K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut

流程不长，没有二周目，交互很少，单纯堆数值，堆起来意义也不大，安排项目解锁率为10%属性再多解锁率也是百分之10，有点项目可能一局下来你都解锁不了，出道CG很拉跨，一直闪眼睛还不能跳过，出道后游戏没有质变依旧是安排堆数值，数值堆起来后也没啥变化剧情大多看选项和你属性不怎么挂钩，小游戏不能跳过，你要刷满关键人物好感就强迫你玩个几十次小游戏。挑战消耗体力，挑战成功后也看不出来获得了什么，一点提示不给，感觉就是在纯打着玩，UI设计也很难受很多项目杂糅在一起，子项目也不放到关联项目上，就纯找。

It's a great game overall and has a lot of potential. The only downside is that the game ends before it really gets started. Once you debut your group and participate in the award show the game ends. It would have been nice if we could simply continue managing our group further and maybe even debut more groups. However, for the price the gameplay is definitely worth it!

如果你是因为玩过明3想尝试相同类型的游戏才下载的这款游戏，那么建议不要购买。。。在游戏性上和明3差太多了 如果你是因为喜欢KPOP想体验一下经纪人的感觉倒是可以下来试试，不过这游戏中后期很没意思，重复性比较高，很多选项都没什么意义，可选的练习生数量有限，也基本没有个人剧情，期待值降低一点的话可以玩 但还是严重不值这个价

I'm 80% Yes and 20% No on this game as of writing. It's a fun, interesting management game on your 1st playthrough and then the wheels just fall off really badly as soon as you start your 2nd. Replayability is basically non-existent at the moment, New Game+ leaves a LOT to be desired. You only get to keep your cash from your last playthrough (I didn't even get anything on my 2nd play. Could be a bug? I don't really know.) and nothing else. Not your Manager Stats, not your Idol Stats, or your Relationship stats. And the tutorial is unskippable (for now?) so you have to do the tutorial again on your 2nd, 3rd, etc. playthroughs. Like all of it. On the positive side, the art of the idols and even non-idols are amazing and the soundtrack is great though I wish there's more variations and randomness with the personality of the idols, they're always the same type and same personality every playthrough which just adds to the game's poor replayability. At its current state (I'm leaving the door open for updates / DLCs here), I would say don't expect to play this game for more than 10 hours. It's purely up to you if you think the price of the game, sale or not, is worth that playtime. As of me writing this review, the average playtime of all the reviews including mine is about 7 hours so just keep that in mind.

플레이 타임 이거 맞냐? 너무 짧잖아 데뷔 시킨후에 계속 엘범내가 해워야지 그냥 크레딧이라니? 앨범 만드는 과정도 잘 만들어 뒀으면서 크레딧 올리는건 아닌듯. 그냥 무한 모드로 하거나 캐릭터 스타웃 더 할 수 있게 하는게 좋을듯

我只能说我几乎从不打差评直到遇到这个游戏……或者也许是因为明星志愿珠玉在前吧，这个故事线也很难说有什么特别的，也可能韩味太重了感觉就是财阀黑幕80那种奇怪的感觉出来了，育成的目的好像也只是为了走评估，走3次评估然后出道，但新招练习生真的拖后腿啊，我为了那个团队数值调整选了新招的练习生，然后发现在场上完全打不过人家第二轮，想读档发现存档只有一个！！！！！ 我不理解，我大为震惊，虽然也不是不能扛过第二轮再继续第三轮，但这种无意义的失败谁要啊！就因为我选了新的练习生= =哦真倒霉…… 社交小游戏的话加成是啥，可能就是让我赚点钱吧= =几个人物只是有立绘+一点对话+一丁点小故事，是真的只有一丁点，是明志太好了，还是那句话，显得这个价格买了这游戏，养成又不是很养成，剧情也就那么点，长长叹气，都怪明志！都怪大宇！

I'd like to start by congratulating the dev team, it’s truly commendable that such a small team managed to deliver such a delightful and detailed game. As soon as I saw the demo back then, I played it immediately and literally counted down the days until the full release. The moment it dropped, I bought it instantly, sat down and couldn't pull myself away for hours completely losing track of time. Having previously played and deeply analyzed other heavyweights of the genre like Idol Manager, I can confidently say this game does something wonderfully unique, especially on the visual side. Unlike typical management games that feel dry and menu-heavy, this one is visually satisfying, almost like a story-driven visual novel. In fact, it's absolutely amazing that the vanilla game looks this good without needing any community visual mods or graphics patches right out of the box. As a K-pop fan, being able to manage every single process of a group's road to debut and control everything behind the scenes feels incredibly satisfying. The way these mechanics are supported by sweet mini-games keeps the gameplay refreshing and engaging. On top of that, the story is surprisingly rich and deep. It’s a clean, well-crafted, and passionate project that both management fans and K-pop enthusiasts should definitely try out!

I want to start off by saying that I genuinely love this game. I had so much fun from start to finish. It’s definitely not perfect, but it’s easily the best idol management game I’ve ever played. I love the visuals, the music, and the overall vibe. It’s obvious that a lot of love went into it, and that the developers genuinely understand K-pop and how everything works behind the scenes. I do have a few critiques, though. I wish there were more characters to choose from. The cast is great, but after a while I found myself wishing there were a few more trainees with different personalities and storylines. The rival group also has some of the best character designs in the game, which honestly made me want even more recruitable characters. My biggest issue is the ending. [spoiler]It feels really abrupt. The game builds up to your debut, and it keeps reminding you that award night is coming. Naturally, I assumed the award show would be the big finale where you’d get to see whether all your hard work paid off. Instead, the game just ends right after your debut. At first, I honestly thought my game had glitched because the “X days before award night” message was still sitting in the top left corner. It genuinely felt like I was missing an entire final chapter.[/spoiler] I’d love an open ended mode after debut where you can keep managing your group, continue improving their skills, release more music, build their following, and just keep playing for as long as you want. I feel like there’s so much more that could be done with the management system. There are also a few bugs here and there. For example, with one of the side characters, I could never get the relationship route to progress no matter what I tried. It wasn’t game breaking, but it was definitely frustrating. One smaller thing I’d love to see is more customization. It’s not my biggest complaint, but having more fashion options, hairstyles, and outfits would make the game even better. That feels like the perfect kind of content for a future DLC or update. Even with those issues, I had a great experience. This game has so much potential, and I think that’s exactly why these critiques stand out so much. I can see just how amazing it could become. I really hope the developers continue expanding the game with more content, characters, story events, customization options, and DLC because I’d happily keep playing. This is already a fantastic foundation, and with a little more content and polish, I genuinely think it could become the definitive idol management game.

this game has no interesting continuation, truly disappointing, i hope there's an improvement in the story and no ending

Sinceramente eu amei o jogo nessa primeira Run, a dinamica é legal, os personagens te envolvem e ate a ambientação é muito legal. Mas tem coisas que eu mudaria, primeiro que as coisas não continuam depois do debut e eu genuinamente achei que poderia criar mais albuns e desenvolver elas com outras batalhas, mas não, o jogo só acaba. Eu ficaria muito feliz de continuar com o dinheiro que que consegui juntar seja com o meu grupo ou um novo, sem a pressão do dinheiro já que tivemos sucesso. Outro ponto seria, em outros saves, continuando ou não, que mudasse pelo menos o nome das personagens e os atributos. Já que jogar de novo com as mesmas meninas fica meio desanimador. O jogo é bom, é divertido e fiquei entretida durante as 6h seguidas. Até chorei com a despedida delas kkk Mas realmente fiquei chateada de não continuar com elas ou com o dinheiro e conquistas.