/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5035579
Doukyuusei

In 1996 I was in my Saturn years and my biggest title for that year was Doukyuusei ~if~.
Other stuff I was into that year were Princess Maker 2, Tokimeki Memorial, Nonomurabyouin no Hitobito, Can Can Bunny Premiere, Sakura Taisen, and Saturn Bomberman

Wikipedia tells me Langrissser III and Guardian Heroes came out in ’96 and I did like both of those but I don’t remember playing them in 1996. Probably didn’t get them until later.

>>3898992
Doukyuusei (Classmates) 1 -- PC-98, DOS/V, PC Engine, Sega Saturn, two Windows ports (first Windows port sucks tho)

Romance-themed adventure where the protagonist wants to spend his last three weeks of summer chasing girls and maybe get a steady girlfriend instead of just being a womanizing playboy like he had been up to this point.
Protagonist and some of the girls are high school seniors and it has a "graduating soon and figuring out what to do with your life" bittersweet theme to some of it. (Though despite the title, the majority of the potential girlfriends are older than you and out of school already.)
Gameplay is exploring the two towns and learning characters' schedules (every move you make advances the clock) to figure out where to find people. When you enter locations you can click on almost anything to get descriptions and comments on it. You need money to pay for certain things like using the train and going on dates, so some of the exploration is finding spots to make money (at the cost of time).
You need to advance the story with certain characters to be able to advance it with other characters, and sometimes choose between conflicting characters. (I believe you can get all endings in 1.5 playthroughs if you knew exactly what you were doing, but playing normally you'd probably clear a few each game.)
It's technically simple but put together well and feels like getting involved with the people living their lives in those towns.

There's a sequel, Doukyuusei 2, that's more popular, though personally I liked the first one much more.