pop'n music ラピストリア (AC) (Japan)

Considering how little KONAMI follows the theme of their pop'n titles most of the times, you shouldn't be worried.

Excited for Lapistoria, hopefully we see most of the older regular commission artists coming back.

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Of the old commissioned artists, we need some more Hideo Suwa, Manami Fujino and Q-MEX! These guys have been notably absent on sunny park... I also would like the come-back of manzo, while I'm on it.

EDIT: Ah, it looks like we already have some new song titles! I just hope that the lack of song genre is only for the location test...
https://twitter.com/popn_team/status/434245139653857280/photo/1

Goodbye Mimi & Nyami (?)




Source: @pmdream

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I hate to see them go, but at least they still might be in pop'n rhythmin for a while.

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The new character art style... just NO.

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If anything, the "new" character style could be just used for those characters, and just for their portraits. We'll see later.

As for the comic, Mimi&Nyami are not gone, they just received a mail from MZD that they didn't notice. So they might be on the game, just not as prominent as they were on the past games.

edit: Besides these four songs, 火風陸空 / Des-ROW・組 was confirmed (HIP ROCK 6 I guess).

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abyssalnode made an English translation for the comic here.

Don't worry about Mimi and Nyami, they're probably just late.

JAEPO is open to the public.

Mimi and Nyami are still in the game, though apparently demoted from being front and center, with a slightly different hairstyle.

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EX Chart for 火風陸空 (via pop'n music viewer)
I honestly don't know what to say

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Wow, if that is Hip Rock 6, it sure is coming late... Shouldn't the Hip Rock songs always come on pop'n music machines which are multiples of 3 (HR 1 on pop'n 3, HR 2 on pop'n 6 and so on, save for HR 3.5 which was a cross-over)?

Sure, but only by one game. HR 1 was actually in 6, therefore HR 2 was in 9, 3 in 12, 4 in 15, 3.5 and 5 in 18, and now what could possibly be 6 in 22.

You're right, except for the fact that Sunny Park wasn't numbered 21 (despite being obviously the 21st arcade release).

I guess that was the "reason" of why HIP ROCK 6 didn't appear before.

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Ladies and gentlemen, pop'n music ラピストリア:



Realize Maze Hyper

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Is that a green number on the bottom right of the screen?
It also seems like you can now changes high-speed by 0.1 increments, that's pretty good thing.

I'm also not a fan of the new design, but it seems to be only during the song select so well...
Also pretty hype for the new hard gauge and danger gauge (equivalent of hazard mode in IIDX), and inversly with the easy gauge I may find easier to challenge harder songs.
Seems like there will be nice adds in this version!

Edit: The hard gauge isn't like IIDX or Voltex, it's simply a 'damage up' version (since easy,is half the damage, I guess hard is double)

Well, it looks good so far, that much I can say..The designs are okay I guess, only time will tell if I'll like them or not.
dat risette tho
The interface looks really..pastel-ish(during play I mean), which I can't say I'm not much a fan of.
But ehh, whatevs.

One thing I want to know is, if 5 Buttons will be making a return..I didn't really like it's exclusion in Sunny Park..
3 Buttons just felt really easy, and boring.

Also, I swear there's going to be an event that revolves around gemstones/birthstones.
Maybe collecting shards/fragments of 'em in play, and once you get all pieces you unlock a song or play it.

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In Sunny Park, EASY wasn't just 3-Buttons charts, depending on the song, it went from 3 to 9 Buttons charts. And it made a return in Lapistoria, so yeah.

The unlocking method on the location test had to do with a story mode revolving either RINKA or Alicia. Depending on who you choose, you might unlock 煌 -灼熱の裁き- (RINKA) or 終末の序曲 ～オワリノハジマリ～ (Alicia) by passing the respective song as your 3rd Stage.

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I REALLY like the fact there's a counter that multiplies out the speed for you. When you're training at raising your reading speed this is the kinda thing you need to save 20-30 seconds every round multiplying three digit numbers by 3.5.

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Herd that Hip Rock tease at "our" Pop'n Rhythm app. game... My ears are full of pleasure. <3

Oh. My. God. The interface. Let alone the anime art style Pop'n is trying. I have a hit and miss 'cause I love the style it usually goes. But well... It looks really nice. I wonder if Roku and Milk will have new outfits. Just sayin.

I got used to Sunny Park and it's song difficulty re-format, so I'm ready for a new instalment. Yes. It's very pastel-ey. The game might still be in it's beta form, so soem cosmetic changes can happen.

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I might be very behind here but... this link leads to a Konami page for this game that only shows that teaser trailer, but if you scroll down to the bottom, you can see Mimi and Nyami in the new character style. I caught a glance at Mimi in that video ZZlimited posted though. I'll post the pic here too.

http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/bemani/p/special/jaepo2014/jaepo_popn.html

Release in June apparently:

It's been several months since the location test. Hope KONAMI can please the fans and present us a great game.

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