Thoughts on Fashion Dreamer From a Lolita Fashion Influencer 

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god i wish they just got rid of the entire social media motif. running a boutique is SO MUCH COOLER

Hmm, that really is too bad. I am honestly just looking for a good dress up game, and it looks like this game can still give me that, but from what I hear, the foundation (other than the clothes themselves) is very soulless. Social media focussed games honestly sounds like the worst genre lol, lets not mix the two like that

why even bother to do "gender neutral" models if the clothing can't also be gender neutral??😭😭that doesn't even make sense in world the tiny dancing felix was a very funny touch

im a guy who crossdresses and i wanted to play this game so bad when i saw that you can make your masc/type B characters have all the feminine hairstyles and cute detailings. i genuinely cant wrap my head around how the type A and B characters can have IDENTICAL body types and shared hairstyles, yet NOT be able to wear the same clothing.

I can still imagine playing and enjoying this game, if it wasn't freaking FIFTY dollars. That's way too much for the content offered. I would even settle for forty, but not fifty. If it goes on sale I'll consider it, but until then I think I'll pull out my DS and play Style Savvy again, it still holds up!

It's definitely unfinished, you're not wrong about that. The fashion shows teased in the update absolutely seem like a feature that should have been base game as a means of breaking up the monotony of dressing up muses. You might have already learned about this by now, but you unlock most cosmetics from leveling up the friendship levels with NPCs. That's how you'll get hair, patterns, makeup, and poses too. Also, follower counts in this game aren't really "followers." You can think of it as a progression meter to show how long someone's been playing the game. The game has two major goals in terms of milestones: 1 million followers, and lvl. 200 brand. That's why I don't think seeing someone's follower count is any sort of shaming. If anything, it just shows their progression level in the game. As for the critique about brands, I personally don't see it happening. Considering how they're running the game, they really want players to be focused on being their own brand ambassadors. Promoting the items that they've created. When you play online mode, Lookits that are entirely made of your own clothes get the highest possible E-point reward when someone likes the whole outfit. That's the incentive for creating your own clothes, getting E-points from other online players liking your outfits so you can make more clothes and grow your brand by creating pieces. It's a very shallow loop that for the most part I've broken up by only making pieces when muses are looking for something in particular, but otherwise I just spam random on the palette selector. Great video, though. If you give up the game eventually, it's understandable why, but personally I like the pick up and play for a little while nature of the game. It's kind of a rehab for anyone who's played mobile fashion games and been sucked into the money hungry vicious cycle they put you through. You can still gacha for kicks, but it's not going to eat into your wallet because you've already paid your upfront price. That's personally why I've been really generous to it, it's exactly what I wanted it to be. I just wish they could add a bit more meat to make it perfect.

I saw a stream of this game and the clothes being limited to body type immediately put me off. To me, calling them body types but then limiting the kind of things those types can wear is fake inclusion, it makes people think all are welcome, but they are still limited by gender norms.

this feels like a browser game. If it was meant to be a plain dress up game with no substance at a cheap price point, it wouldve been fine. but it felt like it was supposed to be more, and the price seems exorbitant for what was given. Even with the promise of updates, i feel like a game should be released as the full, intended experience and not partially-complete with a "just trust me bro" of regular features withheld to be "new impressive content" down the road.

I really wanted to play this game to wear cute feminine lolita fashion with "type b" (masc) body type and hair, as a form of gender expression and because of course i love cute fashion. I'm a trans dude, seeing how restrictive this is makes me feel very disappointed 😓

Something I find a really stark contrast to the Style Boutique games and this spiritual successor is that in the early game especially, you have less control over your style. Like, when you man the store, you could pivot into your own style relatively fast as soon as you had the budget for it. If you can't/don't play online mode, being stuck making lookits and playing bingo (rng hell) and just so also happen to get stuck with bad Gacha luck, you'll end up not being able to pursue your style at all unless you get extremely lucky with what's trendy. I'm also surprised how we have less layers than on the DS, where we had inners and outers and could layer skirts with some pants (and more accesories on top of that). For now, I'm just gonna wait on the next updates and play Style Boutique Fashion Shows with my Totally-not-a-vampire fave MC mode.

I just realized I said Angely Sugar which is an aikatsu brand when I meant to say Marble Lily LOL 😂

Not sure if someone's mentioned it yet, but in the salon area, you don't have to use the preset look. Going to the mirror (not the stylist muse) opens up the same style menu that opens when you start the game, so you can change your entire look piecemeal. Hope that helps!

