A deep dive into the style savvy series!!! 🎀 had some technical issues while uploading it, but I have fixed all the issues and am excited to hear your thoughts about what do you think of the Fashion Dreamer game after having been out for almost a full year now!! How is it holding up to you? 👀
I loved the Style Savvy games but I still had such a poor idea of what Fashion Dreamer even was, even after watching people play and praise it. It just seems like there's hardly anything to do! Glad to see someone who shares my opinion on it.
To be fair, syn Sophia (the dev team behind Style Savvy) has been wanting to make another Style Savvy for years. It's Nintendo that didn't wanna back it. So they went to a different publisher and couldn't make it too much like Style Savvy or Nintendo might have sued, so their budget and quality suffered as a result. That's what a lot of people don't understand. Fashion Dreamer never tried to be Style Savvy, people just let their hopes, assumptions, and expectations take over. It's best to not compare them and just think of it as a simple fashion game that has nothing to do with Style Savvy beyond sharing a dev team. If you just wanna make cute outfits and take pictures of them for a few minutes a day, like old-school dress-up games, it's great for that.
Technically, game mechanics are not copyrightable, which is why there are so many “spiritual successors” to games in the industry. But yeah I agree that budget can definitely be a big impact on how much content a game has. I still think charging $50 on launch for a game that, like you said, is a similar experience to old dress up games which were free is a bit wild
TBH, even if they didnt have the IP they still could've made an enjoyable game right? 🤔 The reason people are upset isnt because it's not the same as style savvy, even if you put style savvy aside, fashion dreamer just wasnt a fun experience at all. to me at least
my grandmother LOVED playing her style savy game. when she passed, i had the chance to play it and I fell in love for 2 reaons. first being that it was an enjoyable game even though i wanted more and i fell in love because I felt closer to my grandmother. Unlike her playing animal crossing on the wii, i didn't get to see her physically play the game other than just seeing her on 3dsxl and hearing sound effects
You definitely have to play Style Savvy Styling Star at some point! I initially skipped it as a teenager cuz the whole idol aspect turned me off from the game at the time. However I finally decided to play a European copy of it for the first time as an adult after the disappointment that was Fashion Dreamer and it's been a blast! The idol storylines you follow are so silly and loaded with charm, highly recommend!
@@anvypieender5804u can use a 3ds emulator and find a rom of the game! the controls might be weird but ive emulated 3ds games and they usually work fine
I loved the first game so much I remember not being able to get the highest rank on the last fashion competition and so I asked my older brother for help because he’s really good at video games and he got the highest rank and we were so excited to this day if one of us is wearing a good outfit we say “wow that’s so style savvy of you”
One thing I miss about the OG Style Savvy was the shop customizations and music🤩 bring back fantasy shop themes and sassy nonsensical adlibs in the songs !!
the style savvy DS game has a track that plays in the buyer’s centre and it makes me laugh SO hard every time!! the “THAT’S FASHION 😡” and “YEEEEAHHHHHH 😩” are literally yelled into the mic like damn girl please chill
I've heard a lot of mixed feelings about this game and it makes me SO sad. i think the initial concept of this world of fashion and social media honestly made the game become a lot worse then something that was a lot more engaging of a game play concept (selling clothes, coordinating outfits for customers and the like.) I do hope SynSophia comes out with another game soon though, I really do think they can make something with similar charm like before. Maybe on the second switch console...
I know you said you're not interested in modding your 3DS to play styling stars, but if you ever change your mind, the undisputed GOAT of 3DS homebrew Rocket Robz, is a huge style savvy fan and advocate for preserving all of the games and DLC. it's the only way to get the Liz Lisa DLC if you didn't purchase pre-eshop closure.
Hi! I'm form Europe and played the original Style Boutique when I was a kid, also remember playing Love Nikki when I was a teen and always got this attraction for fashion games I was soo excited to know that the developers of Style Boutique were making a comeback, I remember loving that game... But when I got Fashion Dreamer I was so disappointed for the same reasons, this is an e m p t y game... I had other expectations, didn't knew it was going to be basically a mobile game with gacha and everything XD After some time, I got used to the gameplay dinamic and kinda liked the feeling of making clothing for people over the world liking. I also really enjoy dressing up other people's muses in hopes that they liked what I made for them But that is that, there's nothing much, the only things that make you open the game again are those updates and festivals or your own desire of creating new pieces or experimenting with your creativity,,, but there is a lack of idk... personality to the game (?) It's all looks really ;-; AND, this is more like a personal level comentary but, I absolutely hate the festivals technique for making people keep playing the game (they work pretty much like a battle pass lol but free) This game just reflects the game industry evolution and makes me saaad I don't want empty pretty games to be the standar now... I want to feel thingggs.... at this point im just yapping :P thank you for reading bye (It is worth mentioning that I paid less than 40 € for a physical copy, prices on the eshop are CRAZY)
@@BEK0K The worst part is, I've played mobile games less empty than it. MULTIPLE ONES AT THAT. Amidst all that predatory monetization, lies a soul and hard work... ;-----; Playing shining nikki and that one has a really good story and stuff actually, used to play love nikki too and same there, heck even some older mobile titles that already closed had SOMETHING to do... They really dropped the ball with fashion dreamer, bruh... it could've been so much more...! ( TT ^ TT)
I never liked Fashion Dreamer especially since they based fashion off of social media and clicks… yes that’s modern fashion, but man, it feels strange. Fashion to me is the reflection of the inner soul and to slap social media and likes on it is just so… not it. I get it though, I really do, but it feels so wrong. I will acknowledge that Fashion Dreamer definitely had some effort on it, like some of it has some charm. Sadly not my thing, I think. I loved Style Savvy, although simple, was really engaging and fun with how you could coordinate outfits and even follow storylines of characters- ugh I miss the storylines and the funny dialogue, they were so charming. This deep dive is also really well-done, Tysm for researching and your insight!!
Style Savvy always had a level of fantasy and escapism. Like, in the first game you get hired without experience and your boss loves you and basically lets you run the store and do whatever you want by the end. Your customers are cute girls that want to play dress up with you and you all live in a quaint, clean, walkable town with only cute men lol. I've never played fashion dreamer but it seems like some elements of that escapism are lost by it being too abstract. The town and boutique were idealistic but it was still a grounded world.
@@mchjsosde I agree, Fashion Dreamer takes its title a bit too seriously, and I do understand why, but I feel like it shouldn’t be so based on social media and such. Plus the gacha… that was just a big ick for me.
Style boutique (the second one) was so fun!!! Literally my whole childhood… I was obsessed… played multiple play throughs… many different styles of clothing, customers will actually wear your outfits, you can decorate the boutique, outside, inside, and windows, my favourite was how beautiful you could make your own character in such detail… it felt very customizable, personal… it was amazing 🥲 also the contests felt rewarding and the relationships meaningful… literally a perfect game 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Ps: YES!!! They need to make a game sililar to game 2 and 3 … all the existing features + open world + better graphics + deeper relationships… something like that would be so amazing…
Styling Star is such an amazing game 😭 the attention to detail is just so heartwarming. I love the absolute whacky random client bios. I love the message of expressing yourself thru fashion. I love the expansive photoshoot section with tons of facial expressions and poses and options for posing with another character. And of course, the little performances and songs/dances are SOOOO cute. Like i still go in to play and dress up the girls and the backup dancers for their concerts, coming up with new stage concepts in my head LOL. The dance animations are truly sooooo charming. I love the idol aspect of it, to me, it gave some real weight to my styling choices. ALSO I think playing these kinds of designer games on the 3DS is such a core part of the experience. Like simply to be able to instantly pick the item you want rather than scrolling through makes it more enjoyable. The switch's touchscreen capabilities are not as responsive as the 3DS. IMO, this is also why Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer is wayyy more enjoyable than the home design aspect of AC New Horizons. It's just so much more satisfying to instantly choose and place ur item exactly anywhere u want, rather then using the analog stick on the switch or trying to clumsily place the item with its inaccurate touchscreen. Anyways ya srry for the rant❤😅
I thought I was being to harsh when I told my friends this game was a little boring after awhile. But you totally get what I was feeling, I bought it cause I know if we don't we won't get another one. Here's hoping they take another crack at it and give us a game with more pizazz.
