Say it in Red | Episode 29: Tokimeki Memorial - Part 2

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Dear Readers,
That about sums it up.
In the second and final part of our Tokimeki Memorial coverage, Runa and Sara finally managed to get a confession of eternal love from Shiori Fujisaki. The cost? Well... what price can you put on the time you spend in the virtual high school of your youth? Especially when that time is flying by at 400% speed and you're constantly jumping back and forth between weeks in order to manipulate the random chance of the Universe.
This week, we're once again joined by Cristaly and KT as we cap off our discussions of the SNES port of Tokimeki Memorial, playing with the recently released fan translation patch that came out earlier this year. For more information about the game broadly and its overall structure, check out our previous episode, Say it in Red Episode 28! In this episode though, we talk about the remaining routes of the game including the secret dating option, the continuous uphill path of trying to date Shiori, and some of our overall impressions of the game as a whole. Runa and Sara lay out the various strategies they used to finally meet Shiori under the Tree of Legends, KT tells us about Rei Ijuin, Cristaly explains the incredible design and features of Tokimeki Memorial Girls' Side, and everyone remembers the Konami of the 90's with a sort of fond, bittersweet nostalgia.
As Runa mentioned in this episode, you can also find her latest game, the horror-mystery Visual Novel 77 Oleander Avenue at runa-liore.itch.io/77-Oleander!
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Content Warnings for this episode:
1:10:00 to 1:15:00 - General discussions of transphobia, homophobia, and gender essentialism when discussing Rei's dating route.