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Pop Cutie! Street Fashion Simulation | 
| From: KOEI Corp
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $21.49
You Save: $8.50 (28%)
New (21) Used (1) from $19.34
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 4151
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 0192
Model: 192
UPC: 040198001922
EAN: 0040198001922
ASIN: B001C3N0Q0
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: brand new. factory seal.
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| Features:
| • | manage the day to day happenings of a fashion boutique | | • | Fashion battle competition where judges rate your look | | • | gather images on the street and combine to create clothing lines | | • | challenge a friend using wireless DS multi card play | | • | progress from independent designer to large boutique owner |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Take a look into the world of Tokyo street style and cosplay (costume play). POP CUTIE! Street Fashion Simulation is an offbeat business simulation game where you can manage the day-to-day happenings of your very own street fashion boutique. You'll hire models and assistants, choose the look and music for your shop, run the cash register and even place magazine ads. Best of all, you'll take to the streets and meet different characters in search of up-and-coming trends. You can then use this inspiration in your studios where you'll create new clothes, accessories and even hairstyles. However, other shop owners are also prowling the streets looking for the next big thing. You will start the game as an independent designer with a small shop at a flea market. As you progress, you'll move into larger boutiques. The competition against rival shop owners culminates in a ?Fashion Battle,' where a panel of judges will decide if your style has enough cute or enough cool to become all the rage. By gathering and combining ?images' from people on the street, you will create clothing lines ranging from the conventional to the most outrageous trends from the streets of Tokyo. An easy touch interface allows you to consider color and shape combinations on the bottom screen while reviewing the actual design on the upper screen. Using Nintendo DS Multi-Card Wireless Play, up to two friends can challenge each other in fabulous Fashion Battles.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Become a fashion manager & designer in Tokyo! November 3, 2008
I wouldn't add too much as the first reviwer did a great job covering all the basics.
At the beginning of the game you have the option of creating your character either a boy or a girl and the shape of his/her eyes as well. You begin selling your clothes in a modest flrea market and progress to your own store/boutique.
In order to create the clothes yo must speak to the people on the streets and gather special words they say that appear on the screen in blue and red. Combining them inside your office/studio will result in all kinds of clothes, accesories and even costumes for both genders. These range to the traditional to the extravagant. Colors are picked up from a small pot of 3 flowers that grow outside close to your store.
There are fashion contests in which you dress up a model, male or female, and compete againts your 3 ingame rivals. You'll win different soundtrack music for the game.
For a fashion game it is more about creating combinations or in game combos with certain pieces and color; and managing your store than designing at all. You never choose fabrics or cut clothes. Therefore the game does NOT have a girly feel to it, boys can play it and it does include a ton of menswear.
You can hire models to model your clothes on the street, unlock new looks and layouts for your store, feature your clothes in a magazine, and hire emplyees for your boutique. You can save your game at any point exept during fashion contests. Save before in case you can't win!
Overall very entertaining, very strategic in its goals and gameplay, colorful, decent graphics and sound, funny and like the other reviewer said fast paced.If you like kawaii anime characters this game's for you!
 Very decent fashion design simulator October 15, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Pop Cutie! Street Fashion Simulation is both a game where you get to (albeit rather restrictively) "create" your own fashion line, but more importantly, it is really a fashion store micro-management game. The focus of the game is where you run your own fashion shop (that gets upgraded as you past the criteria for each stage) by making clothes that customers come to buy.
The actual fashion creation aspect, as mentioned, is quite limited. You, as the store manager, go out and talk to the people in the street and they give you "keywords" that unlock certain clothing designs, colours and "combos". You then go back to your studio and customise the clothing templates and add colour, before putting the item to be sold in your store. People come in and browse, try on and if they like it, buy your clothes.
I think the best aspect of the game is the humour and wackiness of the game. Your employee in the shop can be given instructions to man the register or serve customers and it's really cute some of the things people say. There's a wide range of customer personalities, with some being really polite and nice and others really standoffish and rude. Same with the people on the street. You have rivals and fashion contests to go to, and those are a little off the wall. There's lots of colour everywhere.
This game won't really suit a child because of the fast-paced nature of the game. While you can take as much time as you like in each stage, to pass it, you need to work hard to make sure your range of clothing is sellable and in season. There's always lots of people to talk to on the street to get information and customers to serve in your shop. It's a pretty hectic game, like most micro-management games, however, I feel it isn't as boring as other micro-management games, maybe because there's the whole really fun, cartoony "fashion" aspect of it.
The graphics are really cute and there's a really impressive range of templates and colours that you can use to create your clothes. I've only played a few hours so far, but already it's really satisfying seeing people on the streets wearing your clothes and to see the clothes of your rivals. The soundtracks' nice (though nothing too impressive yet) and the game allows you to buy/win additional background music that you can change to in your studio. The gameplay is simple and suits the DS well. It's not stylus-heavy, which is a plus in my books.
The only real downside is that sometimes when your store gets popular and it's still small, it can be difficult getting around customers. Sometimes also, your employee stands in your way when you need to use the register, though that is dependant on how skilled the employee is. The difficulty getting around people in your store can be eased by the type of layout you choose for your shop, so it's not that big a problem.
If you like the sound of a cute, wacky game where you get to create fashion and management a fashion store in Japan, then this game is for you. There's lots to do and the game feels like it has a lot of heart. Worth getting if you like the premise of the game.
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