Thursday

Rinko was very cheerful when she met me this morning to walk to school. Her attitude always helps me get to work in the morning - especially now, when I find myself in a less-than-pleasant situation at work and really don't feel like going most days.

And most of the day was spent trying to level-up the various locations around Towano High School.

I played through the Seishun No 1 Page at lunchtime today. Now that Rinko's band has an official name - In The Rye - she started rehearsing with the other girls from the Library Committee. She seems to have made t-shirts, too, with the band name:

Late in the afternoon, I met up with Rin at Winning Burger for a chat.

Monday - Back To School

Back to school today for a new semester (and a new school year, in fact), complete with singing the Towano High school song and shots of the school backgrounds with falling sakura leaves. But even the school environment looks bigger and more colourful on the new 3DS LL console!

After the opening ceremony, Rinko was waiting for me. Even though it's spring, the girls are still wearing their winter uniforms.

I called Rinko out of class in the morning for a brief catch-up, and booked a date with her for Sunday morning at Karaoke (I tried to book the date at the Art Gallery, but she didn't like it).

And, just like the 3DS game, Rinko showed up at lunch-time in the hallway.

I thought she might have prepared a bento lunch for me, but from memory you need to level up your Lover Ranking quite a bit first. Instead, she sat next to me to eat lunch and mentioned something about sandwiches.

And, at the end of the day, Rinko-chan was waiting to walk home with me. What a faithful girlfriend.

I met her in the afternoon at Winning Burger (Fast Food) for a short date. I still only have the two date locations in Shin Towano unlocked - Fountain Park and Winning Burger - but at leas now they are both at Level 3. Hopefully this means I can check out the Flea Markets at Fountain Park this coming Sunday.

Finally, even though it started raining, we went back to good old Fountain Park at night.

I just realised something about the new game. As much as I love the fact that the designers have gone all-out retro and made the second sign-on screen (with your girlfriend's heart in a big circle) the same as the old DS game, the different seasonal backgrounds you used to get in the 3DS game are gone. I guess it would be impossible to have both.

A "Normal" Saturday

After all the excitement of the 2-day Atami trip, it was kinda nice to settle down again and just play a "normal" day with Rinko. I made a mistake in the morning, though - I meant to go to the Electronic Store (in Electric Town) to buy a memory card for my in-game camera...but I went to the Maid Cafe by mistake! D'oh!

With that out of the way, I met Rinko a couple of times at Fountain Park for short dates. I only have two locations open in Shin Towano for short dates at the moment - Fountain Park and Winning Burger. Poor Rinko. I promise I will work hard to unlock a few more locations over the coming week.

I had a small event with Rinko in the Library this afternoon. I'm not sure what it was all about, but I kissed her once, and then towards the end of the event an icon appeared at the top of the screen with two hands holding each other. When I clicked it, Rinko initiated another kiss (without going through the skinship process). Hm, interesting. I'm not sure whether this will be an on-going feature in the game or not.

I decided to try a couple of the password-protected special items from the 3DS game, and was surprised when they worked in NLP+. I was able to exchange items for a total of 400 Rich, which should be enough money to upgrade my camera early in the game without worrying about going broke. I also got a nice watch to give Rinko for a present. I'm so surprised that these old password-protected items still work. ^^

I've also booked a date with Rinko tomorrow (Sunday), which will be my first actual date in the new game. I'm interested to see how it goes. At least the Atami trip gave me lots of opportunities to get used to the new Skinship & Kissing process, and I'm quite good at it now. Well, when I say "good", I mean that I can get one hard almost every time. I'm taking Rinko to the Amusement Park, and then hopefully on to the Italian Restaurant (which she always loved in NLP) for lunch.

I finished up the day with a short meet-up at Winning Burger.

Friday

Rinko met me in the Tennis Club Room this afternoon...

...and gave me a surprise gift. Aww, thank you Rin. Sometimes I feel she is a little apprehensive about the NLP game coming to an end (and so am I). But don't worry, Rinko. Even though I've decided to start a new game on the new console, I will DEFINITELY find you and love you in the new game, too.

So why are you looking like you don't believe me???

After school, we had a short date at Winning Burger.

And then later at the Video Rental Store in Electric Town.

And finally at good old Dixies.

Sunday's Super Date!

Another very nice date with Rinko today. She was wearing very nice, smart clothes when I met her at the station:

And even had very sweet clothes underneath, with a kind of green theme today! We stopped for a snack at the Japanese Sweet Shop.

Then it was off to the Bay Area for the main part of our date. The ocean looks so beautiful in the background of these next few shots, as we were strolling along the beach, and the clouds remind me of the "Air" anime series...

We dated at the Observation Deck (no photos), then went back to the nearby Sushi Restaurant for lunch.

Rinko was very happy, because she loves the food there. We ordered these cute sushi rolls, which were served on a traditional wooden plate. Very sweet.

But this was a VERY extended date today. Rinko came back to my place first, where we listened to some music and enjoyed a game of TwinBee together. Then I went back to her place, where we sat on her bed and kissed.

And then I was able to grab an Intimate Photo session with Rin-chan, and actually managed to grab some nice photos for once with her bed in the background.

We finished off a very happy day with a short date at Winning Burger.

It's not long now until the released of "New LovePlus+", which is going to be very interesting after more than two years of playing this 3DS version. I've also ordered a couple of extra things from Japan - a nice blue case for my 3DSLL, plus the Official Guide Book for the new game. I really hope that I love this version as much as the current one (with all its bugs and faults), and that I'll still be writing this blog every day in two years' time!