When I first got my 3DS I didn’t have money to buy trendsetters. I played the demo over and over again. I didn’t want to turn off my 3DS because you could only play the demo a certain number of times, I kept it in sleep mode.
its true...and so sad. a streamer i like was playing a random, janky game in literally ROBLOX that had like a multiplayer fashion show mechanic. i remember thinking, "wow - even this little mod probably made by like a teenager has more creativity than fashion dreamer" and feeling sad lol. great vid thx for making me sad again about the death of the genre :")
Fashion Dreamer is kinda like the Sims 4 of synsophia fashion games; Best graphics in the series (most advanced and smooth), very cautiously selected content stripped of all uniqueness to appeal to the widest audience possible/general public, claims to have innovative and refreshing features but ultimately proves itself to be a super simple and repetitive game that feels shallow at best. While I did have some fun for a little bit, I am pissed that I paid full price for this.
i didn’t have a 3DS during its peak so i was close to getting this game and after seeing all my friends drop it/ be disappointed by it, i’m glad i didn’t 🥲 this review really solidified that for me! i picked up a 3DS finally and am having so much fun playing style savvy for the very first time 💕
I think because people on socials associate and advertise it so much as a Style Savvy game they get disappointed once they play it and find out it's nothing like the other games, some people call it Style Savvy's sister game or cousin even and that's definitely better. I'm just glad that it didn't release during lockdown I can imagine the game performing awfully sales wise since we were all indoors with a lot of free time, a nightmare for this game! I'm a strong believer that if they had a little story mode or plot it would've improved the game by a lot, even without changing the virtual world aspect like the aspect of social media and fashion has a lot of potential yet they didn't do much with it which is a missed opportunity! All I hope is that they will make more fashion games for consoles as we are definitely lacking that, I'd hate to see another fun franchise bite the dust ;; (Going on a tangent here oops) For the Nikki games getting attention thanks to Infinity Nikki, I genuinely hope developers really start taking fashion games seriously so we get more games that actually care about that side of gamers.
I definitely was disappointed with Fashion Dreamer, I went in thinking it was going to be similar to Style Savvy. I played it for like maybe an hour or two and ended up just reselling my copy : [ Great video though, can't wait for more!
Style Boutique 3 i think had a super compelling story with the three main girls you follow. The gameplay might have not been as in depth as the previous games, but I loved following the girls and helping them with their journeys.
I’m soooo glad that someone FINALLY explained WHY Style Savy is so amazing; I never played it before and people kept raving about it (like it was something that you just had to be there for), but never really explained it like you did!!!!! I pray that they port it to the Switch (like with MySims) one day!!!!!!!!!!! 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄
What Nintendo should do is revise or port one of the style savvy games on the switch so others can enjoy this masterpiece Fashion dreamer could been better part of me thinks they were trying to experiment with something new but it didn't meet expectations that Style Savvy had like we enjoy Fashion shows cat walks having a boutiques getting to dress up new characters everytime.
I absolutely LOVE Fashion Forward more than Styling Star (I love Styling Star too) just bc I feel Fashion Forward world is more alive and the fact it has a real time clock makes everything less overwhelming for me (I get very stressed if I'm playing Styling Star and I have to do a girl's makeup at morning, and go to the boutique at afternoon and in the night go to the hair salon and also do any quest from the storylines), in Fashion Forward I could go a talk with everyone and go to different places an take pictures and change the landscape, etc while in Styling Star I don't feel that freedom (but I'm somewhere between the start of the game and the half of it I guess, I just unlocked Enid Chen brand) and I also hate we can't earn money helping at the hair salon, makeup salon or boys boutique. But I enjoy the storylines. And I love both art styles specially Styling Star one bc I feel they did the makeup and skin tones better. But if I had to choose I would probably stay with Fashion Forward. I also love Fashion Forward UI, it is so adorable and I just love it so so so much!!! 💗💗
Actually, you do earn from the guys boutique in Styling Star! A lot more than your usual customers honestly. It just doesn't show you earning the coin like your own boutique's, which is odd, but yes, don't worry you do earn :) (saved my broke wallet so many times during seasonal VIP lounge switches haha)
Honestly my biggest criticism with the game is that it didn’t lean more into this “fashion sandbox” theme it’s going for. It needed more organization options, more muses, more showrooms, more flexible customization with creating outfits/clothing, a better way of unlocking things. Not to mention it runs pretty poorly and navigating its different systems is clunky and inconvenient. I don’t mind that it’s different from Style Savvy and tried something different. If I want to play Style Savvy I can still play the other 4 games for that experience. But I think it somewhat failed at what it was trying to do. That said I still somewhat enjoyed the game and don’t regret buying it. Hopefully they can use the bones of this game to create something better in the future.
This video showed up on my recommended and I loved it! Feel like replaying now 😊 While I do love the first game, I have a special spot for the last 3 style boutique games (not fashion dreamer ofc) + I loved how the customization was more varied as they went on. You should definitely play Styling Star, I don’t know where it could be bought but there were definitely physical copies being sold within Europe (as that’s where I lived when I got all of mine). From the other comments, it seems like North America were the only ones not selling it physically. It’s a great game and the idol part adds so much, for me it’d sometimes get a bit boring only taking care of the boutique so it was cool styling my clothing differently and seeing it be used in such a way. Same goes for the fashion shows/contests.
Fashion Forward was the first style savvy game I played and I LOVED it. I think I put 200 hours into that game, mostly in the first year alone. I had my eye on Styling Star when it came out and I loved it even more. I loved how plot heavy it was, and the amount of characters. The thing about the story is that you see the characters so often, they really feel like your friends. I care about their lives and what happens to them and they’re all so great I couldn’t even tell you who my favorite is! The best part to me was that there was MUSIC. I rarely see it talked about but some of the songs are actually pretty good and this was one of two or three games that got me through middle school for sure. You summed up my thoughts on Fashion Dreamer exactly. It’s a BEAUTIFUL game and I love the customization and how unique you can make your character look. But without true goals to progress towards, it all feels meaningless. The lack of any sort of plot really put the game at a disadvantage. One of the things that bothered me the most was a lack of true currency, honestly. You can just pick up whatever clothes you want, whenever you want to. Part of the fun of the old Style Savvy games was finally getting enough money or stock room to buy the new items you really wanted! Having all the items handed to you at once makes everything feel a lot less valuable. I still think the game is beautiful and I loved messing around with it for a little while (I mean my pfp is literally from the game) but I haven’t picked it up in months and I don’t really see a reason to go back when I could spend my time playing games that have actual progression to them.
as someone who played trendsetter religiously as a preteen i was so hopeful for fashion dreamer and although the customization was very pretty from the makeup to the hairstyles and the fashion, it felt a little off to me and the technical issues that came with the game's release also put me off (like the lag when loading up your inventory) as a kid i was able to play a lot of games i find boring nowadays for hours, but i recently decided to replay trendsetter to see how it holds up and was surprised at how fun it was and how often i would actually choose to just sit and play it for an hour or two, i think fashion dreamer missed out on a lot of what brought the style savvy games to life by putting you in more of an online hub than a cozy small town with a bunch of people and customers :( i do hope this doesn't mark the end and that they'll make more games because i'd love to experience something closer to the style savvy series again
i hope after seeing how much fans wanted an actual style savvy game nintendo will allow the company to make one, especially after trying to lean more into the feminine side of gaming with the new princess peach game, but who knows v_v
Aw man, I wish I watched this video before I got Fashion Dreamer. I ended up buying this game last month, then maybe spent twenty minutes playing only to be disappointed! Also LOVE your pink set up!
Oh man, this video was such a trip for me. I played both Trendsetter and Fashion Forward and was OBSESSED with both. I played each game over and over and over, giving myself different goals to complete each time like achievements in other games. It's a huge part of my fashion style nowadays, and it really allowed me to live out my punk and gender nonconforming dreams before I had the money/parental allowance to explore them on my own. Had no idea there were games in the series besides these two. Thank you for making this!!!
I feel like we shouldn't compare those 2 Franchises because both of them are amazing on their own 🤗 I just love coming home from work , playing some fashion dreamer and create outfits or boot up my 3ds , insert style savvy games and run my own little boutique , we should let these 2 co-live in peace💕
i have styling star! it might be my favorite game in the series or a tie with trendsetters! 💖 imo it has the best storyline in the series. it's more than "you take over someone's boutique and progress through the fashion contests." you still run a boutique in the game, but you also meet three different girls who are trying to become idols and become their personal stylist. and they all have different personalities and their own little stories 🎀 and there's plenty of side quests too! also imo the dialogue is hilarious, sometimes it makes me laugh out loud 😂 there's also a bunch of quality of life mechanics they added. for example you can tell a customer to wait while you restock clothes for them. and you can also restock clothes you bought previously on your phone! i love it✨ i know there's a couple playthroughs on youtube of it!
Hi! Amazing video, I fully agree with your points (even though I have over 60 hours in Fashion Dreamer - admittedly I got it on sale for around £35 and I only ever played the original Style Savvy for DS so ig a lot of the content feels new/worth it to me - plus I just genuinely enjoy playing dress up a lot lol) I also am a former games design student at uni. One of the first things covered in the course is all the theory about what makes a game a game. And what I find super interesting about your, in my opinion, completely correct analysis of the failings of Fashion Dreamer is that I genuinely don't think it's a game. There is no win state to achieve or lose state to avoid - sure, there are four cocoons to unlock but they are functionally identical and outside of some more photoshoot opportunities you don't really get anything for that. There is no objective or real purpose: no plot to complete, no character development or relationship building, no discernible end to collection since content is user-generated and therefore, hypothetically, infinite, and no competition with other players. And, I think most importantly, no 'meaningful play': which is your actions having a discernible outcome both before and after you make them. Which is what you describe when you talk about the lack of consequences in the game. If anything, I would say that Fashion Dreamer is an app. A very pretty, fleshed out app that happens to be made for a games console, but an app nonetheless. However it is still marketed (and priced) as a game. If they'd just called it an app, made it much cheaper (and maybe sorted out the organisation issues with items) I would not have any issues with it. And it is certainly not a successor, spiritually or otherwise, to Style Savvy.