The only thing i can think about when playing this game was "man i wanna play style savy"

It really does look like a mobile game! When you started talking about I thought it was one of those "free to play" games and then wondered why you're so critical and then I realised it's a Switch game. It does look very visually appealing. I wish there were more communication options. Why can't freechat be a thing? I had freechat in freaking Pixie Hollow as a kid.

I was debating getting this game for a bit now so I appreciate you putting this out. 🙌🏻

It definately doesn't live up to its price. Its a nice dress up game, with really cute items, and if it was £10 - £15 i'd say its really good. But it was about £35-£40 so, I'd really expect more from it. It needs better search options. It seems to only be able to search by item, but we need to be able to search by colour, style ect The characters need to give more diverse prompts, and have more to say about the outfits There needs something else to do, like a fashion show where you need to meet prompts using your persoinal brand items where you can unlock new things if it meets the prompts

I've been enjoying this game just because I really like dress up games, but I agree that it just feels so empty gameplay-wise, especially for how much it costs. I feel like one obvious feature that's missing is saving outfits. With how many pieces you accumulate and how few options there are for filtering them, it would be so helpful to have an option to save some of my favorite looks so I can change back into them later. And yeah, I also really want more filters for looking through the clothes. Especially because I can't always tell what the game thinks the difference between "vivid" and "neon" is, or which color tiny items like glasses are.

this is everything i was worried it would be from watching the trailers but i still had hope 😭 but srsly what is with switch games being like pale shadows of their former selves?!

This has to be one of the best game reviews I’ve watched! Lor you did an amazing job with the points you made and adding pointers on what can be improved!

What bothers me most about the game is the lack of categories to click through while styling, you have to scroll through your entire wardrobe to put together an outfit and that gets really tedious real fast if you collect alot of clothing

Lor: This place is called your World, and it is an absolute mess. Me: Okay just like real life then 😂

i agree with most in this video, when i play this game i have myself questioning "WHY did they do this?" about so many things.. What bothered me so much before the game released, i kept tabs on information that would come out daily and i noticed that they kept hyping up the "item creation" feature as some cool new revolutionary thing where you can design your own items and express your creativity to share with the world, but its LITERALLY just changing the colors of pre existing meshes? thats not creative, not "designing", thats something you could do in games from 10 years ago even.. there is so much that goes into brand and fashion design that's more than just colours, theres so many sleeve, neckline, boddice, skirt types, etc to choose from.. when i recolor items that were pre made for me i dont feel like theyre truly mine, and as you play this game you basically just repetitively see just the same items in different colors.. they wanted to put such a huge focus on individuality but with this game design its almost impossible to stand out I agree SO much about the social media theme - why did they choose to simulate the absolute WORST part of social media? Currency is earned through likes and those are easier to get if you are on top of things and creating new, rarer items, it basically makes you feel like you constantly have to be on top of trends and everything which is just like . the most stressful part of real life social media.. its not fun?? i dont want to play a game about it?? i am also quite far into the game and im realizing how unbalanced it is, one lookit (even when trending) will give me 400-1000 followers, meaning that to get to 1mil followers (the final milestone) i will have to make around 500 lookits?? patterns also end up costing like 500k e points for some reason which is an impossible amount of e points to make by playing the game, you have to wait until the next day to let all the likes come in >_> im honestly done with this game cause of this, i haven't played it in 2 days, the gameplay literally made me feel like a zombie

I decided to look this game up on the switch store figuring it would be something cheap I could play a little bit while doing other stuff, and was shocked to see that it costs $50. With what you showed here, this really does not seem like it's worth that price tag.

I was so excited for this game 😔 i played for .... two days on and off, and i cant say i miss it ....

I paid about the same for this game (physically at launch) as I would have for Legend of Zelda TOTK (currently) which honestly feels almost illegal for the amount of stuff there is to do in it, lol I've probably spent 10-20 hours in it while watching TV in the same vein I would play candy crush (secondary activity type of thing) so your assessment of it being a phone game is quite right. I love the amount of clothes, but the indifference the characters have if you give them nothing they requested which feels like the lowest bar this game could have passed and it still crashed into it. There's no semblence of progress even unlocking the pods because the same npcs show up in all of them 😢 Just disappointing overall, I can't recommend getting it outside a sale. I also probably compare it too hard to Style Savvy (which I adore), but it's a 650NOK game! There should be SOME substance to it!

