Title: Uta no☆Prince-Sama♪ (うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪)
Uta no☆Prince-Sama♪ Repeat
Console: PSP
Genre: Otome
Language: Japanese
Company: Broccoli
Summary: You enter the one-year program at Saotome Academy as a composer and have to work with one idol prospect partner with the goal of debuting after the year ends. However, the school head has declared that no romantic relationships are allowed at the Academy!

I’ve done all 6 + the hidden route now! Dunno if I’ll take the time to get the extra CGs for most of the “friendship” and “normal love” routes… anything outside “super love” route = less interest XD

Please for more combining of awesome composers with awesome voice talents \o/
Story: Besides the basic premise, what I particularly enjoyed about this game is that even introductory perspectives change depending on who you pick in the beginning of the game. Unlike other games where most everything is the same except what’s exclusive for your target’s route, the story is told slightly differently in each route, but it all comes together more when you find out more about each character.
Characters:

Cast:
Class A:
Ittoki Otoya – Takuma Terashima (genki tennen, rock star type)
Hijirikawa Masato – Suzumura Ken’ichi (calm traditional Japanese, plays piano)
Shinomiya Natsuki – Taniyama Kishou (super tennen/megane double personality, plays viola)

Class S:
Ichinose Tokiya – Miyano Mamoru (always level-headed and often mistaken for the popular idol HAYATO, vocal emphasis)
Jinguuji Ren – Suwabe Jun’ichi (playboy with jazz, plays sax)
Kurusu Shou – Shimono Hiro (tsundere shorty, plays violin)

Others:
Shining Saotome – Wakamoto Norio (school head. his personality in this is quite amusing)
Tsukimiya Ringo – Nakamura Yuuichi (Class A’s sensei. JUST LOOK AT HIM, WHAT DO YOU SEE)
Hyouga Ryuuya – Yusa Kouji (Class S’s sensei, ex-banchou)
Aijima Cecil – Toriumi Kousuke (mysterious and hidden character. He’ll pop up shortly in each “love” route)
Kurusu Kaoru – Kaji Yuuki (LOL twins with Shimono Hiro again. He’s quite cute in this.~)
Shibuya Tomochika – Imai Yuka (roommate)

You can’t really tell from their one-line descriptions or archetypes, but they’re all such NICE MEN. It’s like impossible to pick any options and piss them off like no tomorrow like you can in most otome games. Also, there’s more to each of them than meets the eye.
Lots of… twins and double personalities mixed in. HAVE FUN \o/
Graphics: /must get over weirdness of seeing the Togainu/Lamento artist (Kurahana Chinatsu 倉花千夏) do cel-shade stuff for an Otome game. But the CG scenes and such are all done by Production I.G. Very anime-like, although I could ask for a little more prettiness. XD;
Sound: super big 10! If the game itself isn’t much in terms of otome genre material, it makes up for it with its music. Soundtrack by ElementsGarden ftw. Seeing as the theme of the whole game is for the guys to become successful song idols, of course you’ll need strong music to go with their talent. I have to say though, ElementsGarden makes better compositions than any real Japanese idol song I’ve ever heard imo ._. Combine that with the seiyuu talent in this game = SUPER BIG HAPPY WIN. I wish Kaji could get a song too XDDD
Gameplay: Traditional adventure/visual novel gameplay mixed in with three types of minigames you can restart as many times as you need to get the S rank. Different from most other otome games, you have to pick from the start which guy you’re going after. The main minigame is basically DDR (it starts off very easy and then eases you into more difficult levels), another one is filling in lyrics from wordboxes (nice japanese practice), one is multiple choice dealing with terms of the music industry (advantage here because of my music learning background~). The latter two get repetitive after a while, but the DDR one is always a fun challenge to look forward to after the easy stages. XD

And my favorite thing about the DDR mini-game is that you’re actually CREATING the rhythm when you press the buttons. Unlike other DDR-style games where the music is no different even if you make mistakes or you’re adding beats to the original piece (like Osu!), you’re playing parts of the original piece with this one. I like that especially because you can really hear when you’re making mistakes and thus learn how to fix them. XD

During the story mode you can only play with the midi-mix, but in the extra mode, you can have the voiced songs to play along with instead, great option :D
Replay Value: There’s a lot to unlock in the game, and it is a bit of pain to have to go through each of the A class characters in order to unlock their complementary S class characters. And you have to go through all 6 routes in order to unlock the secret. But I found every character pretty interesting individually, so it wasn’t as bad as it would’ve been in most other games.

The secret route could be worth it all in itself, since it’s such a turn for the “fantasy” element after all these ordinary routes, which all have some overlapping story elements that get a little repetitive (the swimming pool competition, for example). And it’s a secret route for a good reason, because it involves each of the other six guys and their individual character storylines. My absolute favorite part (besides pairing up with a cheesy silky cat – I mean, Toriumi) was that Kaji Yuuki’s role gets a lot of yummy lines in this route. XD~
Overall: 9/10. The only thing I rate this down on is my pickiness for the otome juicy stuff. There was quite a lot of it in the game, but I really like it LONGGG, and this could’ve been even longer. This score is mostly from the catchy music, seiyuu combis, and the good selection of routes for the whole game. Each route is pretty unique~ And a slight bias for music schooling since that’s what I had a lot of during my youth as well. >_>;

*edit*
This is my blurb for repeat: I told myself I wouldn’t replay this game on repeat, but I ended up doing so. And playing the practice music a LOT. Problem is I need to figure out how to convert my save to one workable on my current firmware (even MagicSave doesn’t work….. I went from 5.50 to 6.35), so I’ll figure that out sometime hopefully >_>; Will probably use Hellcat’s recovery to downgrade one of my PSPs just for those saves.

Screencaps (random, beware of bad crossdressing. 8D)
Official Site
walkthrough~
Hard Mode
Scorebook S
Scorebook A
My save file with secret route unlocked