THE iDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS: Starlight Stage (アイドルマスター シンデレラガールズ スターライトステージ Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage?), or Derestage for short (デレステ Deresute?), is a spin-off rhythm game released for iOS and Android, based on THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment and was released on September 3, 2015 on Android devices and on September 10, 2015 on iOS devices.
Overview
The game is based off THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS with the main gameplay being playing Live Shows (Japanese: LIVE), either with 3DCG or 2D Petite Cinderella . The game includes songs from the CINDERELLA MASTER series, ANIMATION PROJECT series, as well as game original songs and cover songs. Aside from playing Live Shows, there are stories, office decoration, and work.
The game's development was announced during the "Dereraji A Public Recording ~Deresoni~" event on June 28, 2015, with pre-registrations starting on same day. The game released later that year with the Andriod version releasing on September 3, 2015 and the iOS version releasing later that week on September 10. The game debuted with 20 songs and 50+ idols.
As of December 1, 2019, the game has exceeded 25 million downloads.
On September 2, 2019, a VR app called THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS STARLIGHT SPOT linked to the game was released.
Live Shows
There are a total of six note types: simply tapping the icon, tapping and holding down the icon, tapping and flicking a certain direction, tapping two icons simultaneously, and tapping and sliding a certain direction.
The player can choose any song that they currently have unlocked. Each song has one of four attribute: Cute, Cool, Passion, and All Types. Each song also has different levels of difficulty which changes the complexity of the chart. For the standard WIDE LIVE, the difficulties are Debut, Regular, Pro, Master, and Master+. For GRAND LIVE, the difficulties are Piano and Forte, whereas in SMART LIVE, they are Light and Trick.
For Main Commu songs, the Master difficulty is unlocked by clearing the Pro difficulty at least once. The Master+ difficultly was limited to events, but now rotates through ALBUMS (A, B, and C) on the B-Side of the Live Show section and played using Master+ tickets.
Aside from the standard Live Shows, there are also GRAND LIVE and SMART LIVE. GRAND LIVE involves 15 person units with 15 lanes, and SMART LIVE is played vertically with one hand.
Office
In the office (referred to as Room in-game), players can decorate their own offices with furniture, accessories, wall decorations, flooring, and wallpaper. These items can purchased with the money earned through completing Live Shows, event rewards, or completing missions. The player can also earn room items through event rewards. Some of the items provide boosts such as increasing scores in Live Shows or improve the rewards receiving after completing a Live Show.
The idols of the main unit or room unit will also be displayed in their 2D Petite Cinderella form and interact with the decorations in the room.
An update released on June 27, 2016 allowed players PLv. 50 and above to have a second room.
Communication
There are four types of communication that you can unlock: Main, Idol, Event, Work, and Extra.
Main Communication
The main communication has you work at the 346 Production as a producer for the idols. Each story is fully-voiced with each member's voice actress, and in order to unlock new chapters the player must either level up to the required level. Each chapter in the main story unlocks a song. New chapters are released after some time.
Idol Communication
The idol communication features an idol's daily life, their performances, and their background and is split into Memorials and Episodes. Memorials are unlocked when an idol reaches a certain number of fans. Episodes are unlocked when the player awakens a card of the idol.
Event Communication
During events, a story will be released to go alongside it. The chapters are unlocked through reaching certain point requirements. If the player misses the event, they can unlock chapters by using keys.
Work Communication
When a player completes unit work, they will unlock a special unit communication based on the work completed.
Extra Communication
The extra communications are released during April Fools, during a Live Show, New Years, and collaborations.
Work
Idols can be send to complete work to earn experiences, money, fans, and other rewards. The player can send their idols to the five Japan regions or overseas.
There are three types of work that can be done: Normal, Special, and Unit. Normal Work is available at all times, Special Work is available during events and promotions, and Unit Work is available at all times and requires specific idols.
When a player completes Unit Work, they unlock a Work Communication.
Events
Events are held three times per month and allow players to earn limited-time cards, trophies, and other rewards. The events generally happen in this pattern: LIVE Grooves, LIVE Carnival or LIVE Parades, Cinderella Caravans or LIVE Parades, and Token.
Token
Token events are events where players get themed tokens in normal Live Shows. The themed tokens take the place of stamina for the event song, which is either an existing song or a new song. The player earns points from playing normal Lives and playing the event song.
