Jeff says, "a breath of fresh air", and:

I don’t watch as many bishoujo game adaptations nowadays as I did in the past. Somewhere along the line, I grew tired of the extraneous stories and cookie cutter characters so typical of the genre. Occasionally, however, an adaptation will come along that circumvents those limitations. I think Tokimeki Memorial Only Love does just that.

This time he's not quite as vague as in the entry for Xenoglossia, so we can follow the reasoning from the material at least somewhat.

My database lists Tokimeki in the category of "rejected sight unseen" with an explanation of "Yakuza girl, love story". It's probably undeserved, but then again, too many shows...