Tokimeki Memorial (ときめきメモリアル) - Shiori Fujisaki (藤崎詩織) Playthrough

Thank you to everybody that came here after watching Hi Score Girl. I personally haven't seen the show and couldn't tell you the context of the reference, but I'm glad y'all decided to look up Tokimeki Memorial, one of my favorite games of all time. Tokimeki Memorial is Konami's popular dating sim series that debuted on the PC Engine (better known in the US as the Turbografx-16.) The game was soon ported to the PlayStation 2, Sega Saturn, and the Super Famicom, and several sequels were released. I had heard about the game in high school and became quite smitten with some of the characters. However, as it was Japanese only I was unable to play the game until over a decade later when I had imported a Japanese PS2, and I was finally able to play the PlayStation port Tokimeki Memorial ~forever with you~ In Tokimeki Memorial, as with most dating sims, you try to charm one of several available girls by taking them on dates and building up your stats. Shiori Fujisaki was my favorite girl in high school, and naturally she is the hardest girl to win over. The player needs extremely high stats, and her affection for you must be higher than any of the other girls. There are strategies designed to help you win the heart of Shiori with ease, but I ignored them and jumped in and played through the game a couple of times to get a hang of the mechanics. (I also imported a Japanese strategy guide but I was only able to understand half of it.) After four or five playthroughs I felt I was able to tackle winning the heart of Shiori and taped it, but I didn't get all the stats high enough and won the heart of Shiori's best friend Megumi Mikihara instead. Undeterred, I decided to try again. I didn't know it at the time, but I was doing everything that the Tokimeki strategists were saying not to do. I met other girls early on and went on a lot of dates. I walked home with any girl that asked. I even let a bomb blow up from ignoring a jealous girl for so long (which happens at 3:40:47). And yet when the dust had cleared, it was Shiori Fujisaki waiting for me at the legendary tree. And it's all on tape. This was the PlayStation version being played on a PlayStation 2. I didn't play through it in one sitting. You will see me save and some brief cuts from starting a playthrough over again. I never did reload from a previous save point. Apologies at the lack of subtitles or commentary (although you may be thankful about the latter.)