#anyway yeah yeah I know it’s a gacha boo hoo Idc

[chryza]

Listen I’m a veteran of the fashion gacha genre, I played Shining Nikki at global launch. I downloaded Life Makeover to chase a boy check it out. I am completely fucking floored at this game and what it offers. Act I Scene I I’m shitting myself over the character creation(!!!!) that is more robust than most triple A RPGs that can be changed at any time. Except for, you know, skin color because apparently that’s too fucking hard and a massive issue but I digress. I am then greeted by a compelling visual novel (standard to the genre) with NPCs with animation rigs and fully voiced cutscenes to go along with entertaining detective VN mechanics. Already a massive win, I’m hooked on the story and characters.

I go to the dress up studio and discover to my incredible delight this game has Fully. Modular. Dyeing. Design possibilities instantly become limitless. I am shown the photo taking studio. Fully rendered 3-D space you can move your model around to take advantage of lighting and camera angles. Glorious. Built in editor to tweak photos in game, no more shall I be forced to export to photoshop (I will anyway bc I’m a perfectionist). I’m throwing up.

They turn around and hand me a fashion DESIGN studio mechanic in which you can create your OWN clothes for ur little digital Barbie to wear including a system for drawing/designing your own fabric which I WILL be busting out my tablet for. This game feels unreal at this point. I’m fucking delirious and high on snorting HD rhinestones and glitter.

Game then introduces me to the housing mechanic which is. Not unique but like you gotta understand. It’s not just oh swap out this furniture’s pattern move around these cute little jpegs NO. We are talking a fully rendered 3-D space with high fidelity graphics that you can decorate yourself with interactive furnishings and sims needs we have stumbled into a completely different game at this point (and your model is still wearing whatever cute clothes you’re in to fully appreciate the obscene level of detail). There are apparently dozens of DIFFERENT house floor plans you can buy and explore. And then I discover you can visit other peoples houses when they hold community meals and there’s a chat and emote function and I realize in my bewildered haze I have somehow stumbled not into a gacha but a fucking fashion MMORPG. For your phone.

I’m lightheaded with glee. I haven’t even unlocked everything there’s more features. I’m in love. I think I am sexually attracted to this fucking game. We marry at dawn