I owned a Japanese copy of a Style Savvy game and played the game FULLY in Japanese back when I didn't know a single Japanese word (before I even encountered anime haha). The way the game presents itself is very easy to understand and the outfits are cute too! I love how they validate everyone's fashion choices (I was obsessed with mixing graphic tees with fluffy skirts back then), and how your 'boutique' isn't you designing a new article of clothing, but mixing and matching fashion items to create a new look with existing clothes (which actually inspired me to look into my own closet and start to experiment)
I played all style boutique games and Fashion Dreamer and I agree with you, Fashion dreamer lacked the life that the style boutiques games had, the npcs feel bland and the only way for you to enjoy the game at full you need online mode. The characters and outfit making are prettier and there is more variety but the game for some reason just feels repetitive compared to the style boutique games those small moments you had qith the charcater, the story mode this games increase your connection with the game i replayed all 3 style botique games (the 3ds ones) so many times to relive that. It's true fashion dreamer is a interactive game but they could have added so much to give life to the game also in some events certain clothes are locked by follower numbers forcing you to reach 1M and fastest way is not even making outfits it's taking pictures with muses
I loved Style Savvy!!! I did play the demo for Trendsetters (thanks to the Style Savvy medley from Super Smash Bros for Wii U), and in the technical sense, Fashion Forward was my first and only Style Savvy game (thanks to its demo as well). I played the heck out of it during most of my free time in 2017 and 2018! I also liked how they implemented not only amiibo functionality, but also Mii Maker/StreetPass functionality as well. You get a dress of your Mii's color once you get to a certain level and I thought that was really cute. There was a demo for Styling Star that I played that could be found in the North American 3DS eShop, which gave me a glimpse of the game, but I never downloaded Styling Star due to Nintendo Network ID complications and my being a broke college student at the time. When I saw that Fashion Dreamer was announced in the February Direct of 2023, my first reaction was, "Oh shoot, Style Savvy for the Switch?" It did seem intriguing, especially because of the fact that it has more clothing options and inclusive hairstyles (which Nintendo should use as a base if they want to update the Mii Maker in my opinion) and the idea of copying others looks, a la Animal Crossing, but Nintendo would post the update videos for the game, which made it seem insufferable. Thanks for playing it so I wouldn't have to. 😂
I had this game as a kid on the 3ds, and I absolutely LOVED it. As someone who didn't play any of the previous issues of the series, this was an amazing start that kept me occupied for hours upon hours
have you ever played life makeover? i found it after being SUPER disappointed with fashion dreamer and cant get enough of it. its so gorgeous. it is a gacha game but since you mentioned infinity nikki i figured youd be fine with that. its on pc and mobile. i never played the first style savvy game but i love trendsetter and styling star on 3ds. i hope we can get an ACTUAL style savvy game with modern fashions. fashion dreamer is NOT style savvy, and anyone going into it thinking its style savvy is going to be horribly disappointed. i like the aesthetics and style and fashions of fashion dreamer but theres nothing to DO. i was like cool theres quests and then they just die off. then later on they finally added more quests but its so boring and repetitive. also you cant dress characters incorrectly, theyre always happy regardless of how you dress them. i also find the search function to be useless. you end up with like 500 of the same item that is all different colors but you can barely even see what color some of the stuff is. i just find it to be irritating to play.
OMG YES PLEASEEEE I NEED SOME LOVE NIKKI DEEP DIVE especially LORE deep dive!! I don't think Love Nikki's lore gets the recognition and love it deserves, it's so engaging and well written! Great video, loved it ❤
I bought fashion dreamer, pre ordered even, and it was the biggest disappointment of the year for me!! "Oh it's not style savvy! Stop complaining!" Bruh I saw this so much and that was not even my problem, it's ok, it doesn't need to be like it's big sis, the disappointment is cuz ITS SO DARN EMPTY! I had a lot of fun doing lookits for a bit, but then it struck me, why? There's, like, nothing to strive toward, and the follower number is such an annoying thing to raise... And so unfun after a while, too. Literally the worst part of the grind, forever. Like, I thought we'd be like a fashion influencer of sorts, maybe a few things to do with promoting brands and your own brand, but then NOT EVEN A STORY IT HAD! THE NPC ARE JUST HUMAN MANNEQUINS WITH A LITTLE BIT OF PERSONALITY SOMETIMES!! Plus you kinda can't mess up. No matter how silly or weird or out of theme, the NPCs just accept it and you get points anyway, and don't even lemme start about the bloody lack of filtering and how weird the colour thingy is? Ok you want leopard print, lemme scroll for 3 years till I find one. Wait you want polka dot? Do I even have polka dot... wait, leather? ...does this one count? I dont know, uh... Oh, you want pink? Ok here you go- what? That is literally pink, why the heck is my score lower?! It counts as red? Whyyyy?! And the eggs space thingies, there so few?! The whole game feels so undercooked and empty, even if the stuff that is there is nice... when I started I found the models so pretty and stuff like this, only to be faced with ultimate sadness when I saw it was like a beautiful vase, devoid o flowers... ;-; Sorry for the long rant, thanks for making this video! Seeing the old ones... now I want a true new style savvy even moreeee gaaaah lol ( TT ω TT)
THIS, it's so annoying when people shut down bad reviews by saying "Well, it was never supposed to be Style Savvy so ur not allowed to complain!!1!" I think we are very much allowed to be dissapointed especially since the game was 50 (!) bucks. That's bonkers
Personally I felt like the series started to go downhill after the third game. The third game was good, but I remember finally getting to the fashion show and I thought it was like the first game (where you participate in multiple shows until you get to the final international one)- but no. You participate in a single show and THE GAME ENDS! I remember being so mad because I felt like the plot ended way too early. Also the dollhouse aspect was kinda a miss for me. For the fourth game I only played a few hours of it, and I remember the characters and story were cute and funny- but I got bored quickly as there wasn’t much new compared to the past games. Trendsetters/2 was the absolute best and the series had so much potential that they just never built upon… so sad. As for Fashion Dreamer, I haven’t played it after hearing all the bad reviews. I’ll wait till it’s on a huge sale to play it.
I played the Style Savvy/Style Boutique games on the DS and 3DS (I unironically found Style Boutique on sale and bought it on a whim). I really enjoyed 2 and 3 a lot due to the amount of customisation options and npc interactions and 3 had a really good story with the main idols you were following and helping. I was looking forward to Fashion Dreamer and was really disappointed with the whole game. There is a huge focus on getting likes and collecting points for your outfits and showing your customised clothes (recolour of a base clothing pattern) in the showroom and it is super grindy to unlock new patterns, colours and eye styles from npcs. Npc dialogues in this game are so shallow and empty. I really want the store owner gameplay to return because I got attached to the npcs that I met in my boutiques and I also enjoyed the fact that we can give hairstyles and makeovers for npcs.
thanks for making this, i've been waiting for anyone to talk abt style savvy this extensively. i played styling star when it came out, and i really did miss the fashion shows, but the relationship building with the stars you got to style was really nice, they all have very sweet and in depth stories and the relationships you get to build with them feel like genuine friendships, i set my in game phone background to a selfie i took with Rosie, because i just love her so much. i was soooo excited for fashion dreamer, and so so disappointed when i played it and realized there was no story, not even a boutique, no relationships that feels like anything with any of the npcs. the fashions are great, but it just feels so empty without all the things we got from style savvy. i wish we could get another style savvy game, that looks like this but with everything we got from the past games. sigh. maybe someday. i loved this video, i subscribed :)
absolutely loved this video & agreed with the points you made. as somebody who loves the style savvy series and has never played loved nikki, i’d love to see a video discussing a deep dive about that, or even just a gameplay pov! :)
just discovered your channel and i can already tell you’re gonna be one of my favs 💗 i recently started playing the style savvy games and i’m obsessed, they make me feel the exact happiness and excitement i felt when i was 6 and learning about the wonderful world of fashion and self-expression!! it’s such a shame that fashion dreamer focused more on the social media aspect, cuz as other commenters have said, people with a genuine love for fashion place a higher importance on self-expression and authenticity than getting clout 🥲
The Style Boutique/ Style savvy Games were my whole childhood, I loved playing both new style boutique and new style boutique 2. I was kinds thrown off when the third game of this series came out because of the graphics. But when fashion dreamer was announced, I was so hyped and I looked forward to playing it. I played it for some time but I found myself not picking it up as frequently as I did with the other style boutique games. I wish the NPCs had a little more personality to them, in the style boutique games it felt like you made friends. I still play fashion dreamer from time to time but there’s really not a lot to do. When I wanna play dress up, I will play this game. Other than that there’s just nothing much to achieve besides your followers. This video made me want to revisit my old style boutique world, made me feel very nostalgic 💕
both the style boutique games were my absolute favourite growing up and i still do a quick play session every now and then 😭 lovely video! def gonna watch some others of yours
Being in Europe, I had no idea Style boutique was called Style Savvy in the US 😅 thank you for the explanation Anyway, being a huge fan of the style boutique/savvy series, I'm really happy I didn't buy fashion dreamer. Unfortunatetly most (if not all) reviews I saw confirmed that the game is not as great as the old ones, that's such a shame 😓 I had a similar feeling with little friends on the switch. I didn't see if you had the opportunity to try it but that was a huge disappointment for me as well (but that might only be me because I saw more positive feedbacks online) I guess our old games were so great (and still are in my opinion) that we build too much expectation on the equivalents on newer consoles and end up disappointed all the time 😭
I didn’t like fashion forward because of the dollhouse plotline. When I was a kid I liked the fact that I got to actually be a boutique owner, that little bit of immersion is probably why I spent hundreds of hours with it as a kid. when fashion forward came out and the premise became that I was NOT actually a boutique owner in the game, but actually a kid pretending to be one in a dollhouse, that was enough for kid me to never touch it again. Maybe now as an adult I’d like it, but back then the fact that they made me no longer a real boutique owner in the game was enough for me to drop it. I still play the first 3ds style wavy a ton, it is such a comfy game and creating different outfits will never get old
Thr first game was amazing! At least for me, when I was little, I didn't understand fashion but I liked the outfits (couldn't accept my interest because, internalized misogyny). I only aced the outfits with few clients (the ones who wore black) so I grew frustrated with it. Picked it up recently and I just loved it!
