" are you ready for your zenith of the medium lessons? "

super mario brothers wonder gulped.
spider-man 2 kneeled.
baldur's gate 3 sweated profusely.
tears of the kingdom shuddered.
armored core vi fi- nah who am i kidding

" yes hiori, mano, meguru, kiriko, mamimi, kogane, sakuya, yuika, tenka, chiyuki, amana, chiyoko, rinze, kaho, natsuha, juri, fuyuko, asahi, mei, hinana, asahi, madoka, koito, nichika, hazuki, mikoto, hana, luca, and haruki. GLORY TO 283PRO !!!! "

While it sounds crazy enough to write a review about a game that's not even OUT LMAO. I why I can 100% confirm that this game will be my favourite game ever when it releases.
Song for Prism is from a series I'm genuinely very familiar with, besides owning physical copies of their albums. Having played over 200 hours of Cinderella Girls and Shiny Colours before calling it the best shit ever, it wouldn't be insane to call the biggest entry from a series where your interest was always fully captured and grasped to have the latest entry be your FAVOURITE GAME EVER?! Well here I will try to concretely enough explain "my insanity" or for some of you guys "my stupidity" I'm assuming.
I found out about Idolmaster over 5 years ago after checking out the anime out sheer curiosity, which came out nearly 18 years ago now. I accidentally stumbled upon the game on a pure whim. I was checking out anime recommendations on YouTube and I saw a promo for it on my FYP. I didn't even wanna click on the trailer nor did I want it to play, YouTube autoplayed it for me when I went to the toilet lol... but when I came back I was like "Fuck it why not" and pressed replay and my mind was blown away... To most it's a standard trailer nothing outstanding or experimental enough for someone to lose their shit over, but man... I WAS IN. From the music and the narrator to the competitive atmosphere but with a strikingly distinct visual style. It reminded so much of every show I love and it happens so rarely that I ever have such a strong sense of nostolgia from past of something in the present that I have not seen in YEARS. But from the previously mentioned things and stunning visuals and awesome music that compliment each character. I just knew it was the one. The idol genre is a VERY important genre to me because it helped me a lot as a person throughout my life and I honestly played a lot of the gacha and rhythm games but super rarely has this same feeling been matched before. I literally searched up every information about the game since and don't think I've ever been as hype for something as this game. The latest Info dump just made me even more confident in my feelings. I read the interviews with Yusuke Takayama over 100x and watched the demo over 10x. Did as much research as I can on the people working on it. Theorize heavy about future idols , cards and potential story beats. I genuinely have 100% trust in this game and don't think I can get disappointed really.
So it really a case of pure feelings of nostolgia , charm and trust that makes me so sure. I know this seems goofy asf to write this but I know myself the best so I know best what my true feelings on the game will be.
( P.S I've done this before and know how my expectations work so I really cannot be disappointed. also I will do a follow up on this when I play it.)

The land gameplay is the best in the series, unfortunately, that comprises maybe 60% of the game? Between boring naval sections and a story that combines the depth and intrigue of 6 with the cutscene spam on par with 9, it feels bloated as hell. That said, it is exceptionally fun in its element, though that element also deviates from what i want from a ys game on average, that being fairly tightly designed linear zones with fun combat and movement.

The linearity is the big problem for me, but beyond that, the game also has really bad graphics and a largely boring soundtrack.

I still rate it fairly highly because it is fun to play on land, but i also cant stress enough that this game is full of holes and anyone who is less willing to overlook the fact that a lot of the game is honestly not that interesting relative to its best part is probably not gonna have that good of a time with it.

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Mangs