All heroines are childhood friends!　A love adventure where you can make out with 5 beautiful girls. Review

The friends from your childhood are now adults and beautiful girls ......!　A unique love story that begins with a reunion

This title, "Memories to Carry Ai ni Koi! is a romance adventure in which you take on the role of the male protagonist and enjoy love and flirting with the heroines. In this so-called "galge" style game, the player reads the text at a light tempo and makes choices to develop his relationship with the heroine.

The options include various volume controls for background music, sound effects, and voices, as well as text display speed and auto-mode speed controls, on/off for changing the color of already read messages, and message window transparency control, I have the impression that these features are all in place. The game also offers a very comprehensive set of detailed settings, such as whether to continue or stop auto mode or skip mode after making a choice, and whether to turn on or off the voice of each character, including the heroine.

In addition to these system settings, saving, loading, and manuals can all be opened at any time during the game. All in all, the game is very easy to play.

Let's begin with the storyline of the game.

The main character is a young man named Haruki Sakawa. The story begins in his childhood. It was spring vacation when Haruki was about to enter the third grade of elementary school. He was spending happy days with a group of good friends, including his neighbors, Usamari Kuriyama, Iku Tokorozawa, and Chisato Sugo.

One day, a new member joins the group. They are Yuna Harunohara, who lives in the next town over, and Shizuru Nishikei, who has just moved to the area. Ironically, however, at the same time, Haruki boy has decided to move far away and is separated from his favorite friends. They made a promise to each other to reunite. ......

Many years have passed since then, in spring.

Haruki, who is preparing for his university entrance exams, decides to remain in Japan on his own when his father is transferred overseas. As a result, he ends up living in an apartment where his relatives are waiting for him, but the apartment is actually in the town where he was once separated from a group of close friends. Thus, Haruki is reunited with his childhood friends. Despite it being a long time since his last visit, they are happy to see him back and welcome him warmly. However, Haruki is more embarrassed than happy when she is surrounded by the girls who have grown from "girls" to "grown women. Will Haruki be able to make progress from childhood friends to a more special relationship by filling in the blanks with these girls? ......

The main pattern of "galge" games is to begin with an encounter with the heroines in their school life, but this title is a bit different in that it begins with the story of the heroine's childhood. As you may have guessed from the synopsis, the heroines in this work are all "childhood friends!　Speaking of childhood friends, they are one of the most common heroine attributes in romantic comedies, but in this game, not just one or two, but all the heroines are childhood friends. This is quite a novel and ambitious setting, even among recent romance game titles.

One of the charms of this title is, without a doubt, the "gap" between the heroines. All of the heroines are childhood friends, and their childhood stories are carefully depicted in the "children's part," so that when players meet the heroines again as students, they can enjoy the gap between them and their childhood selves to the fullest. Some aspects of the heroines are the same as in childhood, while others are new aspects that you did not know as a child. The story is highly immersive, with a setting and worldview reminiscent of late-night anime, but with a sense of reality.

A thorough introduction to the five heroines, all of whom are beautiful girls with rich personalities!　Who will you make out with?

Speaking of romance games, it is no exaggeration to say that the most important thing is the heroines. This title, "Memories to Carry Ai ni Koi! has five cute and unique heroines. As mentioned earlier, the story of this work begins in childhood, so we can see the childhood of each of the five heroines. In other words, you can enjoy the surprise of "That girl became such a beautiful girl! In other words, you can enjoy the surprise of "She became such a beautiful girl!　Let's take a look at each of the five heroines in detail.

1,She was a crybaby when she was little!　Kuriyama Usamari, the ideal childhood friend who is homey and caring.

Usamari Kuriyama is a childhood friend who is the same age as the main character and whose houses were next to each other when they were children. In childhood, she was a crybaby who cried all the time, and the main character took care of her in any way she could. His cute short twin-tail is impressive.

Perhaps as a reaction to this, after their reunion as students, Usamari wants to take care of the protagonist in some way, as a way of repaying the favor she did him when he was a child. The story with Usamari, who is cute, homey, and caring, the ideal image of the "childhood friend" that young people dream of, is characterized by a warmth that makes us feel at ease. The fact that she treasures a hair clip that the main character gave her when she was moving out of the house is another point that makes the reader feel a little bit of a pang.

2,She was a naughty girl when she was little!　Chisato Sugo, the mischievous older sisterly childhood friend

Chisato is the older sister of the main character's best friend and is one year older than the main character. In her childhood, she was an energetic and mischievous child who played pranks on the main character and other children. She has a boyish short cut that could be mistaken for a boy.

After reuniting with Chisato as a student, her naughty childhood has become black history, and as a reaction, she plays the role of what boys think of as an ideal woman. However, she is a mischievous and mischievous girl at heart, and there is a side of her that plays tricks on the main characters with her old behavior and words. The boyish childhood friend has turned into such a beautiful girl! This is the best part of Chisato's story.

3,Chisato was chubby when she was little!　Tokorozawa Iku," a younger sisterly childhood friend who is as friendly as a puppy

Tokorozawa Iku is a girl one year younger than the main character, who looks up to the main character like an older brother. As a child, she was not good at sports and was always hungry. Her round, cute, chubby body and dull eyes are impressive.

After reuniting with Iku as a student, she sacrificed her academic ability and devoted all her energies to her athletic abilities, and as a result, she blossomed into a sports superhero, a complete change from her childhood. He seems to have been strongly influenced by the popular manga of his childhood, and his beautiful visual appearance, which has changed drastically from his chubby body, has made him a prince-like character who is enthusiastically cheered by girls. However, there is also a pure side to him, as he still loves the main character like an older brother and follows him around like a puppy. In terms of the gap from her childhood, Iku may be the most unusual of the five. The story of Iku is characterized by her "changed side" and "unchanged side," and by her purity.