Admittedly I was very disappointed not to have any sort of "store" function, I had an idea in my head to be a raven candle influencer. I want to have contest even having them user lead would be cool. I wanted just so much more from this game.

15:30 Ahhh yeah I have the same sentiments about the social media feature in games because they often reflect on my reality. I don't care about numbers but the engagement I get from people whether thats from discord, YT, or any other place. Though I don't have a strong tight knit community, I could disappear for a year and no one would know I was gone. That's what my presence on social media feels like. It makes it worse when you don't have many friends. Posting on social media to get a few or no people reacting/seeing your stuff makes you feel like a ghost. Whenever theres a follower system in games I ignore it because no matter how many times I spam my creations, like others works, and engage with people on their posts, im still flown under the radar with at max 30 followers while most people have 500~1000 and it questions your self-worth. It can get really depressing just thinking about it. The reason why I value engagement is the chance you get to connect with others. I'm invisible irl and rarely noticed online and when someone notices and go like "hey I like what you created, i also agree what you said about this topic, etc" it feels more special because things like that don't happen to me often. At least the follower system can be hidden if you don't look at the feature but having a follower count ON TOP OF YOUR HEAD is just demoralizing.

I went into this game not expecting it to be like syle savvy and expecting it to have limited game play therefore I don't think I was as upset as other people. There are a lot of flaws, like how can you make a fashion game and not give us an in depth tagging system. I find the game is most enjoyable when you are doing it really casually. I really really love the concept and the fashion, it's great to be creative and the fashion is so nice, but it's lacking and I really hope this game not doing well doesn't convince companies it's because we don't want games like this... that's my biggest fear. The "gender" locked stuff really sucked because... I made my character, an effeminate male character of mine in the type A body which felt really nice, and then I saw the perfect outfit for him in type B so I had to remake him in type B... and like 90% of the clothing for the masculine body type is so BORING, which kind of makes sense but still is disappointing, I feel like all my girls are sparkling queens and the guys are like, todd down the street who wears only grey hoodies. The social media part I hate to. I'm so fatigued by it. Social media is so intertwined in our lives and it's such a huge source of anxiety. I don't know why companies seem to think we want it in the games that are supposed to make up relax. I think this game has such potential. I LOVE the color system. There are so many colors I can experiment and I like getting color schemes after, because it feels like I'm stepping outside my comfort zone and learning to appreciate more. And getting outfits from people is the best! For me, this game is perfect for people who are really passionate about fashion and like something more casual. If that isn't you, it probably isn't for you. Which kinda sucks because I want more people to experiment with fashion.

I am SO happy I waited for reviews before getting this; as much as I love Style Savvy I hoped this could be the spiritual successor, and this looks like it's not really up to my tastes. Thank you for reviewing, Lor!!

Why is it always fashion games and games in this specific interest area that always get told we're "setting our expectations too high"? RDR2 Can have realistic horse nads and a daily routine for each and every NPC in the massive game, but we can't expect more than two body types (Which don't even allow all the different types of clothes!???) in a game... exclusively about dressing up people in clothes???? Make it make sense. I really did not appreciate that answer at all, the speaker "twiztidcosplay" made it sound like fashion games are just silly toys that we can't possibly expect to perform like "real games" or to fulfill what I think are relatively meek expectations. It's fair to say this game studio isn't Rockstar, but nobody was going into this with Rockstar expectations either. Every criticism you've leveled seems more than reasonable for a FIFTY DOLLAR game! I've been playing flash-based online dressup games since I was old enough to click a mouse and I'll be honest, some of those free flash games are around as good as this looks. If you hadn't told me it was already "finished", I would assume this was a beta test at best. I can't say I'm enthralled to play it, but I do hope it improves and that they resist the urge to monetize anything that might start to look like actually fun gameplay or nicer clothing choices. I have a special browser installed on my computer for the express purpose of going back to play those old flash games, and it'd be nice to see some more modern games that would scratch the itch for playing dressup online. However, at the moment, I don't think this one is it. Lastly, it's 2023. Let us have a skintone slider and be bright purple or neon orange if we want. At the very least this isn't exclusionary, even if it does enable people to be a bit silly at times. Let different model types wear whatever type of clothes. Stop trying to force your own perceptions of "fashion" onto a group of people who very much want to SHOW what our OWN ideas of beauty and fashion are. The whole ideology behind the game is concerning to me, and makes me question if they really want to make a high quality fashion game for people who enjoy them- or if they're more interested in cashing out on a relatively niche interest group and don't want to put in the resources and time to understand what we are even asking for. All of these features should come BEFORE fashion shows, IMO, and should have been in the base game.

