From Discord – Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 Impressions
An excerpt from Discord regarding my initial thoughts on School Idol Festival 2.
Jacen Sekai — 2/1/2024 11:18 PM Man SIF2 is somehow simultaneously a really fun throwback to my first foray into rhythm games and a super disappointing mess It is just “SIF but with an updated UI” which, despite what the rest of the community thinks, I don't think it necessarily a reason it shouldn't exist but a lot of the implementation feels lazy and not well put together Lots of little things like button presses feel super unsatisfying between the audio and visual feedback and a lot of the various menus just play the main menu theme rather than having a unique background track But despite all that, just playing SIF again was a ton of fun Brought me back to the early days of playing rhythm games on the lowest difficulty, not really challenging myself, and still having a ton of fun It's a massive shame that SIF is just going to not exist anymore, because it's definitely a thing that needs to continue to exist
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Jacen Sekai — 2/1/2024 11:28 PM I haven't even been that attached to SIF for a pretty long time but I was reminded today that SIF was actually my first rhythm game and while I was streaming, I was reminded how influential it was for my choice to transition over to Bandori which was the reason I ended up transitioning over to Project Sekai so basically without SIF I probably wouldn't be into rhythm games at all