That’s right, Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live! has a release date and it’s not even that far away, because it’s coming on April 15 in Japan!
The announcement was made at Anime Japan 2023 at the tail end of the love Live series’ special live stream, and while we’d love to share more with you, that’s actually all they had.
The game also released another image restating that the global version of the game is in the works, and it’ll be launching in English, Traditional Chinse, and Korean, so stay tuned!
▍Love Live! Series Anime Japan 2023 Live Stream
▍Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live! Gameplay
In addition to the four main idol groups, the game will also include rival groups or soloists, including A-RISE, Saint Snow, Sunny Passion, and Wien Margarete.
In addition, the new idol club project Hasu no Sora Jogakuin School Idol Club from the app Link! Like! Love Live!, to be released this spring, and songs from the real-life musical project “School Idol Musical” will also be included in the game. More than 500 songs will be playable in total.
■ Improvements
School Idol Festival is played by tapping rhythm icons toward nine tap zones. The new game retains this basic system but evolves it for even greater enjoyment by installing monitors to give a more live experience, improving the skill cut-in presentation, and other improvements.
■Chat
In the chat function, you can talk with the idols in individual chats and group chats. Chat rooms will be opened as you deepen your bond with each idol.
■ Event Stories
In the event story, you can see stories related to the events of each school and idol group. Many new original stories will also be introduced involving characters from the series.
■ School Idol Daily Life
In the School Idol Daily Life feature, you can enjoy watching short movies of the daily lives of the idol group members for each school and group.
■ Illustrations
The game will feature pre-awakening card illustrations depicting various situations and post-awakening card illustrations in cute outfits. From a total of 39 cards scheduled to appear at the time of release, pre-awakening UR card illustrations of You Watanabe, Lanzhu Zhong, and Keke Tang, were revealed.
■ Album
Album is a feature that allows you to look back at the cards you have acquired at any time, just like a photo album. In addition, a function to transfer the cards you have in School Idol Festival to the album will also be implemented.
■ Gacha Animations
Four new animations produced by Sunrise will be included in the Gacha feature. All of them were created by the original character designers of each work and use expressions that represent the story of each series.
Another version of the video presented during the live stream will be released at a later date.
▍Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live! Pre-Registration
The game’s pre-registration campaign is still going strong, and players can still pre-register for the game by following the official Twitter, or via App Store and Google Play. The following rewards can be obtained according to the number of pre-registrations.
*Note that this campaign is for the JP version and the global version has still yet to unveil rewards, if any.
– 90,000 Players: [Miracle Live!] Honoka Kousaka
– 180,000 Players: [Miracle Live☆] Chika Takami
– 310,000, 400,000, and 500,000 Players: For each tier players will receive 2,000 Love Cards.