I’ve been really enjoying this game (I already have over 50 hours into it) but I do agree with some of your critiques. I hardly have any fashion pieces for the type B body type, and about 1/3 of what I have are pieces I’ve made myself because I needed them to complete an NPC request. While part of it is that I’m just not interested in that body type in general, there also is just a lot less variety in styles available for type B bodies and most of the pieces I’ve seen so far are just. Really basic. I also don’t really enjoy making the items. It’s nice if I have a look in mind and am missing a couple pieces for it, but I find the item creator overwhelming. The styles I’m interested in creating are locked to higher levels, which the only way to raise is by making items. So I end up with a bunch of pieces I’m not really interested in just to unlock something I am. Honestly most of the clothes I have are ones I’ve seen other muses wearing that’s I’ve liked because of how much I dislike the item creator. I do like that there is no currency for getting clothes. With how grindy it is to make clothes at higher levels I can only imagine how expensive the clothes I am interested in would be if you had to buy them. Stylist unlocks are tied to the NPCs. If you keep making lookits for NPCs they will eventually give you new makeup, hair colors, hair styles, skin tones, etc. I do wish that picking a random style would just unlock those options for you permanently. There have been so many times I’ve gone to them to get a specific eye color for my Muse, and then gone into the vanity to fix my hair color and makeup lol. I also agree that having a slider option for the skin tones would be nice, though for me that’s entirely because I’m more interested in fantasy skin tones than natural ones. (I have unlocked a blue skin tone from one to the NPCs so here’s hoping a lime sherbet one shows up.) I’ve also noticed that in online play, the muses that show up in my cocoons have been repeating. I don’t want to spam somebody with 3 lookits that will all end up similar because their ask criteria hasn’t changed, but they won’t cycle out if I don’t make them a lookit either. I haven’t found a way around that and that’s what’s been making it a bit more difficult for me to play recently. Really though, I got this game to make cute outfits and it’s really good at that. I love the variety of photo modes and places you can take photos, and that you can even use your showroom as a photo set and since there’s no auto save you don’t have to worry about messing up your item displays. It’s rough around the edges but this game is exactly what I wanted from it. It just isn’t anything more than that.

It's too expensive, I can't justify buying it 😭

nice review!! I didn't know all these. the skin tone range is acceptable for me but I am SOOOOO disappointed by the lack of body type diversity

You’re dislike for the game is exactly why I do like it 😅 I’m a simple man, my favorite part of animal crossing is taking pictures at Harv’s. Fashion Dreamer satisfies my little mind

Thank you so much for posting. I have been feeling so alone because this game has so much blind support, but there are issues with it!

brands would’ve fit in very well, imagine being a brand ambassador of certain brands to go with the influencer theme

omg Lor I'm so honored my video is in your video wtff?! I have loved your content for so LONG ToT !!!!

A NEW VIDEO LETS GO!!

The game seems half baked. Like no body inclusiveness, no freedom to use the clothes how you want, random feeling limitations, it's a huge shame this game isn't very good

Anyway, I really missed your content. You're just such a sweetheart

Thanks for the honest review, Lor! I appreciate your positive brand, but I also appreciate real opinions^_^

As a nonbinary person I'm really tired of the gesturing at being inclusive gender-wise, but then not going all the way and just naming what was previously male and female options A and B with all of the restrictions you'd expect from just plain old gender binaries. I have my criticisms of how gender is done in The Sims 4 and ACNH, but FD drops the ball in even worse ways and doesn't even bother to pretend it's doing anything beyond renaming the gender labels. Gameplay-wise, FD looks like it's half a game at best. You can unlock things, but there's no story or defined end goal to work towards and that tends to be how my interest tends to wane fast. The main reason Animal Crossing games don't wear off that easily for me is because you can at least envision a big creative house/town project to keep you going, which I can't imagine FD has any equivalent for. Very disappointing after how fun Style Savvy was; I don't know if FD can really be salvaged as I doubt it'd be easy to turn it into something more compelling. I won't be buying it as I don't think it's worth my money. If anyone needs a recommendation for a Switch game that has some dress-up and room decor aspects, try Pretty Princess Party instead.

