Another repetitive dress up game with light plot, and no real depth - I, however, AM the target audience for these as they are my weakness. I love them.
This is really one of the only ones on Steam that I'd recommend unless you want to do gatchas.
Originally for the Switch, I actually think we're super lucky to have a global Steam PC port for this, since I doubt they ever intended it to gain popularity in the West. The port is really nice, but it's definitely waaay better on the controller. The controller icons are for Xbox, and I'm using a Ps5 controller so occasionally I'll hit the wrong button, but it's suuuper easy to redo what you've messed up.
The gameplay is very, very repetitive. You make an outfit following the guidelines it gives you (ex: "Make a beach outfit using horizontal stripes!"), and then you're free to create a magazine page for it including the pose, background, frame, stickers, etc. If you find that tedious, it gives you a base magazine page that you can choose to use, and still receive full credit for the outfit. There are little things you can do to increase your score on your days off from modeling, like going to the park, or library, and it'll give you a little two sentence "You went to the park and enjoyed playing with some local kids! Social score increased!" type of update- So don't expect being able to walk around in a 3rd person view, or in depth events. The gameplay really is just solely fashion based.
There is a friendship feature where you can build relationships with the other coworkers you have in the modeling industry, but it's exclusively pretty wholesome, flowery events & messages you get from them. Very one dimensional, you always have a great time, and they're always glad to see you. You can romance one of three guys (No romancing option for the other girls), but I think it follows the same formula.
This game does suffer heavily from Engrish, with items just having random English words or sayings on them, but I found this hilarious, and enjoyed it. There's a couple shirts that say things like "When Best Now", "Delaware the First State" and "Shine Me", a hat that just says "Thing", and purses that say stuff like "Tomorrow and Hope". 10/10 they tried their best, lol.
One downside (And the reason for the majority of the downvotes that score this game as "mostly positive" on Steam-) is that there are 9 skin tones to customize between, which are : pale, pale, pale, pale, pale, pale, pale, pale, and then very slightly tan. And the pales are seriously like ghostly white, all of them. Also a noticeable absence of curly or textured hairstyles. I think it's passable though if you consider this game is based in Japan (There is literally Mount Fuji in the map background) , where you play a Japanese girl aiming to be the #1 model in a Japanese studio, where the fashions are all also super Japanese. There also are no body type options, so you're a very petite, small woman ONLY.
It doesn't feel like a high budget game, so I doubt they ever really considered a release beyond Japan or maybe just never considered that people of other ethnicities would be playing their game. I can see it how it would be a bummer if you like to style your game characters after yourself, or have a want to be anything else than what it boxes you into. Also not really a ton of alternative clothing styles.
But if you like fashion games, and are okay with playing a small Asian girl, and wearing 90% girly fashions, this game is really cute and sweet, and it's been great to just hop on this for 30-45 minutes at a time while I'm in the mood to just chill with some easy, casual gameplay. The writing is pretty good for what it is, and I think it does have sliiiightly more plot than other games in the genre. It's adorable, I'm really enjoying it, and if you can get over the obvious shortcomings, it's a positive experience. :)
(I also got this on a 60% off sale, so for $15 I think it's great. I would definitely wait for a sale if you want to buy it, as there really isn't enough content to pay $40 for.)
