Jump, spin, and pirouette your way to fame! Follow the fortune of four young ice dancers all auditioning for the Princess on Ice Tournament, the most prestigious ice dancing event of the year. Do you have what it takes to be crowned Princess on Ice?
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This game I'm not certain what to really say about it. The story is about these four girls that meet up and they all want to become the next "Princess on Ice" being the name of the champion who wins at all these skating championships and each of them excels in a certain area whilst one of them is an all-rounder that's average in each area. These translate into the gameplay which his played very much like a rhythm game as you attempt to pull off all kinds of moves and impress the exact three same judges each time.
Due to being a DS game, they make you try to do all kinds of different things with the stylis and you also have to buy upgrades to your character before each dance, in a psudo RPG style and outfits that are meant to impact your score, depending on the song and the style...at least that's how I remember it sounding but if it actually did anything under the hood I have no actual idea. No obvious "+1 to this song performance" or anything obvious like that. You're kinda meant to make your own judgement I get, but since Girl Zone said I suck at dress sense, I imagine I probably messed up.
I chose this game based on the cover, however, that cover is a LIE!
The cover you see above and on the actual box, is a total lie, using the wrong art style, much like how My Boyfriend did, only where as that made the game try to look better (or I suspect was from the PS2 version or whatever edition is better) in this case the game is using this art to try and advertise itself as "Western Friendly" as the actual art-style is anime with these chibi-like little girls running around and that you play as. During my stream I looked at these covers to partially prove that the game I'm playing IS the box art I have on my screen AND I also learnt that there is a sequel with what looks like, almost exactly the same cover as the first game!
The cheapness doesn't end there, however. There's numerous alerts and messages that aren't translated from their original Japanese, including right at the end where a big set of Kanji appears, with no translation or anything to tell you what it's saying as if the developers couldn't give a fuck about the audience who bought this game. It's just yet another shovel-ware game that was thrown on the DS that puts the "Nintendo Seal of Quality" to shame, as if anyone actually respected it anymore these days.
Beyond these issues, the gameplay is solid and as cringy as it was to play this, it wasn't actually terrible. It didn't make me want to strangle the developers and there was clearly some effort put into the game, though not much in regards to linguistics and the girl's personalities are pretty funny and cute too!
All things considered, it's pretty mediocre and inoffensive. It's certainly nothing like My Boyfriend or Girl Zone, which I had also streamed that month, which went out of their way to insult my intelligence and that of anyone who dared play those games!
Stream/Gameplay
Due to being a DS game, they make you try to do all kinds of different things with the stylis and you also have to buy upgrades to your character before each dance, in a psudo RPG style and outfits that are meant to impact your score, depending on the song and the style...at least that's how I remember it sounding but if it actually did anything under the hood I have no actual idea. No obvious "+1 to this song performance" or anything obvious like that. You're kinda meant to make your own judgement I get, but since Girl Zone said I suck at dress sense, I imagine I probably messed up.
I chose this game based on the cover, however, that cover is a LIE!
The cover you see above and on the actual box, is a total lie, using the wrong art style, much like how My Boyfriend did, only where as that made the game try to look better (or I suspect was from the PS2 version or whatever edition is better) in this case the game is using this art to try and advertise itself as "Western Friendly" as the actual art-style is anime with these chibi-like little girls running around and that you play as. During my stream I looked at these covers to partially prove that the game I'm playing IS the box art I have on my screen AND I also learnt that there is a sequel with what looks like, almost exactly the same cover as the first game!
The cheapness doesn't end there, however. There's numerous alerts and messages that aren't translated from their original Japanese, including right at the end where a big set of Kanji appears, with no translation or anything to tell you what it's saying as if the developers couldn't give a fuck about the audience who bought this game. It's just yet another shovel-ware game that was thrown on the DS that puts the "Nintendo Seal of Quality" to shame, as if anyone actually respected it anymore these days.
Beyond these issues, the gameplay is solid and as cringy as it was to play this, it wasn't actually terrible. It didn't make me want to strangle the developers and there was clearly some effort put into the game, though not much in regards to linguistics and the girl's personalities are pretty funny and cute too!
All things considered, it's pretty mediocre and inoffensive. It's certainly nothing like My Boyfriend or Girl Zone, which I had also streamed that month, which went out of their way to insult my intelligence and that of anyone who dared play those games!
Stream/Gameplay