{"id":1324,"date":"2025-04-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2025-04-22T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:44:32","slug":"opinion-cult-classic-tokimeki-memorial-hits-switch-but-30-years-on-its-still-out-of-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/opinion-cult-classic-tokimeki-memorial-hits-switch-but-30-years-on-its-still-out-of-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Cult Classic &#039;Tokimeki Memorial&#039; Hits Switch &#8211; But 30 Years On, It\u2019s Still Out Of Reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Forever with you; never with us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>True love lasts forever \u2013 and so do some games. <strong>Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with You<\/strong>, the legendary dating sim from 1995, is hooking up with Switch next month to celebrate 30 years on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Immaculately presented but bewilderingly complex, TokiMemo is a foundational piece of video game history that defined a whole genre, along with the increasingly universal mechanics of video game love. But for most players outside Japan, it fires nostalgia for <em>someone else<\/em>\u2019s youth \u2013 and with no English release, it remains tantalisingly out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/opinion-cult-classic-tokimeki-memorial-hits-switch-but-30-years-on-itrs-still-out-of-reach\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forever with you; never with us. True love lasts forever \u2013 and so do some games. Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with You, the legendary dating sim from 1995, is hooking up with Switch next month to celebrate 30 years on the scene. Immaculately presented but bewilderingly complex, TokiMemo is a foundational piece of video game history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}