History VisualNovel / TokimekiMemorialGirlsSide

Several years after the release of the [=PSP=] port of the third game, ''Tokimeki Memorial: Girl’s Side: 4th Heart'' was announced by Konami for a 2021 release on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

After their [[{{Sequelitis}} big economic failure]] from ''Tokimeki Memorial 3'', Creator/{{Konami}} decided to step into the Reverse Harem OtomeGame territory, a genre in expansion at the time, and [[RedemptionQuest poured in their grandest ever investment]] of casting [[TheAce the best]] [[AllStarCast voice actors]] for each [[TypeCasting character type]], paired with opening and ending theme songs by Japanese rock legend, Music/{{Bz}}, gave birth to the then first installment, now titled ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: First Love''; released in 2002 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 with [[BreakthroughHit huge commercial success]], leading the project to expand into two sequels, various remakes, and spin-offs; forming a franchise of its own—the "Girl's Side" branch. Its sweet, funny, and at times painful atmosphere has gained quite a fan following, with all three games' UsefulNotes/NintendoDS versions and both versions of the third being the only [=TokiMemo=] games to date to receive complete fan translations.

Each game's cast of characters fits neatly into a standard array of types: the [[TheAce prince]], the studious {{megane}}, the [[LovableJock jock]], the [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide feminine guy]], the [[TheFashionista fashionable guy]], the [[SenpaiKohai kohai]], the [[TeacherStudentRomance teacher]]... How each type is executed varies quite a bit from game to game, [[CastOfSnowFlakes giving players a wide selection]] of LoveInterests to choose from. Obviously, there's also the ChildhoodFriend, normally considered the TrueEnding of each game.

* SenpaiKohai: Each game has at least one kohai as an obtainable character. Winnable Senpai weren't introduced until [=TMGS2=].

After their [[{{Sequelitis}} big economic failure]] from ''Tokimeki Memorial 3'', Creator/{{Konami}} decided to step into the Reverse Harem Otome Game territory, a genre in expansion at the time, and [[RedemptionQuest poured in their grandest ever investment]] of casting [[TheAce the best]] [[AllStarCast voice actors]] for each [[TypeCasting character type]], paired with opening and ending theme songs by Japanese rock legend, Music/{{Bz}}, gave birth to the then first installment, now titled ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: First Love''; released in 2002 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 with [[BreakthroughHit huge commercial success]], leading the project to expand into two sequels, various remakes, and spin-offs; forming a franchise of its own—the "Girl's Side" branch. Its sweet, funny, and at times painful atmosphere has gained quite a fan following, with all three games' UsefulNotes/NintendoDS versions and both versions of the third being the only [=TokiMemo=] games to date to receive complete fan translations.

Several years after the release of the [=PSP=] port of the third game, ''Tokimeki Memorial: Girl’s Side: 4th Heart'' was announced by Konami for a 2020 release on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

The character sheet is [[Characters/TokimekiMemorialGirlsSide here.]]

After their [[Main/{{Sequelitis}} big economic failure]] from ''Tokimeki Memorial 3'', Creator/{{Konami}} decided to step into the Reverse Harem Otome Game territory, a genre in expansion at the time, and [[RedemptionQuest poured in their grandest ever investment]] of casting [[TheAce the best]] [[AllStarCast voice actors]] for each [[TypeCasting character type]], paired with opening and ending theme songs by Japanese rock legend, Music/{{Bz}}, gave birth to the then first installment, now titled ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: First Love''; released in 2002 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 with [[BreakthroughHit huge commercial success]], leading the project to expand into two sequels, various remakes, and spin-offs; forming a franchise of its own—the "Girl's Side" branch. Its sweet, funny, and at times painful atmosphere has gained quite a fan following, with all three games' UsefulNotes/NintendoDS versions and both versions of the third being the only [=TokiMemo=] games to date to receive complete fan translations.

Each game's cast of characters fits neatly into a standard array of types: the [[TheAce prince]], the studious {{megane}}, the [[LovableJock jock]], the [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide feminine guy]], the [[TheFashionista fashionable guy]], the [[SempaiKohai kohai]], the [[TeacherStudentRomance teacher]]... How each type is executed varies quite a bit from game to game, [[CastOfSnowFlakes giving players a wide selection]] of LoveInterests to choose from. Obviously, there's also the ChildhoodFriend, normally considered the TrueEnding of each game.

* NewGamePlus: In [=TMGS3=], if Bambi's fashion level reaches level 5, Karen will give her special clothes on each
playthrough. These clothes are carried over to the next playthrough.

* HotForStudent: Each game has at least one teacher as an obtainable character.

