Publisher: Banpresto
Developer: Banpresto
Release Date: 9/23/1998
Date Played: 6/3/2020
Region: Japan
Time Played: 90 minutes
What’d you think?: This seems to be a board game spin-off of a dating sim franchise called Sentimental Graffiti. This isn’t the first game I’ve played to be described that way. Like many of the weird PS1 board games I’ve seen, the core gameplay seems vaguely like Monopoly. You roll dice to travel around a game board. Certain squares contain women, land on such a square and you got a girlfriend (or something). As you continue to roll dice and move around you gain some sort of love-based currency, which you spend on many of the game’s blank squares, etching the titular sentimental graffiti to commemorate your relationship. Other characters even passing by this graffiti seemed to give you more heart currency. Other squares add random card elements, and there was some sort of monster character that always roamed around the map but never interacted with me or my 4 opponents. All the games are 4-player free-for-alls and though I feel like I grokked the main gameplay loop, I could not figure out what would end the game, so I quit after 90 fruitless minutes.
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMAiG-3RuEo
