It’s Valentines Day again — time for the typical Japanese schoolgirl to brush up on her chocolate tempering skills to make the perfect honmei choco for their loved one. For the unfamiliar, Valentines Day in Japan is centered on the ritual of girls giving chocolate to their crushes or boyfriends, and not the other way around. The chocolate offerings given to these special someones are called honmei chocolate or sweetheart chocolate, and are especially handmade as a physical sign of love.
At first I was indifferent to this quaint little Japanese practice, but the hours I wasted on Tokimeki Memorial Girls Side taught me that this was SRS BZNZ. All that time spent on wooing and flirting and doing his homework (okay, maybe not that last bit) will be wasted if I neglected to give my sweetheart the honmei choco he deserves once the game rolled around to the 14th February mark.
My initial attempts at this TokiMemo mini game ended in failure when I would follow the screen instructions a little too zealously and end up spoiling the chocolate. Too light a touch also ruins the chocolate, as it is “not mixed well enough” — very difficult to tell when you are hunched over a DS screen as opposed to making chocolate for real. It’s a lot, lot harder than say — Cooking Mama, because in TokiMemo Mama won’t be there to fix your goddamn mistakes :/
However, a deft touch, precise movements, and muscle memory from countless save points have resulted in consistently five star results, to which my prince reacted positively with one or two heart icons on my “Emotion Meter”. And yes — this is a big deal, as getting whole hearts is a windfall compared to the usual one half or one fourth that you get after successful dates! Ungh courting boys is hard work >.>
I am much better at bashing them over the head with an oversized sword.
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