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>Event: 03/01 - 03/?? "Fashionable Style Show" (Yukihiro, Rei)
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Rhythm game overload could probably be another reason (besides the obvious BXD/enza needing launch titles reason) for Bamco introducing Shiny Colors with gameplay going back to the raising sim roots.

Now that you mention it, that kind of strategy makes perfect sense now.

ROCORIOT SOON

It's going to Fumika and her cinfes outfit will be nothing but skin. Show me those fat foomys!

this but with chie

If only.

A Minami would be fine too.

I want to protect this ordinary smile

Still not sure, why they needed to create a new branch to bring back the old system though. Especially seeing how the "new" system isn't working at all for the mainline games.

ROCO
PUFF OUT
something wants to prey on you

>Rhythm game overload
Speaking of which, I went back and looked at Guitar Hero's catalog and good fucking god they released ELEVEN games in TWO years. Seven of those were in 2009. And that's not even counting Band Hero and DJ Hero (which also released in 2009).

I forgot how bad this shit got back in the day.

She doesn't have enough static electricity built up to use her ROCOBURST! She's defenseless against Anna right now!

What if it's Nino

The finest of all the dark lords

*dork lords

Surprise CinFes Haruna out of nowhere.

Shut up.

SHUT UP

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Holy shit she's gonna die. The only way to save her is if someone steals Anna's socks.

I would laugh no kidding.

Anna gonna hop that tummy.

CG already has two gacha games and a third would be absurd.
Another ML would piss off players who were with the original game that's now getting closed down under the excuse of the staff focusing more on TD.
SideM won't really work for this purpose as iM@S doesn't have the kind of power among male idol franchises that it does among female idol franchises.
So what else are they to do?

Pisses me off that they completely killed the genre. Rock Band is ridiculously fun, but the crash pretty much ensured no big name bands reticent to licence their catalog will change their minds.
What I wouldn't give for a Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin game done with the game care Beatles got...

TakeP please join 315. I need you to sing sweet lullabies to me.

DJ Hero was a fantastic game, but Activision had no fucking idea what was so good about it. They tried to market it as a "party game", when it's completely unsuitable as one. Then they fucked the sequel up by forcing the developer to do nothing but "THE LATEST, HOTTEST TRACKS", instead of the original's incredibly wide variety of styles.

The Beatles Rock Band was amazing too.

Buying a few G packs for the upcoming KWSMfes.

Just get that shitty guitar hero clone I see people playing on YouTube and Twitch. I'm sure someone's made a chart. It can't all be just shitty System of a Down memes.

The Lovely Angels.

user, wtf, I even explicitly mentioned the mainline games in my post and they are the obvious choice for the original kind of gameplay.

I'm confused and scared. Mostly confused.

They clearly want to do a gacha game, user, not a mainline console game that once again won't sell. Gacha is where the money is now.

BELIEVE IN CHIE
Tonight is the night
once again, I'm so sorry

あそぼ

Reminder that yuri is LITERALLY canon

*akifes

>The Beatles Rock Band was amazing too.
It really was. It's the only reason why I still have my PS3.

>once again, I'm so sorry
For what?

I forget the daily room likes

Sorry for what? Producer told us not to be ashamed of our idols.

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EA and RA3 say no.

That shouldn't be a big deal. I forget that so often. But I guess I'll go to U14 HQ now.

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Oh, phew, at least she closed them.

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>A Motherfucking Toko doujin of all things.

I honestly admire this guy. He doesn't give a shit about who is popular or what. He just writes and draws stories that he wants to tell for whichever character he wants. That Uzuki series he did was pretty good. And I hope that one book where Misshy encounters Aiko at a Cafe gets scanned too as unlikely as it may be.

Not that this guy quit from doing porn though. I liked his part in that recently scanned Noriko ero anthology.

Yeeeah. I see that, Chie. Producer gave you good advice.

School's gonna ROCK with Riina! Oh yeah!

I missed command and conquer

>Toko will never be popular
>Valentine Hanseikai will never get a song
Reality sucks

Sometimes, I pull on my idol so hard I rip her dress.

>I liked his part in that recently scanned Noriko ero anthology.

