Umamusume: Pretty Derby

I thought I was going to love this game, but it just couldn’t stop from screwing me over. There is no logic to the races. You can train your runner and have higher stats than all the other runners yet you can still lose a race and/or miss a goal totally because the devs don’t understand what balancing is. This is an insult since it makes your hard work go to waste. After losing multiple races that I should’ve won with multiple runners, I uninstalled and won’t touch this garbage again. I bet the five star reviews are bots and weebs so disregard those. Don’t download this garbage!

Art: 10/10 - the 3d models are done very well; fluid but still anime-like, and there’s even details like wet cloth when it rains. Very good Voice Acting: 7/10 - it’s all done well, but only stories and lobby interactions are fully voiced; career mode is partially voiced. I understand why, but it still feels like a little bit of a letdown Gameplay: 7/10 - actually more interesting than I expected, and strategy is actually really deep Music: 8/10 - everything is quite good but it doesn’t have legendary songs like Idolm@ster or Love Live imo, or legendary soundtrack like Hiroyuki Sawano Characters: 9/10 - I think Tokai Teio is one of the best anime characters of all time and Gold Ship is a hilarious memester. Daiwa Scarlet should just be a generic ambitious tsundere but is somehow much more interesting. Solid in this department. — I really enjoyed my first full career; watching the races and listening to the commentators actually made the emotional stakes pretty high, in a way I was not expecting from a gacha game. The problem with this game is the investment and grind. Even after only a couple of days it already takes SO MUCH WORK. That original career was 3 hours long since I was savoring it. Most of your grinding runs are going to be like 30-40 mins, and you have to do SO many of them in order to complete the events. You lose the ability to enjoy the emotional stakes and the stories and it’s just WORK. At least, I did. UPDATE: Auto Career (Independent Career) is a game changer! The game is playable now! Yay! Tl;dr: To put it simply: this has all the elements for a great casual or story game, but it’s still a little too grindy. Also, really don’t know why it’s even 12+. The fanservice is really mild. On a similar level as Bang Dream probably.

I stopped playing the game in February in light of the dancers controversy but it got me thinking, if as a member of the colored community and we get racist backlash to even being back up dancers to an event why I am even playing this? The creative vision of the devs and community seems to be umas are everyone but the colored and if that's the case then I will not support this or any title that can't be bothered to actually attempt representation beyond generic Asian and white/slightly off white cultures

Like many others, I dropped the game because I could not do 30-minute dailies every single day. This most recent update dropped auto-training and made everything fun again! I am back and active for the foreseeable future! Thank you Cygames! I love this franchise

if i could inject this game directly into my veins, i would. as someone who LOVES rogue-likes, this combines the awesomeness of that genre with the storytelling of visual novels, anime, and more. it’s just so good. if you like horse racing and/or want a game you can easily sink hours into, then try umamusume. you will NOT regret it!!! i’ve genuinely learned so much about the real life horses behind the in-game characters, and it’s insane how committed cygames is to portraying them through our beloved umas and all of the lore that goes with them. peak world-building!!!

This game actually helped with my depression. I’m genuinely so much happier than before. Btw Meisho Doto is the best Uma.