Are you enjoying the game “Uma Musume Pretty Derby” (hereinafter referred to as “Uma Musume”)? For me, training Uma Musume has become a daily routine, and I spend my days aiming to become a successor Uma Musume with higher attributes, and training Uma Musume to further strengthen the team composition in the team arena. .
In this game, where the training scenario is the main feature, I feel a mixture of anticipation and anxiety as the implementation time for the new training scenario approaches. This is because you will have to think more about things like whether you can safely obtain the necessary support cards and whether the training tips match your play style. The latest training scenarios tend to have better training efficiency, so I always wonder how familiar they are with the new training scenarios.
So from February 24th, Uma Musume’s new training scenario “UAF Ready GO! ~Athlete’s Kirameki~” will finally be implemented. Uma Musume is still being talked about a lot, such as the 3rd anniversary event and the start of the new main story part 2, but just how strong, sturdy, and cute Uma Musume can be raised in the new training scenario?
This time, I participated in an advance trial session held for the media and had the opportunity to play the new training scenario, so I would like to report on what it was like. Please note that the new training scenario you played at the trial session is still under development, with game balance still being adjusted, so it may differ from the one at the time of release.
Challenge yourself to a wide variety of original competitions! Can’t use Wisdom’s physical strength recovery?
The general synopsis of the new training scenario “UAF Ready GO! ~Athlete’s Kirameki~” is that it has been decided that a comprehensive sports tournament “UAF” will be held to determine the No. 1 athlete Uma Musume, and 15 types of unique competitions will be held. Improve your skills and aim for the top with UAF! something like.
In this new training scenario, two new characters will appear. One is an athlete horse girl named Sonon Elfie (CV: Ami Koshimizu) who appears in the scenario as a consultant and plays an important role in the competition training described below.
The other person is Ryoka Tsuruki (CV: Rina Sato), who is also the instigator of UAF and the general manager of UAF operations. She is a character that appears in training, and it has been decided that she will appear as a support card at this stage. As I will explain later, her presence or absence is likely to play a very important role in this training scenario.
In the new scenario, all conventional training menus will be changed to “competitive training”. Although the parameters that will ultimately be strengthened remain the same, such as speed, stamina, power, guts, and cleverness, the process will change drastically.
Three genres of competitive training are available: “Sphere,” “Fight,” and “Free.” Furthermore, within each genre, there are competitions that correspond to speed, stamina, power, guts, and cleverness, and they appear randomly every turn.
There are three competitions that appear every turn. By selecting these competitive trainings each time as a training menu, your status will be strengthened. Each competition has a level, and when you select it, the level increases and the parameters you can obtain increase. One of the goals is to strengthen each sport in a well-balanced manner.
Training item becomes “competitive training”
There are even more powerful elements to this competitive training. This is “link training,” which allows competitions of the same genre to be linked and performed at the same time. If there is a competition of the same genre among the three competitions that appear, you can raise the parameters and competition level at the same time as “link training”. However, the amount of physical energy consumed will increase accordingly.
One thing to keep in mind is that even if it is possible to perform “link training,” the parameter increase will be most enhanced in the main competitive training frame, so it is best to think of the effect as focusing on strengthening the competitive level.
Another important element is “heat up.” “Heat Up” is activated when the total competition level for each genre reaches a certain number, and can provide powerful training and development effects depending on the genre. Even if each genre’s “Heat Up” is activated at the same time, the effects will overlap, so we want to develop all competition levels so that they increase as evenly and constantly as possible.
With a system like this, you would want to combine as many competitive training genres as possible, but due to the random element, things may not go as planned every time. Sonon Elfie is helpful in such cases.
During training, a command has been added to “consult” with Sonon Elfie, and by using this, you can change competitive training from one specific genre to a different genre. Although there is a limit on the number of consultations, the number of consultations is reset every six months, so by using it liberally, you can strengthen your competitive training without stress.
Once every six months, the “UAF Tournament” is held in addition to the regular Uma Musume training event. In the tournament, you will compete in all 15 sports, and the system is such that you can win if your competition level is high, and by winning in more competitions, you can also receive tournament bonuses that can be used for future training. Ru.
The first year of the UAF tournament is the first “TEST STAGE” at the end of the junior year. The second year is the Classic class “TRIALS 1st STAGE” at the end of June, and the “TRIALS 2nd STAGE” at the end of the year. The 3rd year will be the “TRIALS 3rd STAGE” at the end of June for the senior class, and will conclude with “UAF SHOW DOWN” at the end of the year. At the end of the fourth year, the URA Finals will be held, so you can reaffirm the strength of the Uma Musume you have trained so far and finish your training.
Tournament schedule
Also, in this training scenario, it is a good thing that unique events for each Uma Musume are held in parallel. In the last “Reach for the stars Project L’Arc”, the unique event could not be held, so if you have a horse girl who has not seen the unique event yet, this is the perfect opportunity to train her again.
