is a

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visual novel A , often abbreviated as VN, is a form of digital semi-interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with and used in the medium of video games, but are not always labeled as such themselves. They combine a textual narrative with sta ...

game developed by

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's Shimarisu-san Team with the script writer being Sakusa Sakura. The series has an official abbreviated name of "ShiroKoi" using the first two kanji of the first two words of the whole title. The game is a visual novel about a girl named Kaori Sawai who was saved by hospital staff after an accident during her youth and decided to repay them by becoming a nurse at the age of 21. The story starts with Kaori starting her first day as a nurse at the hospital she would start working at and meet other people-some connected to her past.

Gameplay

Being a

, the game offers little gameplay, with the player pressing a button to advance the narrative as they read and occasionally using a menu interface to select choices that affect the game's story and lead to different endings.

Release

The first release of the game was in 2011 exclusively for the

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. In 2012, an expanded version of the original game was released titled ''Hakuisei Ren'ai Shōkōgun RE:Therapy'' for

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and PSP featuring an extended storyline for the original main characters, and new character route additions for previously minor characters Yasuko and Ami, as well as a remake-exclusive character, a middle-school girl aged Mayuki. On April 19, 2019, a new version of ''Hakuisei Ren'ai Shōkōgun RE:Therapy'' was released on Microsoft Windows,

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and

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in Japan with improved character sprites and event scenes. The Windows and PlayStation Vita versions were released in English and Chinese simultaneously as ''Nurse Love Syndrome'', published by Degica. The Nintendo Switch version was released in English on December 26, 2019. A new game in the same series, , was released on

on April 30, 2015, with a new cast of characters and art design. It was subsequently released for Microsoft Windows on December 25, 2015, and for Nintendo Switch on May 24, 2018. ''Hakuisei Aijō Izonshō'' was in 2016 released in English and Chinese for Windows, and the following year on PlayStation Vita under the title ''Nurse Love Addiction'', localizing the "White Robe" part of the series title to "Nurse", likely due to non-Japanese nurse uniform colors no longer being exclusively of white coloring. Titled ''Nurse Love Obsession'', a physical version containing both ''Nurse Love Syndrome'' and ''Nurse Love Addiction'' was published by

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for the Nintendo Switch.

Reception

In a review for ''Digitally Downloaded'', Matt S. said that ''Nurse Love Addiction'' " epresentedsome of the sharpest, most subtle writing that e'dcome across within the visual novel medium," but called its gameplay "primitive" due to the lack of a flowchart mechanic. Across two "playtests" of ''Nurse Love Syndrome'' for '' Silliconera'', Alistair Wong considered the details of nurse life and writing quality in the game's common route to be "enthralling" but the romance routes to be a "mixed bag."

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