Last year, a Lucky☆Star game for the PSP came out, called
Lucky☆Star: Net Idol Meister.
The characters in the game are offered to become Net Idols with a little help from the company Animate. To be able to become an Idol, you have to gather up a whole lot of Fans to support you. All across the game, you will jump into different things that will help you become more famous, like mini games, and Auditions. The Auditions are the more story-driven part of the game, because if you don't count the mini-games at all, this game is one big Quiz Show. You are going to get questions thrown at you and you have to press a button to get the right answer. There are also Auditions where you have to identify things and type them out in hiragana and katakana.
Local Auditions are spread all across the different towns in the game where you can gather up more Fans through your success, and also gain Animate points, which is the currency used in the game. Then there are Official Auditions that you have to play to advance to the next town. You need a specific amount of points and/or fans to be able to attend those Auditions. There are 3 official Auditions. At first, you have only access to Akihabara, but then you can reach Ikebukuro after beating the first Official Audition, and lastly the Internet Portal if you beat the second Official Audition.
You can also play random mini-games to gather up these points and Fans. Most of the mini games are button-press based games.
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"Voice Training", you have to press one of the 4 face buttons while you hear Konata make her humming sound.
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"Mikoshi Ride", you have to cheer on to people that are lifting you up on this ride, by pressing left/up or Triangle/Circle when you see speech bubbles on either side of the screen. They will keep giving more love the more rhythm you put into it when it goes faster.
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"Meet and Greet" will have your Idol run around and greet their fans by themselves in a store, so you have to give in to people's requests and give them autographs or free things. Mess up and it's game over.
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"Gravure Training" is a mini game where your Idol gets to pose for pictures from a cellphone. Press the right buttons as quick as possible to get more pictures.
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"Blog Mod" lets you take care of flame posts that's being posted on the Official Idol Blog. To delete the posts, you have to perform different types of
Street Fighter-based moves, and you have to do it quick before the whole blog gets flooded with posts. It also comes with it's own Street Fighter-based music too. Finally,
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"Dance Training" will have your Idol watch a virtual dance training performed by Minoru Shiraishi, all rendered in motion-captured
Mortal Kombat style. Follow the button sequence on screen and then quickly press them to go further into that mini game.
The more things you do, your Idol Rank will go up higher. The higher Rank, the more fans and points you will get each time you do something. Every day that you do something, your Stress/Synchro meter will go up in percentage. You have to make sure to not let that one go up too high, like say between 200% and 400%. If it does, the game is over, but you will have a chance to get back into the game.... if you can run away from a perverted group of otakus that will chase after you! If they catch on to you, then that's that. You can't continue your character's progress anymore, and have to try again from the beginning. You can lower your Synchro if you find a Guardian that can keep your stress down, use PV Shoots that you can find all across the game, or beat the Auditions.
Gehoo?, Armorzone, Waku Waku Douga, Geagle...
Parodies seem to be able to get away with these things easily.
You can get 3 different endings, and the better ending, the higher chance you have to unlock things in the game. You get the Normal Ending by having a fan count lower than 200,000,000, an Idol Level lower than Saitama-Wide Idol, and compete in the Final Audition. You get the Net-Idol Seiyuu Ending if you collect more than 200,000,000 fans, an Idol Level lower than Saitama-Wide Idol, and get 1st place in the Final Audition. And you can get the last Ending, Meister Ending, if you beat the Final Audition with over 50,000,000,000 fans, and max out Saitama-Wide Idol Rank to Level 10. You have to do this for EACH character! O.O;
There is a Rockman Parody mini game in Lucky☆Star: Net Idol Meister for the PSP, called ''Mega Kona-tan''. To be able to play it, you have to beat the game with character team called "U-18 Group". You have to beat the game with the U-18 Group with a Meister Ending. Then the next time you play the game, it will be available for sale on Akihabara Wagon Sale for 100,000,000 Animate Points.
You play as Mega Kona-tan (Konata Izumi), fighting against Metal Miyuki (Miyuki Takara). But nothing works on her. The Kona-tan Buster does no damage. You will see some ''Waku Waku Douga'' comments flying all over the screen. It's a parody of the
Nico Nico Douga video site, where user comments are flying all across the screen. You must jump and climb on them very high up to the sky while picking up Pink E-Can. You will slowly lose health when you keep reaching out for the skies, so hurry up and pick up the E-Cans. If you jump down from a high enough spot, Kona-tan will fall down really fast, like a Shooting Star. Aim for Metal Miyuki's head, and you will defeat her.
See the mini game in action right here.
Download MP4 VideoWatch on YoutubeYou can also download the music of the mini game right here.And here's fan art from
The Great Gonzo.
More screenshots from the game.