Ensemble Stars Music 12+

Great, just two really annoying, and a few minor problems

I would like to quickly state that I (who never played basic) don’t exactly feel like I’m ‘missing out’ on the other bits of lore which is in basic, but for all I know theres a lot I’m missing. But onto the things that bug me, first I want to say almost everything is absolutely (and I quote) Amazing~! ☆. There are only two problems I can say that really bug me, one the event times are a bit short, I mean nine days for a singular event? That’s a nightmare, especially if you have work/school and if you have extracurricular activities in school. Two, the infinite/expert lives are kinda… horrible, like the rewards are great, but the thing is if you full/perfect combo a song on there you don’t get the actual rewards from the song (an example I can think of off the top of my head is around level 60~65 I got Enthralling Theatre and I all perfected it, but it never appeared on the actual song thing and I didn’t get the 50 gems from it either. I also believe I was just lucky so I’ve been trying to get the all perfect but failing miserably.) That’s really all~
EDIT: Okay so I realized a way to ‘bypass’ the second problem is just putting on auto mode

Developer Response ,

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A fun and enjoyable idol/rhythm game

As an avid rhythm game fan, when I saw this in my recommended games section, I had to download it. I had vaguely heard of Ensemble Stars on the Internet, and it appeared to be your average idol rhythm game. However, this game was more delightful than I expected. The tutorial explains the games functions in a brief yet understandable manner, and the game’s UI is very simple and clean. As for the characters, there are a multitude of idol groups to choose from, and the voice acting is pretty good. The songs are catchy and the 3D MV’s are top tier (like seriously, the MV’s blew me away with how smooth the animation was). The actual rhythm game part took me a bit to get used to, but is pretty fun when you get the hang of it. (I also like how you can customize the note look and sound) At the time of writing this, the game has only been released for a couple of weeks, so some parts of the game are still locked (like the Ensemble Live function). My only complaint (which is opinionated) is that there are a LOT of characters, like almost too many. It’s hard to level up each card because there’s a lot of them, but this is more of a personal problem for me because I’m a completionist and like having every card maxed out. Overall, a very fun game that every rhythm game enthusiast should play (or anybody, really).

give arashi her pronouns back

Leaving this in light of recent story translations being incredibly disappointing. It is wild to me that in a game trying to capture an English-speaking audience, the stories are filled with all kinds of mistakes when no other regional server for this game has the same issue! As an English-speaking fan I feel kind of disrespected, you want our support yet can barely offer the same quality you give to other players?

As a fan from before this game even had official English release, I was really excited to see the official site acknowledges Arashi’s gender identity and refers to her with she/her pronouns. I and many other fans are incredibly disappointed by the choice to not continue with this, to the point of outright censoring lines in recent events that imply Arashi is not cisgender. The most recent scout incorrectly referred to Arashi with “him” and was then changed to “Narukami”. So you can admit that using masculine pronouns is incorrect, but refuse to keep in the context that explains why that is? There’s also the fact Negi’s gender was completely censored, which is just such a bizarre decision. Just totally removing vital information about a character for no reason.

I think the highlight of enstars is its stories, so it’s kind of heartbreaking to see the official English release go this badly. I would love to see the game continue, but if this is the quality of the translations we get, I doubt most fans will bother playing.