Getter Love!!: Chō Renai Party Game Tanjō

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Getter Love!!: Chō Renai Party Game Tanjō[a] is a dating sim party game for the Nintendo 64 game console. The title actively enforces a multiplayer approach to gameplay, something unusual for the genre at the time. It was released only in Japan in December 1998.[1] A fanmade English patch was released in December 2023 (25 years after the initial Japanese release).[2]

Getter Love!!:
Chō Renai Party Game Tanjō
Getter Love!! box art.
Developer(s)Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)Hudson Soft
Platform(s)Nintendo 64
Release
  • JP: December 3, 1998
Genre(s)Party, dating sim, social simulation
Mode(s)Single player, multiplayer

Synopsis and gameplay

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The goal of Getter Love!! is to build up connections with the female NPCs with the intent of asking one of them to be your partner. The one who acquires a girlfriend will win the game. Alfonso Roberto Martini, an Italian exchange student living in Japan, is the game's host who explains the rules and introduces the girls to various contestants. There are seven different girls to build up closeness and feelings for. An eighth girl by the name of Reika Kongouji, however, can engage in unsolicited attachment toward any of the players and effectively negatively impacts a player's stats, reputation and can ruin dates with the other girls when she is encountered.[3]

Reception

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Reception to the game has been mildly positive. Japanese publication Weekly Famitsu reviewed the game in 1998 giving it a score of 26 out of 40 points.[1] In 2020, website Infinity Retro gave the game a score of 6.3 out of 10, mentioning that the game is "mildly enjoyable" and that "it has enough of its own features to make it unique from the Mario Party line".[6]

Notes

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  1. ^ Japanese: ゲッターラブ!! ちょー恋愛パーティゲーム誕生, Hepburn: Gettārabu!!: chō ren'ai pātigēmu tanjō
  2. ^ While N64 Magazine's standard reviews rated games on a % system, their review of Getter Love declined to rate it, giving it a rating of "??%", pleading confusion.[4] However, the "N64 Directory" of past reviews at the end of each issue included a secondary "star mark" rating out of five, intended to represent an updated score, and gave it 2/5 stars the following issue.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Famitsu (in Japanese). Access date 2022-04-14.
  2. ^ https://n64squid.com/getter-love-english/
  3. ^ Getter Love!! review The Inverted Dungeon, archived copy from Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Weaver, Tim (March 1999). "Get A Love: Panda Love Unit [sic]". N64 Magazine. No. 26. Future Publishing. p. 90.
  5. ^ "N64 Directory". N64 Magazine. No. 27. Future Publishing. April 1999. p. 136.
  6. ^ a b Infinity Retro. Access date 2022-04-14.