I just downloaded and tried to play it, but for some reason it seems laggy from the start page to the game page. I want to play the song, but because it's so laggy I can't tap the notes T_T
“I don't want to play with project sekai anymore”
This is a good game, a great new release for the gacha rhythm market.
The graphics are a solid 10/10 - the cards (both “actors” and “posters”) are, objectively speaking, beautiful and bloomed illustrations are animated. The 3D models are well-made and don't look uncanny despite the blank stares, with nice outfits and detailed stage effects to match. Live2D models are modern and smooth.
The music is great. Nothing outstanding about the covers, but the original songs are catchy. Some characters' voices sound very amateurish, but that's not a death sentence. Planetarium Revue sounds like a song by fine from Enstars at the beginning.
The gameplay is very visibly inspired (if you could even call it that) by project sekai, with the same lane design, changing note sizes, note tap effects and even skill activation UI. It is, however, different in that hold notes, instead of sliding left or right, move via flicks in the middle of them. Each song also has several parts where note sizes are fixed to a number of even lanes (every note takes up exactly a third/fourth/fifth of the screen instead of being random). These are relatively novel concepts and i'm glad this game has something special to it.
(!!!!!EDIT!!!!!: The paragraph below no longer applies as it has been patched. To greatly reduce lag you can click the cogwheel in the game start menu and select “OpenGL”. I'm still keeping it in to preserve history of the game's state at launch)
All the above points are, however, negated by the horrendous lack of optimization, making the game almost unplayable with lag every time a purple note comes up because its lane effect is too much for the game to handle, and after playing a single song on the most minimalist of settings possible you might as well go fry an egg on your phone. If you have a new high-end phone, you might get away with simply disabling 3D, but i nearly burnt my finger trying to unlock a Stella chart (equivalent to proseka's requirement to clear an expert chart with few goods or worse before accessing a master)
The teambuilding aspect is surprisingly complex, with needing to take as much as card colour and position in the team to properly activate Sense and Star Acts, respectively.
The UI is easy enough to navigate, with the slightly outdated but practical “bottom of the screen” menu. Something incredibly sweet about the home page is that you can click on the girls in the lobby to select the tab where they appear (e.g. pressing Koyomi will direct you to the Story tab).
Not rating the storyline because i have not and am not planning to try to translate the game or watch the anime. I can note, though, that it was a galaxy brain decision to name one of the units “Eden”.
The value is difficult to rate for a game taking its first steps. The prices in the shop don't arise any suspicions from me, but i'm not knowledgeable at all on the matter. There's a log-in pass for only 480 yen, but it barely gives you enough for a 10-pull.
The gacha rates for the actors (the cards you use in your actual lineup) are a standard of 82% for the 2★, 15% for the 3★ and 3% for the 4★, while the rates for the posters (support cards that also give costumes, as far as i can tell) are 80% for R, 16% for SR and 3% for SSR. Both have sparks at 200 pulls.
Logging in on release gives you enough to make 30 pulls. Completing a song on any difficulty gives you 30 Geki jewels and getting rank A on extra gives you another 30. There seem to be a few missions that give the geki jewels, but they're one-time and i failed to find any dailies, which i suppose will be added later. Visible free geki jewel income doesn't seem extremely bright, but maybe i'm just not looking where i should or most of them are going to come from events. What i am certain about is that i am not particularly drowning in dia at the moment, though.
Speaking of freebies, there's an ongoing mission to get a free Kokona actor 4★ by doing absolutely nothing (read a single main story episode, clear two game modes once, spend stamina, etc) and another one to get an SSR poster of each group by doing way too much (read their main story, which is modeled after banseka's unit splitting and 20 episode format, get the total level of all cards of the members to 1000, get a full combo which [was] completely impossible at the moment, etc). This is probably just the honeymoon phase, but i still consider it generous because the cards look pretty.
TL;DR: Game good but so very laggy (not anymore!)
My probably harsh review about World Dai Star (WDS).
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+ Beautiful card, poster (equip), and character designs.
+ Full of great and likeable songs
+ Rating system based on accuracy and chart level.
± Lesbo characters.
BUT :
- Very unoptimized. Lag, bug, and crash are like a normal feature in WDS. (Even, i encountered a hilarious bug like my library music is not disappeared while i played the chart)
- 3D everywhere, when 3D itself is not good enough imo.
- Very confusing. From team formations, skills, stamina consumption with big number, etc.
- Gameplay mechanics are basically just a copypaste from other gacha rhythm games and nothing new. For example, big notes mechanic from Proseka, slide and flick mechanic from Im@s Deresute, also straight flick mechanic from D4DJ's stretch cmiiw.
- Ugly chart design. It's all about slide and flick that are difficult to see and act like a combo breaker. Even some devices get lagging from lots of flick in screen.
- Obviously trying to be a hardest gacha rhythm game, because of olivier difficulty, a hidden difficulty where 3 or more fingers are needed to clear the chart. And, why they make it hidden, if that difficulty is playable in multiplayer mode, seriously!?
- Doesn't have much players in game, also multiplayer filled with 900+ rating gorillas (a JP term for pro rhythm player) or dedicated players.
