(here’s how my profile looked on the last day of gameplay~ )

hi, hello. i don’t regularly post here but i felt like sharing some memories from my experience playing sif since the game meant a lot to me as it probably did for many other people here.

i first started playing sif in september of 2017, i would’ve downloaded the game sooner but i wanted to wait until i got my new phone (new at the time anyway lol). and pretty much immediately, i was hooked. i hadn’t played any rhythm games prior to sif so it felt like a whole new thing to me but i just had so much fun with it even if i didn’t completely know what i was doing at first.

i definitely wasn’t the best at saving gems starting out but doing solo pulls did manage to get me my very first UR, which was pajama maki. she was my muse best girl so getting a UR of my favorite was one of the most exciting things ever. i probably would’ve screamed if i wasn’t playing in the middle of class. speaking of playing in class, i did play in class quite a lot when i was a newer player. not the best decision in retrospect but i was having fun so it’s fine.

part of the reason why sif was so special to me was that it helped me get through a pretty hard time in my life. without getting into too many details, a lot of personal stuff happened and sif felt like the only thing that didn’t seem to change as everything around me did so i found a lot of comfort through playing it.

i’m sure this isn’t a surprise if you’ve looked at my profile but my best girl in all of love live is kanan and she was definitely the character i was most dedicated to collecting cards of in sif. it took me almost a year of playing to finally get a UR of her in the game, and funnily enough, i got my first kanan UR through a solo. i was so excited that i was screaming and shaking and my brother thought that something was wrong. throughout all my time playing, i managed to get every single permanent card of hers and a pretty decent amount of her limited cards which is pretty good for someone who was mostly free to play. i would’ve tried to get all of her limited cards too but they released too frequently that it wasn’t worth trying to get them in my opinion. regardless, i’m still very proud of my collection. aside from collecting kanan cards, i think my collection had a overwhelming majority of aqours cards since i’m a bit biased. i had so many completed aqours sets and even had every single aqours UR pair (thanks to them all being available in the sticker shop before shutdown).

another huge memory i have related to sif was the time when i temporarily lost my account. my phone got reset by accident and i lost over a year’s worth of pictures (including my game screenshots) and my account. i wasn’t aware of transfer codes so i didn’t have one set up and as a result, i almost lost my account. obviously, i was pretty upset so i started emailing support to see if i could try and recover my account even without it having any purchases on it. i think i spent around a week emailing back and forth, and thankfully, i managed to recover my account. i don’t know what i would’ve done if i had to restart the game so i’m still grateful that i was able to save my account in the end.

this is already getting a bit too long and i don’t think it’s worth my time going through every single memory i have of playing so i might wrap it up here. i admit that i didn’t play sif as often compared to before within the past couple years and that i think the game went way downhill during that time, but that doesn’t change the fact that the game was important to me and that i still managed to find ways to enjoy it. i will miss sif but i’m also looking forward to sif2 and whatever comes next. i guess all i can say now is thank you for all the memories sif, both the good ones and bad ones. 💖

Hello, I started to play in April 2 018, the same month that my nephew was born, I am very happy, I already knew the game before, but I decided to play only there and to jump the step!

Here is my capture of the level 100 when I got it, it was a nice memory ! This Mari's card was so cute at the time !

Thanks for the great years of playing and we'll see you in SIF2 ! ♥♥

Oh man so it truly is an end of an era and I didn't think it would happen especially at this year

I wish I could get my old screen shoots but I think it would be impossible with how old my phone was when I started and apparently I started at 2015 and GOD I feel so old I was starting Junior high at the time.

I loved SIF even if I didn't play as much anymore when they kept dropping lim boxes I still think about them a lot and only dropped back in once the eos announcement came and I kinda feel bad about it. I remember the day I first played it and I'm gonna be fr I did not like Love Live at first. thought I could get a quick laugh from it and delete after cause I really really bored with nothing to do. But instead I was having such a good time like "what did I dislike about this series that's so weird" I thought lol.

My very first UR was Halloween Pana and my first SR was Fairy Tale Nozomi and those cards mean so much to me now that I think about it. I may be not the best player with the collection and gaming (I was pretty mid at it lol) but I had fun and I am able to bond with my friends about this game and I started to enjoy the story of Love Live cause of this game and I'm glad I gave it a shot it helped me a lot to be more determined in my life and I'm super thankful about that.

I'll miss you, SIF. Thanks for everything.

Here is one of my many #SIFStories

I've never been good at rhythm games, but the characters and stories hooked me on LLSIF. After about a year I could only complete one or two Expert level songs, and never with a Full Combo.

In April of 2016, I started feeling really out of sorts, including my coordination and ability to play SIF. After a week of feeling like this, I went to the ER and after a spinal tap, they diagnosed me with meningitis. Since they can’t immediately tell if you will be contagious they put you in a special room that has double doors and an isolated air conditioning system so your air doesn’t get into the rest of the hospital. This of course made it pretty lonely because visitors had to be very restricted. Luckily the stories I could experience in SIF made me feel less alone and encouraged me to push on despite being stuck in that room by myself.