4,When she was a child, she hated to lose!　Yuna Harunohara, a neat and tidy childhood friend who was saved from a pinch by the protagonist in her childhood.

Yuna Harunohara is a neat and innocent girl of the same age as the main character. In her childhood, Yuna and the main character played card games together, and Yuna, who hated to lose, looked at the main character as her rival. However, one day, the hero saved her from her own pinch, and Yuna began to see him as a hero.

After reuniting with her as a student, Yuna has become a girl with a distaste for men due to a pinch of childhood incidents. However, there is a side of her that sees the protagonist whom she has reunited with as a hero as she did when she was a child, and contrary to her aversion to being bitter, she has a relationship with him where she asks him for advice and relies on him for anything. I want to be depended on by a beautiful girl!" It could be said that Yuna's story fulfills the player's desire to "be depended on by a beautiful girl!

5,When she was little, she was a timid girl!　Shy, shy, tsundere childhood friend "Shizuru Nishikei

Shizuru Nishikei is the same age as the main character, but she moved to the town where the main character lives just before the main character moved away. In her childhood, she was just too shy to have any friends, but the first friend Shizuru made after moving to the city was the main character.

When Shizuru became a student again, she became a beautiful girl with twin-tailed hair, staring eyes, and the same characteristics of her childhood appearance. Shizuru remembers the debt of gratitude she owed to the protagonist when they first became friends in their childhood, and she immediately wants to be friends with him after their reunion, but her shyness is a curse, and she ends up treating him with a tsuntsun attitude, which she repeatedly regrets. Shizuru's story is full of elements that will make you feel a little bit awkward: she is shy and has a "tsundere" attitude that makes her difficult to be honest with, which is the charm of her story.

This is what makes it so great! My personal recommendation for "Ai ni Koi with Memories! My personal recommendation for "Ai ni Koi with Memories!

From here, I would like to introduce the author's own personal recommendations for this work.

1, Three conversation parts that make you feel nervous

Many romance adventure games have a system in which the story changes as you make choices, but this game has a system in which you get to know the heroine better and better through conversations. There are three conversation parts.

The first is the "leaving school choice" part. In this part, you choose the heroine you want to go to school with. By making choices in your daily life and communicating with the heroines, you are sure to be asked by one of them to go home with them!　You can either go home with the invited heroine or decline the invitation and ask the heroine you are interested in, but it would be a bit awkward to decline. The dilemma of this situation is also a big attraction, as you feel as if you are in a harem.

Next is the "leaving school conversation part. This is a system in which you can choose your favorite topic by selecting various options with topics written on them, called "talk cards. I want to talk to you! I want to know more about you! The key to a successful romance is to be able to raise the heroine's spirits so that she thinks, "I want to talk to you! The system is designed to provide a sweet and sour thrill, with the feeling that you are really looking for a topic of conversation with a girl while you are on your way home together.

There is a special "locked" card in the talk card, which is a "heart key" that will be opened as the relationship progresses. If this key is opened, the relationship will progress from childhood friendship to a "special relationship. ......

The third is the "Continuous Cuddling Part". The third part is the "Continuous Cuddling Part," which is an extended conversation with the heroine that takes place after she returns home via the messaging application. The greatest feature of this part is that it is developed from the heroine's point of view. In this part, you can see how the heroine reacts to the messages that you choose to send, and you can enjoy the excitement of peeking into the heroine's thoughts and feelings. Send messages that will make the heroine "squeal" and go on your way to becoming a lover!

These three conversation parts are the big event (?) in a student's love life, "leaving school". The author felt that these three conversation parts were incorporated into the game system beautifully. This feeling of being in the middle of adolescence, which makes you feel excited and nervous, is one of the major attractions of this game.

2.5 Event CGs showing the heroines in such-and-such a state.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of gal games is the CG events that are inserted at key points in the game. Simply put, it is the best way to enjoy the attractive appearance of beautiful girls with beautiful and dynamic graphics!　This title contains many such event CGs.

After all, the heroines in this title are all childhood friends of the main character. Because they have known each other since childhood, you can't help but be thrilled by the heroines' beautifully grown-up figures. Some of the CGs are a little daring and ......? You can see them to your heart's content, and you will be able to enjoy them to your heart's content. Let's enjoy them to our heart's content.

Ai ni Koi with Memories! is a dreamlike game in which you can make out with five childhood friends!

So, that's how we introduced you to "Memories to hold on to, Ai ni Koi! is a dream game in which you can make out with five childhood friends!

Ai ni Koi with Memories" shines with its novel setting in which all five heroines are childhood friends. The novel setting of "Ai ni Koi with Memories! It is a recommended work that allows you to enjoy the dreamy experience of lovey-dovey with your childhood friends as much as you want. If you like romance games, or even if you like late-night anime and light novels, please give this game a try.

• ■Title Information
• Ai ni Koi with Memories! (Entergram)
• Genre: School romance adventure in which you fall in love with a childhood friend
• Release date: Nintendo Switch/PS4 February 22, 2023
• Price:
• Package Normal Edition: 8,228 yen (including tax)
• Package Limited Edition: 10,978 yen (including tax)
• Download version: 7,810 yen (including tax)
• # (Japanese only)

Author：Nero Hyakkabe

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