"CocoPPa Dolls" is a mobile dress-up game with RPG Elements from UNITED,Inc. It was released on January 20th, 2020 and contains 3 available languages: Japanese, Chinese and English. For now, 9 of the 12 planets (from Aries to Capricorn) are accessible.
The story revolves around a girl named Thia whose dream is to become a PrincessDoll like her mysterious childhood friend. In a visit to the outfit store, she encountered Antonie, a fennec-like agent from the Star Government scouting for new CocoDolls, people with the most prominent senses in fashion, to collect more "Tokimeki" and change the perilously energy-lacking situation.
The world she living in is Cocoroa 12 cluster, consists of 12 planets with different cultures, personalities and “fashionableness”. A special energy that maintains the planets' movement and helps human's life called "Tokimeki", created by CocoDolls, lost in an unexplainable meteor shower without any noticed, making solar system suffer to the point its planets could be unable to live on anymore. Besides pursuing her dream to be in the line of the best CocoDolls ever, Thia and her unit also helps each planet and its PrincessDoll with their problems born from the lack of energy through Stage and Fashion Check.
It was announced that the game would be shutting down on July 1st, 2020, leaving the gave with a lifespan of just over six months.
The game contains examples of:
- Broken Bridge: At a certain stage, you will need an particular amount of Tokimeki to progress through the story. It’s 30% for stage 4, 60% for stage 7 and 90% for stage 10 of each planet. After reaching stage 11, you must collect the Princess outfit in order to move on (which they won’t let you do when you’re still progressing in that planet, if you play the Easy difficulty).
- Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: Everyone would do the Fashion Check anywhere and anytime when there’s a CocoDoll nearby. Justified, since they need the Tokimeki that bad.
- Character Level: Players gain experience points by passing stages (or replaying stages they've defeated). Leveling up grants players increased maximum HP by 1, recovers all HP and EP, and every 2 levels up, the number of followers increases by 1.
- Character Portrait: There’re 4 NPCs in every planet, including the Princess/Prince (5 in Taurus, Virgo, Aquarius since the 5th one will be Thia's unit members). As they would be your Fans and appear on Stage, a portrait is needed. However, this leads to the situation where many female NPCs were created by solely combining available items together.
- Costume Porn: Outfits with 5 or 6 stars are often elaborate dresses with great attention to the details and background. Princess outfits are not bad, either.
- Crossover: From February 7th to March 6th 2020, they have a collaboration with Sanrio in the form of Gacha for Hello Kitty and My Melody outfits.
- Equipment-Based Progression: In both Easy and Hard difficulty, players need to craft or buy all the items in that planet's Princess outfit to move on to the next planet. Each stage has the Challenge Outfit that wearing them makes it easier to pass. The Hard difficulty adds some spice by requiring particular clothes, wearing clothes with the requisite Perfume, or only revealing half of the Challenge Outfit you need, which are randomized among stages.
- The Stage also has trend Outfit which changes everyday.
- Equipment Upgrade: Players can "evolve" clothing by collecting enough copies of it and get Stamps Point. They still looks the same but there’s a chance the base stats of the clothing will be increased, or give you some Platinums.
- Fashion Show: The Stage, an important feature in game, is technically one. You must collect enough Tokimeki from Fans to pass certain stages, get the Fan Medal and Ranking Point to exchange for recipes and monthly ranking clothes.
- The Fashionista: CocoDolls and their level-up version PrincessDolls, as they have the special ability to collect Tokimeki through Stage.
- Fictional Currency: The game contains multiple shops in which clothing, recipes, crafting material, and other items can be purchased, all of which have their own form currency. Those currencies include:
- Gold, which is used in the main Store, in recipe crafting, Gold Gacha, and to improve battle skills.
- Platinum, which are mainly used in Gacha and to purchase extra HP, EP or story attempts in Hard mode.
- Fans Medal, which are won by making the fan to Tokimeki MAX, can be used to exchange for recipes.
- Stamp Point, which you can get by collection bonus and exchange for stamps to use in chatting.
