The Idolmaster: Shiny Festa - Funky Note
released on Oct 25, 2012
The Idolmaster: Shiny Festa is a series of three Japanese rhythm video games. The games are part of The Idolmaster series of games, and were originally released as Honey Sound, Funky Note, and Groovy Tune. They were the first games in the series to be localized into English. The gameplay in Shiny Festa eschews the simulation format of previous Idolmaster games, and instead features a rhythmic gameplay in which the player times the presses of buttons to the rhythm of the songs and a predetermined pattern displayed on the screen.
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The Idolmaster: Shiny Festa - Funky Note is one out of three Idolm@ster spinoffs that pretty much worked like Idolm@ster SP but instead of being a raising sim, it's a rhythm game and none predicted that this entry would change the future of console IM@s forever...
Game is quite simple, it's a rhythm game that kinda works like Taiko, only two lanes, either hit left or right when they reach the "hit point", it's honestly a pretty simple rhythm game and doesn't require inhuman skills to beat, if you can even beat this game that is...
Is it like really hard to finish this game or something? Not at all, what I meant is that there isn't much of a goal to work toward, this game has a freeplay mode which lets you play any song with the difficulty you want, the second game mode, on the other hand, is the most story mode you'll get out of this game.
Star of Festa (SoF) has very short cutscenes and pretty much just is "Play 3 songs per in-game day to get a total of 100,000 points for the best ending". There's no strategy to that, just play well, you can also get hearts by playing in freeplay mode with a certain Idol and these hearts can appear in a SoF song to earn more points, that's kinda it.
And this game features a similar ranking system as the previous games, here you just need to play songs and the more you play the more fans you get and earning ranks is... useless? All it does is unlock items in the store for you to buy like custom hud icons during the rhythm parts, so yeah it's a waste of time.
Ah, and each of the games features an exclusive OVA episode of the show featuring the character of said game, neat.
The negative part of the game is that there's nothing rendered via the console, it's just pre-rendered clip from Idolm@ster 2 in 480p that really doesn't help the cash grab allegations, the lack of content, and the pokemon type release also doesn't help, even if it used the gross graphics from IM@S SP at least I could've said "They tried" but here it just feels like they just crammed mp4 in a PSP and called it a day.
Overall it's not bad, it's fun, it's a basic rhythm game, but man it's lackluster.
My ranking would be
Funky Note > Honey Sound > Groovy Tune
The Idolmaster: Shiny Festa - Funky Note is one out of three Idolm@ster spinoffs that pretty much worked like Idolm@ster SP but instead of being a raising sim, it's a rhythm game and none predicted that this entry would change the future of console IM@s forever...
Game is quite simple, it's a rhythm game that kinda works like Taiko, only two lanes, either hit left or right when they reach the "hit point", it's honestly a pretty simple rhythm game and doesn't require inhuman skills to beat, if you can even beat this game that is...
Is it like really hard to finish this game or something? Not at all, what I meant is that there isn't much of a goal to work toward, this game has a freeplay mode which lets you play any song with the difficulty you want, the second game mode, on the other hand, is the most story mode you'll get out of this game.
Star of Festa (SoF) has very short cutscenes and pretty much just is "Play 3 songs per in-game day to get a total of 100,000 points for the best ending". There's no strategy to that, just play well, you can also get hearts by playing in freeplay mode with a certain Idol and these hearts can appear in a SoF song to earn more points, that's kinda it.
And this game features a similar ranking system as the previous games, here you just need to play songs and the more you play the more fans you get and earning ranks is... useless? All it does is unlock items in the store for you to buy like custom hud icons during the rhythm parts, so yeah it's a waste of time.
Ah, and each of the games features an exclusive OVA episode of the show featuring the character of said game, neat.
The negative part of the game is that there's nothing rendered via the console, it's just pre-rendered clip from Idolm@ster 2 in 480p that really doesn't help the cash grab allegations, the lack of content, and the pokemon type release also doesn't help, even if it used the gross graphics from IM@S SP at least I could've said "They tried" but here it just feels like they just crammed mp4 in a PSP and called it a day.
Overall it's not bad, it's fun, it's a basic rhythm game, but man it's lackluster.
My ranking would be
Funky Note > Honey Sound > Groovy Tune