As a huge lover of the 2 first New Style Boutique games as a kid, I recently played the last one and I thought the gameplay was lacking compared to the other ones but there's still more gameplay in Styling Star than Fashion Dreamer at this point (nice thing that I modded my 3DS). Fashion Forward seems... hollow tbh I bought the game and was kinda put off by the tutorials because I just wanted to play right away. And then I sadly got bored of it super quickly (I spend more time customizing my Sims or my ACNH character than I do in this game). I'm gonna try to play more of it tonight because I really wanna give this game a fair chance but the slow progression and repetition are the things that make it hard to really focus your full attention on. What this game makes me think off would be CocoPPa Play:Star Girl Fashion on phone but even then there is still more to be experienced in that game in terms or interactions with other players I think.

I never played Style Savvy, so I'm not comparing Fashion Dreamer to it in any meaningful way. I've been really enjoying the game so far! I love having a cohesive brand and decorating my showroom. Once I figured out how the game actually works (the tips are almost useless) I was able to progress to brand level 55 relatively fast. Unfortunately no one I know is playing it because it's just objectively not worth $50. For $50 it feels unfinished and underdeveloped. My biggest issues with the game are: the fact that the only body type is as skinny as possible, the colors are extremely limited and feel either too vibrant or too muted depending on the garment, the showrooms becoming inaccessible because of any hanging object, and not being able to rotate the view means that Cocoon Hope is the only one that's easy to get around. So, yeah, that's a lot of complaints for a game I swear I'm enjoying 😂 I hope they improve it and keep adding to it.

So happy I stumbled on your video. I hadn't heard of the style savvy games before playing this one. I went in with what I thought was no expectations and was still disappointed. Looking back I really want more design options. Just trading out colors on garments pulled from a gatcha feels SO bad. I want the option to source laces, fun buttons, unique notions and fabrics and be able to design clothes more completely. It would feel soooo much more realistic and give players more agency over how they design clothes. It's also allows for MUCH MUCH MUCH more unique designs and more of a reason to check out other peoples boutiques. Let me add a star lace to the hem of a skirt! or put bows on all of my shoes. Also more two tone hair options!

Ooof... sad to hear this game is a bit of a flop. The game looked pretty empty from the trailer I saw, so I opted to pass on this. While sad, I'm glad I was correct in my judgement. Which is a bummer! Cause I ADORED Stylesavvy on the 3DS. Such a ridiculously good game. Sad to hear they cut out so many elements of that game that made it so charming.

Saw this and decided to check it out.. im a teenage girl in high school struggling to find a job, I DONT HAVE 50 BUCKS 😭

I don't know if you've heard of or played it before, but I would love to see you play and share your thoughts on the mobile game Love Nikki! It definitely has some similar problems that you mentioned here (such limited body types and skin tones) but there's some gorgeous lolita dresses in Love Nikki and it's such a fun game to play and it feels genuinely rewarding progressing and gaining more items. Plus the free dress up portion of the game is so fun to mess around with!

I'm glad you've put this out, i'll wait and see if the game improves with updates.... otherwise i think i'll unfortunately skip it, i'll just play my old style boutique/style savvy games. :c I HATE that they've done body types only to restrict the clothing 🙄

It felt like the credits rolled for longer than it taken to reach the credits in the game.. It sucks that new games are released unfinished and we have to wait for future updates for it to be worth the price point.

I was hoping for a new video!!!!

I was Debating whether i was going to drop money on this but seeing your review i will stay with Style savvy for now.

Thanks for making this video. I've been curious about this game but if I can't be a short boy in a dress, I don't want it lol. Maybe they'll patch that in of I'm lucky.

I don’t have any of those npcs??? Also I agree with everything you said about sliders for skin tone and body type. And I also agree with letting any piece fit on any body type

Another thing, on the first day of playing lots of other players were online which made it so much easier to get credits but now the numbers are down and it’s so so so so hard to get a good amount of credits even after several days. I was hoping for so much more but now I’ll just wait for the scheduled updates

hot take, the fashion in this game is very centered around a specific demographic culturally. everything about this game seems locked to a certain culture's region -- the clothes, the skin color choices, the hair choices, the gender specific clothing, and the "fashionable" body types. it's very much culturally centered around SE Asia's ideals in fashion. I don't expect these complaints to be as common where this game released.