LIVE Grooves
LIVE Grooves have three different types based off three of stat types: Vocal, Dance, and Visual. The player chooses a difficulty level and they will receive three randomized songs from one attribute, although non-attribute songs can be included. The player completes three songs back-to-back with an applause meter recording how well they are doing based on the amount of Perfects, Greats, Bads, and Misses. If the player gets the applause meter over 17 in Debut, Regular, Pro and Master, or 21 in Master+, they will unlock the encore event song.
Cinderella Caravan
Cinderella Caravans are events where the player plays normal Live Shows with a chance of getting limited cards and Caravan tokens. As the event progresses, each day has a certain attribute where that if you play a song under that certain attribute, there will be an increased chance of event drop rates.
LIVE Party
LIVE Parties allow players to play with each other for a Live Show with a chance of the limited cards dropping through rewards and points earned through their ranking in the Live Show. The player sets up teams for each song attribute and each position has a different role for different stat bonuses: Performer (Visual), Vocalist (Vocal), Center (All), Dancer (Dance), and Leader (Life). When put into a match, the game will randomly pick what role you will represent and the idol you picked to represent that role will be used.
As of today, it is no longer an event, and is a permanent game mode, allowing players to gain previous event cards.
LIVE Parade
LIVE Parades have players tour around Japan with their teams. The tour is broken into five areas and each area has two to three subareas with a different number of songs to play. After playing through a subarea, the player earns points and attendees. To unlock new areas for the tour, the player must reach a certain number of attendees in certain areas.
Susume! Cinderella Road
Susume! Cinderella Road has players progress through spaces on a map by gaining points through playing normal Live Shows. Players can also gain bonus points for completing specific goals, such as having a specific idol in a team, stats, star rank, or song attribute. There is also a chance to receive a random 2x point bonus.
At the end of a map, a Trainer mission will start, which is needed to complete in order to progress to other maps. Unlike normal progression, the missions are cumulative and keep progress through multiple Live Shows. Once completed, the player can move onto the next map and earn rewards, such as event cards, story chapters, and switching routes.
LIVE Carnival
LIVE Carnival is an event introduced on 2019/7/2 15:00. Live Shows are played in one of the ten booths. Each Live Show cleared will give the player Carnival Medals. The player's Carnival Rank increases for each song cleared with enough Voltage Points. The Carnival Ranks range are from the lowest to highest: D3-D1, C3-C1, B3-B1, A3-A1, S, SS, and SSS.
Carnival Medals
Carnival Medals are used to pull in the draw box. Each pull is 10 Carnival Medals. Box 1 contains 35 items only, thus requiring 350 Carnival Medals to clean out. Once the player has successfully pulled the reset item (Master Trainer for Box 1), they can "reset the box", and proceed to the next box (Box 2, etc.). Any items left in the box will disappear. The player can choose not to reset the box if they have valuable items left in the box (notably Star Jewels). In the Gacha Setting (ガシャ設定) menu, the player can change the total number of pulls to be performed at once, as well as any items as a stopping point. For example, if a 100-pull is performed, and the player has checked the Star Jewels, they will stop pulling as soon as the Star Jewels appear regardless of how many pulls have been done or have left within the 100-pull.
Gacha
The gacha is used to scout for new idols and to obtain cards using star jewels and friendship points as currency. All cards unlock memorial stories and idol episodes once a card is changed into its awakened form. SSR cards unlock special outfits that can be viewed through the 3D mode in Live Shows, the Photo Booth, and Produce Note.
Platinum Gacha
The main gacha contains the Rare, Super Rare, and Super Super Rare rarities, and it uses the star jewel currency. All cards featured and in the gacha are permanent in the Platinum Audition gacha. When using this gacha, players have three types of scouting to choose from.
- One scout for 250 star jewels.
- Ten scouts from 2,500 star jewels.
- One scout for 60 purchased star jewels (once daily).
A new Platinum Gacha appears three times a month featuring a new permanent SSR card and SR card with the featured cards having a higher appearance rate than other cards in the gacha. All permanent Platinum Gacha cards are available to scout for in Limited, Cinderella Festival, and Theme Gacha.
Limited Gacha
The Limited Gachas happen at the start of every month following a theme. Each Limited Gacha has two limited SSRs, one limited SR, and one permanent SR. Sometimes Limited Gachas will reappear at the end of a month if there is no Cinderella Festival.