Even with treatment I found I could barely even play Easy songs and finish them, that’s how bad my coordination had become. After three days it was determined that I did not have a contagious form of the disease and I was discharged to continue recovering at home.

SIF became my benchmark for recovery, I knew where I was before I got sick, so it gave me a concrete goal to reach to say I was back to normal. The process took about 6 months but not only was I able to start getting Full Combo on Expert songs, but I could also now do it on any Expert song I tried!

Thank you SIF for helping me through that tough time, introducing me and my family to new music and friends, and a wonderful community.

One more of my #SIFStories.

I started playing SIF when my second son was a year old, so I would sit in the room with him and play songs to pass the time. His favorite song quickly became Snow Halation, so I searched for different videos of it on Youtube. He would watch them all entranced, especially those with dancing. Live, animated, cover group, he had no preference, as long as they were playing his favorite song.

Snow Halation quickly became his comfort song, and I had to keep a copy of it on my phone so that any time he was stressed or had trouble behaving, we could throw it on and he would settle down and watch it over and over.

As we often do we went to Otakon and pushed him around in the stroller. My wife and I met through our involvement in different fansubbing groups, hers focused on Digimon among other shows. She and another subber wanted to go to the Digimon panel that year. We arrived at the room only to find it was already at capacity.

We stood around discussing what to do next when suddenly my son jumped out of his seat and walked into the room next door! I quickly followed him only to realize that he heard Snow Halation coming from the room and had to see it. Inside we found a μ’s dance group teaching people how to cheer at idol concerts. He had a blast watching them perform and cheering along, even jumping at the right time in Snow Halation.

The next day of the con they put on a show and he got a front-row seat and watched the whole show enraptured.

Eventually, I bought him the box set of all the songs from LLSIP and he would watch it from beginning to end. When Hurricane Matthew came by to pay us a visit we expected to lose power and planned accordingly. To help him out I put on “his singers” (his name for μ’s) and told him he could watch it until the power went out. Lo and behold we never lost power and he watched it over and over for 8 hours, always being sure to stand on a prop so he could jump at the right moment in his favorite song.

Sadly as the years have gone by he has decided that his singers are for girls and he will pretend to not like it, but I catch him stopping what he’s doing if he hears them. Lucky for us he has a younger brother now.

Ugh, I don't know how it feels after SIF shutdown (feels like playing the very last mission on SIF), but here goes my SIF story: I only started playing the SIF back in mid-2018 (I know it's kinda late but better than never), and this is my first-ever rhythm game I had played on, and also thanks to SIF, it brought me to the world of school idols! The SIF also introduces me to my favourite character, Chika Takami! (so whoever leads each of the group was my favourite per group). For the gacha itself, well... I was lucky enough to get my favourite at the moment, Chika's UR: 'Chika's Latent Power' for one scout, the rest is history (going some ups and downs, you know). Although I played most of the songs on Easy to Hard difficulty with my thumbs, for last two months (before the termination) I also learned the Expert difficulty with two-finger method, albeit a bit slippery in terms of my reaction time in mid-songs. For Rank-Up Jewels, at first glance, I didn't know what it was, but as it turns out, it was for leveling up the Player Rank! For me, it feels like without this, I won't even be able to reach the four-digit player rank. When I found out that SIF will be terminated at the end of March, my heart is completely shattered to pieces... but my 'fiery' spirit keeps going until the end of the line for last two months! and I had my best result on the 'Great Thanks' event!

Thank you for the memories, SIF!! This game had taken me the largest impact during my life! And it's time to embark on the brand new journey, and spread the wings of idols to take the dream flight to SIF 2: Miracle Live!

P.S.: This screenshot was taken roughly five minutes before the termination, along with Kanon's 'thanks for cheering' message... This would be the final time I accessed the SIF.

#SIFStories

I've only been playing for about a month, but from my experience, Sif is a really fun game and it's nice to see the girls interact with each other and stuff. Also, umi best girl :)

SIF was my introduction to idol series and rhythm games entirely. I started playing around six years ago and still remember the very first UR I got. On the last day of the SIF I was finally able to idolize that card. (Though I forgot take a screenshot ... ) Thank you for an amazing six years SIF you'll always be loved :)

