YMMV / Dōkyūsei

• Awesome Music: The PCE-CD version has a very happy opening song that really pumps players up and manages to last four and a half minutes.
• Designated Hero: The OVA adaptation significantly improves Wataru's image (over his VN counterpart) by having him provide emotional support and comfort to girls who have had their hearts broken by their cheating exes, and guys who see them only as sex objects. Except Wataru does pretty much the same thing by sleeping with all four girls behind their backs, within days of each other, including having sex with Mai after Satomi when the impetus for Satomi having sex with him was her previous boyfriend cheating on her with Mai. They eventually find out by the end of episode 4, but they're shown to be amused, rather than angry about it.
• Genre Turning Point: Dōkyūsei is very far from the first Dating Sim; the genre had, in fact, already begun emerging in the late 1980s, but those early entries had been rather limited by the hardware of their time and therefore all been fairly short affairs, which could be completed in somewhere between 5 minutes to 1 hour. With its release in 1992, Dōkyūsei took full advantage of the fresh, new generation of computer hardware it arrived on, delivering a multi-hour experience with several different routes and made extensive use of a In-Universe Game Clock for timed story events, and as such it ended up being both the Trope Codifier and Trope Maker for many of the tropes that would come to define the whole Dating Sim genre from there on out. Indeed, many later Dating Sims, such as Konami's Tokimeki Memorial series, can clearly trace their linage back to Dōkyūsei.

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