- Multiplayer mode feels like solo mode with other peoples, no something like fever mode iirc. Even, other players' results can't be checked if they leave the room quickly.
- Profile stats are mostly hidden. So, no flex and stalk achievements.
- This is just my opinion, i got dead game vibe from WDS and it reminds me of Touhou Danmaku Kagura. Most likely it will have their EoS sooner or later. Tho, I don't care much with WDS, so i only have 864 rating there and quit asap. (*cough* no one asking )
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TL;DR WDS is a rhythm game with beautiful arts and great songs. But, the quality of the game itself is meh.
Not recommended.
ive seen a lot of people say that this game will replace pj sekai or end pj sekai's career. but thats just not true, for starters pj sekai and World dai star have very different target audiences even tho they are the same genre of game
pj sekai is primarily for vocaloid fans who like vocaloid and the songs, and when they play the game they also started liking the original characters and their stories too
World Dai Star has more original songs than covers, and its certantly not targeting vocaloid fans
second point: Their graphics, art and gacha "style" are very different, if you prefer pj sekai art and gacha you probably wont like World Dai Star's gacha and art, since its much more 2010's anime, while Pj sekai is more modern in terms of stylistic choices and have very different cards quality like, compared to WDS
third point: Wolrd Dai star is just starting, it doesnt have a lot of songs, cards, or story. the game would only get close to pj sekai's level of design, art, gameplay, and overall playability in the future, and it probably wont
when i comes to rythmn games it for sure will NOT be replacing Pj Sekai or even Bandori, they are the modern top tier mobile free rhythm games
I love this game. But I don't know much about the game's story since I can't read Japanese so I only read the stories translation on YouTube. I'm on Eden Main Story Chapter 5. And the blue haired girl is an interesting character to explore. I want to get to know her more.
Oh, and whatever device you use. It'll basically very laggy unless you have a high specs. Mine's Infinix Note 30 but luckily I found my right settings so it isn't laggy anymore 🥳. If you have a higher or same device specification as me and you wanted to know how to fix the lag. You can check my settings if you go to my QooApp profile. There will be one post there that will guide you.
Thank you for reading my review \(๑╹◡╹๑)ﾉ.
It's not a bad game actually. The gameplay is so similar to other idol rhythm games. It's also so plain.
Personally i love the covers and songs, it doesn't sounds bad.
The game is still super laggy even if you do fps 120 or do other things. That makes gameplay super bad.
About the story, i have no idea I'm sorry i don't understand Japanese.
Also if you're a folk like me -with no Japanese- the game can be a little bit confusing. I mean if you have an experience with idol rhythm games I'm sure you can understand but yeah it's still a little bit confusing.
The other thing that i don't like is THE DAMN UPDATES, i don't know if those updates for first anniversary or something but THERE'S A LOT, like man... Every single day I'm updating the damn game.
Anyways shortly the game is not that bad, you it will worth to give it a try :)
I'm a day 1 player, I was super hype for this game since my favorite artist worked on it ( ＾ω＾ )
The songs are all really good! It's exciting cuz you don't really see unique songs anymore since a lot of things have been done already, but especially the 1st unit songs are all easy to have stuck in your head!!
The main mechanic of the game is a little confusing, but once you learn how it works it's easy to score high even with low rarity cards!
I think the only thing that isn't communicated well is that your player level is locked behind your progression on auditions! You have to score 2☆ on each song to get a single level's worth of increase to your max, which is really weird. But it makes sense since card levels are tied to player level. It's not really hard to score high either, I just wish it was communicated to the player better. I was stuck at level 50 for months because I hated playing auditions lol
This game is an easy top tier because Iroha is in it ( ´∀`)
у игры определённо есть свой потенциал: неплохие карточки (ебучий фансервис опускаем, я говорю конкретно про рисовку), 3д модельки очень даже ничего... но КАК ЖЕ СИЛЬНО ЛАГАЕТ ЭТО ПРОСТО ПИЗДЕЦ. оптимизировать игру и всё будет заебок, а сейчас временно ставлю 2/5
Everyone seems to have issues with laggyness. Quick tip on how I fixed mine: Go to settings- performance settings. and it should have some Japanese characters that say MV next to them. It should also say ON/OFF. Turn the mv off and it was fixed. (Sorry if this wasn't helpful)
I LOVE WDS SO MUCH
it drained a lot of my storage but its honestly a pretty decent rhythm game! the storyline is so awesome and all the characters are so beautiful (im an iroha oshi btw heh) I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEY COVER VOCALOID SONGS IN THIS GAME THATS SO AMAZING?? SHIGURE'S VAMPIRE COVER AND RAMONAS SIX TRILLION YEARS AND A OVERNIGHT STORY ARE SUCH BANGER COVERS. If you're looking for an project sekai or idolmaster shiny colors alternative then world dai star is perfect for you! the songcharts are also so fun to play I have trouble flicking left to right instead of up because im so used flicking notes up but im getting used to it 👍 in other words great game. You should totally stream wanna be STAR on repeat because that song is SO catchy
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