Friday, October 03, 2008

To Love Ru Trouble: Doki Doki! Rinkaigakkou-Hen LE

Summer is all about the sun, the surf, and in the case of To Love Ru Trouble, a pink-haired princess in a two-piece bikini. Sure, there's other girl characters in bikinis but Princess Lala is the main attraction in Marvelous' new game based on the To Love Ru animated series. As the original story goes, a princess named Lala invades the home of a lad named Yuuki Rito and decides to marry him. Lala is destined for marriage with suitors from her home world of Deviluke but she ain't going out like that. Lala would rather settle for a scrawny stranger who's still in high school. When Lala's father finds out about her plans, he decides to test Rito's worthiness by pitting him against Lala's other suitors.

To Love Ru Trouble is an interactive romance-adventure game which takes place at a seaside resort and features lots of conversations to read, oodles of still images to look at, and the occasional animated sequence. To add to the authenticity, Marvelous hired the voice actors from the animated series to provide intonations, high-pitched speech, and squeaks to accompany the written dialogue. Players make simple decisions that affect the course of the story which in turn lead to different endings where love blossoms with Lala or Haruna or it simply doesn't. The main cast of characters in the game is made up of Rito Yuuki, Lala Satarin Deviluke and
Haruna Sairenji but they're supported by Saki Tenjōin, Risa Momioka, and others. A new green-haired character that was designed exclusively for the game also joins the cast to provide additional drama. «NCS Game Notes»

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