I hear good things about the Persona games from Atlus (mostly 3 and 4), which I think will cover all the items on your list. Particularly, they were immediately what I thought of when you said "dating sim with bonus combat and world-saving" -- which is to say, my understanding is they're what happens when you run a Japanese dating sim game into a Japanese tactical fighting game at high velocity and watch the fireworks.
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Date: 2012-10-04 04:56 pm (UTC)