[review]Shall We Date: "Konkatsu" for Marriage (iPhone/Android)

Title : Shall We Date?: "KONKATSU" for marriage

Publisher : NTT Solmare

Genre : Otome, Dating Sim

Platform : iPhone | Android

Released :  

[JPN] -

[ENG] 20 September 2011

Download :

iPhone | Android 

Official Site : NTT Solmare

Price :

First 3 characters (12 chapters): $4.78

Other 3 characters (12 chapters): $6.10

Story:

Same as always, you're the Main Character (MC) of this game. One day, you suddenly got a wedding invitation from your friend from college. People around you, especially your friends, all are getting married one by one. You felt under pressure because you're not in the plan of getting married. So, one of your friend who also haven't get married invite (force) you to join the marriage matchmaking sites. It's a site about lots of single people who want to seriously get married. 

You and your friend went to the first party held by the site. You met a lots of men there. When the party starts, men starts to approach women. Since it's limited only 2 minutes for each women, they only can give short-self introduction of themselves. After the short introduction end, it's free time. Free time means you can start to talk to the one that attract you the most, so here's where your future decided. Choose and speak carefully, cause everything that you said, it can't be taken back !

Review :

One day, i was experimenting on buying one of NTT Solmare otome game, actually i really want to buy the Shall We Date: Ninja Love ( because i'm sure that the story will be nice, since i played the GREE ), but then somehow this game attract my mind, i thought the story will be like My Forged Wedding from Voltage, but.. the hell.  too much difference, lol. ( I know i shouldn't compare, but.. )

Then, I kinda felt regret after I played Momoki's route. The graphics are nice, the character graphics all are nice. But they forgot the most important thing here, the conversation. When I played the game, it's like, why all of them love to talking about themselves so much ?? (maybe it's because the theme is KONKATSU ? so it's about how to brag themselves to make women attracted to them.) Yeah, i kinda felt like they talked too much and i was sick of it. Moreover, this game lack of conversation between the MC and the partner, i mean when i played Momoki's route i didn't feel anything at all, it's like wow, was the story this flat or it's just me who's emotionless. ( okay, i'm. I guess.. )

Next, I'm okay with the system this game use, it's like the other visual novel game. They give 3 options and I had to choose one, but.. it's really annoying when i have to choose all answers right to get the Wedding Ending, yeah, although you only choose one answer wrong, you will get the Normal Ending. The other thing that i don't like, they don't provide save system, so if i choose the wrong answer i can't load the game before I had to choose one ( I usually save before i had to choose an answer ) and I have to play the story from the beginning again. Fortunately NTT provide skip button, so you can skip the story and it will stop when you have to choose an answer. At least i have to say thank you for saving my time. (I need to play each story at least 2 or 3 times to get wedding ending) And what make it worse is, there's no music at all. I was like, whyyy ??? Why you do this to me NTT ?? |||OTL

Overall, i should say that i love the graphics, and the game system quite interesting because some chapters provide 2 different events, but i will say no for the story, it's too short and flat and doesn't make me fall in love with the characters. (When i was playing Keito's route, i was like shouting idiot for more over.. three times ? i guess.. ) Moreover, it's very hard to get the wedding ending. After i played Momoki's route, I decided to give 1 or 2 point for the story, but then I started to play Keito and Nakaba's route, damn I will give another 1 point. At least, Keito's final chapters really make me feel touched, yeah.. finally. 

Anyway, I decided not to buy another 3 characters (although I really anticipate to see Washio's route) but if you guys still want to do some experiment, I recommend to play Keito's route.

My Score  :

Story : 3/5

Graphic :5/5

Music & Sound :0/5

Control : 3/5

Gameplay :3/5

Overall : 2.8/5

Challenge : -

Completion Time : -

Tips :

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Characters

3 available characters

'University Student/Businessman'

Age : 20

Blood-type : B

Birthday : 31st January

Yearly Income : 100 Million ¥

Hobby : Taking his dog for a walk

Family Structure : Father

Staff's Note : He seems distance himself with women
Walkthrough

'Fashion Designer'

Age : 22

Blood-type : B

Birthday : 7th June

Yearly Income : 5-6 Million ¥

Hobby : Watching people

Family Structure : Father, Mother, Older Sister

Staff's Note : He's not the type to open everyone

Walkthrough

'Train Staff'

Age : 26

Blood-type : A

Birthday : 27th April

Yearly Income : 4 Million ¥

Hobby : Anything to do with trains

Family Structure : Father, Mother, Younger Sister

Staff's Note : He's a diamond in the rough
Walkthrough

Another three purchasable characters

'University Professor'

Age : 29

Blood-type : O

Birthday : 2nd November

Yearly Income : 12 Million ¥

Hobby : Do sports/gym

Family Structure : Father, Mother

Staff's Note : No one can deal with him because he's workaholic

'Marriage Matchmaking Site Staff'

Age : 28

Blood-type : A

Birthday : 20th September

Yearly Income : -

Hobby : give advises (?)

Family Structure : -

Staff's Note : He's very friendly and lively

'Marriage Matchmaking Site Instructor'

Age : 36

Blood-type : O

Birthday : 3rd August

Yearly Income : -

Hobby : cooking (?)

Family Structure : -

Staff's Note : His cooking skill is excellent