Fashion Dreamer was my first actual dress up game. I picked it up because of all the praise I heard from the studio, and Style Savvy as a series always intrigued me. I had a lot of fun with the game, but hearing from og fans really does make me wish the game was more than what it currently is. Either way, I enjoy having tried out the genre, and I'm super excited to play the new Nikki game when it comes out! And if I really wanted, I wouldn't mind going back and playing a proper Style Savvy game. Also, I just wanted to note I love the way you capture and display 3/DS footage and gameplay! Capture cards are hard to come by for the console, but you still make your footage work so well!
I started with all the Style Savvy 3ds games. I fell in love with the series and it felt really fun to be a business owner with a lot of regulars who wanted help finding an awesome outfit. It felt alive where Fashion Dreamer feels dead 😅
I remember my sister got Trendsetters when I was in elementary school and I would sneak and play it. I loved it so much! I was able to get Fashion Forward later down the road and I put so many hours into that game. I love everything about it I loved how cutesy and girly it was! I wasn’t able to get styling star and wasn’t too interested in fashion dreamer, but hopefully they make something similar to the original formula!
As a guy, I tried Style Savvy on the 3DS and absolutely LOVED it! It’s what I wish most games with customization would be like. But it’s unfortunate that the switch game doesn’t hold up to it’s greatness. Thx for saving me some money lol
Honestly it’s worth Homebrewing your 3DS even if you don’t want to pirate anything! Custom themes and save managers alone make it worth it. There’s a lot you can do and it took me about fifteen minutes to do mine.
I was so excited when fashion dreamer got announced but when they mentioned its a virtual reality setting they immediately lost me, meta worlds are so boring I'd much rather run around a cute town and go places and not feel like I'm in this wreck it Ralph breaks the internet kinda world,,,,
Honestly, I really agree. When the first trailer came out i was so excited for it! I even made a discord server and a twitter account to promote the game. As a young style savvy fan who has always loved dress up games and only played Styling Star in around 2019, i fell in love with its story and songs, playing it for a really long time. When this came out i was so excited, just like you said, mostly because of the beautiful graphics, but it ended up being a disappointment, I've played it for less than 10 hours, and i guess it made me realize that what i liked the most about styling star was the story and the songs, so just mindlessly making outfits wasn't really for me...
I just started playing Style Savvy, the first 2 that came out on the 3DS! I can't believe this wasn't a core game for me as a kid, but there was an app called Style MeGirl which was really good!!
Great video! I never got to play the earlier games, so its great to see footage and hear a bit of a retrospective on the series. Fashion dreamer is fun, but shallow and empty. i've played over 100 hrs but rarely longer than two hrs at a time.
oh my god thank you for talking about this!!!! i grew up loving og style savvy and trendsetters!! i immediately bought fashion dreamer because i thought it’d be a refreshing take on the series. that game was sooo boring and uninspired… i wish i could get my money back :(
I would have liked a system with a competition mode. You know how Dress to Impress is so popular right now? Fashion Dreamer literally could integrate simple modeling/judgement sessions that could be interacted with emojis/one-word phrases that build a brand status. (Like a web system to represent your brand.)
Ok first off, new sub. Second OMG TY FOR MAKIMG THIS VIDEO. I commented for like 3 years straight on nintendos twitter to give us a new style savvy or a port and when Fashion Dreamer was announced I was so excited! Then it released and I legit played it for like a week. SO DISAPPOINTED. It’s nothing like Style savvy. I hope one day we will get a new style savvy. Also the thing you said about fashion is so true for me to!! 🖤🖤🖤
Fashion Dreamer just was NOT it for me, if it does get a sequel (I feel like it’s sold fairly well, hopefully) then I’d expect it to be a lot better, these are things I would change/ add in a sequel (I just started the video so if any of the points I make are similar I apologize) They need to find some sort of gameplay loop because it’s just not fun. Better customization, maybe patterns and fabric/texture? I LOVE the idea of the four different areas if I was them I’d expand on that I think all of them are unique and fun, like maybe add more stuff, minigames? Enterable buildings? Idk Get rid of the time exclusive events, I paid 50 bucks, I don’t want time exclusive content that *might* be made accessible in a later update. If you’re gonna do events at least make them loop or something, or make them unlock able one after another or something!! Also add bags and make necklaces its own item category, those being gone especially give off the vibe that they are saving them for if a sequel is made (to me)
I have 140+ hours in Fashion Dreamer so far between 3 save files and well, Style Savvy is the clear winner, but for me Fashion Dreamer still accomplishes being a fun game to dress up in! Games you can dress up in are my favorite but there's a lot I don't bother with, I think Fashion Dreamer does have many quality issues, but it manages to be solid still. There's so many options for different types of styles and they've been continuing to update! A lot of my friends have it too so we all dress each other up teehee. Definitely improves with friends imo. You also don't need to pay anything to go online in this game unlike many other Switch titles!
Its really easy to hack your DS! So I would 100% do it. I was also afraid so I hacked a pink 2ds first that I got for cheap, and it went great! Love the video 💕💕💕
Honestly Fashion Dreamer is on my wishlist since it came out. The way the people looked put me off. Glad that changed. I like this video and glad youtube recommended me it even though I still want that game
I was so excited for Fashion Dreamer when it was announced. I played it on release day and for a few days afterward, but I haven't touched it since. It's bland and monotonous, which is a shame, because it's very visually appealing and has some good designs in it! I wish it had been made with more creativity and care.
when i bought a used 2ds last year i got a physical copy of style boutique 3 send with it i didn't know how lucky i was hahah :D i played style boutique 2 when i was younger so this game makes me real nostalgic
A deep dive into the style savvy series!!! 🎀 had some technical issues while uploading it, but I have fixed all the issues and am excited to hear your thoughts about what do you think of the Fashion Dreamer game after having been out for almost a full year now!! How is it holding up to you? 👀
I wish switch out more effort into making “girly” games for an older demographic. The ds had soooo many options
There was literally Barbiemania last year. It should've been the 1998 of new 'girlie' games.
I loved the Style Savvy games but I still had such a poor idea of what Fashion Dreamer even was, even after watching people play and praise it. It just seems like there's hardly anything to do! Glad to see someone who shares my opinion on it.
I mean yeah. It's good when you need to pass time and just relax a bit. But there is no story or anything so it's not good for long term I feel 😭
All it is is the gameplay, and it’s not as deep. It really shows how important narrative is for games
Agreed
Bffr
To be fair, syn Sophia (the dev team behind Style Savvy) has been wanting to make another Style Savvy for years. It's Nintendo that didn't wanna back it. So they went to a different publisher and couldn't make it too much like Style Savvy or Nintendo might have sued, so their budget and quality suffered as a result. That's what a lot of people don't understand. Fashion Dreamer never tried to be Style Savvy, people just let their hopes, assumptions, and expectations take over. It's best to not compare them and just think of it as a simple fashion game that has nothing to do with Style Savvy beyond sharing a dev team. If you just wanna make cute outfits and take pictures of them for a few minutes a day, like old-school dress-up games, it's great for that.
Agreed 🥹💕 thank you for the response!
Thank you for the video! It's always great to see another Black cozy gamer. @@theninagabriella
this always happens all the time, ppl assume certain things and then when smth they didnt expect happens suddenly its “horrible” -.-
Technically, game mechanics are not copyrightable, which is why there are so many “spiritual successors” to games in the industry. But yeah I agree that budget can definitely be a big impact on how much content a game has. I still think charging $50 on launch for a game that, like you said, is a similar experience to old dress up games which were free is a bit wild
TBH, even if they didnt have the IP they still could've made an enjoyable game right? 🤔 The reason people are upset isnt because it's not the same as style savvy, even if you put style savvy aside, fashion dreamer just wasnt a fun experience at all. to me at least
my grandmother LOVED playing her style savy game. when she passed, i had the chance to play it and I fell in love for 2 reaons. first being that it was an enjoyable game even though i wanted more and i fell in love because I felt closer to my grandmother. Unlike her playing animal crossing on the wii, i didn't get to see her physically play the game other than just seeing her on 3dsxl and hearing sound effects
This is a wonderful memory. May her memory continue to be a blessing to you ❤
Your grandma sounds like a dope gamer !! May she play games in the afterlife
You definitely have to play Style Savvy Styling Star at some point! I initially skipped it as a teenager cuz the whole idol aspect turned me off from the game at the time. However I finally decided to play a European copy of it for the first time as an adult after the disappointment that was Fashion Dreamer and it's been a blast! The idol storylines you follow are so silly and loaded with charm, highly recommend!
