The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls: Viewing Revolution

The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls: Viewing Revolution
Information
VR/AR	Virtual Reality
Developer	Cygames
Publisher	Bandai Namco Entertainment
Platform	PlayStation VR
Device	PlayStation VR
Operating System	PlayStation 4
Type	Game
Genre	Music, Simulation
Input Device	PlayStation Move, DualShock 4
Game Mode	Single-player
Release Date	October 13, 2016 (Japan)
Price	2,296 yen (Japan, launch)
App Store	PlayStation Store
Website	https://dere-viewingrev.idolmaster.jp/

See also: VR Apps and VR Games

The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls: Viewing Revolution (Japanese: アイドルマスター シンデレラガールズ ビューイングレボリューション; English store title THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS VIEWING REVOLUTION) is a virtual concert game for PlayStation VR on the PlayStation 4, published by Bandai Namco Entertainment and developed by Cygames. The player sits in the audience of a recreated Maihama Amphitheater, the venue of the Cinderella Girls franchise's first live concert, and watches up to nine idols perform while waving concert lights.

The game was a Japanese launch title for PlayStation VR on 13 October 2016. An English version followed in Asia in April 2017 and in North America in July 2017. The base game has three songs, and Bandai Namco sold eight more as paid downloadable content between November 2016 and November 2017.

Reviewed 13 October 2026. Announcement, Japanese, Asian and North American release dates, prices, base and DLC song lists with idols and dates, update notes, CEDEC 2017 development details, store listings, UploadVR coverage and the Digitally Downloaded/OpenCritic review, each checked against the cited source. About review dates.

Gameplay

Viewing Revolution is a concert viewer with little conventional gameplay. Bandai Namco's store description says the player can "cheer for the idols as you match the song rhythm with concert light of your choice" and watch the show "through PS VR various viewing perspective". The stage is a recreation of Maihama Amphitheater, where the voice actresses of The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls held their 1st Live concert, and up to nine idols appear on stage at once.

The player holds virtual concert lights (glow sticks) and can wave them like the rest of the audience. They are controlled with a PlayStation Move controller or a DualShock 4. According to Anime News Network, players can set the colors and number of their lights, up to eight, and move between six audience seating areas. The official site states that up to 10 concert light sets can be saved from the "LIVE Goods" menu, and that the options menu sets the viewer's height and turns the cheering and concert lights of the surrounding audience on or off. In MoguLive's preview, the seats included positions near the front of the stage, at the left and right, and at the back, with the sound changing by seat. In the main concerts the idols and their costumes are fixed and cannot be swapped.

Songs

The three songs in the base game are listed on the official site:

Song	Performing idols	Notes
"Yes! Party Time!!"	Uzuki Shimamura, Rin Shibuya, Mio Honda, Miria Akagi, Nana Abe	New song; theme song of the game
"Onegai! Cinderella" (お願い！シンデレラ)	Uzuki Shimamura, Rin Shibuya, Mio Honda, Ranko Kanzaki, Miho Kohinata, Mika Jougasaki, Rika Jougasaki, Rina Tada, Kanako Mimura	Theme song of the Cinderella Girls franchise
"Star!!"	Miria Akagi, Anastasia, Chieri Ogata, Minami Nitta, Miku Maekawa	Opening theme of the Cinderella Girls TV anime

EDIT LIVE

A free update on 13 June 2017 (version 1.55) added EDIT LIVE, a mode in which the player picks the idols on stage, starting with "Onegai! Cinderella". Version 1.75 on 14 August 2017 added "Yes! Party Time!!" to the mode. The idols for the mode were released as free downloadable content in nine batches. At CEDEC 2017, Cygames said EDIT LIVE could combine 183 idols.

Development

Bandai Namco announced the game on 7 July 2016 during a Niconico live broadcast, a Tanabata special for the Cinderella Girls franchise, as a PlayStation VR exclusive. The credits in Famitsu's announcement list Maihama Amphitheater as a cooperating partner, and Cygames later said it had obtained the venue's permission for the release.

Cygames described the production at a CEDEC 2017 session given by senior game engineer Dai Kanai, 3DCG artist team manager Yuma Tanimoto and sound team manager Masayuki Maruyama, as reported by MoguLive. The project started after a programmer viewed the idol concert scene on an Oculus Rift, and technical verification in Unity began in September 2015. The team also tested Unreal Engine 4, but stayed with Unity, the engine of its smartphone game Deresute, after Unity 5.4 added single-pass stereo rendering, which removed a CPU bottleneck. The renderer uses forward rendering with MSAA, and the team treated 60 frames per second as a fixed target.

