Idolmaster SP is a demake of the original on Arcade/Xbox 360 and it's honestly an upgrade to the original.
The Idolmaster SP was released in a similar way to the Pokemon games with 3 games under the SP name: Perfect Sun, Missing Moon, and Wandering Star. They play exactly the same as how the original did but with some of the minigames tweaked up to be a little bit different and each of the 3 games has only 3 possible idols to raise instead of the 11 that were raisable in the original, and with 3 girls cut from the original roaster were turned into rivals for each of the 3 games.
This game is a whole lot more story focused with cutscenes with the rival and such and I think it's a welcomed addition to make the game feel more like an adventure rather than just grinding for stats with no idea who your idol is or how she behaves. The English translation does help a whole lot to get through the story but even how without translation it's still the same old idolm@ster gameplay.
There is a whole lot more indication of what to do and focus on which was one of my biggest grips with the original game as in I couldn't really know what I had to focus on. The only downgrade from playing this compared to the original would be the graphics and audio quality being a massive downgrade due to being a PSP game.
This is overall a fine raising game with a very basic story and repetitive gameplay but if that's your type of game I'd say go for it.
The Idolmaster SP was released in a similar way to the Pokemon games with 3 games under the SP name: Perfect Sun, Missing Moon, and Wandering Star. They play exactly the same as how the original did but with some of the minigames tweaked up to be a little bit different and each of the 3 games has only 3 possible idols to raise instead of the 11 that were raisable in the original, and with 3 girls cut from the original roaster were turned into rivals for each of the 3 games.
This game is a whole lot more story focused with cutscenes with the rival and such and I think it's a welcomed addition to make the game feel more like an adventure rather than just grinding for stats with no idea who your idol is or how she behaves. The English translation does help a whole lot to get through the story but even how without translation it's still the same old idolm@ster gameplay.
There is a whole lot more indication of what to do and focus on which was one of my biggest grips with the original game as in I couldn't really know what I had to focus on. The only downgrade from playing this compared to the original would be the graphics and audio quality being a massive downgrade due to being a PSP game.
This is overall a fine raising game with a very basic story and repetitive gameplay but if that's your type of game I'd say go for it.