Monday, March 31, 2014

Beatmania IIDX Gameplay Report - Progress on Super-Star Mitsuru Perfect Revival

Super-Star Mitsuru is back and his event recently started last week. In this event, there are 8 achievements you must complete in order to unlock the respective items. Completing all achievements unlocks the second song while completing 4 of them unlocks the first one. Unlocking these gives you the respective Tran medals so check out the outcome at the end of the game. Of course, for some of the achievments, failure of the early stages or doing in the wrong order is not the option. For example, Only One Judge requires that you play the Level 3 in First Stage, Level 2 in Second Stage, then Level 6 in Third Stage. You have to do this in the respective order and try not to fail any stage until you reach third stage. If you do it correctly and yet you fail the third stage like I did, you will still unlock the item for that achievement.
The last achievement has the lack of example but it tells you that you're supposed to obtain the EX Score of 623 in any song with the Mirror activated. I think like it's going to be a tough one to get.
So far, I already achieved three or perhaps four of them and I still have yet to achieve the remainings but even then, the number of Tran Medals is still far from 100+ if I want to unlock the certain songs from Tricoro.
Lastly, in April 7th, we'll be back to using coin insertion again. It's going to sound like an issue to me personally because back then, there were some mechanical problems from inserting coins at the arcades but here, it's going to be kind of super-worse just because those games from Konami are rhythm games. Good news is that there is some sort of price decrease but better still, I prefer using cards as coin insertion replacement. You know, I fear that the same gaming disaster from the past will haunt many of the arcades this year through traditional way to start those games with coins.