In the daytime, many of the NPCs of the game are walking around the streets. The game and each of its non-player characters (NPCs) follow a 24-hour day schedule. Finding out how and when to kiss other characters is a puzzle in of itself. To gain more hearts the player has to find and kiss other characters in the game. The player's health is represented by a number of hearts. The player's health is located at the top-left of the screen.Ĭhulip is an adventure/ simulation game in which the player must improve the hero's reputation in the community of Long Life Town by kissing its various citizens.
Gameplay The player (center-left) successfully kisses an NPC. The game's ending shows the two meeting and kissing beneath the Lover's Tree, as the protagonist had dreamed. Once the three pieces of the love letter (the ink, paper, and pen) are collected, he writes and mails it to the girl. The hero's journey involves numerous bizarre incidents that lead him to cheating his way to the top of a major corporation, making contact with aliens, and acting as a defense lawyer in court. When this treasured set of papers is stolen, he must search Long Life Town for the missing pieces. En route to doing so, he also resolves to write a love letter to his crush. Taking his father's advice, the hero decides to kiss the odd citizens of the town in order to strengthen his heart and improve his reputation. Coincidentally, the girl of his dreams lives in this town, but she flatly rejects him due to his status as coming from a very poor family. However, once the protagonist wakes up, he and his father are just moving into Long Life Town, which appears very much like a small, Japanese village. The dream takes its course, the tree ends the sequence saying they lived happily ever after. Most reviews cited the game's quirkiness and charm as its strong points yet criticized its tedious gameplay mechanics.Ĭhulip opens with a dream sequence in which the unnamed, male protagonist kisses the girl he loves under the talking "Lover's Tree" on a green hill. Chulip suffered dismal sales, while its overall critical reception has been negative to average. Kimura wanted the game's focus to be on kissing in public, a more Western-accepted custom, within a Japanese setting. To do this, the player must impress each member of the community and then kiss them.Ĭhulip was directed by Yoshirou Kimura, a former employee of Love-de-Lic. The gameplay of Chulip revolves around improving the player's reputation with the citizens in order to access all parts of the town.
When the letter is stolen, it is up to the protagonist to travel around the village and retrieve all of its pieces. Although she wants nothing to do with him due to his family's poor economic status, he decides to write her a heartfelt love letter.
It was released on the PlayStation Network as a "PS2 Classic" on December 4, 2012, exclusively in North America.Ĭhulip puts the player in the role of a young man who has just moved to a new town and next door to the girl of his dreams. After numerous delays, the game was released in North America by Natsume on Februas a GameStop-exclusive title.
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Chulip ( チュウリップ), stylized as Chu♥lip, is an adventure/ simulation video game developed by Punchline and released on Octoin Japan by Victor Interactive Software for the PlayStation 2.
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