App Profile: Studio Killers Style Battle

pinkemo6

Rating: 4/5

Mostly making this review to balance the unfairly given 2 star review. This is an obvious Nikki clone but they managed translate it to hashtags and certain style names, which is new. I love Studio Killers and their music but especially their art style is striking! Back in the day when Cherry did her outfit of the day videos, I always loved seeing all the outfits and hair changes she went through that I would’ve loved to have a dress up doll to dress up with myself and if you get enough clothes from the shop and completing levels you can play around with a lot of cool clothes to make your dream look!

swnbv

Rating: 3/5

The art is exactly as gorgeous as you’d imagine from a Studio Killers game, but that’s currently the only thing the game has going for it. The match-3 mechanics are very limited compared to other games in the genre (ex. creating a T-shape match will only match the top bar of the T rather than combining the whole match), and I find it incredibly difficult to tell what’s going on in battles. Sometimes a simple 3-match will take out an enemy in one go, but sometimes it takes 5+ hits, even when the enemy is weak to the colour being matched, and the power-ups seem to hardly do any damage at all. On top of this, the rating system tends to encourage mashing outfit pieces together more than it encourages making outfits that you like/that look good. All that said, the most egregious part is the energy system. The game does not tell you where your energy caps, how much energy levels/activities cost, or even how much time you have until your energy regenerates. These are all very basic game functions found in both the match-3 genre and the dress-up genre, and shouldn’t be something that’s overlooked. I enjoy this game because of how pretty and whimsical it is, but I find that these basic oversights encourage me to play less sessions for smaller amounts of time than other games, even if this is the game I’m most interested in at the moment. It’s really a shame, and I hope at the very least the energy system gets fixed up soon.

Rubyredsheep

Rating: 1/5

Seems to have a lot of bugs to work out. It won’t load often. Sometimes things clip through as well and often clothes won’t load either. I am very sad because I love the band and the cherry insta account so much. It would also be better if we could see when the battery recharges. Editing for an update: It’s unplayable. It freezes at every level. As soon as I got to the second phase(and right after I payed 7 dollars for an outfit set which I never do) it stopped working completely and I never got to use the new clothes. Everything I try to load doesn’t work. It looks like they tried to fix some bugs before from other reviews but clearly it has not been worked out. I even tried to remove the app and reload it but I of course lost all my outfits and had to start over and it’s still bugging. I love the band and the art so I really hope it gets sorted out soon.