By the way, in this scenario, even if you choose a competition that corresponds to your “wisdom”, your physical strength will not recover. The only thing to be aware of is that the standard training know-how of selecting and adjusting “wisdom” when you lack physical strength will not work, and you will tend to lack physical strength. To recover your physical strength, it is very important to rely on support card events or to go out using friend support cards.
The timing of “going out” and “rest” to recover physical strength is more important than ever.
“Competitive Training” is all new animation!
In this training scenario, I decided to train my favorite Daitaku Helios, who was very helpful to me at the recent “Uma Musume Pretty Derby 5th EVENT ARENA TOUR GO BEYOND -YELL-“. Let’s train the youngest Daitaku Helios!
One of the attractions of this new training scenario is, of course, the 15 unique original competitions. For example, in the “Sphere” category, the speed category is volleyball-like “Machine Gun Receive,” the stamina category is “Health Swim Shoot,” which is similar to water polo, the power category is “Mountain Dunk,” which is like basketball, and the guts category is “Mugen,” which is similar to soccer. There are original competitions such as “Lifting” and “Snipe Ball,” which is similar to a baseball strikeout in the smarts category.
The “Fight” and “Free” genres also have original competitions, and all of the training animations have been newly created, so just watching the horse girls train hard is enough. You can enjoy it.
What’s more, it seems that Uma Musume, the support card, also works hard at training together, so for example, if you include Daiichi Chirubee’s support card, you can see the two of them having fun practicing… I can almost hear Agnes Digital’s voice saying, “Can I watch something like this for free?”
Regarding “Link Training”, rather than being happy when it happens, I end up using it so hard that I activate at least two links every time. Also, regarding consultation, it is very convenient to use it when competition training is divided into two genres, so you can train all competitions in the same genre at the same time.
The competition level for each genre is constantly displayed on the screen during training, and you can also check the level required to heat up. In addition, by tapping the icon in the genre frame, you can check the details of each competition level for each genre, so it is more efficient to increase the level in a way that reduces bias as much as possible.
And the key point in this new training scenario will be physical strength recovery. The key to this is Ryoka Tsurugi’s support card. This is because she is a “friend type” support card, so by adding her to the formation, “going out” will be added in addition to the normal rest, and her performance will also be something that is quite informative in this training scenario. Because it had become. Detailed performance details will be revealed on the 3rd anniversary “Paka Live TV” broadcast on February 22nd, so please take a look there as well.
If all five competitive trainings are of the same genre, “link training” will occur for all of them.
The UAF tournament held at the milestone was just a trial version, but the hurdles were not that high. There is a possibility that this will change after the final adjustments to the game balance, but at this trial session, we trained twice and were able to maintain the top spot in almost all competitions. The key point is the “tournament expectations” gauge that appears above the genre frame displayed on the screen. This gauge will rise as you raise your competition level, and if you raise your competition level enough to reach the max, you can expect to win the tournament.
The training in this game is all “competitive training”, and the main training is to regularly use consultations and raise the competition level in a well-balanced manner, so techniques such as when to recover physical strength are necessary, Although there is some luck involved in where recovery occurs due to support card events, I got the impression that the design was simple and friendly, making it quite easy to play.
You can also check the competitions for “winner candidates”
I’m curious about the details of the friend support card, Ryoka Tsuru!
Above is a brief summary of information about the new training scenario “UAF Ready GO! ~Athlete’s Sparkle~”.
You won’t know the training effect until you actually use your own support cards and inherited Uma Musume, but train to activate as many link trainings as possible, and check the status of your competition level frequently. Furthermore, it can be said that the style of monitoring the physical strength and moderate recovery is a system that can be played without feeling too strange compared to the conventional training scenario.
In particular, the link training part is designed to be easy to play even if you are used to conventional training scenarios, so I got the impression that it would be relatively easy to play around.
On the other hand, regarding the lack of the conventional ability to restore wisdom, I am worried that people who have been seriously involved in training will end up pushing back on their wisdom due to their habits. However, in that you don’t have to choose wisdom just for recovery even if you don’t want to increase your intelligence too much, it seems like it could be more efficient because you can use the resources for other stats.
Also, in this training scenario, Ryoka Tsurugi’s support card seems to be quite important. There have been many support cards for essential classes in previous training scenarios, but I have never felt that their importance is this high.
Although the play feel of this new training scenario is not much different from the previous one, there are significant visual changes such as revolutionary changes in training commands and a major overhaul of training animations. This is a unique scenario. It also seems like they have a unique approach to letting Uma Musume enjoy a variety of sports, so I look forward to future developments.
In any case, “Uma Musume” will soon be celebrating its 3rd anniversary, and we can’t take our eyes off Uma Musume as we look forward to commemorative events and the new part 2 of the main story.
The training process will change, so you will be able to train with a fresh feeling.