A similar series started up in 2013, titled ''[[http://www.gamecity.ne.jp/tokires/ Tokimeki Restaurant]]''[[labelnote:*]]Developed by Konami's [=LovePlus=] Productions department, its licensing and distributing rights were transferred to Koei-Tecmo on August 7, 2014[[/labelnote]]. Rather than a visual novel, it's instead a restaurant management game where you struggle to keep a cafe afloat with some handsome new hire employees -- who also turn out to secretly be famous {{Idol Singer}}s. An anime for the project was announced in 2017. Tokimeki Restaurant ended its service on August 31, 2018.

* SequelDifficultyDrop

Several years after the release of the [=PSP=] port of the third game, ''Tokimeki Memorial: Girl’s Side: 4th Heart'' was announced by Konami for a 2020 release.

* CallingYourAttacks: Every characters get to shout their attack in Pillow Fight minigame.

** Amanohashi and Chiharu doesn't have their own route in the 1st typing game and are an obstacle to the player if they aim for Kei or Himuro.
** Hibiya, Amanohashi and Chiharu doesn't have their own ''Tokimeki Factory'' and ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side radio drama'' [=CD=].

** You can skinship anytime you want during CG event, but there are no prompt to tell you if you should poke him or not, and poking at the wrong time may give you blue hearts and purple notes, so is more of a trial and error gameplay. In later games, as long as you touch the touch screen and not the dialog box, the skinship prompt automatically appears and you can safely poke the guy.
** The guys have a favorite clothing style and favorites accessory and he'll compliment you if you wear his favorite style and accessory on the date. In later games, instead of accessories, the guy have a favorite color.
** After school, after date and special third date conversations are much more shorter than later games. Later games have longer conversations to help flesh out the characters.
** If you turn down a guy when he asked you to go to the shrine with him, you can't call another guy to go with you. Later games allowed you to call a guy after turn down invitation from another guy.
** Except special events like double date and shopping events, the characters rarely interact with each other. Later games have random school events, so the characters interact a lot more often.
** You can get the guy birthday present if you date him on your birthday, even if the guy is at low affection. In later games, even when you date the guy in your birthday, the guys doesn't give you present unless he is at friendly and higher affection.

** You can't give a girl her birthday present and there are no information of the girls in the games. The girls also can't give birthday present to you. Later games, you can check her information and may give and receive birthday presents from the girls.
** You can go to the flea market twice during one shopping session in the game. In later games, you can only go to the flea market once and only if you haven't go to a different shop before.
** If you've worked at your job for a long time, after December in the third year, you'll get an event where the manager asks if you would like to work full time after graduation. In later games, if you've worked at your job enough, the manager may offers you a full time job early in the game.
** Unlike the later games, if you join a sport club, the guys or girls will go to see your club's practice match.
** Unlike the newer games, the guy never compliment the heroine's dress during Christmas party.
** During normal confession, you have to touch the guy's lips to get a kiss scene. In the later games, the kiss always happens, as part of the confession.
** Different from the later games, kissing the guy during the confession greatly altered the ending's dialogues.

* HotForStudent: Each games have at least one teacher as a winnable.

* ImageSong: All the capturable guys have one.

** A lot of conversations has to be altered, but still keeping the original meaning because of the game's limitations, Japanese puns and the different length between English and Japanese characters.
** In the 1st game, one of Kazuma's nicknames is his last name written in katakana but with prolonged sound mark, meaning the heroine has the option to shout his name instead. Fan translators chose to translate it as "Su-zu-ka♡" instead, which make it hilarious because Kazuma allows the heroine call him by this nickname even if he doesn't like her.
** All of Kazuma's E-mails are completely lack of any punctuation and small tsu character, and one of his E-mails is written entirely in Hiragana. Fan translators decided to translate his E-mails normally.

* NewGamePlus: In [=TMGS3=], if Bambi's fashion level reaches level 5, Karen will give her special clothes each
playthrough. These clothes are carried over in the next playthrough.

* SenpaiKohai: Each games have at least one kohai as a winnable. Winnable Senpai weren't introduced until [=TMGS2=].

* SchoolClubsAreSeriousBusiness: Most of the winnable guys being members of specific clubs, joining their respective clubs is the only way to get some of their special Events and [=CGs=]. Also, School clubs give the heroine powerful special attacks for Pillow Fight minigame, becoming the Club Master and, in the case of sports clubs, winning matches and Inter-High tournaments net the heroine big Main/RelationshipValues towards all the guys.
* SchoolFestival: Perfoming well in school festival increase the likelihood of all the guys toward the heroine. What the heroine does in the festival depends on her club.