But I don't have a 3ds. That sounds so fun though...
@@anvypieender5804U can get one second hand (Got one for 50 euros) and homebrew it
@@anvypieender5804if you have a pc there are ways 👀
@@anvypieender5804u can use a 3ds emulator and find a rom of the game! the controls might be weird but ive emulated 3ds games and they usually work fine
@@anvypieender5804tbh u can play it with a rom emulator, that’s what I’m doing right now LOL
I loved the first game so much I remember not being able to get the highest rank on the last fashion competition and so I asked my older brother for help because he’s really good at video games and he got the highest rank and we were so excited to this day if one of us is wearing a good outfit we say “wow that’s so style savvy of you”
One thing I miss about the OG Style Savvy was the shop customizations and music🤩 bring back fantasy shop themes and sassy nonsensical adlibs in the songs !!
Ah. Huge agree.
One two of the style beautique songs still live rent free in my mind and I'm 24
the style savvy DS game has a track that plays in the buyer’s centre and it makes me laugh SO hard every time!! the “THAT’S FASHION 😡” and “YEEEEAHHHHHH 😩” are literally yelled into the mic like damn girl please chill
"Heyyyyyyeyyyyyyyy, I'm going to make it through..."🎶🎶🎶
@@jamie-gp5be LMAO!! I remember
I've heard a lot of mixed feelings about this game and it makes me SO sad. i think the initial concept of this world of fashion and social media honestly made the game become a lot worse then something that was a lot more engaging of a game play concept (selling clothes, coordinating outfits for customers and the like.)
I do hope SynSophia comes out with another game soon though, I really do think they can make something with similar charm like before. Maybe on the second switch console...
I know you said you're not interested in modding your 3DS to play styling stars, but if you ever change your mind, the undisputed GOAT of 3DS homebrew Rocket Robz, is a huge style savvy fan and advocate for preserving all of the games and DLC. it's the only way to get the Liz Lisa DLC if you didn't purchase pre-eshop closure.
Hi! I'm form Europe and played the original Style Boutique when I was a kid, also remember playing Love Nikki when I was a teen and always got this attraction for fashion games
I was soo excited to know that the developers of Style Boutique were making a comeback, I remember loving that game... But when I got Fashion Dreamer I was so disappointed for the same reasons, this is an e m p t y game... I had other expectations, didn't knew it was going to be basically a mobile game with gacha and everything XD
After some time, I got used to the gameplay dinamic and kinda liked the feeling of making clothing for people over the world liking. I also really enjoy dressing up other people's muses in hopes that they liked what I made for them
But that is that, there's nothing much, the only things that make you open the game again are those updates and festivals or your own desire of creating new pieces or experimenting with your creativity,,, but there is a lack of idk... personality to the game (?) It's all looks really ;-; AND, this is more like a personal level comentary but, I absolutely hate the festivals technique for making people keep playing the game (they work pretty much like a battle pass lol but free)
This game just reflects the game industry evolution and makes me saaad I don't want empty pretty games to be the standar now... I want to feel thingggs.... at this point im just yapping :P thank you for reading bye
(It is worth mentioning that I paid less than 40 € for a physical copy, prices on the eshop are CRAZY)
@@BEK0K The worst part is, I've played mobile games less empty than it. MULTIPLE ONES AT THAT. Amidst all that predatory monetization, lies a soul and hard work... ;-----;
Playing shining nikki and that one has a really good story and stuff actually, used to play love nikki too and same there, heck even some older mobile titles that already closed had SOMETHING to do...
They really dropped the ball with fashion dreamer, bruh... it could've been so much more...! ( TT ^ TT)
I never liked Fashion Dreamer especially since they based fashion off of social media and clicks… yes that’s modern fashion, but man, it feels strange.
Fashion to me is the reflection of the inner soul and to slap social media and likes on it is just so… not it. I get it though, I really do, but it feels so wrong.
I will acknowledge that Fashion Dreamer definitely had some effort on it, like some of it has some charm. Sadly not my thing, I think.
I loved Style Savvy, although simple, was really engaging and fun with how you could coordinate outfits and even follow storylines of characters- ugh I miss the storylines and the funny dialogue, they were so charming.
This deep dive is also really well-done, Tysm for researching and your insight!!
PS I did briefly played the Nikki games, but I stopped due to data back then lol,
It would be really interesting to hear about it though!!!!
Style Savvy always had a level of fantasy and escapism. Like, in the first game you get hired without experience and your boss loves you and basically lets you run the store and do whatever you want by the end. Your customers are cute girls that want to play dress up with you and you all live in a quaint, clean, walkable town with only cute men lol. I've never played fashion dreamer but it seems like some elements of that escapism are lost by it being too abstract. The town and boutique were idealistic but it was still a grounded world.
@@mchjsosde I agree, Fashion Dreamer takes its title a bit too seriously, and I do understand why, but I feel like it shouldn’t be so based on social media and such. Plus the gacha… that was just a big ick for me.
this. Social media always takes the whimsy out of things for me
Style boutique (the second one) was so fun!!! Literally my whole childhood… I was obsessed… played multiple play throughs… many different styles of clothing, customers will actually wear your outfits, you can decorate the boutique, outside, inside, and windows, my favourite was how beautiful you could make your own character in such detail… it felt very customizable, personal… it was amazing 🥲 also the contests felt rewarding and the relationships meaningful… literally a perfect game 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Ps: YES!!! They need to make a game sililar to game 2 and 3 … all the existing features + open world + better graphics + deeper relationships… something like that would be so amazing…
Styling Star is such an amazing game 😭 the attention to detail is just so heartwarming. I love the absolute whacky random client bios. I love the message of expressing yourself thru fashion. I love the expansive photoshoot section with tons of facial expressions and poses and options for posing with another character. And of course, the little performances and songs/dances are SOOOO cute. Like i still go in to play and dress up the girls and the backup dancers for their concerts, coming up with new stage concepts in my head LOL. The dance animations are truly sooooo charming. I love the idol aspect of it, to me, it gave some real weight to my styling choices.
ALSO I think playing these kinds of designer games on the 3DS is such a core part of the experience. Like simply to be able to instantly pick the item you want rather than scrolling through makes it more enjoyable. The switch's touchscreen capabilities are not as responsive as the 3DS. IMO, this is also why Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer is wayyy more enjoyable than the home design aspect of AC New Horizons. It's just so much more satisfying to instantly choose and place ur item exactly anywhere u want, rather then using the analog stick on the switch or trying to clumsily place the item with its inaccurate touchscreen. Anyways ya srry for the rant❤😅
This game is the sole reason why I began making my own fashion game, I'm just so disappointed in it that it drives me to create
definitely update us !!
I thought I was being to harsh when I told my friends this game was a little boring after awhile. But you totally get what I was feeling, I bought it cause I know if we don't we won't get another one. Here's hoping they take another crack at it and give us a game with more pizazz.
When I first got my 3DS I didn’t have money to buy trendsetters. I played the demo over and over again. I didn’t want to turn off my 3DS because you could only play the demo a certain number of times, I kept it in sleep mode.
i did the same thing
the way style savvy had its GRIP on my childhood😭 this deep dive is absolutely fantastic
its true...and so sad. a streamer i like was playing a random, janky game in literally ROBLOX that had like a multiplayer fashion show mechanic. i remember thinking, "wow - even this little mod probably made by like a teenager has more creativity than fashion dreamer" and feeling sad lol. great vid thx for making me sad again about the death of the genre :")
was it dress to impress?
Fashion Dreamer is kinda like the Sims 4 of synsophia fashion games; Best graphics in the series (most advanced and smooth), very cautiously selected content stripped of all uniqueness to appeal to the widest audience possible/general public, claims to have innovative and refreshing features but ultimately proves itself to be a super simple and repetitive game that feels shallow at best. While I did have some fun for a little bit, I am pissed that I paid full price for this.
I might have gotten it on sale. Unless there wasn't a sale. My dad passed in August. I made him as a muse in there , so he's never truly gone now
Even though it's not style savvy, I enjoyed it very much and still play it ❤
i didn’t have a 3DS during its peak so i was close to getting this game and after seeing all my friends drop it/ be disappointed by it, i’m glad i didn’t 🥲 this review really solidified that for me! i picked up a 3DS finally and am having so much fun playing style savvy for the very first time 💕
I think because people on socials associate and advertise it so much as a Style Savvy game they get disappointed once they play it and find out it's nothing like the other games, some people call it Style Savvy's sister game or cousin even and that's definitely better. I'm just glad that it didn't release during lockdown I can imagine the game performing awfully sales wise since we were all indoors with a lot of free time, a nightmare for this game!
