Since the May poll was successful, a new poll was added to the blog for the month of June. The question was 'What is your favourite image in Style Boutique 2?' and there was 117 votes in total!
So the results are in and there was a few ties again this month. The results have been tallied and here are the results :
1st = Girly
2nd = Baby-Doll & Gothic
3rd = Feminine
4th = Bold
5th = Rock, Chic and Preppy
6th = Retro
7th = Lively & Boho
8th = Eastern
No Votes = Basic & Sporty
The new poll for the month of July is 'What is your favourite job in Style Boutique 2?' To vote, simply scroll down the side bar and the poll is under the game box images. If you cannot view the poll, please visit the blog using the web version. The blog is not available in mobile view on some devices. If you are on a mobile, select 'View web version' at the bottom of the page.
Excited to see what everyone's favourite job is in the game. Mine is Boutique owner as I love designing outfits and getting to use all the wonderful clothing items in the game.
At
the Caprice Chalet, you can create different themed rooms and rent them
to characters in the game. Only certain themed rooms can be rented out
to characters and must have specific items placed in them to fit into a
rental category. This post will look at the kitchen themed rooms and
renting them to characters.
Kitchen themed rooms are pretty simple, they are set up like a kitchen you would find a house or apartment. There are plenty of kitchen and cooking themed miniatures you can use to decorate the room with but there are some key miniatures required. Kitchen rooms require a Retro Cooker and/or Retro Kitchen Cabinet to be placed somewhere in the room. These items come in three different colour combinations and are found under the Furniture category. Other kitchen and cooking themed miniatures include kettles, stewpot and other food themed miniatures. Kitchen themed rooms are simiular to banquet rooms and if you place the Plate and Cutlery item in the room, characters will refer to the room as a the banquet room.
Characters
will appear at your boutique with a small house symbol above their
head. Select this character and they will tell you how they noticed a
room at the Caprice Chalet that had a certain theme. With kitchen themed rooms, characters will talk about how they having been cooking lately and they saw the kitchen room at Caprice Chalet which inspired them to cook more.
The
character will request to rent the room out and you can either select
yes or no. The rental periods for rooms is 24 hours and renting out
rooms is a good method for earning money without effort in the game.
Characters
will stay in the Caprice Chalet room for about 24 hours. When you visit
the Caprice Chalet, rooms that are rented out will have a small person
icon displayed on them. If you select this room during the rental
period, the character will tell you how they are going or how business
is doing. Visit the room after the 24 hour period and the character is
ready to leave the room. They will thank you for allowing them to rent
the room and tell you how they went. The character will then pay you the
rental fee for using the room. The rental fee for kitchen themed rooms is
$1000.
For more information on decorating rooms and the Caprice Chalet, please refer to Caprice Chalet Master Guide for links to all the Caprice Chalet and Miniatures guides.
In
Style Boutique 2/Style Savvy 3, the characters you will encounter in the
game have been given some rather amusing character descriptions. When
you click on a NPC, it will bring up a preview of the character and some
information about them. It will display their name and some brief
information about their personality or hobbies. Some of the profile
descriptions are pretty normal, but there are quite a few silly or
ridiculous ones.
Here
are a few examples of the amusing character descriptions of some of the
NPC's in Style Boutique 2/Style Savvy 3. More posts to come because
there seems to just be an abundance of these in the game.
There are two Nintendo themed Yukata's available for download as a DLC set. The yukatas are themed around the characters Princess Peach and Rosalina. The Princess Peach yukata is based on her famous pink dress and the Rosalina yukata is based on her blue dress and her companion Luma. All
DLC in Style Boutique is free to download and requires an e-shop
account. DLC items can only be worn by your own character and cannot be
sold
in your boutique. To
download DLC, select the Add-on Items option on the game's start menu.
Press the Select Add-on Items option and it will redirect you to the
e-Shop. Next you will be taken to a menu that displays all the DLC
available for download in your region. The Yukata DLC packs are currently available for Girls Mode 3 (Japan), Style Boutique 2 (Europe and Australia) and Style Savvy 3 (North America).
The picture below showcases the items from the Japanese advertisement.
The yukatas come in two seperate DLC packs and each pack features one yukata. The yukatas can be accessed
through the wardrobe option at your Apartment. Both items belong to the Purple Moon brand.
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| Peach's Yukata |
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| Rosalina's Yukata |
For more information on the special DLC items available in the game, please visit the DLC guide.
In
Style Boutique 2/Style Savvy 3, you can hold fashion shows and walk on
the catwalk as a model. There are a variety of fashion show themes to
choose from and once you have sold enough tickets to hold the show, you
get to choose the outfit you wish to wear in the show as well as your
make-up and hairstyle.
At
the end of each fashion show, the game awards you a rating out of five
based on how well your overall outfit matched the theme of the show. For
a detailed guide on themes and taking part in fashion shows, please
refer to the Fashion Show guide. The
game does not give you hints at what specific style will fit the theme
and bases your final score on how well your outfit, hairstyle and makeup
matches the theme. Multiple styles fall under each category and you
need to pick the one you feel best matches the theme.
This
guide will look an outfit that received a five star rating under the unique category. The theme
for this fashion show was a summer outfit for the holiday and was the rainbow star theme
icon on the theme menu screen. The venue used was the fifth venue on the
venue list which is the yellow hued one.
Now for the outfit. The clothing items used to create this outfit were:
- Retrobeat - Retro Acorn Print Shirt (Blue/Green/Pink)
- Retrobeat - Eye Pattern Tutu (Pink)
- April Bonbon - Dripping Paint Knee Socks (Pink)
- Retrobeat - Lame Gradiant Flats (Purple)
- Retrobeat - Scarf-Pattern Bow
The
hairstyle used is the Afro with a light blue and pink colour combination. The make-up set used was the Galactic Ranger set with the default
colours (no adjustments made to the set).
After
selecting ok after the outfit menu screen, Laurie provided a hint that
the outfit fitted the unique theme of the fashion show. Next
it was time to hit the catwalk! Here's some screenshots of my character
modelling the five star outfit. Be sure the click the effects buttons
when taking part in fashion shows as they help hype up audience
interest.
Time
to see the final score. The outfit fitted perfectly with the unique
theme and received five stars. The tricky part with achieving five star
outfits is matching the hair and make-up to the theme. A good tip is to
pick make-up sets with a good colour palette and match the feel/colour
of your clothing items.
After
this, Ricky and Laurie will talk to your about your performance. If you
have an outfit that is 3 stars or higher, they will usually give you
praise. Other
NPC's will appear as well giving you feedback about your outfit. Ricky will appear afterwards and give you a miniature
item as a gift. You do not receive a special miniature for achieving
five stars.
Whilst trying to figure out how to get five stars in the Unique category, I tried a bunch of different outfits (none of which were successful). Here is an outfit that almost made it to five stars and is similar to the outfit that one. This outfit had more accessories and the hairstyle did not match the unique theme. With the five star outfit, I kept the same top but altered the rest of the outfit to fit the summer theme. The hairstyle was changed to the Afro which is a unique hairstyle and the same make-up set was used.
The
Purple Moon brand in Style Boutique 2 sells a variety of fun costume
outfits. The brand is found on the third floor of the Exhibition Hall
and the brand representative is Eliza. One of the costume outfits that
can be purchased from Purple Moon is the Cheerleader outfit. Each item in the outfit costs $990.00.
The Cheerleader outfit is made up of the following items:
- Cheerleading Shell
- Cheerleading Skirt
The Cheerleader outfit is available in the following colours: white/red, navy/white and red/white. All items in the set fall under the Lively and Sporty theme.
