#starevo

-The next day-

Ai: Goood moorning! Supervisor: Morning, Ai-chan. I'm looking forward to working with you for today's commercial shoot Ai: I’ll be in your care-♪ Supervisor: I believe you've heard already, but this shoot is for a body soap commercial you've done previously. Supervisor: Since the last one was so popular, they made the offer to have you do it again. Supervisor:　I'm looking forward to seeing your full powered cuteness Ai-chan. Ai: Of course☆ Ai: (I'm really happy that I'm getting work but...) Supervisor: Alright, can you gently blow on the bubbles in your hands and then say your line. 3, 2, 1... Start!! Ai: Foo- Ai: With the highest quality floating bubbles, let's get refreshed together☆ Onee-san♪ Director: So cute~! Just as we thought a cutie like Ai-chan was the perfect pick for this commercial. Supervisor: Is it ok? Director: Absolutely! Director: We'll look forward to working with you again when the third shoot is decided, Ai-chan. Ai: Are you sure!? Thank you so much! Director: For the third shoot... I'd like if the costume was more fluffier and maybe fairy like~ Director: Ah, but throwing out the angel idea is much too hard. But anything that makes Ai-chan's cuteness stand out is good. Ai: Ehehe, I'm so happy Ai: (I'm really happy but...) Ai: (I want to wear something cool like what I saw Yui-chan in yesterday) Ai: (Not only that but I want people to say I'm cool!) Ai: (I know I still have a ways to go before I can be like Yui-chan but... I'm still a man! At least I can dream.) Director: Ah, shall we do the poster shoot now. Ai: Of course♪ Photographer: Alright, can you look over your shoulder and wink. Ai: Something like this... Ehehe☆ Photographer: That's great~ Very cute~ Photographer: Girls might get jealous over how unbearably cute you are! Ai: (How is that a compliment for a guy?) Ai: (I mean, now isn't the time to think about that. I have to do my job) Photographer: Ok next, can you kiss the rose petal while looking over here? Ai: Alright☆ Is this okay~? Ai: (Concentrate, concentrate!) Ai: (This is my job!) -- Manager: Ah, Uomi-kun. Good work today. Ai: Good work today as well- Manager: Actually Uomi-kun there's someone I'd like you to meet. Magazine Editor: Nice to meet you.　I'm from ran-ran's editorial department. Ai: Nice to meet you. I'm Uomi Ai from petit march☆ Magazine Editor: Mhm mhm, he is good. Ai: For what? Magazine Editor: Actually we've decided to do a large scale feature for our next volume. Magazine Editor: So, we'd like to have you, Uomi-kun, to be on the opening color page Ai: W-... What!? Me, in ran-ran!? Ai: (Getting a huge job like this, I'm speechless!) Ai: (But ran-ran is known for sexy guy photos aren't they) Ai: (Before this they did a feature on LunaLore, and before that a feature about men that wanted to be held!(?)) Ai: (This magazine has a reputation for promoting cool men. Does that mean... Me as well...!?) Ai: (If that's the case then people must know that I'm not just cute!) Magazine Editor: Ah, first let's take a look at the job proposal. Alright Uomi-kun take a look and tell me what you think. Manager: I myself think that this fits the current Uomi perfectly too. Ai: That kind of flattery is making me a little embarrassed~ Manager: While this is a job the company wants to take, the rest is left up to how you feel about it, Uomi-kun. Manager: Ah, here's the proposal. Ai: Thank you very much- Umm, let's see? Ai: ... Huh.... Ai: Cr... Crossdressing!?

Welcome to the Starevo tutorial! Lines with an * at the beginning aren’t in the tutorial, but are stuff I’m mentioning for the later gameplay.

1. Joining

Enter your Player name. Last name, then first name, Japanese style.

2. Intro

The school’s stuco VP will talk to you for a while. I’d like to tell what he says, but I’m not quite confident enough in my jp listening skills to do so lol. He does call you “president-chan”, though. You’re given a dialogue option:

It doesn’t matter what you say, but the top says “I’m not very confident” and the bottom basically says “I’ll try to do my best.” Both are not very confident sounding either way, which is understandable considering you’re suddenly being thrust into a position of power in a dang idol school, lol.

3. Lives - require LP

If you’re used to mobile rhythm games, the gameplay is pretty easy to get from just the images. There’s only one “button” and it doesn’t matter where you tap.

*Select a song, select a friend or guest as support, select a team, and click the pink button to begin (out of tutorial).

Small pink circle: Regular tap.

Blue circle with trail: Tap and hold.

Green circle with shine in the middle: Swipe.

Big pink gradient circle: Tap with two fingers (or double tap real fast, if you’re lazy.)

Star shaped: Tap A Lot Real Fast. You need to get a certain amount to get a perfect; continuing after the star fills gives you bonuses.

*After a live, you’ll see your results and get rewards. If your support was a guest, you’ll get a popup prompting you to send a friend request; you can send it (blue) or not (gray).