I'm a strong believer that if they had a little story mode or plot it would've improved the game by a lot, even without changing the virtual world aspect like the aspect of social media and fashion has a lot of potential yet they didn't do much with it which is a missed opportunity! All I hope is that they will make more fashion games for consoles as we are definitely lacking that, I'd hate to see another fun franchise bite the dust ;;
(Going on a tangent here oops) For the Nikki games getting attention thanks to Infinity Nikki, I genuinely hope developers really start taking fashion games seriously so we get more games that actually care about that side of gamers.
I agree
I definitely was disappointed with Fashion Dreamer, I went in thinking it was going to be similar to Style Savvy. I played it for like maybe an hour or two and ended up just reselling my copy : [ Great video though, can't wait for more!
Style Boutique 3 i think had a super compelling story with the three main girls you follow. The gameplay might have not been as in depth as the previous games, but I loved following the girls and helping them with their journeys.
I’m soooo glad that someone FINALLY explained WHY Style Savy is so amazing; I never played it before and people kept raving about it (like it was something that you just had to be there for), but never really explained it like you did!!!!! I pray that they port it to the Switch (like with MySims) one day!!!!!!!!!!! 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄
What Nintendo should do is revise or port one of the style savvy games on the switch so others can enjoy this masterpiece
Fashion dreamer could been better part of me thinks they were trying to experiment with something new but it didn't meet expectations that Style Savvy had like we enjoy Fashion shows cat walks having a boutiques getting to dress up new characters everytime.
1. your twists are soo cute
2. This video is for the culture. Style savvy is a game so close to my heart and childhood! Thank you!
Finally someone who feels the same way about the series !! Great video keep it up girly ✨
i love when i find creators who speak my language fr. dont even get me started abt style savvy, my LOVE !!
Style savvy: fashion forward is literally the best style savvy game to me omfg like i wish they would just port it to the switch
I agree. Best one by far!!!
yes fr, there's just this vibe that isn't present in the other games
Fashion forward is New style boutique 2 yes?
That's my favorite style savvy game too🤗🤗🤩🤩🤩🤩💖💖💖💖🌸🌸🌸🌸
I absolutely LOVE Fashion Forward more than Styling Star (I love Styling Star too) just bc I feel Fashion Forward world is more alive and the fact it has a real time clock makes everything less overwhelming for me (I get very stressed if I'm playing Styling Star and I have to do a girl's makeup at morning, and go to the boutique at afternoon and in the night go to the hair salon and also do any quest from the storylines), in Fashion Forward I could go a talk with everyone and go to different places an take pictures and change the landscape, etc while in Styling Star I don't feel that freedom (but I'm somewhere between the start of the game and the half of it I guess, I just unlocked Enid Chen brand) and I also hate we can't earn money helping at the hair salon, makeup salon or boys boutique. But I enjoy the storylines. And I love both art styles specially Styling Star one bc I feel they did the makeup and skin tones better. But if I had to choose I would probably stay with Fashion Forward. I also love Fashion Forward UI, it is so adorable and I just love it so so so much!!! 💗💗
Actually, you do earn from the guys boutique in Styling Star! A lot more than your usual customers honestly. It just doesn't show you earning the coin like your own boutique's, which is odd, but yes, don't worry you do earn :) (saved my broke wallet so many times during seasonal VIP lounge switches haha)
Honestly my biggest criticism with the game is that it didn’t lean more into this “fashion sandbox” theme it’s going for. It needed more organization options, more muses, more showrooms, more flexible customization with creating outfits/clothing, a better way of unlocking things. Not to mention it runs pretty poorly and navigating its different systems is clunky and inconvenient. I don’t mind that it’s different from Style Savvy and tried something different. If I want to play Style Savvy I can still play the other 4 games for that experience. But I think it somewhat failed at what it was trying to do.
That said I still somewhat enjoyed the game and don’t regret buying it. Hopefully they can use the bones of this game to create something better in the future.
This video showed up on my recommended and I loved it! Feel like replaying now 😊 While I do love the first game, I have a special spot for the last 3 style boutique games (not fashion dreamer ofc) + I loved how the customization was more varied as they went on. You should definitely play Styling Star, I don’t know where it could be bought but there were definitely physical copies being sold within Europe (as that’s where I lived when I got all of mine). From the other comments, it seems like North America were the only ones not selling it physically. It’s a great game and the idol part adds so much, for me it’d sometimes get a bit boring only taking care of the boutique so it was cool styling my clothing differently and seeing it be used in such a way. Same goes for the fashion shows/contests.
Fashion Forward was the first style savvy game I played and I LOVED it. I think I put 200 hours into that game, mostly in the first year alone. I had my eye on Styling Star when it came out and I loved it even more. I loved how plot heavy it was, and the amount of characters. The thing about the story is that you see the characters so often, they really feel like your friends. I care about their lives and what happens to them and they’re all so great I couldn’t even tell you who my favorite is! The best part to me was that there was MUSIC. I rarely see it talked about but some of the songs are actually pretty good and this was one of two or three games that got me through middle school for sure.
You summed up my thoughts on Fashion Dreamer exactly. It’s a BEAUTIFUL game and I love the customization and how unique you can make your character look. But without true goals to progress towards, it all feels meaningless. The lack of any sort of plot really put the game at a disadvantage. One of the things that bothered me the most was a lack of true currency, honestly. You can just pick up whatever clothes you want, whenever you want to. Part of the fun of the old Style Savvy games was finally getting enough money or stock room to buy the new items you really wanted! Having all the items handed to you at once makes everything feel a lot less valuable. I still think the game is beautiful and I loved messing around with it for a little while (I mean my pfp is literally from the game) but I haven’t picked it up in months and I don’t really see a reason to go back when I could spend my time playing games that have actual progression to them.
as someone who played trendsetter religiously as a preteen i was so hopeful for fashion dreamer and although the customization was very pretty from the makeup to the hairstyles and the fashion, it felt a little off to me and the technical issues that came with the game's release also put me off (like the lag when loading up your inventory)
as a kid i was able to play a lot of games i find boring nowadays for hours, but i recently decided to replay trendsetter to see how it holds up and was surprised at how fun it was and how often i would actually choose to just sit and play it for an hour or two, i think fashion dreamer missed out on a lot of what brought the style savvy games to life by putting you in more of an online hub than a cozy small town with a bunch of people and customers :( i do hope this doesn't mark the end and that they'll make more games because i'd love to experience something closer to the style savvy series again
i hope after seeing how much fans wanted an actual style savvy game nintendo will allow the company to make one, especially after trying to lean more into the feminine side of gaming with the new princess peach game, but who knows v_v
Aw man, I wish I watched this video before I got Fashion Dreamer. I ended up buying this game last month, then maybe spent twenty minutes playing only to be disappointed! Also
LOVE your pink set up!
sooo i shouldn’t get it ..?
@@kiarinoue I wouldnt recommend it tbh
@@chrisk5512 ok thanks !!
"Is this girl okay? Someone get her some milk." 😂 That's one of my favorite vines, so I love that you managed to reference it so seamlessly.
Honestly, homebrew has never been easier! From what I’ve heard anyway… though I will say Styling Star is a lot of fun ;)
it is surprisingly easy, and tbh now that basically all support has been pulled for the ds i would honestly recommend everyone does it haha
I have zero views about this series - I never played it - but I appreciate how thoroughly you covered it. I hope your channel takes off
Omg thank you for making this, I love people who talk about the style savvy series, people don’t talk of it enough
Oh man, this video was such a trip for me. I played both Trendsetter and Fashion Forward and was OBSESSED with both. I played each game over and over and over, giving myself different goals to complete each time like achievements in other games. It's a huge part of my fashion style nowadays, and it really allowed me to live out my punk and gender nonconforming dreams before I had the money/parental allowance to explore them on my own. Had no idea there were games in the series besides these two. Thank you for making this!!!
I feel like we shouldn't compare those 2 Franchises because both of them are amazing on their own 🤗 I just love coming home from work , playing some fashion dreamer and create outfits or boot up my 3ds , insert style savvy games and run my own little boutique , we should let these 2 co-live in peace💕
i have styling star! it might be my favorite game in the series or a tie with trendsetters! 💖
imo it has the best storyline in the series. it's more than "you take over someone's boutique and progress through the fashion contests." you still run a boutique in the game, but you also meet three different girls who are trying to become idols and become their personal stylist. and they all have different personalities and their own little stories 🎀
and there's plenty of side quests too! also imo the dialogue is hilarious, sometimes it makes me laugh out loud 😂
there's also a bunch of quality of life mechanics they added. for example you can tell a customer to wait while you restock clothes for them. and you can also restock clothes you bought previously on your phone! i love it✨
i know there's a couple playthroughs on youtube of it!
yes my favourite too!! the story is so long as well like it's literally fully fledged
Hi! Amazing video, I fully agree with your points (even though I have over 60 hours in Fashion Dreamer - admittedly I got it on sale for around £35 and I only ever played the original Style Savvy for DS so ig a lot of the content feels new/worth it to me - plus I just genuinely enjoy playing dress up a lot lol)
I also am a former games design student at uni. One of the first things covered in the course is all the theory about what makes a game a game. And what I find super interesting about your, in my opinion, completely correct analysis of the failings of Fashion Dreamer is that I genuinely don't think it's a game.
