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{{quote|''"The confession is just the prologue."''}}

 

 

After successfully courting the girl, the player can text her, call her (via the mic), initiate skinship or kiss her when appropriate (via the DS touchscreen), and essentially continue dating her. This part of the game can be played in "real time mode," which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: the game (and by extension the girl) become "aware" of the real date and time. Thus, if a player decides to date a girl on next Sunday at a pre-arranged time at the zoo, the player needs to "be there" on Sunday, or she will get mad. "Real time mode" also enables certain special events, including date-based events, such as Valentine's Day, birthdays, and Christmas.

* LovePlus+: An Updated Rerelease, released [http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3178470 Summer 2010]. The summer season was chosen due to the large amount of summer-oriented events that can unfold in the second half of the game, such as vacation trips that let you spend two days and a night at the beach, a hot-spring resort, or some other weekend getaway. The vacation will differ from traditional gameplay because it will allow events that occur throughout the entire day, instead of the usual four event per day limit. It will also be possible to sleep with your girlfriend. ''No, not like that.'' Just lying in bed and talking with her. Other extras include new daily events, additional outfits and hairstyles for the girls, a new mini-game for [[Love Plus]] mode, the ability to exercise with the girls, DLC via special Love Plus hotspots, and the ability to import a Love Plus file to the newer version.

** In fact, supposedly, the reason that the summer trip is only two days and one night long is that the developers were worried about the player running out of time in real life.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-khobY1H2KE Another rerelease] to take advantage of the 3DS's new features, most notably the 3D "top" screen. Unlike the DS version, the 3DS port will be able to tell how you're holding the 3DS and adjust accordingly.

 

 

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* [[Cell Phone]] - In the first half of the game, texting is vital to getting to know the girls and building up affection. In the second half, the player can also call the girlfriend. How the player responds to the girls' texts will slowly but surely affect their attitude towards the player. In fact, it is a key part of the following trope...

* [[Character Customization]] - Subverted and played straight. Played straight in that through interacting with the girls, the player can affect not only their personalities, but also [[Virtual Paper Doll|what they wear]]. Subverted in that since there is no in-game way of seeing all the possible hairstyle and outfits and it's not entirely clear what will affect a girl's fashion sense, although she will ask for the player's opinion occasionally. Therefore, without a guide, it'd very difficult to shoot for a particular combo. The internal personality values of the girl consistently change with every interaction, although it can only manifest itself as one of three different personalities (per girl).

* [[Chromatic Arrangement]] - Sorta. The Love Plus protective cases for the DS each feature a character with a particular BG color: Manaka/Blue, Nene/Pink, Rinko/Green. These colors also correspond to different personality types available for the girls.

** These colors supposedly correspond to the canon personalities for each character.

** Manaka Days - By Akitsu Mikami (of Ten Tori Takaku)

** Nene Days - By Kugatu Takaaki (a well-known doujin author)

** Her Past - By Wakiyama Hiroaki (of Shuukyuu Shoujo). The silhouette features a girl with long, straight hair, but apparently it's a side story about Rinko.

* [[Copy Protection]]: Apart from the usual Anti-Piracy mechanisms that prevent it from loading on some flash cards, the updated rerelease also ignores the affection levels of the heroines. Meaning there's no way to date them in the first part of the game. This means it's [[Unwinnable by Design]] if you're playing it on a flash card. Of course, pirates being as resourceful as they are, they have managed to get past this by patching the AP away.

* [[Follow the Leader]] - After ''Love Plus'' became a hit in Japan, a company called Teatime created an adult game called ''Renai+H'' with similar gameplay.

* [[Going Through the Motions]] - Played straight and subverted. The 3D models of the girls can show a variety of emotion, especially the faces, doing fairly well considering the difficulty of doing 3D on the DS. However, it's clearly not on the level of ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', but the facial expressions are still far better than ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]''.

** For the sequel/remake "Love Plus+", the developers sent out a survey to LovePlus players to determine which names were common and to include more of these names into the game.

** The protagonist is named Wataru Aikawa in the manga.

** She's noticeably not wearing one when she started to become closer with the protagonist.

* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen]] - You never get to see what the protagonist looks like in the game, because well... he's supposed to be you.

* [[How to Become a Love Interest]] - The main point of the first part of the game. If you fail to get one of the three girls to like you within 100 game days, you get the "bad ending" and cannot continue to the second part of the game.

* [[Jerkass Facade]] - In Rinko Days, the protagonist became [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/loveplus_rinko_days/c007/7.html this] so Rinko will reveal her true feelings about her little brother.

* [[Joshikousei]] - The three heroines. Although, Rinko seemingly randomly chooses not to wear her uniform in school and to wear her uniform outside of school. You later learn that the latter is partly due to {{spoiler|Rinko avoiding her house because of her discomfort with her father remarrying}}.

* [[Names to Know in Anime]] - Rinko is voiced by [[Sakura Tange]], who was and still is best known for her role as Sakura Kinomoto in [[Cardcaptor Sakura]]; and she also gave her voice to Minori Akiho, one of the main characters of Konami's ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] Drama Series''.

** Nene is voiced by [[Yuko Minaguchi]], who was also the voice of Nadeshiko Kinomoto, the mother of Sakura Kinomoto in [[Cardcaptor Sakura]]. She too gave her voice to a Konami character, Sarah Pixis of ''Tokimemo'' 's [[Spiritual Successor]] series ''[[Mitsumete Knight]]''.

** We learn in the manga that Wataru used to constantly move due to parents' jobs. By the start of high school though, he's living on his own instead of with his parents to avoid the need to constantly relocate.

* [[No Export for You]] For the first and second games, this is confirmed (due to western markets having a better birth rate then Japan). Whether or not this will continue into the 3DS version as rumored, is unknown (due to the rumors that Konami is doing "Market Research" for what is presumably a US release for the 3DS sequel)

* [[Sempai-Kohai]] - Protagonist/Rinko, Nene/Protagonist

* [[Shout-Out]] - One of Manaka's dream sequences is designed with the classic ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]: Forever with you'' game engine and character artstyle.

* [[The Parody]] - An [[H-game]] entitled ''Debu Plus'' (roughly "Fatty Plus") parodies ''[[Love Plus]]''. It features a female character who resembles all three ''[[Love Plus]]'' heroines combined into one [[Fat Girl]].

* [[Third Person Person]] - Rinko tends to do this, though not always.

* [[Tsundere]] - Rinko Kobayakawa.

** Especially her B-type personality.