History VideoGame / LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival

* CutAndPasteTranslation: The English version [[http://www.nerdspan.com/english-love-live-school-idol-festival-removes-homosexual-references/ strips out]] a lot of ShipTease between the [[SchoolgirlLesbians exclusively-female]] cast. Additionally, many lines that imply that the player character is female were changed to treat the player as male instead.

* HarderThanHard; Expert difficulty, only available on some songs.

* VideoGamePerversityPotential: You can touch your main team's leader's portrait, which results in a number of reactions such as curiously asking if you need something to getting called a pervert...to teasingly threatening to touch you back if it's Nozomi.

* NoBulkDiscount: Honor Scouting averts this; normally, it costs 5 Love Gems per round of Honor Scouting...or you can do eleven rounds at once for 50 Love Gems, i.e. a 9.09% discount.

The player can pick up new members through one of two basic methods: Regular Scouting, which uses up Friend Points from using other players' Leader characters and typically yields common members, and Honor Scouting, which guarantees a rare member and uses Love Gems, which can either be collected in-game in scarce quantities or [[BribingYourWayToVictory purchased with real-world money]]. To level up members, the player can use Practice to have one member earn experience points with the help of other members, but those members leave the roster once used. A member can also be "idolized" through Special Practice with a copy of that member, giving her a new outfit and allowing the player to build up Bond points to unlock her side story.

* CostumePorn: Part of the game's appeal is to see the cast in a variety of cute and/or pretty outfits.

* {{DRM}}: The Android version will refuse to start if it detects that your device has root privileges. Fortunately, there are [[http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-rootcloak-completely-hide-root-t2574647 work]][[http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49351848 arounds]] to trick the game into "thinking" your device is not rooted.

* {{DRM}}: The Android version will refuse to start if it detects that your device has root privileges. Fortunately, there are [[http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-rootcloak-completely-hide-root-t2574647 work]]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49351848 arounds]] to trick the game into "thinking" your device is not rooted.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Love Gems. You can either get them in-game through a number of means: [[PlayEveryDay daily login bonuses]], meeting song goals such as a sufficiently high combo, score, or play count, maxing out a member's Bond level and then reading their Side Story, new player bonuses that reward 3 extra Love Gems, etc. Or you can simply purchase them with in-game cash. Love Gems can be used to refill Live Points instead of waiting for them to slowly recharge, continue a song after running out of Stamina, increasing the player's member capacity, and most importantly, using Honor Scouting to pick up Rare members as well as have a chance at SR and UR members. That said, the game is perfectly playable without spending a single dollar; paying for Love Gems simply accelerates game progress.

'''Love Live! School Idol Festival''' is a RhythmGame developed by [=KLab=] and published by Bushiroad for the {{Android|Games}} and {{iOS|Games}} platforms as part of the ''Franchise/LoveLive'' multimedia franchise. It was released in Japan On April 16, 2013, and worldwide on May 11, 2014.

Unlike most rhythm games, the player's score is not strictly dicatated by note accuracy or combo. Each member has three different Attributes: Smile, Pure, and Cool, and each song is aligned with one of those three Attributes. The maximum value for hitting a note depends on the song's Attribute and how much value each member has in that attribute, so for example, the player should use a team with a high Smile stat for songs that have a Smile attribute.

** Played straight with getting a Full Combo. A Full Combo results in an S-grade and unlocks all Combo-based rewards that have not been unlockd yet.

** The EXP-boosting FusionDance feature is referred to as "Practice", most likely because of the implications that calling it "fusion" would bring.

* AntiPoopSocking: Each song play uses up Live Points (LP), with the more difficult songs requiring more LP.

** The EXP-boosting FusionDance feature is referred to as "Practice".

'''Love Live! School Idol Festival''' is a RhythmGame developed by [=KLab=] and published by Bushiroad for the {{Android|Games}} and {{iOS|Games}} platforms. It was released in Japan On April 16, 2013, and worldwide on May 11, 2014.

* EarlyGameHell: You will ''not'' get any S-grade ranks for a long while, deal with it. Because score is influenced by your members' Attributes, it is very, very common for a beginning player (especially one with prior RhythmGame experience) to get all Perfects on a song, only to get a C anyway. Also, at lower Ranks, your lower LP capacity means you can't play as many songs, especially if you dive straight for the Hard and Expert songs, and that's if you even have the LP capacity to be able to play them even once.

* EarlyGameHell: You will ''not'' get any S-grade ranks for a long while, deal with it. Because score is influencd by your members' Attributes, it is very, very common for a beginning player (especially one with prior RhythmGame experience) to get all Perfects on a song, only to get a C anyway. Also, at lower Ranks, your lower LP capacity means you can't play as many songs, especially if you dive straight for the Hard and Expert songs, and that's if you even have the LP capacity to be able to play them even once.