There is no win state to achieve or lose state to avoid - sure, there are four cocoons to unlock but they are functionally identical and outside of some more photoshoot opportunities you don't really get anything for that. There is no objective or real purpose: no plot to complete, no character development or relationship building, no discernible end to collection since content is user-generated and therefore, hypothetically, infinite, and no competition with other players. And, I think most importantly, no 'meaningful play': which is your actions having a discernible outcome both before and after you make them. Which is what you describe when you talk about the lack of consequences in the game.
If anything, I would say that Fashion Dreamer is an app. A very pretty, fleshed out app that happens to be made for a games console, but an app nonetheless. However it is still marketed (and priced) as a game. If they'd just called it an app, made it much cheaper (and maybe sorted out the organisation issues with items) I would not have any issues with it. And it is certainly not a successor, spiritually or otherwise, to Style Savvy.
I owned a Japanese copy of a Style Savvy game and played the game FULLY in Japanese back when I didn't know a single Japanese word (before I even encountered anime haha).
The way the game presents itself is very easy to understand and the outfits are cute too! I love how they validate everyone's fashion choices (I was obsessed with mixing graphic tees with fluffy skirts back then), and how your 'boutique' isn't you designing a new article of clothing, but mixing and matching fashion items to create a new look with existing clothes (which actually inspired me to look into my own closet and start to experiment)
I played all style boutique games and Fashion Dreamer and I agree with you, Fashion dreamer lacked the life that the style boutiques games had, the npcs feel bland and the only way for you to enjoy the game at full you need online mode. The characters and outfit making are prettier and there is more variety but the game for some reason just feels repetitive compared to the style boutique games those small moments you had qith the charcater, the story mode this games increase your connection with the game i replayed all 3 style botique games (the 3ds ones) so many times to relive that. It's true fashion dreamer is a interactive game but they could have added so much to give life to the game also in some events certain clothes are locked by follower numbers forcing you to reach 1M and fastest way is not even making outfits it's taking pictures with muses
I loved Style Savvy!!! I did play the demo for Trendsetters (thanks to the Style Savvy medley from Super Smash Bros for Wii U), and in the technical sense, Fashion Forward was my first and only Style Savvy game (thanks to its demo as well). I played the heck out of it during most of my free time in 2017 and 2018! I also liked how they implemented not only amiibo functionality, but also Mii Maker/StreetPass functionality as well. You get a dress of your Mii's color once you get to a certain level and I thought that was really cute.
There was a demo for Styling Star that I played that could be found in the North American 3DS eShop, which gave me a glimpse of the game, but I never downloaded Styling Star due to Nintendo Network ID complications and my being a broke college student at the time.
When I saw that Fashion Dreamer was announced in the February Direct of 2023, my first reaction was, "Oh shoot, Style Savvy for the Switch?" It did seem intriguing, especially because of the fact that it has more clothing options and inclusive hairstyles (which Nintendo should use as a base if they want to update the Mii Maker in my opinion) and the idea of copying others looks, a la Animal Crossing, but Nintendo would post the update videos for the game, which made it seem insufferable. Thanks for playing it so I wouldn't have to. 😂
I had this game as a kid on the 3ds, and I absolutely LOVED it. As someone who didn't play any of the previous issues of the series, this was an amazing start that kept me occupied for hours upon hours
have you ever played life makeover? i found it after being SUPER disappointed with fashion dreamer and cant get enough of it. its so gorgeous. it is a gacha game but since you mentioned infinity nikki i figured youd be fine with that. its on pc and mobile. i never played the first style savvy game but i love trendsetter and styling star on 3ds. i hope we can get an ACTUAL style savvy game with modern fashions. fashion dreamer is NOT style savvy, and anyone going into it thinking its style savvy is going to be horribly disappointed. i like the aesthetics and style and fashions of fashion dreamer but theres nothing to DO. i was like cool theres quests and then they just die off. then later on they finally added more quests but its so boring and repetitive. also you cant dress characters incorrectly, theyre always happy regardless of how you dress them. i also find the search function to be useless. you end up with like 500 of the same item that is all different colors but you can barely even see what color some of the stuff is. i just find it to be irritating to play.
OMG YES PLEASEEEE I NEED SOME LOVE NIKKI DEEP DIVE especially LORE deep dive!! I don't think Love Nikki's lore gets the recognition and love it deserves, it's so engaging and well written! Great video, loved it ❤
I bought fashion dreamer, pre ordered even, and it was the biggest disappointment of the year for me!!
"Oh it's not style savvy! Stop complaining!" Bruh I saw this so much and that was not even my problem, it's ok, it doesn't need to be like it's big sis, the disappointment is cuz ITS SO DARN EMPTY!
I had a lot of fun doing lookits for a bit, but then it struck me, why? There's, like, nothing to strive toward, and the follower number is such an annoying thing to raise... And so unfun after a while, too. Literally the worst part of the grind, forever.
Like, I thought we'd be like a fashion influencer of sorts, maybe a few things to do with promoting brands and your own brand, but then NOT EVEN A STORY IT HAD! THE NPC ARE JUST HUMAN MANNEQUINS WITH A LITTLE BIT OF PERSONALITY SOMETIMES!!
Plus you kinda can't mess up. No matter how silly or weird or out of theme, the NPCs just accept it and you get points anyway, and don't even lemme start about the bloody lack of filtering and how weird the colour thingy is?
Ok you want leopard print, lemme scroll for 3 years till I find one. Wait you want polka dot? Do I even have polka dot... wait, leather? ...does this one count? I dont know, uh... Oh, you want pink? Ok here you go- what? That is literally pink, why the heck is my score lower?! It counts as red? Whyyyy?!
And the eggs space thingies, there so few?!
The whole game feels so undercooked and empty, even if the stuff that is there is nice... when I started I found the models so pretty and stuff like this, only to be faced with ultimate sadness when I saw it was like a beautiful vase, devoid o flowers... ;-;
Sorry for the long rant, thanks for making this video! Seeing the old ones... now I want a true new style savvy even moreeee gaaaah lol
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THIS, it's so annoying when people shut down bad reviews by saying "Well, it was never supposed to be Style Savvy so ur not allowed to complain!!1!" I think we are very much allowed to be dissapointed especially since the game was 50 (!) bucks. That's bonkers
Personally I felt like the series started to go downhill after the third game. The third game was good, but I remember finally getting to the fashion show and I thought it was like the first game (where you participate in multiple shows until you get to the final international one)- but no. You participate in a single show and THE GAME ENDS! I remember being so mad because I felt like the plot ended way too early. Also the dollhouse aspect was kinda a miss for me. For the fourth game I only played a few hours of it, and I remember the characters and story were cute and funny- but I got bored quickly as there wasn’t much new compared to the past games. Trendsetters/2 was the absolute best and the series had so much potential that they just never built upon… so sad. As for Fashion Dreamer, I haven’t played it after hearing all the bad reviews. I’ll wait till it’s on a huge sale to play it.
Style boutique 3 is so good I bought it on the eshop years ago and still use it
I played the Style Savvy/Style Boutique games on the DS and 3DS (I unironically found Style Boutique on sale and bought it on a whim). I really enjoyed 2 and 3 a lot due to the amount of customisation options and npc interactions and 3 had a really good story with the main idols you were following and helping. I was looking forward to Fashion Dreamer and was really disappointed with the whole game. There is a huge focus on getting likes and collecting points for your outfits and showing your customised clothes (recolour of a base clothing pattern) in the showroom and it is super grindy to unlock new patterns, colours and eye styles from npcs. Npc dialogues in this game are so shallow and empty. I really want the store owner gameplay to return because I got attached to the npcs that I met in my boutiques and I also enjoyed the fact that we can give hairstyles and makeovers for npcs.