Cinderella Festival Gacha
The Cinderella Festival Gacha, officially known as Cinderella Fes, shortened to "CinFes", appears at the end of each third month in a season. During this gacha, the appearance rate of SSRs are increased from 3.0% to 6.0% and new limited SSRs are released. The cards from previous Cinderella Festivals are always included in new ones, although with a lowered appearance rate than the featured ones.
Theme Gacha
In the Theme Gacha, the player can get permanent SRs and SSRs from only the idols themed after the title of the Theme Gacha.
Type Select
The Type Select Gacha was a type that happened at the end of every month for three consecutive days with each day having a select attribute. All rarities were affected by the attribute restraint. It was eventually replaced with the Theme Gacha on 2020/4/14 15:00.
Local Audition
Local Auditions use friendship points to earn normal, rare, and super rare cards as well as trainer tickets. The appearance rates of the cards and tickets are unknown. When using this gacha, players have two types of scouting to choose from.
- One scout for 200 Friendship Points
- Ten scouts for 2,000 Friendship Points
Characters
There are a total of 190 idols available to produce in-game, with 65 being cute attributed, 65 being cool attributed, and 60 being passion attributed,.
| Misc. Characters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Chihiro Senkawa |
 Rookie Trainer |
 Trainer |
 Veteran Trainer |
 Master Trainer |
Other
Loading Screens
During loading screens, players will either seen a rumor or a one-frame comic. The rumors are short rumors about the idols and Chihiro Senkawa, and the one-frame comics are in the style of in-game Cinderella Girls Theater; both can be found in the Idol Topics section of the menu page.
Shop
In the Shop menu, players can purchase a variety of items with real-world currency or the in-game currency. Among the menus, the player can: purchase star jewels, exchange platinum medals, exchange star pieces, increase their card limit, add and expand their dormitories, purchase dress, exchange money, increase their closet limit, recover stamina, and see how many and what kind of star jewels they have.
Star Jewel Pricing
| Star Jewel Packs | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pack Name | Cost | Star Jewels |
| Star Jewel A | ¥120 | 60 |
| Star Jewel B | ¥490 | 360 |
| Star Jewel C | ¥980 | 760 |
| Star Jewel E | ¥3300 | 2650 |
| Star Jewel F | ¥5020 | 4200 |
| Star Jewel G | ¥10000 | 8400 |
The player can purchase star jewels with real money. There are a total of six different amounts, and deals are run during special events and milestones.
Dress Shop
The player can purchase outfits with paid Star Jewels, or get certain outfits for free. The outfits are usually themed to an events and are limited to the idols involved in the event unit, however there are outfits which every idol can wear. Each purchase made with Star Jewels includes scouting tickets.
- For simplicity, the chart will not include simple color variations based on attribute or character.
| Dress Shop Packs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pack Name | Dress | Idols Available | Release Date | Cost |
| Starry Sky・Bright | 
|
All Idols | 09/03/2015 (3D) 09/03/2015 (2D) |
Initially Available |
| Across・The・Stars | 
|
All Idols | 09/03/2015 (3D) 09/03/2015 (2D) |
Initially Available |
| Present Of Snow | 
|
Uzuki Shimamura Rin Shibuya Mio Honda Yui Ohtsuki Haruna Kamijo |
02/14/2017 (3D) 03/08/2019 (2D) |
2500 Star Jewels |
| Fragrance Of Night | 
|
Kanade Hayami Syuko Shiomi Mika Jougasaki Frederica Miyamoto Shiki Ichinose |
05/02/2017 (3D) 03/28/2019 (2D) |
2500 Star Jewels |
| Party Time Gold | 
|
All Idols | 09/03/2015 (3D) 09/03/2015 (2D) |
2500 Star Jewels |
| Marching☆Melodies |  
|
Mai Fukuyama Miyuki Yanase Momoka Sakurai Kozue Yusa Chika Yokoyama Kurumi Ohnuma Wakaba Kusakabe Koharu Koga Chie Sasaki Arisu Tachibana Yukimi Sajo Yume Narumiya Kaoru Ryuzaki Miria Akagi Reina Koseki Risa Matoba Nina Ichihara Mary Cochran Hikaru Nanjo |
