The game launched in April 2023 almost a decade after the release of Love Live! School Idol Festival game
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The official Japanese website of Bushiroad and KLab Games’Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live! The smartphone game revealed on Thursday that the Japanese version of the game will end its service on March 31.
Additionally, the game’s official English Twitter account also revealed on the same day that the planned global version of the game will launch in February, but will also end service on May 31, three months later. The version will be available in English, Traditional Chinese and Korean.
The Japanese version launches in Japan in April 2023.
The game maintains the nine-button rhythm gameplay from Love Live! School Idol Festival, as well as the Bonds feature that allows players to reveal unique character interactions. The game includes all Love Live! songs in the series to date, include songs by rival groups that are not central to the story, including A-RISE, Saint Snow, Sunny Passion and Wien Margarete.
Love Live! School Idol Festival games can connect their old account to the new game before the game’s shutdown in March 2023 and can see all the cards they collected in that game in Love Live! “Album” feature of School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live!.
Finally, the game features four new anime sequences from Sunrise/Bandai Namco Filmworks that display when players roll new cards. Each new anime series highlights one of the four main groups.
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Love Live! School Idol Festival 2’s predecessor game Miracle Live! Love Live! Smartphone game School Idol Festival ended its service on March 31, 2023, just 16 days before the 10th anniversary of the game’s release in Japan.
The new version of the game is called Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS launched in Japan in September 2019 and launched globally in February 2020. The game features Love Live! characters from the recently debuted idol group Nijigasaki High School Idol Club and run their story concurrently with Love Live! School Idol Festival.
The smartphone rhythm game debuted alongside the series’ first television anime in 2013, and told additional side stories and character-focused stories never before seen in the anime. The game is primarily a rhythm game in which the player taps the screen according to on-screen prompts based on songs from Love Live! Franchising. The game launched overseas in 2014. Since then, the game has spawned Love Live! School Idol Festival ~Afterschool Activity~ arcade game in 2016, and the arcade game was in turn ported to the PlayStation 4 console in 2021.
Source: Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live! The game’s Japanese website and account
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