Pop'n Music: Usagi to Neko to Shounen no Yume (ポップン ミュージック うさぎと猫と少年の夢 Poppun Myūjikku: Usagi to Neko to Shōnen no Yume?), translated as The Rabbit, the Cat and the Boy's Dream or known as Usaneko for short, is a 2016 Japanese music/rhythm video game developed by Konami and Bemani, and the twenty-fourth (24th) release of the Pop'n Music series. Its location test release date is from September 30th to October 2nd. Its official release was on December 14th.[1] This game has a steampunk motif, as seen in its menus and backgrounds.
Song List
See Pop'n Music: Usagi to Neko to Shounen no Yume/Music List.
Trivia
- This installment has the longest title in the entire franchise.
- pop'n music: Usagi to Neko to Shounen no Yume is the first game to includes a new, central character partnered with Mimi and Nyami on posters and announcements named Navi-kun, hence the title of the installment.
- The game was announced on the one hundred and fiftieth (150th) BEMANI Namahousou (kari) (BEMANI生放送(仮?) on September 28th, 2016, exactly eighteen years after the original pop'n music hit arcades.[2]
- This is the first Pop'n Music mainline installment to have hold notes, in this case "Long Pop-kuns".
- The spin-off game Pop'n Music Mickey Tunes previously featured hold notes, although they were named "Keep-kun".
- The same case goes to other spin-offs Utacchi and HELLO! POP'N MUSIC (though HELLO! POP'N MUSIC recommend the player to press the Pop-kuns quickly to create long notes).
- Character portraits were removed from the song selection screen. Instead, the respective character icon used in the character selection screen appears at the left of the song's title/genre.
- GUIDE SE option is introduced, which works as an "assist tick", making a sound whenever the player hits a note.
- On the location test, GUIDE SE is ON by default.
- Clear ranks return from the pop'n music 20 fantasia location test. Ranks go from S to E.
- S: 98,000+
- AAA: 95,000-97,999
- AA: 90,000-94,999
- A: 82,000-89,999
- B: 72,000-81,999
- C: 62,000-71,999
- D: 50,000-61,999
- E: 49,999 and lower
- Songs can now be sorted by level and rank on the song selection screen, in addition to being sorted by genre or title.
- This is the first time at least three or four songs by the same artist were released on the default song list; in this case, NU-KO's Otocadoll songs and the character Ai, and Sing a Song Sign.
- All KONAMI original/contest songs only have one set of Battle charts. Currently, only licenses have Battle HYPER charts.
- New combo number font introduced.
- All the hidden songs from pop'n music Sunny Park and pop'n music ラピストリア have been unlocked by default, except the FLOOR INFECTION ones.
- All the hidden songs from pop'n music éclale are still hidden if not unlocked, except for the Hinatabi chikuwa-hime ketteisen (日向美ちくわ姫決定戦?) event ones.
- EX charts for éclale's default songs are unlocked by default.
- Character medals and lumina from pop'n music éclale were removed.
- First pop'n music arcade game where all the new songs' EX charts are available by default without having to unlock them.
- First pop'n music game since せんごく列伝 with no PON song in the default songlist.
- 2P palettes for new characters have to be unlocked by playing a round with the respective 1P palette of the character.
- This isn't the only time a Pop'n Music title have a Disney crossover; the first two were Pop'n Music Mickey Tunes and Disney Tunes.
- New remixes are introduced in this game, however, the song sports the original characters with their FEVER! animation edited to feature MZD.
- With a celebration of the game's 20th anniversary, a special edition of the original soundtrack was released in October.