08/10/2017 (3D) 04/27/2019 (2D) |
2500 Star Jewels |
| Showtime Illusion | 
|
All Idols | 08/31/2017 (3D) 01/29/2019 (2D) |
Initially Available |
| Deep Sky Blaze | 
|
All Idols | 09/20/2017 (3D) | 500 Star Jewels |
| Valkyria・Oath |  
|
Minami Nitta Fumika Sagisawa Arisu Tachibana Aiko Takamori Yumi Aiba |
11/28/2017 (3D) 05/29/2019 (2D) |
2500 Star Jewels |
| 雷舞弩麗守-炎- | 
|
Takumi Mukai Rina Fujimoto Ryo Matsunaga Aki Yamato Natsuki Kimura |
02/13/2018 (3D) 06/27/2019 (2D) |
2500 Star Jewels |
| Scarlet・Rose | 
|
Mayu Sakuma Karen Hojo Miho Kohinata Riina Tada Chieri Ogata |
04/27/2018 (3D) 07/29/2019 (2D) |
2500 Star Jewels |
| Marine Girl・Carnival | 
|
Mizuki Kawashima Akane Hino Yuko Hori Suzuho Ueda Emi Namba |
06/25/2018 (3D) 08/28/2019 (2D) |
2500 Star Jewels |
| Sweet・Pâtissière | 
|
Kanako Mimura Airi Totoki Nono Morikubo Noriko Shiina Shizuku Oikawa |
08/08/2018 (3D) 09/28/2019 2D) |
2500 Star Jewels |
| Next・Frontier | File:STARLIGHT STAGE Next・Frontier Uzuki Shimamura 3D Costume.png | All Idols | 08/31/2018 (3D) 09/03/2018 (2D) |
Initially Available |
| Synthesize・Harmony | File:STARLIGHT STAGE Synthesize・Harmony Yuka Nakano 3D Costume.png | Anastasia Nao Kamiya Yuka Nakano Miku Maekawa Syoko Hoshi |
10/29/2018 | 2500 Star Jewels |
| Day-By-Day・Present | File:STARLIGHT STAGE Day-By-Day・Present Nana Abe 3D Costume.png | Nana Abe Mio Honda Karen Hojo Kako Takafuji Fumika Sagisawa |
11/30/2018 | Free |
| Cinderella Dream | File:STARLIGHT STAGE Day-By-Day・Present Nana Abe 3D Costume.png | All Idols | 12/31/2018 | Event Reward Cinderella Dream Ticket |
| Will・Forever | File:STARLIGHT STAGE Will・Forever Kyoko Igarashi 3D Costume.png | Kyoko Igarashi Yuuki Otokura Yukari Mizumoto Kirari Moroboshi Yuki Himekawa |
11/28/2019 (3D) 03/28/2019 (3D) |
2500 Star Jewels |
Premium Pass
The Premium Pass is the game's paid monthly subscription service. For a monthly fee of 980 yen per month, miscellaneous benefits can be earned. The player may purchase/subscribe to Premium Pass from the same menu they purchase Jewels.
The first month of subscription includes a two week free trial period where the player may experience these benefits except the Bonus Items. While subscribed to Premium Pass, the player receives
- An additional login bonus of 50 free jewels per day
- Additional event rewards when playing while subscribed, and an additional login bonus on some events. The effects differ per event, and you may view them in the Rewards List in each event.
- When playing Live Shows and eigyou while subscribed, the amount of Exp. Points are multiplied by 1.5x, as well as additional in-game money. When the effect stacks with Campaigns, the effect might not be 1.5x.
- Bonus items awarded at the beginning of each month the player purchases the pass.
Only one Premium Pass subscription can be purchased per Google Play/Apple ID account. The subscription does not automatically cancel when uninstalling the game or switching OS. Should the player do so without cancelling the subscription, they will be charged despite not receiving the services of the Pass. They may still cancel the subscription within Google Play or the Apple Store.
Premium Pass Bonus Items
- S.T. Master Trainer Ticket x3
- Star Lesson Trainer Ticket x2
- Guaranteed SSR Gasha Ticket x1
- Produce Recipe x1
- Star Lesson Trainer Ticket x2
- Platinum Selection Gasha Ticket x1
- S.T. Master Trainer Ticket x3
- Star Lesson Trainer Ticket x2
- Platinum Selection Gasha Ticket x1
- Produce Recipe x1
- Star Lesson Trainer Ticket x2
- Scout Ticket x1
Missions
Produce Note
Derekone
Gallery
Room Backgrounds
Story Backgrounds
External Links
- THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS STARLIGHT STAGE Official Website
- THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS STARLIGHT STAGE Official Twitter
- THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS STARLIGHT STAGE Official Nippon Columbia Page
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