What was his part?

Any guesses if will Makoto's SSR be girly or ikemen themed tomorrow?

Fantastic.

I hope to god its not girly.

I fucking hate girly makoto, its disgusting and all around repulsive.
Stick to being a man, its all you're good for.

The part where Noriko learns about the pleasure of touching her donuts.

Fuck you nigga.

But I can't fuck a man. That's blasphemy.

Her permanent will be ikemen and the limited will be girly

Aw nice that was a good one the one starting at page 40 and the last one are the best though.

Pfft, more like the Dirty Pair.

I want to believe that too but Namco betrayed me once with Takumi

If it's not as stylish as Hibiki's, fuck that.

Woah

Riina always rocks the party.

Wow. What a pure girl. I hope she also learns the pleasure of licking the holes of a donut.

She is literal used and expired goods.

If there is a CG that encapsulates the term "Christmas Cake", it's her. And nobody likes having Christmas Cakes after Christmas right?

>the one starting at page 40
Futou Ryoko is a very lewd artist. I fucking loved his(?) PCS and Aiko Shotacon doujins. And looks like the guy is primed up to do another PCS book again.

Thanks.

Well which version of Makoto do you think people would whale for more?

>That Uzuki series he did was pretty good.
And user will never finish translating it too

Very rude. The whole point of Toko is that she's getting a second chance.

Riina is dumb

I don't know much about her but I really liked her role in Kaoru's Live Tour Carnival from last year. That event was just fantastic overall.

Excellent. Dumb girls are easier to exploit.

Too bad it had Reina, like putting a tiny turd in a nice drink.

I think there's a bit of miscommunication here.

One of you is talking about raising sim vs rhythm game.
The other is talking about gacha-based vs progression-based.

There's no reason they can't do a gacha-based raising sim, just like how Platinum Stars and Stella Stage are progression-based rhythm games. It's possible to mix things up.
For the record, traditional iDOLM@STER games are progression-based raising sims, and SS/TD are gacha-based rhythm games.

We still don't know the monetization model for Shiny Colors. There's no indication that it doesn't have gacha.

How does it feel Producing the shitty used leftovers of another Producer?

>and Aiko Shotacon doujins

Oh shit that was a really good one. I recall someone saying he'll try translating it.

I dunno, ask HotaruPs.

That's the case of a lot of them though. Some of them even had lots of previous experiences like Hotaru.

It is very well confirmed that Shiny Colors is gacha-based.
The pre-reg rewards all state "feather jewels worth x rounds of gacha".

Someone needed to be the comic relief.

>raising sims
And that's honestly putting it very broadly.

Even the first ever fucking Princess Maker was more of a raising sim than im@s ever was.

Does it count if she most likely ended up getting her previous Producer's killed?

Dumb girls can be cute, especially rock posers like her.

Sure, we could say they were very intense experiences.

I want to corrupt that innocent image.

Getting experience with Hotaru.

I'm scared of Hotaru now.
She really is a red.

It wasn't as balls deep over the top as the other tours typically are. but it was pretty comfy yeah.

Cut her some slack, if the latest Theater is any indication, Hikaru is already progressing nicely in her plan to rehabilitate that piece of shit.

Well, it might not be the most accurate term here, but traditional iDOLM@STER sure as hell ain't a rhythm game (even though it had minor timing elements for appeals). You could call it a management sim, but even that's pushing it. I mean, it was originally an arcade game: The entire gameplay flow had to be heavily streamlined so you didn't take up the machine for too long.

Idol booster Haruka.

Reina is cute

This artist is close to being good, he just needs to find a way to not draw the characters looking like they're starring in proof of life hostage video.

I'm not sure about Red-ness but she certainly is a Cute. Also, this coincidence will never make me laugh.

I have to admit his art's grown on me

What the fuck, Hasumi is bigger than Mika and only 1cm smaller than Fumika.

I expected the image to be about that one live during Hotaru Caravan.

It sure was, it had my favorite side story of all.

I think Blooming Clover's art is great. It's very expressive once you get used to it.

>coincidence

Hahaha... right... "coincidence."

>Typhoons
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