Alphard's Asterism

some of the quests are a lil hard to understand

send a like in someone's showroom: this is liking an item

send a stamp to each item within an outfit: press zr to send a stamp to an outfit (it should work with lookit mail if you need something quick)

send a stamp to an item displayed in someone's showroom fun fact: it doesnt seem to trigger if youre in the same showroom....unlike liking an item in a showroom? shrugs just move to the next showroom

News about the gameplay:

People's creations will be displayed to everyone! Since the game relies on influencer culture, it uses other people’s likes, there is going to be a rank, the more the likes, the higher the ranks!

The moment you introduce a reliance on likes, popularity, and ranking, it immediately becomes a reflection of real life social media where people start to focus on what they can do to get more likes/popularity instead of actually enjoying making their own designs for design's sake. Everyone wants to win and everyone wants to be on top. If a high popularity means your designs are more likely to show up all the time, it means the same popular people are going to stay popular forever.

Some thoughts on the Fashion Dreamer reveal in the Feb 8th Nintendo Direct…

As a longtime Girls Mode/Style Savvy series fan, my first thought was, “Ahh, this seems really cute??” Not that it’d be a successor to the beloved fashion game franchise, but still! In lieu of a Switch-based GM/SS game, I wanna keep my mind open.

And, watching the trailer, the graphics deffo give me that vibe. The soft charrie designs, the pastel graphics… The endless fashion choices! 🥰 It seems as though it might have potential.

But two things kinda deter me? One, and that’s the odd demonstration of gameplay, in how the narrator states you’re just walking around to help out influencers…like…okay. Are these all other players? Are they players and NPCs? Do we get any back stories or?? And two, the mention of connecting online, because so far Nintendo has almost 100% tied up online play for Switch games behind the NSO paywall, which is just…nah for me, personally. 😔

So, in sum, I hope that we get a better understanding of the gameplay soon. But I also hope, more so, that if we get another GM/SS game, it holds true to everything we fans have loved previously while looking gorgeous and having fun stories to play out.

TL;DR: I rly miss Style Savvy, folks.

Having watched the trailer a couple times, I think there is too little information/clarity about gameplay features right now. I'll be waiting for them to release more details, there's just not a whole lot for me to form an opinion on from a one-minute trailer.

Some things I like based on what was shown:

-Updated graphics. Character models, environment, and I love that pastel aesthetic. The clothes look way better and have more individuality (if that makes sense--in Style Savvy games you could see when clothes used the same model types, here it's not quite as obvious). Being able to customize with your own colours is a big plus!

-More control over the camera for photoshoots. We had limited angles/zoom in the previous games so having more freedom of movement is a godsend. Also seems like we can play pose motions (hopefully we can pause them too) for that perfect shot.

-Being able to play as a male character!

Some other things I noticed: the option to tuck your top and these mysterious Bingo tickets.

I WILL, however, be sad if there isn't a shop of some kind that we can run. The shop has been a core part of the Style Savvy games and I always enjoyed collecting the furniture items, decorating, and coming up with fun layouts. I'm hoping that the ability to run around outside is something we can do when we don't want to be cooped up in the shop all the time buuut if we're going shop-less than that's just how it's going to be I guess.

Also, collecting clothes just by liking someone's outfit is a bit eh, mostly because it would take no effort (well, tbf I guess you'd have to FIND that person first). I would miss going to the exhibition hall daily and checking for things I hadn't bought yet. Again, there's too much we still don't know about the game so maybe it's just an additional method for you to get special/different clothes.

About the possibility of needing a Nintendo Online sub--I assume it would only be required for features that would let you "interact" with other players, much like visiting others' boutiques or taking photos with them. I pay a couple sub fees for other online services right now and would be reluctant to add yet another sub only for one game, so that would be a big bummer for me since I wouldn't be able to interact with the community. I dunno, we'll see.