F0X said:
Part of me wants to point out that dating simulations can indeed be viable outside of Japan... provided they have some decent gameplay atteched to them. In the final battle, I was all like "nope" and immediately bum rushed the final boss for the victory. Avatar ending ftw. |
Really because nobody's ever tried to take dating sims seriously outside of Japan. It's always been parodic and/or semi-pornographic games like Leisure Suit Larry.
You'd figure it would be a genre that could be huge with tween girls over here (with female protagonists. I mean, that's basically what Twilight is: Bella is a shallow character deliberately to be a reader avatar)

Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.







