Little guide that most may or may not already know
Stat :
Speed : Affect maximum speed.
Generally useful, but don't specialized in this if you didn't use Escape (from the pack) strategy, or most race was Short distances and Miles (Sakura Bakushin O).
Stamina : Affect how much your speed decrease in a match.
You don't need to specialized it if your horse didn't race in mid and long distances. You need moderate stamina in mid distances(Mejiro McQueen) and specialized in it if you need to conquer long distances (Rice Shower)
Strength : Affect acceleration and course taking.
Pretty useful for Chase, Insert, and Lead strategy but generally useless for Escape strategy.
Why is it useful? simple, it was because!
No matter how fast or strong you are if you got surrounded by the pack, then you are over!
Guts : Affect last spurt.
Good for Chase, Insert, and Lead strategy.
It affect horse determination to win at the last corner and make them easier to overtake their opponent.
After much training trying to specialzed in it, I found out that it was basically useless to specialized in it since this stat was shitty if your other stat was shitty.
Intelligent : Affect your skill
Generally good for all uma musume, especially if you have lots of skills. You don't need to specialized in this , but having more intelligent would be advantage in a race.
Additional info...
Skill:
Yellow skill added your uma usume capabilities in a race.
Blue skill affect your uma musume stamina recovery.
Red skill debuff your rival uma musume.
Green skill affect your uma musume adaptivity.
That's all for stat I guess. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm a girl, I don't usually play games that is focused on male audience because I know there won't be any male characters but UmaMusume.....THIS GAME IS AN EXCEPTION OK I LEGIT LOVE ALL THE HORSES
I have not play similar games to UmaMusume before so I find the training concept rather hard. But that didn't stop me frm plying it. Had always wanted to have a game with harder challenges so this game really suit me a lot!!
This game is basically a 'train your idol' game but horse version. All the horses are pretty (pretty illustrations), even the support cards are so nicely drawn!!! Different horses have different personalities & specialties so you really have to plan your training menu well in order to make your selected horse get 1st placing in the last UMA FINALS!
Comes to the story section, where you get to read main story and your horse waifu's stories. (Ngl when I first saw Oguri racing in main story, I was admiring how cool she looks! > <)
There's MVs too! Where you get to see your horse waifus sing and dance!! (my heart cant take the amazing-ness of those MVs) But there's a certain requirement to unlock them. Unlimited Impact has been stucked in my head ever since i unlocked it so yes, I can say that the songs are pretty darn good!
Other than that, just enjoy smash tapping your horse waifus in your main screen jkjk.
ps: Agnes best waifu
This game is amazing. It's a very challenging game for those who like to play Japanese gacha games blindfolded, or just like to go for random stuff at the start.
I can tell you guys a couple of conclusive tips from watching Japanese guides, and just from experience.
You want 2-3 highly rated SSR or SR cards for speed, endurance, stamina, and wits. The only training card you care about is the tutorial girl, the one with green clothes. This is one of the support card that you can borrow, so dont bother rerolling for it. Keep in mind, the cards needed differs on the unit that you use so dont generalize that you always need 3 speed cards for every horse girls. Some horse girls do need 3 stamina, some need 3 speed, and so on. But we know for sure that guts support card is universally terrible. Guts is basically the one with the flame icon.
This means you have to priotize support cards not characters. When you do your gacha, make sure to do support cards and get the right deck first, then summon for characters. A character is useless without good support cards.
There are 5 training routines that you could do. Depending on the meters or the type of race that you're doing, you will either need more blue skills if you have below than average stamina but a lot of speed and endurance; or, if you have above than average stamina, endurance, or wits, yellow skills are the token to victory in place of speed. Even so, having high raw speed is always nice.
Speed > Endurance > Wits (skill activation rate) > Stamina > Guts (increase speed midpoint of the race). You should priotize your stats by that order. 4 and 5 can be skipped entirely. Unless you're doing like a 1800+ long race, stamina at 300-500 is a good range. If you have too much stamina for short races, it's kinda like having 5 chances to hit a ball, but the challenge was to hit the ball once, the other 4 chances are seen as a wasted stat.
Simply put, just train mostly speed, endurance, and wits. Raising endurance can indirectly increase your stamina so dont bother too much on doing the stamina training and only do a few of them, unless you're doing the long races.
There will be an option to check your status, whether it meets the requirement for the race or not, before you start your race. This represents in "O", "X", and a triangle symbol. O = you have enough, double O for exceeding the race's requirement (you dont want this on stamina), X = you know what, triangle = you're between O and X, barely passing.
And that will be it, have fun everyone. You can find deck guides online if you cant clear the entire tournament. It's rough but not impossible without it. Search for your horse girl and what deck they used for her. Also, skill order is another important factor to getting every 1st place in each race, but you should really just have fun and play around with what you got.
As someone who has played this game for a few months, joined the Discord and watches tutorials, here are a few tips for beginners:
1. There are certain support cards that you would want more than others. If you get hold of Super Creek, you already have a strong account. I'd advise rerolling until you get her. Having good supports is crucial; if you have bad supports, you cannot train your horses as easily.
2. There are no bad horses, only bad trainers. Every support has a use for certain kinds of horses, so make sure to read into your supports to pair them with the girl you want to train! Whether you have a 1☆ or a 3☆ horse, both can be useful!
Those are my tips, now, onto my review:
I have been playing this game since March. This game is designed to be a casual game, so you would only do 4 or 5 training sessions per day. This is great, because you rarely feel burnout or get bored.
The characters are mostly based on real racehorses, so each horse looks and races similarly to their real-life counterparts, which is a nice touch. All of them are voiced well and are distinct.
