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Like Combining Chocolate and Pickled Herring
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 06/25/2011
“Sakura Wars 5: So Long, My Love” (“SLML”) is the final entry in a series of Tactical RPG/Dating Sim hybrids that got its start as an episodic game on the Sega Saturn. This series has never before been released outside of Japan, which has been an annoyance for fans of Japanese games who wanted to see why this series was so popular in its home nation. For a while, it appeared that we were never going to get to experience ‘Sakura Wars’ in English, as “SLML’s” 2005 release came and went with no signs of anything changing. Yet suddenly, in 2010, Sega completely flabbergasted the RPG-loving community by localizing this game a mere 5 years after its initial release. Not being Japanese, and thus not having any experience with Dating Sims, I always imagined that the ‘Sakura …
