I’m a beginner at this game and I was wondering how to unlock characters side stories ? I wasn’t sure if you had to idolize them first or if there was a different process.
Welcome to Shining Live! Each card has its own side stories. This includes every type of card from Normals to UR’s. Unlike some other rhythm games, there are two ways to ‘idolise’ cards.
The first way is to special practice them (Lesson>Special Lesson) to increase their max level and make them stronger by practising two of the same card together. This does not give you the side stories though.
The second type of idolising is through the memorial board(JP)/moments(EN) page (Lesson>Moments). You unlock various special things for each card by using different sizes of gems that you receive by playing songs. This not only gives you the side stories, but also the card’s outfit (to put on the boy on your home screen), extra home screen voice lines, makes the card a lot stronger, and unlocks a special art for the card.
On the memorial board/moments page, select the card that you want and drag along to the little book icons at the bottom them press the button to the right that says “unlock with gems” to unlock them.