REVIEW: Apple/ Android Game: Love! Live! School Idol Festival

Love! Live! School Idol festival  is a rhythm game, much like OSU or Tap Tap but requires acquisition of members that varies in skill, rarity and effect, the better member you acquire or create, the better your scores become. This game can be downloaded in Google Playstore or Apple Appstore for free and it offers in-app purchases or purchasable items (which to Restore Energy "Restore LP", "Purchase Love Gems" for Honor Scouting and "Increase Member Limit" to accommodate more members.

Few reminders:

1. Do not spend your love gems or those hearts next to your money and wait til you get 50 love gems to get 11 honor members and 2 or 3 may be super rare which is something you rarely get in one-time scouting.

2. There's likely an event every week, try to make the best out of that. The prizes are usually SR (super rare) or UR (ultra rare) cards, love gems, 1 ticket (for honor student summoning) or neutral cards which can help strengthen your group. The events are very generous as there's the completion reward, event ranking reward and sometimes a song ranking reward.

3. Do not idolize every member you see as some are so common that it's better to use them for practice (basically sacrifice them to level up your rare cards) and it costs money to idolize so it's better to save that for later.

Always take note of what your strength should be in each song. 

Blue circle pertains to Cool

Bright Pink circle pertains to Smile

Green circle pertains to Pure 

Each member has a certain color that pertains to those attributes and creating a team for each attribute makes it easier to gain a higher score.

Rare members greatly helps in gaining higher scores because they have an in-game effect which is either score increase or Stamina restoration (Stamina is basically how many times you can screw up in the game). They also have Leader Skills for when you choose them as leaders and an effects for when your friend uses your leader (smile or pure or cool increase)

* Skills can be increased by "practicing" your main card with another card of the same level and skill.

So in each song you are rewarded by completing the song goal in various rank (Rank S, A, B, C).

The hardest to rank up is probably CLEAR because it requires you to play more than once. For easy songs, if you play the song once you immediately get a rank C but need to play it more to rank up. 

The other two SCORE and COMBO is easy to understand because there's basically a score and combo requirement.