4. Lessons - require AP

You can increase affection(?) degree in lessons. Select the lesson type by selecting one of the colored circles. Keep an eye on the characters condition-- how effective the lessons are is directly proportional to how in shape the character is! (Just like real life wow)

Tap twice on a lesson type (circle) to begin. You’ll need to tap through several lesson types to complete a whole session, and can give items to the characters to increase how much they gain in a certain attribute by tapping on the orange button with a coffee cup.

Sometimes characters will be too tired, or moody, to participate in a certain lesson. Keep an eye on their mood, especially if you’re thinking about using an item. Sometimes they’ll sleep, which means they don’t participate in that bit of the lessons. However, letting them get rest can up their FEVER gauge and their tone. When the FEVER gauge is filled, the effectiveness of the lessons increases greatly.

*You can give presents during the lesson to make something good happen. Try to give what the character likes! When a character participates in a lesson, their affection goes up! Let’s become good friends with everyone!

*Lessons are done by unit. Outside of the tutorial, when you click the lesson button, you’ll choose a unit to train.

5. Story

The tutorial will next take you to the story page. After the introduction (which you already read), the stories will no longer be fully voiced. *You need to spend star/story keys to read most chapters. The mechanics work like any mobile vn; if you don’t want to sit through it, you can expand the menu in the upper right and click the skip button to fast fwd through.

*If you’ve played Enstars, the stories are similar to that. They’re organized by unit.

6. Units

Time to choose your boys! The screen shows you pura.net at first; switch between them by swiping, not by tapping the arrows. When a unit catches your fancy (or you find the one you’re already dedicated to), tap the pink button. It will then ask if you’re sure you want to start with this unit; click OK.

7. Gacha

Time to scout. You’ll automatically be taken to the gacha page in the tutorial, where you’ll be given a card of one of the members of your chosen unit. This ends the tutorial.

*Not in tutorial: the actual gacha function. If you’ve played other mobage, you know this. If not, it’s simple: The regular gacha (at the time of writing, only one, but there will probably be more) requires the little rainbow star stones. Spent 15 stars, get one card. Spend 150, get 10 cards. Getting 10 cards ups your chances of a better card! The point gacha (lower card rarities) requires 5000 points(?) for a 10 pull, and 500 for 1.

The tutorial ends after you get your card. The game will give you a couple messages and then prompt you to let it restart so it can complete more downloads (shouldn't take long). Upon starting the game again, you’ll receive login bonuses and be thrown into the fray.

8. Other stuff tutorial mentions

Cards can be strengthened using items. These are what you obtain from playing lives and completing lessons. You require a story key (blue star key) to read story chapters.

9. Cards

The top button on the card menu is your team organization. There are 5 team slots. Clicking the rightmost button on the bar that shows the cards will show the active skills in the team.

You have two types of teams: live teams, and lesson teams. When you open it, you’re on live teams. Click the other button above the card images to switch. There’s a bunch more buttons on here, but at the time of writing this idk what they are, I’ll. fix this later.

Second button is to level up your cards. Select a card (I have to tap them twice? sometimes more lol) to level. I’d like to add more but I can’t do anything there yet so I’ll fix this later;

Third button is awakening. I assume this is like idolizing/changing/blooming/ect. It looks to require items rather than a second copy? Will update later as well.

The bottom button lets you view a card’s stats. Level, specific stats, and skills. Click the middle button under the card to see the character’s profile. The third button will bring you to the unit pages, where you can look at any character’s profile by tapping them.

10. Menu stuff!

The main menu can be accessed from most pages by clicking the arrow in the bottom left. It’s shown across the bottom, and is showing by default on the home page. You can full screen your character/cg with the button in the left.

Left to right: Home, live, lesson, story, characters, gacha, friends, more menu menu.

10a. Friends

The rightmost button on the menu lets you view friends. It begins as a desolate and barren wasteland of loneliness. Right side buttons, top to bottom: Friends list, friend requests, pending approval from the other person, and search (find some friends!) The search page looks a bit glitchy atm but nothing gamebreaking. Click the button next to their name to view their profile, or the rightmost on their little bar to send them a request.

10b. More Menu Menu

Left to right:

Profile, settings, storage/inventory (items) Shop, friends, Transfer data, help, contact us Opening movie, terms of service, back to title.

10c. Settings

System options -> Live options -> Story options

System options top to bottom: music volume, sound effects volume, voice volume, lightweight mode (makes it run better).

Live options top to bottom: music volume, SE volume, voice volume, lightweight mode, timing calibration, movie (animations), cut-ins (the character popups when skills activate).

Story options is just text speed.

10d. Welcome menu

...This should probably be first but whatever.

Tap the bottom left button to access. Left to right (to bottom): OP movie, takeover/transfer/”inheritance”, clear cache, contact us.

In all honesty I don’t understand the transfer stuff myself... It looks like you can put an account on for sure, but I don’t know how to assign an email and password to your current account.