Ever since I got my first bad end in iDOLM@STER Dearly Stars I’ve made great progress on Eri’s story. I redid the audition and this time around I achieved idol rank E. After Eri proved that she could sing she was presented with two more challenges that confronted her new career as a real world idol and her old roots as a net idol. Thus her rough path to the next rank was paved.
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It seems the appeal of newly acquired games is impossible for me to resist so while taking a break from translating I decided to play a little more iM@S Dearly Stars. Things were going along smoothly in Lesson mode as I trained Eri’s stats so that everything was more or less equal. I also was making good progress delivering a decent number of perfect responses during the promotion events so I got to see as Eri made improvements in her singing ability and confidence.
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After exactly three long weeks of waiting I finally got my copy of iDOLM@STER Dearly Stars this morning. It’s kind of sad though that now that I finally have it my short break from school is just about over and I’ll be having my second round of exams soon so I probably won’t be able to play as much as I have wanted to. Today I decided I would go with ELLIE Eri as my first idol and so far I’m enjoying my choice especially since Eri is so hikikomori; she’s so scared of the outside and lacks self confidence and is quite socially awkward especially when she meets the other two idols. She’s someone I can really empathize with so I’m motivated to help her with her singing problem. I say that but in reality the vocal lessons are the hardest for me. Dance is easy and visual is not too bad but I’m not that great at the vocal lessons since I’m a rather slow reader so sometimes I screw up the lyrics. Oh well. I’m having fun and now I have something to play in my downtime.