the visual novel genre. Since the [http://www.enterbrain.co.jp/game_site/tls/tls_series/top.htm 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.] (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 "" 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, "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.

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*ja icon [http://www.enterbrain.co.jp/game_site/tls/ Official site]