The game takes up about 7GB of storage, but it utilises this by providing high-quality graphics. There are many MVs and costumes, which are beautiful to watch and look at. Glad they released this 2 years late, because the step-up in graphics is unreal.
The gameplay can feel repetitive, but as I said earlier, this game is casual. There are many events: story-based, champion races and zodiac tournaments, all which feel simple but add an extra incentive as well as the goals to clear.
They're also adding an extra training scenario involving teams, which should be interesting.
I admittedly haven't read the stories, due to the fact that I can't read much Japanese. However, the anime is great and heartfelt, so I am sure the story here is great too.
The gacha system can be salty. There is one box for Uma Musume and another for supports. If you pull 200 times in any box, you can spark the card you want, which is less than other games, thankfully.
If you have good supports that you are satisfied with, there shouldn't be much need to pull for supports, and you can focus on the Uma Musume.
I'd say just go for your best girls.
Paid gems cost about £15 per pull, which is a lot less than other games. The game, to me at least, doesn't feel pay-to-win, and they don't push the purchases at you, so feel free to spend or not at your own pace.
That's the end of my review, have fun, trainers! 🏇🏾💨
well it good and i like it and also sometimes you make wrong training like when you want press fire you didnt mean to press the heart and sometimes you go slower than any kind of players playing and battling you(how do i know that it sometimes makes you go slow?)cause my brother and me battle each other and my load was slower than my brother load and i know he going to win cause he have the horse girl he pick to battle me and i dont know each horse girls is good at it and my brother said look at the A or S or B that is when they are good at it and i love how you can sometimes get some free pulls in new events sometimes but kinda free pulls in horse girls cards and free pulls for gacha horse girls and sometimes it glitch it press 2 times to skip when i go to battle for my fans but i hope you can fix these glitchs in uma musume: pretty derby | Japanese
This game was so good, to fully enjoy game you likely need to able read japanese, because the gameplay are filled with story and dialogue choice, but you can still enjoy the game whitout reading these dialogue. There are live MV where you can custom its members, some song have mutiple voice version. It also known as waifu game
- Gameplay
You train horse girl to win URA Finals. A horse girl has their own mission (race/fan), failing a mission will cause the training end (game over). Also your choices during event will impact your horse stat depend on your choice. After the game end, your trained horse are recorded and will used to arena, daily, legend race, etc.
- Gacha
The gacha system is separated to character and support card.
Character is used to training as your trained horse girl, every character have different skill, bonus stat, and aptitude.
Support card used as boosting your horse girl stat, every support card have different effect and skill that will acquired to your trained horse girl. Its very important if you want achieve high rank horse girl
- Farming
Because the gameplay filled with story, the farming will take much time, after finishing training your horse girl will get inherit stat to next horse girl at start on training, this stat is random and you will have to play mutiple training to get good inherit stat
-Story
There are main story, horse girl story, and event story. On main story there are race to win before unlocking next episode, unlocking MV, and give you support card
Its hard to decide gacha if you f2p, i prefer character because i play casualy, if you want max stat support card is priority
this game is the only game that made me baffled and confused at the same time.. the only game also that make me have to pray alot to RNGesus not for gacha, but for winning a single tournament..
if anyone told you that this game is not luck-based, slap that bs on their face BECAUSE it really is.. you can do fine most of the time and then your horse's mood suddenly drop and f up everything .. it happened to me four times consecutively like "wtf!? i give you enough rest and also go out playing crane game and yet you still not in the mood!? AND YOU HAVE BAD CONDITION NOW!?" not just that, it even happened to me that my horse suddenly doesnt want to train, wasting days and days of trainings... oh, the stamina still got consumed even though you gave up the tournament so.. good job there
the race also has this bs luck mechanic where you can have best stats and yet still lost cause the game feel like it but it also can help you out but not everytime like what i experienced in both legend race and pvp.. how the hell a C+ horse that didnt even win a single uma final can beat up B+ horse that has uma final medal? in legend race, my B+ oguri cap cant even win and yet, my B agnes tachyon can win 90% of the time..
pro tip: if you wanna win like a champ, throw away your sexual desire for waifus and only pull for support cards cause they're mandatory for your victory. also, lvling all your support card for increasing luck where random card that didnt included in your pre-roster will trigger and give you boost..
story is pretty good tho
Saying the graphic is amazing is an understatement, it probably looks and feels better than you might think.
Gacha is stingy and brutal, events are ridiculously grindy and game takes a significant time per run, not bad or good, just keep it in mind. Hopefully after they cash a few more billion yens they'll make gacha slightly less ruthless.
The raising of the girls is great, they ticked so many good points in the raising sim part, only being hampered by your need to gacha (and it's not cheap) to enjoy it.
My gripe, and the gripe of the entire community, is how incredibly bad the races are. The race system is BAD, like -10/10 bad levels. They are buggy, your horses IA is trash, results are random, advice given is useless, some skills are useless, and the list goes on... Having excellent training and being overly qualified for a race you can randomly lose for no real reason, this isn't so bad except you need to wait another goddamn 30 minutes to reach the race again and lose to RNG again (or win, just get lucky).
I strongly recommend to install the game, raise a few girls to enjoy the ambience and whatnot... then uninstall a week later. It really is great to play around for a while, but it gets ridiculously stale, grindy and frustrating after a short while.
Fun time waster, but unfortunately the game is very pay to win. It doesn't detract much since you can enjoy the base game itself without much trouble, but it still takes some of the value out of it.
My only other issue with the game is the account linking. Make sure you copy your ID and set up the feature that allows you to transfer your account via password, otherwise you'll end up in the same situation I did. I started an account a few months ago, spent multiple hours earning characters and currency, but my data was unfortunately lost despite linking my account to Facebook. I temporarily uninstalled the game to make space for another app, but my data was still lost.
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