Shine: Kotoba wo Tsumuide (2002)

Developer: VRIDGE
Publisher: Success Corporation
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Genres: Adventure, Visual Novel
Where to get it: Website

The 3D catalog: game boxes on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A gentle, dialogue-heavy island romance where you slowly coax wary girls into letting you capture their picture.

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About

Shine: Kotoba wo Tsumuide is a dating sim for the PlayStation 2 about a protagonist who decides to chase his dream of becoming a cameraman and flies towards an island in the Okinawa area to learn with his upperclassman cameraman. On the way to the island, the protagonist was given a very hard assignment to complete: taking a picture of six different girls who hate cameras.

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.