{"id":3211,"date":"2012-06-23T15:48:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T14:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2020-10-11T21:07:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:07:41","slug":"ims-shiny-festa-pv1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=3211","title":{"rendered":"iM@S Shiny Festa PV1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was, alas, no iM@S Anime Season 2 announcement out of todays iDOLM@STER 7th Anniversary live event, but they did show the first promotional video for the upcoming Shiny Festa game for PSP &#8211; and promptly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lmkHpFEg_IE\">uploaded it to the interwebs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone curious as to how they&#8217;re pulling those graphics out of the PSP in comparison to similar genre games like Project Diva or the K-On game, well, they&#8217;re doing it by cheating &#8211; they&#8217;re using pre-rendered videos for the &#8220;music video&#8221; part of the proceedings, with the gameplay interface layered on top of that. It seems like a weird way for them to go in a sense &#8211; by using pre-rendered video, it prevents them from nickel-and-diming the more rabid parts of the fanbase with costume DLC (which is, you know, iM@S tradition at this point), as you can&#8217;t really expect them to render every costume combination in advance. Suppose they&#8217;ll just have to milk it via DLC songs instead.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, yeah, it&#8217;s a pretty simple looking rhythm game. There&#8217;s only actually two inputs to it &#8211; there&#8217;s left and right (and I gather that the d-Pad, shoulder buttons or certain face buttons are acceptable for each), either as single presses or as having to be held for short periods of time. I gather the complication is going to be on the &#8220;track&#8221; side of things, where they&#8217;ll be distorting it into fashions other than the straight lines seen for most of the PV. Those who&#8217;ve played iM@S2 will probably know how much of a headache those looping tracks in the vocal lessons can be when you&#8217;re trying to rush through them, so I suppose it may end up slightly more interesting than it looks.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, &#8217;tis out the 25th October.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I still can&#8217;t accept Yayoi as being a drummer. Just saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was, alas, no iM@S Anime Season 2 announcement out of todays iDOLM@STER 7th Anniversary live event, but they did show the first promotional video for the upcoming Shiny Festa game for PSP &#8211; and promptly uploaded it to the interwebs. For anyone curious as to how they&#8217;re pulling those graphics out of the PSP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-idolmaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6308,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}