Early builds had detailed idols but, according to the developers, felt empty because the background and audience were thin. The team set three goals: the idols, a sea of concert lights, and a sense of unity created by the audience and its calls. It then filled the venue with a fully modelled crowd. Audience members use level of detail models (841 vertices near the player, 86 further away), vary in height, skin tone and clothing, and reflect the light of the concert lights. Their motions were captured from Cygames staff. Each idol body model has about 14,000 polygons, roughly double the smartphone version, and up to nine idols can dance with individual motions.

For audio, recordings of about 300 staff members were placed around the listener and processed with impulse-response reverb to imitate the crowd; nearby audience members got their own directional voices. A vibration setup using the SUBPAC M2 wearable bass device was shown with the game at Tokyo Game Show 2016. Because it depends on the player owning the hardware, the team decided not to design around it, although the retail version still supports it.

Release

Region	Release date	Notes
Japan	13 October 2016	PlayStation VR launch day; digital release on PlayStation Store
Asia (English/Chinese/Korean version)	20 April 2017 (store listing date)	Digital only; announced by Bandai Namco Entertainment Asia on 23 January 2017
North America	18 July 2017	Date from the PlayStation.com listing

MoguLive listed the Japanese price as 2,296 yen; the game is rated CERO A. As of October 2026 the Japanese PlayStation Store lists it at 2,526 yen and states that it requires the PlayStation VR headset and PlayStation Camera. The Asian store listing notes that the game can be played on PlayStation 5 with a PlayStation Camera adaptor, though some PS4 features may be unavailable. For the Asian release, pre-orders included the "Cinderella Girls Producer's Wristband" DLC and early buyers received a "Yes! Party Time!!" PS4 theme.

UploadVR said it was surprised to see a fully localized release in the West, noting that the game had been available in Asia "for quite some time" and that new songs had been released regularly on Asian PlayStation Stores.

Downloadable content

Each additional song cost 1,200 yen in Japan. Two season passes covered the six songs planned through July 2017: the Viewing Revolution Music Pass (songs only) and the Viewing Revolution Produce Pass (songs plus the LIVE goods for all 15 new idols in those songs). Songs 2 to 8 each required a matching game update, listed below from the official update notes.

No.	Song	Performing idols	Release	Update
1	"Atashi Ponkotsu Android" (アタシポンコツアンドロイド)	Anzu Futaba, Miho Kohinata, Miku Maekawa	16 November 2016	Anzu Futaba added to the menu screen in version 1.30
2	"Snow Wings"	Uzuki Shimamura, Rin Shibuya, Mio Honda, Yui Ohtsuki, Haruna Kamijo	December 2016 (the DLC page gives 22 November 2016)	Version 1.20, 22 December 2016; also raised the frame rate on PlayStation 4 Pro
3	"GOIN'!!!"	Sae Kobayakawa, Mizuki Kawashima, Kaede Takagaki, Aiko Takamori, Airi Totoki	25 January 2017	Version 1.30, 25 January 2017
4	"Orange Sapphire"	Miria Akagi, Rika Jougasaki, Kirari Moroboshi	9 March 2017	Version 1.40, 9 March 2017
5	"Tulip"	Kanade Hayami, Shuko Shiomi, Shiki Ichinose, Frederica Miyamoto, Mika Jougasaki	18 May 2017	Version 1.50, 18 May 2017
6	"Trancing Pulse"	Karen Hojo, Nao Kamiya, Rin Shibuya	13 July 2017	Version 1.70, 13 July 2017
7	"ØωØver!!"	Miku Maekawa, Rina Tada	28 September 2017	Version 1.80, 28 September 2017
8	"M@GIC☆"	Uzuki Shimamura, Rin Shibuya, Mio Honda, Kirari Moroboshi, Anzu Futaba	22 November 2017	Version 1.90, 22 November 2017

Version 1.90 is the last update listed on the official site.

Reception

OpenCritic lists one critic review, from Digitally Downloaded. Matt Sainsbury of Digitally Downloaded gave it two out of five stars and described it as "a pure concert experience with next to no interactivity". He wrote that the base download "gives you access to just three songs", that each track becomes pointless as a game "after a couple of plays", and that buying all of the content would cost close to two of the most expensive retail games.

Players on the Japanese PlayStation Store rate it 4.6 out of 5 from 1,461 ratings, as of October 2026.

See also

• Virtual concert
• PSVR Games