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Giant Love Plus girls offer presents in front of a 7-Eleven in Akihabara. This launch event allowed users of the Love Plus smartphone app or the 3DS Love Plus Tools game to see a gigantic AR version of their favorite girl.

In honor of the new game, Love Plus also invaded other worlds — like the PSP game Frontier Gate. Players can download Love Plus-themed costume DLC now.

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New Love Plus AR cards. You may not be able to play the upcoming 3DS game, but you can totally download PDFs of its augmented reality cards, for use in both the game and the Love Plus Tools app.

Want to augment your reality in other ways? You can pay ¥315 a month to have Konami send you “girlfriend emails,” in the style of your chosen girl, using the nickname you have been given in the game. So that means there’s someone at Konami right now pretending to be like 2 million dudes’ girlfriends.

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You can read Anne of Green Gables and other novels with your New Love Plus girlfriend

It’s easy to mock Love Plus and its devoted players, but I believe the dating sim makes several interesting — even admirable — attempts to take gamers out of their comfort zones, motivating them to try things in their lives that they might not have pursued on their own.

Some of those attempts seem creepy, like encouraging you to take your DS and virtual girlfriend to tourist spots for a weekend getaway, but others can help you improve your life, like Love Plus+’s exercise sessions that psyche you up to do push-ups and sit-ups, and get your fitness on.

In New Love Plus, which hits Japan on Valentine’s Day, you are invited to read a book along with your digital sweetheart in a series of in-game events, during which you can talk about your thoughts on the story.

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A full six-minute date with Nene in New Love Plus. I’m really surprised the framerate hasn’t gotten any better — there’s literally nothing to render but one 3D model, and it’s still choppy.

In other NLP news, February 13 marks the Japanese release of Love Plus Tools, which refers to the 200-yen character transfer app, not the people who use it.

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Nene Anegasaki enjoys the scenery in Odaiba. This is a demonstration of New Love Plus’s AR functionality.

Two more AR clips released today:

When I saw these, I just thought it was funny that the idealized, simulated date situations presented mostly seemed to involve awkward silence. However, Eric pointed out how impressive it is that the game can identify chairs and railings, and place the girls accordingly. Yes, that is much more interesting!

[Update: Commentors note that you actually use an editor to set the invisible walls and where you can sit.]

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Unsettling music video for New Love Plus’ theme song “Colorful Days”. There’s something off about this performance — I think it’s the combination of their motion capture body movements and doll-like heads. It looks like animegao, which itself is very disturbing (IMO).

I wonder if this lady was the mocap actress for all three virtual girls, and if she consciously adapts her body movements to reflect Manaka, Nene, and and Rinko’s different personalities. Do people ever stop her in the streets, confused by why this woman walked and moved exactly like their virtual girlfriend?

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New Love Plus prepaid cards for eShop, Wii Shop, and DSi Shop. So let me get this straight. Here in the US, eShop cards are impossible to find — they’re unavailable on Amazon and I’ve literally never seen one in real life — but in Japan, Nintendo is producing special limited edition ones for unreleased games.

And they work on Wii, DS, and 3DS! An embarrassment of prepaid riches!

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“I can’t condemn a love simulation like Love Plus+ because that game only asks the heart to do real things in artificial situations.

Much worse, I think, is behaving artificially during true situations. And that is a truly human behavior. I guess in that way, some games train us to be better than ourselves.

So if Love Plus+ really is about manipulating girls and playing romantic odds, to hell with it. But if it instead teaches painful moments of human connection, which are rare in these times, that’s awesome! Embrace it! Personal Trainer: Heartbreak.”

Jenn Frank on Love Plus and on “asking the heart to do real things in artificial situations”. The DS dating game, by the way, has a full English patch now available.

And in other fan translation news, there’s a new 1.2 patch release for Square Enix’s horror title Nanashi no Game, which should include some new bug fixes.

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Lonely no more: full English translation patch released for Love Plus →

It’s been a long time coming, but a group of fans have released a fully translated English patch for Konami’s 2009 dating/girlfriend sim Love Plus. Now those of you who’ve saved yourselves for the right virtual girl have three to pick from on your Nintendo DS.

The patch still looks incomplete, or at least not totally polished, as it’s a v0.9 release, but everything is in English with the exception of some graphics, which is no small undertaking for this text-heavy game. All you need to run it on your portable is a digital copy of the game (legally acquired, we hope), the patch, and a homebrew device.

For those of you wondering about the game’s 2010 sequel, Love Plus+, the team says it “might consider” working on that later. With 3DS homebrew/hacking still impossible, as far as I know, a translation project for the upcoming New Love Plus won’t happen for a while if ever.

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New Love Plus Powerskin Boost for 3DS. This is the only single way to achieve the simultaneous goals of adding additional battery power to the 3DS, protecting the exterior, and displaying the image of your favorite Love Plus girlfriend.

These aren’t even the first Love Plus battery packs. Last year, three “Mobile Battery Chargers” were released, that could connect to a variety of devices including iPhones and DS systems.

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New Love Plus trailer, which somehow presents this dating game as a social experience…

The “Gyro System” shown here is pretty impressive, allowing you to move and rotate the 3DS in any way, and the image rotates accordingly — even allowing you to turn the system on its side, etc. It also shows the famous “boyfriend lock,” in which your e-girlfriend gets upset/confused if she sees someone else’s face. You can have her introduce herself to your friends, which is kind of adorable.

So… what doesn’t look so great is the framerate. Is this really ready to be released on December 8?

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New Love Plus boxart. “Our new life begins. Sharing moments with her fills ordinary days full of sweetness. This is a new way of communicating… LOVEPLUS”

So, this is unexpectedly classy boxart, despite (or because of) the vaguely Engrish-y text! I also like that Akari Uchida is a big enough name now to get a credit on the front of the box. What Hideo Kojima is to pseudo-military melodrama about philosophy and movie quotes, Uchida is to taking your DS on a date.

Speaking of Kojima and Love Plus, I wonder if he’s still covertly tracking Suda 51’s DS dating life? All hiding under a box, talking to Otacon via codec about Suda’s choice of birthday cake.

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