If you enjoy watching the Winter Olympics, or enjoy anime such as Yuri!! On Ice, then you will enjoy this game! It gave a good look at what skaters go thru when training. It offered high replay value too with different girls to play as and different events and dialogue options. Gameplay using the stylus to perform ice skating moves is both fun and challenging. Geeky: 5/5 – Gameplay is solid, the graphics are a little bit pixelated, but that’s probably just limitations of the software of the time ten years ago. Where to Buy: Gamestop has both of these for about $0.79 and $1.99. Genre: Career/Life Simulation Game with Dressup Game, Dating Sim and Otome Game aspects Thankfully the art in the actual game is fully done in an anime and kawaii style which could appeal to either audience. This alienated most of your “built in audience” while trying to build a new audience with younger girls. Most of us are 20+ years old, otaku/anime fans, and would rather buy the original box art on the right, than that which was designed for the US on the left. Do your research and understand your target audience better. Why try to forcefully create an audience, when there already exists a large audience begging publishers for such games. These games were perhaps too ahead of their times – with the relatively recent popularity of Yuri!! on Ice, and increased representation of Otome Games in the United States, I wonder how a sequel for Nintendo Switch would fare these days, if marketed properly. Imagine: Ice Champions Nintendo DS Olympic Ice Skating Otome Dating Game

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