I haven’t purchased it yet because I just honestly kept forgetting about it. It’s definitely a game I would play for about a week and then never pick it up again. Which is unfortunate, I’d love to be able to see all these prints I can’t afford 😅

This games problems to me are the same problems I had with style savvy: i love whats there there just isnt enough of it.

its soooooooooo unfinished. even if its not a shop management sim, theres just literally no gameplay outside of run around, dress up people, play bingo, play gacha, like all the stuff. i find the creator to be completely pointless because by the time i finally get to stuff that i actually want to change the color of, i'll already have it made by someone else and now i have 900 copies of something that i dont even like just trying to get the level up faster. i believe they have body b leggings that you have to unlock, because i ahve leggings available to body b. i think the pop up saying THIS ITEM IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH YOUR BODY TYPE is pointless when you still need to dress up both body types so obviously i should have more clothes available for both??? it sucks because i think the fashion is great in this game, the characters are so cute and everything is so aesthetic, but theres just nothing hooking me in. i can play this game for like 20 min tops before i get bored whereas style savvy and hell even some mobile dress up games i could literally play for hours and hours. so im sooo disappointed and am really hoping they keep updating and making the game better. i also felt the tutorial ended abruptly. why are there no goals? it doesnt have to be style savvy but right now the price is way too high for what it offers. i need more things to do in this game. i find it really annoying that the characters are always fine with whatever you dress them up in, they should care lmao even a little bit??

I agree with many of the points you made, Lor. How disappointing that Marvelous / Syn Sophia gendered their clothes in a dress-up game in 2023! 😠 When I saw a preview of this game through Nintendo Direct, I thought “Oh, the player has the freedom to dress their character however they want - cool.”

Really good points! I agree that it feels like there isn’t a lot to do after a certain point, I’ve been having a good time making my own pieces so far. Also I hope this doesn’t sound rude, but do you know you can use your own inventory on the npcs/other players? I just noticed at 10:02 and later that you were only on the quick picks screen and didn’t seem to enjoy the options there

I've heard some mix response to this game, some people being upset that it's not a Style Savvy game while others argue that the devs never said it was a Style Savvy game nor a continuation of it. And Fashion Dreamer is meant to focus more on the fashion rather than the story, for those who couldn't enjoy Style Savvy due to the story being in the way of the Fashion. And due to that, you shouldn't try to compare the two to one another... That said, this game would still be consider an unfinished product. The fact that we'll receive update to flesh out the game to make it more appealing to people, isn't good look. Nobody likes having an unfinished product. Especially, not with the cost that the game is asking for. I was really excited about this game, but hearing everything about it has made me hold off on getting it. Right now, the price is asking too much from people at its currently moment.

12:04 from experience there appears to be a lot more makeup and hair colors lip colors and eye colors in the game except you only get it from special quests that don't occur often and when they do most of the time you'll be rewarded with PLENTY OF BINGO TICKETS and if you do actually get something you get no choice over it and it will probably be something you won't use. I've been playing the game for a month now and have maybe now just unlocked two new hairstyles and only 3 new makeups. There's supposed to be a new update appearing to add more hairstyles and makeup and etc and I'm really hoping they make it easier to obtain since it's really painful trying to find special quests and then helping they actually give you something other than gacha tickets or FREAKING BINGO TICKETS and actually hope it's something you'll use. This part comes to personal opinion but I'm irritated that you can't unlock one place to go buy all these things or get them like the beauticians or hair salon you have to walk around hoping to find a quest and actually hope you get something from it. It also means that you're going to be stuck with the basic beginner options for a while.

I did not play Style Savvy and I have found the game quite fun, but quickly realized the gameplay loop of constantly doing lookits became boring and even annoying when your closet began to overflow with copies upon copies of the same items in different colors (it would be better to have an item then select colors, or have other options for quickly moving through your closet) I enjoy the brand building aspect that's in the game, but feel the game lacks true customization to make outfits feel original or unique since it's mostly just changing colors. This was crazy to me considering how in depth the brand image creator is. Where was that for clothes?! Overall, the game becomes insanely grindy in a very short amount of time, but it's still fun. I'm hoping the promised updates add some much needed content.

