The Idolmaster Must Songs

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Martha Weitz

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:48:42 PM8/3/24

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JPN region has a vita version of Puyo Puyo Tetris. You have to 100% story mode legit on that one thanks to being locked out of the DLC but the game being on a handheld takes the edge off the retries.

I really liked World Trigger Borderless Mission which is a combination of 3D shooting & melee action with really high floaty jumps and plenty of time spent in the air. It feels a bit 'early-3D' but it's not bad at all. There's a difficulty spike or two & for the trophies you have to do all the side missions in online co-op & have to be hosting for it to count so fair warning there.

Ukiyo no Roushi is a way of the samurai type game, can't say too much about it 'cause I've only fired it up to try for an hour or so but it felt really smooth & looked great. Very long road to a platinum for this one by the looks of things.

Uppers is a pretty good beatemup but it's coming out on ps4. Sengoku Otome & Mahouka Out of Order are arena fighters that might be worth looking into, they're rough around the edges but I had an alright time with them. Getting into dodgy territory here but there's the Yuki Yuna & Madoka Magica games for some kind of beatemup action, haven't tried the latter but do own it. Yuki Yuna sucks TBH but I liked a few things about it that kept me going (couple of the music tracks are really good) and it's playable enough that I'd call it bakage rather than kusoge.

Oh forgot to mention Bullet Girls 1 & 2 as well as Gun Gun Pixies. I've only platinumed Gunpix & it was hell to rush through but would be pretty enjoyable doing it over a few weeks. Prospective Gunpix players can hit me up for a trophy guide.

There are a bunch of Mech games as well, dunno much about those unfortunately but hopefully there's something of interest in the suggestions above. I made an effort to collect every action-game import title on vita I could find (except mech stuff). A lot of it ended up coming out in english but there are still a bunch of titles that've stayed over in Japan, at one point I stopped paying attention though so It'd be interested to know if there's anything I've overlooked since.

No worries, that was just some stuff off the top of my head & thankfully ccase137 has since filled in most of the blanks. I can vouch for Miracle Girls Festival it's just like having a bonus Miku game, very playable & happy. I can't believe I forgot to mention Hideboh. That's a really cool touch screen rhythm title that gets quite tricky on the hard difficulties, a lot of the music was really good & there are even bonus videos you can watch of Hideboh tapping like a mad fella, he's crazy good. I thought the Uta Kumi 575 one was pretty cool but you might get more out of it than me, I can't read Japanese to save my life. Haven't spent much time with those Idol Master Taiko games but it's the same great gameplay as before. I also did those Love Live games, for me that was some early stage trophy whoring. They're playable but not that smooth. There's also Bakamatsu Rock, I find that music hard to swallow & not a big fan of the game overall but I think with that most of the rhythm games have been covered.

Also forgot to mention Darius Burst & Sayonara Umihara Kawase. These have limited western releases but the Japanese ones are probably cheaper to get. Also that physical version of Airship Q which is probably nice & cheap. I think most of it's probably going to be pretty cheap when you've got that kind of access to those stores (lucky!!).

*Edit* Twice now I've forgotten to mention Girls & Panzer. Very playable tank action game & it's kind of expensive online everywhere I've seen it so if you can find that for a good price I'd say go for it!

I'd suggest Time Travelers. It's cheap and if you were to pick it up used, even cheaper. It's a 100% cinematic VN by Level-5, written by Jirō Ishii. It's incredible and a shame not to have been localised, because the mystery plot and multiple characters that you get to follow throughout that one day were made to appeal to a broad audience. TT is also on 3DS and PSP but I found that it plays better on VITA than on PSP due to the bigger screen and crisper visuals.

Maybe (admittedly, this is a huge maybe) also give the 2 雷子 games a look. I love the series (strategy/simulation meets bloody murder of the 3 kingdoms) but with only 2 games of the saga out (that aren't available on PSN anymore) and Klon dead, the overall series is incomplete.

Be careful about BookOff and second hand games in general. Like Blockbuster and Gamestop in the west, even BookOff doesn't sell as many used games as they did before. Some stores in Japan don't do PS3 secondhand anymore and the Vita section is sometimes tiny if at all.

I've bought a lot of secondhand games on Vita from BookOff but lately I've found many older difficult games to find at all, or worse, they are there, but they are practically full price even at second hand.

i can't read any japanese would i enjoy the idolmaster must songs? only taiko ive played was in yakuza 5 but i'm familiar with it, it should just be menu navigation would be the only thing id have an issue with correct?

Thanks. I just did a scan for everyone's recommendations on their site and indeed a lot are fairly pricey. I'm not going to pay over 2000yen for a game... I'll look at Yahoo Auctions, Mandarake, Amazon and Rakuten as well, who knows... There's a lot of options online!

I was surprised how expensive visual novels were, even second hand. Given that they have little replay value, I was assuming those would be constantly pawned off at low prices but... Guess I was wrong!

Thanks again for your recommendations everyone. I've only properly played the Idolmaster Must Songs games up to now. I'm stuck on the 600 combo trophy (it's hard!) but hope to slowly go through the stack(s)...