** The ''Girl's Side'' heroines can also display skills in this direction if she has high enough Social.

** The first ''Girl's Side'' game was originally for [=PS2=], but got a DS port subtitled ''1st Love'', that added a new character, skinship function, multiple endings and an extra event for each of the obtainable male characters, but the OP, ED and a majority of the voice clips are removed. Later there was a remake of the DS port subtitled ''1st Love Plus'' that fixed some bugs of the system, full voice acting and added new voice clips for the game album gallery).
** The ''2nd Kiss'' game, also originally for [=PS2=], got another DS port with two new characters, new event for the guys and love mode, subtitled ''2nd Season'', but like ''1st Love'', removed the OP and ED.
** The ''3rd Story'' game was first released for DS and later got a PSP port subtitled ''Premium ~3rd Story~'', with a new character, animated sprites using [=Live2D=] technology, extra events for the guys, new scenarios that might happen by the end of the date, Angel and Sweet Devil mode but replaced skinship and love mode with approach and ex-approach mode.

* WomanScorned: Gender Inverted. If you meet too many guys and ignore them for sometimes, they'll easily get jealous and use a "bomb" against you.

After their [[Main/{{Sequelitis}} big economic failure]] from ''Tokimeki Memorial 3'', Creator/{{Konami}} decided to step into the Reverse Harem Otome Game territory, a genre in expansion at the time, and [[RedemptionQuest poured in their grandest ever investment]] of casting [[TheAce the best]] [[AllStarCast voice actors]] for each [[TypeCasting character type]], paired with opening and ending theme songs by Japanese rock legend, B’z, gave birth to the then first installment, now titled ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: First Love''; released in 2002 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 with [[BreakthroughHit huge commercial success]], leading the project to expand into two sequels, various remakes, and spin-offs; forming a franchise of its own—the "Girl's Side" branch. Its sweet, funny, and at times painful atmosphere has gained quite a fan following, with all three games' UsefulNotes/NintendoDS versions and both versions of the third being the only [=TokiMemo=] games to date to receive complete fan translations.

After their [[Main/{{Sequelitis}} big economic failure]] from ''Tokimeki Memorial 3'', Creator/{{Konami}} decided to step into the Reverse Harem Otome Game territory, a genre in expansion at the time, and [[RedemptionQuest poured in their grandest ever investment]] of casting [[TheAce the best]] [[AllStarCast voice actors]] for each [[TypeCasting character type]], paired with opening and ending theme songs by Japanese rock legend, B’z, give birth to the then first installment, now titled ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: First Love''; released in 2002 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 with [[BreakthroughHit huge commercial success]], leading the project to expand into two sequels, various remakes, and spin-offs; forming a franchise of its own—the "Girl's Side" branch. Its sweet, funny, and at times painful atmosphere has gained quite a fan following, with all three games' UsefulNotes/NintendoDS versions and both versions of the third being the only [=TokiMemo=] games to date to receive complete fan translations.

After their [[Main/{{Sequelitis}} big economic failure]] from ''Tokimeki Memorial 3'', Creator/{{Konami}} decided to step into the Reverse Harlem Otome Game territory, a genre in expansion at the time, and [[RedemptionQuest poured in their grandest ever investment]] of casting [[TheAce the best]] [[AllStarCast voice actors]] for each [[TypeCasting character type]], paired with opening and ending theme songs by Japanese rock legend, B’z, give birth to the then first installment, now titled ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: First Love''; released in 2002 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 with [[BreakthroughHit huge commercial success]], leading the project to expand into two sequels, various remakes, and spin-offs; forming a franchise of its own—the "Girl's Side" branch. Its sweet, funny, and at times painful atmosphere has gained quite a fan following, with all three games' UsefulNotes/NintendoDS versions and both versions of the third being the only [=TokiMemo=] games to date to receive complete fan translations.

Seven years after the release of the [=PSP=] port of the third game, at the Girl’s Side Days Habataki Watcher event, Tokimeki Memorial: Girl’s Side 4 was announced by Konami for a 2020 release.

** If you've worked at your job for a long time, after December in the third year, you'll get an event where the manager asks if you would like to work full time after graduation. In later games, if you've worked at your job enough, the manager may offers you a full timejob in the middle of the game.

** Unlike the later games, kissing the guy during the confession greatly altered the ending's dialogues.

** There's only one type of skinship. Later games included multi type of skinship like poke, rub, etc...
** You can skinship the guy before answering the date questions, though success or failure depends on how much the guy likes you. You need to answer the date questions before skinship in later games.

* UpdatedRerelease: The first ''Girl's Side'' game was originally for [=PS2=], but got a DS port subtitled ''1st Love'', that added a new character, skinship function, multiple endings and an extra event for each of the obtainable male characters, but a majority of the voice clips are removed (later there was a remake of the DS port subtitled ''1st Love Plus'' that fixed some bugs of the system, full voice acting and added new voice clips for the game album gallery). The ''2nd Kiss'' game, also originally for [=PS2=], got another DS port with two new characters subtitled ''2nd Season''. The ''3rd Story'' game was first released for DS and later got a PSP port subtitled ''3rd Story Premium'', with a new character and animated sprites.