NWR: When I first heard about Sweet Memories - Blackjack, I might have laughed out loud. The game, as far as I could tell, was like Let’s Catch, a surprisingly excellent 2009 WiiWare title. In both, you perform a mundane, repetitive task as a ridiculous and amusing story goes on around you. Appropriately, the setup for this game is that you’re a new student catching up with an old friend over games of blackjack.
DHGF: Sweet Memories Blackjack is a Blackjack game for people who want to play against cute anime girls exclusively, and while it will appease that audience, everyone else will find it unexciting. The game and the girls certainly look and sound fine enough, the game mechanics work as expected, and Blackjack isn’t a hard game to understand even if you’re coming into it brand new. However, the game is very limited in what it offers, appealing exclusively to the idea of “playing against anime girls” over all else, and even then, the game requires so much grinding to earn things that it’s hard to justify the effort. The actual Blackjack itself is adequate, but there are no options to give the game any more variety than it offers in its first five minutes, and the CPU generally plays inconsistently at the best of times. Sweet Memories Blackjack is a game that knows its audience and only seeks to appeal to them, so if you’re in that audience, you’ll likely find the game to be worth your four dollars. If you’re not, however, there’s no reason to waste your money or storage space on this, as it’s not going to hold your interest very long, if at all.
Sweet Memories – Blackjack is a rather simple game in which you try to beat a bunch of Japanese schoolgirls at Blackjack while simultaneously trying to woo your childhood friend, who just so happens to be one of those girls. Wait, what the HELL?
"When it comes to celebrating the reaching of goals, nothing says reward and self-gratification to a kid more than a box of their favourite candy. Kids already have a strong adoration for candy as is, but it becomes so much more enjoyable when there's an accomplishment behind the looked-forward-to treat. Of course, too much of it can distill the pleasure and leave you with a painful reminder of why self-control is still needed. Giving you that undesirable feeling of regret long before engaging in any kind of heavy consumption, 'sweet' is the complete opposite of what CIRCLE Entertainment's first eShop title is. With a poorly-developed formula that mistakenly insinuates what is way outside the realm of reason, Sweet Memories Blackjack practically sets itself for failure, proving to be a poor showing in every way." -- Wiiloveit.com