I have grown to like this game but it took a while. I feel like the main thing it's missing is organization. the pieces are great, they just need a way for you to find them. Also, NPCs ask for things, expecting you to know like one asked for something in the "sporty category???" Every one says to not treat it like style savvy but then the game turns around and expects you to know what "elegant" and "girly" styles look like. I had to take what I learned from their previous games to fulfill these requests. Also, there needs to be an option to save your favorite looks. It seems pointless to put a cute outfit together for yourself because you'll never find it again in the sea of clothing. There is a cap of 5000 clothing items. I ran it to it FAST. It had me go through and delete items but it could only delete 10 at a time. It doesn't help that you end up with the same item in slightly different shades. Hopefully some sort of organization is on it's way. It's like they made a bunch of cute 3d clothing and then shoved it into an unfinished world.

Oooh, ooooh! The last Style Savvy on 3DS, I LOOOOVED clearing out inventory and only keeping key style pieces for the special characters (I.E Sophie) I loved earning money at my boutique and grabbing tons of clothes at the buy center. It just sounds like they really missed the mark with this one...

I absolutely adore this game, but I do understand your points 😅

this is a really helpful review and im sad bc you confirmed my fears about this game 😅 the thing is too like if it was under £10 i might consider getting it? but for this price it's just not enough *game* we'll see what it's like after the january update i guess the lolita is really cute tho 10/10

I completely agree, I will still play the game but I rather whip out my 3ds & play the old Style Savvy ones. I'm going to be ordering Model Debut 3 instead hopefully that game is better!

It feels like sophia studios rushed the game, the boutique aspect is also very small and alot of the ceiling items actually ’invisible wall’ the tall muses. It would be nice to have the rhythm and catwalk mechanics from the style savvy games.

So, it took me awhile to figure this out, but eyes, makeup, poses, and hair are unlocked by increasing your relationship with the NPC's. Also, an aside, I agree 100% about the characters not having enough unique dialog, SYNERGY SAM I AM LOOKING AT YOU, I dress that corprate brat poorly on purpose. I really miss the boutique management sim stuff, when they said you would be running an online brand and showed the trend forcast stuff... I really thought we were going to be getting like online shop management and cool stuff like that ;~;

This video is just making me miss Style Savvy. I think I wore my 3DS out on that game.

I think that they really could have developped the "influencer" part more, actually! Letting us writing captions or even chosing the hashtags when posting. I think it would also be fun to see other players feeds as well as the pictures we took and decorated. I also found it waaayyy too long and tedious to unlock the different hairstyles, makeup and customization features, I unlocked my first ones after 5 hours of playing... ^^''

Which Style Savvy would you recommend for a newbie in the genre? :D

in all honesty it feels like splatoon 3 is a better fashion sim, with the rotation of outfits, brands, the fact that u get to tell ppl that they have a nice outfit, and most importantly every outfit is earned, n feels personal, u get to wear what you want, and get to express yourself the way you want

11:17 there is really unique cute and cool designs for clothes you can get but annoyingly it's all basically completely end game. Like reach a million followers and get the highest Brand level which is 200 end game. It's really annoying because basically if you didn't power through and gain all of it really quickly people are more likely to be less interested in your items because you don't have the unique cool popular stuff. And it makes it harder to get e points and interaction to get e-points since most players probably don't have all the cool trendy popular clothes. And also because those brands / players dominate the pop-up section. I did recently learn if you want a shortcut to more followers BASICALLY WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER ANY PLAYER IN THE GAME WEATHER THAT'S AN NPC OR ACTUAL ONLINE MUSE YOU WHIP OUT YOUR DRONE AND TAKE A PICTURE WITH THEM AND AFTER YOU GIVE THEM A LOOKIT. It's probably the quickest way to earn followers at least from what I've seen. Since from my experience doing it I've went from being Platinum at 70 k to diamond at nearly 200 k in less than a week.

I did go into this game knowing it’s not a total reboot of style boutique/ savvy… but Jesus Christ 2 weeks after playing and I feel no motivation to play whatsoever. Kinda broke my heart though, was so excited for it still 😭

Ngl I laughed at the plain gray Switch, wasn't expecting it lol. 😂

I think it would have been cool to have the option of boutique shop owner, designer or influencer. not just so one track.

I’m still having fun with it though it’s much of a step down from Style Savvy. A lot of game features from Style Savvy are not in Fashion Dreamer. I wish it had an overall story, better filtering through your clothes, multiplayer modes, basically everything that was in style savvy that is not in Fashion Dreamer.

we waited a lot for this game and we can't even get a more variety of bodies and we have clothing restrictions... aight... All we needed is a style savvy with better quality in switch and a lot of more clothes and makeup and hairstyles and new fashion aesthetics... Like, i get it, this is different but they didn't manage it pretty well

I was so excited because I thought this was going to be a switch Style Savvy game :(

Miis have had a width slider since the beginning smh

This “game” just looks like the styling section of pokemon x and y.

