HoneyWorks Premium Live

HoneyWorks Premium Live, commonly abbreviated to HaniPure/HaniPre/HoneyPre (ハニプレ), is a rhythm game for iOS and Android. The game was announced on August 24th, 2019 as part of the HoneyWorks Atelier project to celebrate HoneyWorks' tenth anniversary. Originally scheduled for a Spring 2020 release, after delays in development, the game was released on November 18th, 2020 in Japanese only.

On December 6th, 2019, the pre-registration campaign began, where in-game rewards would be given to those who downloaded the game at the release according to number of pre-registrations. The campaign had goals from 10,000 to 700,000 pre-registrations, and reached all goals on November 17th, 2020. As a reward, 70 gachas worth of Honey Diamonds along with other rewards were delivered.

Prior to the game's release, the upcoming event announcements were teased on Twitter as HoneyWorks Premium Live Autumn Tour 2020.^[1] This featured Enomoto Natsuki, Hayasaka Akari, and Aida Miou in special outfits to commemorate the game's release and teased two story events about making autumn memories. Songs that would be added to the game in this campaign were also announced.

Story[edit | edit source]

The game follows the player being hired as the producer of the HaniPre live house run by Kumamaru, Panmy, and Kohachi after Kumamaru drags the player to watch their live show. Kumamaru and Panmy explain that youth-themed lives are held every day at the live house.

After watching the show, the number of fans increase, so Kumamaru and Panmy ask the player to help them to make HaniPre "the world's best live house". At the live house, Kumamaru and Panmy show off many new stories about the HoneyWorks characters.

Characters[edit | edit source]

The game features many favorite characters from HoneyWorks' Confession Executive Committee franchise, alongside the mascots and the persona of CHiCO. Characters from both the Love Series and the Idol Series are featured.

Songs[edit | edit source]

Opening Themes[edit | edit source]

The following songs are present in the game as opening themes, where a snippet of the beginning portion will play while on the main menu screen. They are not currently playable in game as a beat map.

Playable Songs[edit | edit source]

Songs from across HoneyWorks' collective discography are featured as beat maps. With a few exceptions, the majority of the songs use the seiyuu or band versions instead of the Vocal Synthesizer/Vocaloid versions. Currently, the -another versions- of songs have not been added into the game. Each song comes with MV that plays in the background, several of which have been remastered to be in full color or to remove unlicensed references, in particular for the earlier songs. A list of playable songs can be found here.

System[edit | edit source]

Live Mode[edit | edit source]

The main gameplay is a rhythm game system of beat maps of HoneyWorks songs. Players have to tap, slide, and flick to the rhythm note patterns. In order to play, at least one Heart must be expended. By playing, Talk Lives and the MV Library will be unlocked, which are new stories about the characters featured in the songs. Songs are divided into parts, 2 parts for most songs and 3 parts for longer ones, each with their own beat map.

Difficulty[edit | edit source]

The following difficulties are available for each song:

Easy
Normal
Hard
Expert

Fan Count[edit | edit source]

In order to unlock songs, players must bring more Fans to the live house. Fans can be obtained playing songs and once per day by logging in for the first time. Progress is tracked by the Success Road.

Gacha[edit | edit source]

In order to obtain more cards, the player must use Honey Diamonds to scout them. It costs 250 Honey Diamonds for 1 roll, 2500 Honey Diamonds for a 10-roll which guarantees at least one 3-star card.