GameDevEntry#7 - Superstar JYPNation
Superstar JYPNation was a score-based, note-matching music game developed by Dalcomsoft Inc. that was released in July 2016. The game features songs by artists of the entertainment company, JYP Entertainment Corporation, such as 2PM, Suzy, JJ Project, Baek A-yeon, 15&, Got7, Day6, Twice, and formerly to artists like Park Ji-yoon, Hyuna, Wonder Girls, 2AM, and Miss A.
The concept and game play of this game is based to “Music Hero”. However, what makes it different is the “star cards”. Star cards are cards that feature the solo artists and individual group members of JYP Entertainment. These cards are earned after completing a song, although a player may purchase them from the game's store in packs. When equipped, cards enable the player to gain more points, with an even bigger advantage if the player collects all the cards that corresponds to the theme of the group or artist.
These cards can also be used to enhance/upgrade other cards to gain more bonus. In the start of your progress, you will be given 10 random cards with random card’s grade. The highest grade the card is R then lowers to S, A, B, and C.
For the player to play one song, he/she needs a “headphone” that players gradually gain after twenty minutes or after completing a challenge or mission. Challenge/mission is randomly appear on a random song. To complete a challenge, you need to achieve the score that was specified and you will gain new card, rhythm points (game currency to upgrade a card) and one headphone.
There have three difficulty in every song: Easy, Normal and Hard. And from my experience, Easy is very easy ; Normal is not normal (I can’t achieve a perfect score here) ; and Hard is very haaarrrrrddd!!! (I don’t play with this difficulty as I will only waste a headphone here, you’ll know what I mean when you try this game ^_^)
From my experience to the game, there have so many flaws in these game.
At the very start of the game after installing, you need to download the content of the game including background for every song, cards and etc. On my case, downloading all the game content took me almost 2 hrs (maybe because of the internet connection) and makes the application from 65 mb to 250 mb.
Aside from downloading all the game content, you need to download every song in the game before you can play it in any difficulty. Therefore, I recommend to play it on area having a free wifi because it really consumed a large mb of data.(Biruin nyo from 1gb of data naging 645 mb na lang yung data pagkatapos kong idownload at laruin mga 20 na kanta neto ^_^)
The game is slow. Slow in terms of the loading screens and when you press a button (e.g inventory, start etc.) it always display a loading symbol that consumes some seconds that for me is slow compare to the other app that I’m playing/using.
However I still play this game because I listen to the songs of some JYP Entertainment artists such as TWICE, GOT7 and 2PM. And I think people who will appreciate this app despite of these flaws are also JYP Entertainment’s artist fans.
Right now, my current rank on this game is Bronze II. I forgot to mention the ranking system while ago but to make it simple, you will be promoted to a new league if you are included in the top 5 player of the week. This will be determined by the sum of your top 5 highscore in every artist or group.
And also there’s an attendance everyday that gives different rewards.And one more thing, there’s also other version of this game that also created by the DalcomSoft, Superstar SMTOWN and Superstar BTS.