It seems nice but defiantly could use some work, I might try it out after a major update(along with when I have enough money) I just hope I this doesn't end up like New Horizons cause that could have done with some more stuff & the Tamagotchi Uni gave me flashbacks to that

Shame we couldn’t get a new Style Savvy game. They had really good Gothic and Sweet (Baby Doll in the game)

Yay! I met felix in the game!

When will I finally be able to play a game as myself and not some character I made up that fits the provided options. It's like I'm always an extra step removed from immersion. Can nonbinary, gnc, and androgynous people and bodies just be notmalized already? I'm sure there's ways game industries can figure out how to mix and match body elements.

Sounds like I’m sticking with Doll Divine

i hope they add an update where there's more inclusivity because the game has potential that it missed

16:33 I absolutely hate the npcs in the game. They barely talk to you about fashion at all and they only have one personality trait that is turned up to %10,0000 and that's all they will talk to you about. Like you have butterfly Bucky who only talks about butterflies. You have storyteller Stephanie WHO ONLY LIES TO YOU. You have big shot Minnie who constantly lies to you about who she is. And so far one of the weirdest NPCs in the game I've seen so far is chasing hope. Her whole personality is that she idolizes this guy and from how she talks maybe borderline stalks him and constantly wants to know where he is and wishes to meet him and when she's standing there she's frantically looking around for him. I know it's a game but she slightly creeps me out. Honestly all the NPC's are off putting to me for some reason and also what you mentioned earlier in the video it doesn't matter what you give them they'll still like it and wear it anyway. Also a weird detail I've noticed is sometimes when you walk past an NPC a heart (other than the one displayed above them) Will appear as long as you have a relationship with them and I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean ? DOES IT MEAN THEY'RE IN LOVE WITH ME OR SOMETHING ? I really like how the NPCs were in styling star since they would actually talk to you about fashion and could even have their own mini stories to tell and you could get to know their favorite color and pattern and brand and style and they had more variance of dialogue so it actually did feel like you were connecting with them in a way and you would like them. Unlike fashion dreamer NPCs which in my opinion are souless or just annoying and feels like you're only talking to them and using them to boost your social media unlike in styling Star where you felt like you were helping them and accomplishing something.

Agree with all the comments here. It felt unfinished and like wasted potential. Could have gone all the way with inclusivity, immersion, story-telling, and progression. I missed so much from Style Savvy, like restocking your inventory by going to the mall, the huge variety of makeup options, the funny and well-written dialogue for each customer and character, being asked to do magazine covers, styling competitions with runways, etc. It had so much more depth. Also the erasure of goth and punk styling made me so mad. Granted you could just change color schemes for some things and it would fit but the items you had in Style Savvy that were specifically for those aesthetics were so cool. I will say that I liked that other players could make outfits for my character and vice versa.

I'm upset that my guess on the whole gameplay and such were right. I love the outfits this time but running a boutique would've made it much more fun. I had no idea what Style Savvy was before my sad got me the game back around 2013 I believe when the 3ds version was released, I couldn't put the game down and absolutely loved it. I wish this game would've had a similar route to the DS version. Unfortunately I think I'll have to skip this one.

its a shame because the models and faces are SOOOO cute art style, and the items look cute too! but gameplay-wise.... (and again, body type wise...)

Its hard to like after playing style savvy, i hope they update it more to be more like style savvy, it seems like there going to by stuff ive noticed, i started getting bored of it after about an hour or 2 until I started making clothes, then i kinda couldn't stop, but it is really really empty and boring, dressing people gets old, especially when everything is the same, i don't mind the same body size and stuff, in chunky but it doesn't bother me, and i like that they keep the gender stuff separate, i don't wanna accidentally buy guy stuff thinking its a girl thing, or make guy stuff thinking its girl stuff, and I just also....dont support that stuff so if they do add that i hope they make it an option to have or not to have

angely sugar is an aikatsu brand lol

Glad I have super stylist, tbh

PLEASE play love nikki dress up queen! It has all these things and more and it's a free game on mobile! I think you'd love it so much, it's one of my favorites!

Nah, I thought this was Style Boutique for Switch... I'm not convinced to buying it