thanks for making this, i've been waiting for anyone to talk abt style savvy this extensively. i played styling star when it came out, and i really did miss the fashion shows, but the relationship building with the stars you got to style was really nice, they all have very sweet and in depth stories and the relationships you get to build with them feel like genuine friendships, i set my in game phone background to a selfie i took with Rosie, because i just love her so much. i was soooo excited for fashion dreamer, and so so disappointed when i played it and realized there was no story, not even a boutique, no relationships that feels like anything with any of the npcs. the fashions are great, but it just feels so empty without all the things we got from style savvy. i wish we could get another style savvy game, that looks like this but with everything we got from the past games. sigh. maybe someday. i loved this video, i subscribed :)
absolutely loved this video & agreed with the points you made. as somebody who loves the style savvy series and has never played loved nikki, i’d love to see a video discussing a deep dive about that, or even just a gameplay pov! :)
just discovered your channel and i can already tell you’re gonna be one of my favs 💗 i recently started playing the style savvy games and i’m obsessed, they make me feel the exact happiness and excitement i felt when i was 6 and learning about the wonderful world of fashion and self-expression!! it’s such a shame that fashion dreamer focused more on the social media aspect, cuz as other commenters have said, people with a genuine love for fashion place a higher importance on self-expression and authenticity than getting clout 🥲
The Style Boutique/ Style savvy Games were my whole childhood, I loved playing both new style boutique and new style boutique 2. I was kinds thrown off when the third game of this series came out because of the graphics. But when fashion dreamer was announced, I was so hyped and I looked forward to playing it. I played it for some time but I found myself not picking it up as frequently as I did with the other style boutique games. I wish the NPCs had a little more personality to them, in the style boutique games it felt like you made friends. I still play fashion dreamer from time to time but there’s really not a lot to do. When I wanna play dress up, I will play this game. Other than that there’s just nothing much to achieve besides your followers. This video made me want to revisit my old style boutique world, made me feel very nostalgic 💕
both the style boutique games were my absolute favourite growing up and i still do a quick play session every now and then 😭 lovely video! def gonna watch some others of yours
Being in Europe, I had no idea Style boutique was called Style Savvy in the US 😅 thank you for the explanation
Anyway, being a huge fan of the style boutique/savvy series, I'm really happy I didn't buy fashion dreamer. Unfortunatetly most (if not all) reviews I saw confirmed that the game is not as great as the old ones, that's such a shame 😓
I had a similar feeling with little friends on the switch. I didn't see if you had the opportunity to try it but that was a huge disappointment for me as well (but that might only be me because I saw more positive feedbacks online)
I guess our old games were so great (and still are in my opinion) that we build too much expectation on the equivalents on newer consoles and end up disappointed all the time 😭
Going back to play trendsetters and fashion forward so much nostalgia and still fun to play
i love the style savvy series i own the first three games and didn't even bother with fashion dreamer
I didn’t like fashion forward because of the dollhouse plotline. When I was a kid I liked the fact that I got to actually be a boutique owner, that little bit of immersion is probably why I spent hundreds of hours with it as a kid. when fashion forward came out and the premise became that I was NOT actually a boutique owner in the game, but actually a kid pretending to be one in a dollhouse, that was enough for kid me to never touch it again. Maybe now as an adult I’d like it, but back then the fact that they made me no longer a real boutique owner in the game was enough for me to drop it. I still play the first 3ds style wavy a ton, it is such a comfy game and creating different outfits will never get old
Thr first game was amazing! At least for me, when I was little, I didn't understand fashion but I liked the outfits (couldn't accept my interest because, internalized misogyny). I only aced the outfits with few clients (the ones who wore black) so I grew frustrated with it. Picked it up recently and I just loved it!
Fashion Dreamer was my first actual dress up game. I picked it up because of all the praise I heard from the studio, and Style Savvy as a series always intrigued me. I had a lot of fun with the game, but hearing from og fans really does make me wish the game was more than what it currently is. Either way, I enjoy having tried out the genre, and I'm super excited to play the new Nikki game when it comes out! And if I really wanted, I wouldn't mind going back and playing a proper Style Savvy game.
Also, I just wanted to note I love the way you capture and display 3/DS footage and gameplay! Capture cards are hard to come by for the console, but you still make your footage work so well!
I started with all the Style Savvy 3ds games. I fell in love with the series and it felt really fun to be a business owner with a lot of regulars who wanted help finding an awesome outfit. It felt alive where Fashion Dreamer feels dead 😅
Your channel is so underrated!! This video is like a hidden gem on youtube
Very nice of u to do this comparison !! Dress up is genre that's very needed but the game HAS to be good
Oooh, damn. I didn’t know about these games, and I clicked on this video on a whim. You already hit 5.03 K subscribers well before Halloween! Congrats
I remember my sister got Trendsetters when I was in elementary school and I would sneak and play it. I loved it so much! I was able to get Fashion Forward later down the road and I put so many hours into that game. I love everything about it I loved how cutesy and girly it was! I wasn’t able to get styling star and wasn’t too interested in fashion dreamer, but hopefully they make something similar to the original formula!
As a guy, I tried Style Savvy on the 3DS and absolutely LOVED it!
It’s what I wish most games with customization would be like. But it’s unfortunate that the switch game doesn’t hold up to it’s greatness. Thx for saving me some money lol
Honestly it’s worth Homebrewing your 3DS even if you don’t want to pirate anything! Custom themes and save managers alone make it worth it. There’s a lot you can do and it took me about fifteen minutes to do mine.
I was so excited when fashion dreamer got announced but when they mentioned its a virtual reality setting they immediately lost me, meta worlds are so boring I'd much rather run around a cute town and go places and not feel like I'm in this wreck it Ralph breaks the internet kinda world,,,,
I didn't know I have been waiting my whole life for this video 😭🙏
Honestly, I really agree.
When the first trailer came out i was so excited for it! I even made a discord server and a twitter account to promote the game.
As a young style savvy fan who has always loved dress up games and only played Styling Star in around 2019, i fell in love with its story and songs, playing it for a really long time.
When this came out i was so excited, just like you said, mostly because of the beautiful graphics, but it ended up being a disappointment, I've played it for less than 10 hours, and i guess it made me realize that what i liked the most about styling star was the story and the songs, so just mindlessly making outfits wasn't really for me...
I just started playing Style Savvy, the first 2 that came out on the 3DS! I can't believe this wasn't a core game for me as a kid, but there was an app called Style MeGirl which was really good!!
this vid got me into this game series. started with fashion forward and im loving it!
I've never seen your channel this is actually my first video of yours that i'm watching which i'm loving it btw! Also your hair is so pretty:D
Great video! I never got to play the earlier games, so its great to see footage and hear a bit of a retrospective on the series. Fashion dreamer is fun, but shallow and empty. i've played over 100 hrs but rarely longer than two hrs at a time.
oh my god thank you for talking about this!!!! i grew up loving og style savvy and trendsetters!! i immediately bought fashion dreamer because i thought it’d be a refreshing take on the series. that game was sooo boring and uninspired… i wish i could get my money back :(
you have the same name as me, im so glad to find out ! also the review was told out perfectly thanks sm for your video. love Nintendo
Style boutique is my childhood fashion inspo
I would have liked a system with a competition mode. You know how Dress to Impress is so popular right now? Fashion Dreamer literally could integrate simple modeling/judgement sessions that could be interacted with emojis/one-word phrases that build a brand status. (Like a web system to represent your brand.)
Ok first off, new sub. Second OMG TY FOR MAKIMG THIS VIDEO. I commented for like 3 years straight on nintendos twitter to give us a new style savvy or a port and when Fashion Dreamer was announced I was so excited! Then it released and I legit played it for like a week. SO DISAPPOINTED. It’s nothing like Style savvy. I hope one day we will get a new style savvy. Also the thing you said about fashion is so true for me to!! 🖤🖤🖤
oh my girl you must jailbreak you deserve them all and more… japan had an update in trendsetters where they could have a dream boyfriend pffttttt
Woah this just popped up in my reccomendations. I love longform youtube content
Oh 2000's style savvy you are everything to me with the fashion style (i have never played it)
Fashion Dreamer just was NOT it for me, if it does get a sequel (I feel like it’s sold fairly well, hopefully) then I’d expect it to be a lot better, these are things I would change/ add in a sequel (I just started the video so if any of the points I make are similar I apologize)
They need to find some sort of gameplay loop because it’s just not fun.
Better customization, maybe patterns and fabric/texture?
I LOVE the idea of the four different areas if I was them I’d expand on that I think all of them are unique and fun, like maybe add more stuff, minigames? Enterable buildings? Idk
Get rid of the time exclusive events, I paid 50 bucks, I don’t want time exclusive content that *might* be made accessible in a later update. If you’re gonna do events at least make them loop or something, or make them unlock able one after another or something!!
Also add bags and make necklaces its own item category, those being gone especially give off the vibe that they are saving them for if a sequel is made (to me)
I have 140+ hours in Fashion Dreamer so far between 3 save files and well, Style Savvy is the clear winner, but for me Fashion Dreamer still accomplishes being a fun game to dress up in! Games you can dress up in are my favorite but there's a lot I don't bother with, I think Fashion Dreamer does have many quality issues, but it manages to be solid still. There's so many options for different types of styles and they've been continuing to update! A lot of my friends have it too so we all dress each other up teehee. Definitely improves with friends imo. You also don't need to pay anything to go online in this game unlike many other Switch titles!
Its really easy to hack your DS! So I would 100% do it. I was also afraid so I hacked a pink 2ds first that I got for cheap, and it went great! Love the video 💕💕💕
Honestly Fashion Dreamer is on my wishlist since it came out. The way the people looked put me off. Glad that changed. I like this video and glad youtube recommended me it even though I still want that game
Literally have style boutique sitting on my bedside, thats how often i play this game 😭😭
god i'm glad youtube recommend me this video
fashion dreamer feels like end-game style savvy
I was so excited for Fashion Dreamer when it was announced. I played it on release day and for a few days afterward, but I haven't touched it since. It's bland and monotonous, which is a shame, because it's very visually appealing and has some good designs in it! I wish it had been made with more creativity and care.
LOVED this video!! 🎀✨
OH MY GODS U JUST REMINDED ME OF THIS GAME I AM FLOODED W FOND ROADTRIP MEMORIES ALL OF A SUDDEN😭😭😭
I love the last 3ds style savvy so much i play it like at least once a month
when i bought a used 2ds last year i got a physical copy of style boutique 3 send with it i didn't know how lucky i was hahah :D i played style boutique 2 when i was younger so this game makes me real nostalgic
My mom loved this game I was so excited for fashion dreamer so she could play again but then I saw the reviews