- Star Fragment, which are won through gacha in Platinum Gacha/Gold Gacha and exchange for clothes.
- Ranking Point, which can be used to exchange for monthly Ranking Clothes.
- Recycle Point, which are earned and used at Recycle Shop.
- And various special gacha bonus, including items like Hello Kitty ribbon, Moonstone, Aquamarine, etc...
- Funny Animal: Antonie/Toni and his Running Gag.
- Gameplay Grading: Each Fashion Check is graded: truly terrible performance yields a D and you should probably prepare to replay, while the passing ranks are C, B, A, and S. The best grades depend not only on the clothes' score, but the way you and the checker used skills to adjust it. Some clothes will only drop if players achieve an S rank. Completing a level with an A or S also unlocks the "Clear 1" or "Clear 10" feature, which allows players to instantly complete a level without replaying the Fashion Check (which is a big time saver when one need lots of copies of an item or some EPs).
- Hyperspace Arsenal: Thia can use any pieces of clothing in her Wardrobe to assemble an outfit on the spot for a Fashion Check. That means hundreds of individual dresses, wigs, pairs of shoes, and accessories like wings, tails, some kind of floating chessboard or water splash, gigantic flower wrath, a freaking bush of rose, etc...
- Just Add Water: The Atelier system includes some rather nonsensical recipes:
- In order to create a wig like "Plain Good Taste" (a long, mild Regal Ringlets wig), players need to win three "Cool Kitten Hair" wigs and four "Bunny PJ Hands ACC". Because combining short, blue ombré wigs and stuffed bunnies creates an elegant platinum blonde wig.
- Menswear Ghetto: The clothes with the "unisex" tag do exist, but most of them didn’t look masculine at all. The number of sensible trousers can be counted on your fingers.
- One Size Fits All: Any and every article of clothing is an item Thia can wear, no matter where she got it. Kinda goes with the dress up game territory.
- Opulent Outfits: 5 or 6 stars Outfits from Gacha, especially time-limited one, tend to be some pretty opulent dresses, including extras like elaborate backgrounds and props.
- Pimped-Out Dress: Princess outfits are often covered in frills and lace. Most of the 5-6 stars dresses come out of the Gacha are rather fancy as well.
- Play Every Day: The game runs on this:
- The "Daily Sign in" and "Beginner Sign in" allows the player to claim a new reward every day (ranging from Gold, Platinum, Stamina and EP).
- Stamina and EP, which is required to play through story and Stage, regenerates over time and eventually caps based on Thia's Character Level.
- The Gold/Platinum Gacha regenerate every 24 hours.
- Rainbow Pimp Gear: Like many other dress-up games, the more items you don on your outfit, the more points you have. Although the result won’t be pretty, as least you would get full stars.
- Random Drop: How clothing items are obtained in each stage in every planet, although the "battles" are mini fashion shows, not physical combat.
- Scunthorpe Problem: Expect to see lots of words like "h*e" (have) and "compe*ion" (competition) in user messages. This is due to the censorship filters being left mainly unchanged in translation from the East Asian servers.
- Steampunk: Planet of Aquarius. It’s the foremost industrial zone of Cocoroa, and many machines run on Tokimeki. The googles and tight leather their pioneers used when building a city on water affected their aesthetic.
- Talking Animal: Toni is a fennec, and also an agent for the government. He looks after, guides and offers styling tips to Thia.
- Virtual Paper Doll: It's a dress-up game with RPG elements and a simple plot to string it together. There are several arenas in which players can utilize their wardrobes, including:
- Story Mode and Stage, in which scores are calculated based on the attributes of clothing.
- Unit Contest, in which the unit submit their group picture in outfits in accordance with themes and can vote for the submissions of other units.
- Weird Currency: The game has a half dozen types of currency in normal gameplay. Some of the weirder ones up to now include crystal shoes and Hello Kitty ribbons.
- Western Zodiac: 12 planets in the Cocoroa cluster are named after star signs.