Man, I don't even know where to start with this game, but I think I enjoy talking about the beginning and my introduction to it all the most. It was when I was just getting into anime in late 2017, I think all I had seen at the time was Hinako Note and Lucky Star. One of my friends from school caught wind of my newly found interest in the medium, and recommended that I try Love Live, and play the gacha game if I ended up liking it. I scoffed at the idea at first, thinking "Yeah, sure. I'm never gonna play some stupid gacha game based on an anime. Keep it in your dreams." Well, low and behold, who could've guessed that the show would end up being an extremely important work to me and who I am as a person, still staying with me to this day nearly 6 years later. Upon finishing SIP, I was simultaneously lifted out of a dark place in my life due to how special the show was, but also thrust into another one as realizing I had seen the journey through to it's end left a gaping hole in my heart. The content I was left with going forward was limited to Sunshine, and SIF. I would go on to watch sunshine while s2 was airing, and while not as special to me as SIP, was still something I consider beloved to this day, and fueled my fire to get into this fandom more. After laughing the idea off previously, I would finally decide to get into SIF on a whim, as I was previously interested in rhythm games already, and needed more of these characters or just the franchise in general to fill the gap in my heart. One of my mutual friends through the one who initially got me into the series made me a bet that I couldn't FC Bokura no LIVE Kimi to no LIFE Expert difficulty within a week of starting the game, and I think that is what initially fueled me to play the game as much as I did and improve a ton. I ended up winning the bet, so he bought me a Snow Halation Nozomi figurine, which was my first figure ever that I still hold dear to this day, and from then on out I was obsessed with doing whatever I could in the game for essentially the rest of my high school days. Whether it be grinding events, the joy of finally fcing certain master songs that took ages (Damn you, NicoPuri!!), or finally getting URs that I had dreamed of owning forever (Casino Nozomi my beloved) the range of emotions that this game has brought me over the years has been something I wouldn't trade for anything. Unfortunately, I feel as though I started taking it for granted around the time I graduated HS, and ended up hardly playing it from 2020-2022, which is something I can't express how much I regret now. I finally started playing it some more in the early days of 2023, just to end up hearing that the game will end service in the coming months, and it absolutely broke my heart. I played it as much as I could for a large part of the month of March, but it just wasn't enough to make up for the years gone by where I felt like I was past it. Inevitably the day of March 31st would come, and as the final clock was ticking down, I would boot up BokuHika one last time, one single minute before the service would end, determined to see it through on this final farewell (Recorded it as well, to mark the end of an era - https://youtu.be/D5YtvzFIQIQ). Mid-song, the tears just started flowing as suddenly as the realization of what this all meant dawned on me. That this would be the final time I could access this game that essentially changed and shaped a huge part of my life, and the thought of it being gone just broke me. All I was left with were the reassuring lyrics of BokuHika, to finalize this incredible, special journey.

小鳥の翼がついに大きくなって (The small bird's wings have finally grown large)
旅立ちの日だよ (It's a day of departure)
遠くへと広がる海の色暖かく (The widening sea's warm color beckons from afar)
夢の中で描いた絵のようなんだ切なくて (It's painful, like a picture drawn within a dream)
時をまきもどしてみるかい? (Would you like to try winding back time?)
No no no いまが最高! (No no no, right now is the greatest!)
だってだって、いまが最高! (After all, after all, this moment is the greatest!)

Thank you for everything, School Idol Festival. I'll never forget the impact you've had on my life. #SIFStories

There’s a few stories I could tell but I’d be a fool to not share my most memorable and imo funniest story with sif; the $6000 whale or how I was a dumb dumb kid lol

So I was maybe around 13 at the time and had next to no concept of money, and my parents let me borrow some money for my 3ds, and to do it I took a pic of their card, next thing you know I’m having some pretty bad rolls and think “oh they wouldn’t mind if I used some money” and that repeated $20 at a time for a while. I had no concept of whaling and I genuinely thought that it wouldn’t do anything first time around. This happened twice, the first time only $2000 and a second with $4000, now obvs sif wasn’t the only thing I spent on but it was a catalyst! Thankfully my parents weren’t toooo mad at me and they were able to get it all refunded so I can laugh at my past self instead of get angry at ‘em!

I got into Love Live when I must've been no more than 15. My cousin introduced me to SIF during a visit, and as a kid who had loved Dance Dance Revolution, I was taken with the rhythm game I could play on my phone. The cute character designs were a bonus.

I had no idea how deep I would get.

I remember seeing the rise of Aqours, the announcement of SIFAS and Liella...

I've been here for it all, and I'm not sure what compelled me to stick with this fandom more than anything else I've ever been into. I get emotional when I listen to the music and heartfelt feelings of the CVs. And, despite my social anxiety disorder, when I went to my first convention with my brother a couple years back (I eagerly await when I can afford to go to another), I went out of my way to compliment some Love Live cosplayers I saw, delighted that I recognized and identified with something there. Normally, I don't speak to people unless they engage with me first, so that was huge for me.

Whether it's because these girls and their journeys have been a surrogate for the high school life I always wanted and never had or because my loneliness and their relatability had me finding a sense of friendship in these little characters, Love Live means so much to me and I suspect that it always will.

Letting go of SIF is bittersweet, and I can't say my anxiety likes it too much, haha. But here's to a bright new START: DASH! huh~?