You Should Play Sakura Wars

It's frustrating being a fan of dating sims in the west. There is a pervasive mentality that the genre is illegitimate at best, and a joke at worst. Every April Fool's Day, you see other game developers treat one of your favorite types of game as a punchline, and no one questions whether that's warranted. It certainly doesn't help that dating sims have largely never left Japan, so even if western…