Hello fellow racing fans and trainers to our continuing and expanding coverage of Umamusume: Pretty Derby. If you’ve never tried the game before or read about it on our site, Umamusume: Pretty Derby is a sports management game in which you play the role of a trainer whose goal is to help racers reach their dream goals and become champion racers. There’s also some singing, dancing, and cute girls in the mix as well, all of which are integral to the magic that makes Umamusume work.
We’ve been working on a series of guides to help players get started with enjoying the game more fully and to help demystify some of the more complex and difficult aspects of the game. Below you’ll find links to our guides, which should help you become a better trainer and help deepen your enjoyment with the game on your quest to become the greatest Trainer you can be, and more importantly, help you unlock how to enjoy the magic of Umamusume’s unique management simulation charm:
Getting Started: How to Understand Career Mode in Umamusume Pretty Derby
Getting Started: How to Understand Career Mode in Umamusume Pretty Derby
This article discusses how to get started with the main gameplay mode of Umamusume, Career Mode, and how to help you get better results by understanding just exactly what Career Mode is, what you should be doing, and some of the hidden aspects of how it really works.
Getting Started: How to Understand Support Decks in Umamusume Pretty Derby
Getting Started: How to Understand Support Decks in Umamusume Pretty Derby
Our second guide looks at one of the most important aspects of improving your Umamusume experience: Support Decks, which can be daunting and confusing to new players. Our guide breaks down what Support Cards are, how they work, and how you can improve your Career Runs by making better use of decks effectively.
Getting Started: How to Understand Sparks in Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Getting Started: How to Understand Sparks in Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Our next guide breaks down a slightly more complex and advanced system, the Inheritance Sparks system, which can have long lasting effects on your Career Mode runs, but also on your future runs. Inheritance Sparks are complicated because of the nature in which they are gained, but also in the ways they can work, so our guide seeks to make understanding them easier and to help avoid burn out with the game while working towards them.
Preparing for PVP and the Taurus Cup in Umamusume Pretty Derby
Preparing for PVP and the Taurus Cup in Umamusume Pretty Derby
Our guide for PVP helps you better understand how Team Matches work, as well as introducing Champions Meets and the upcoming Taurus Cup!
Understanding Potential Levels and Stars in Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Are you looking to get a better understanding of how to further fine-tune your trainees? Well, our new guide explains how Potential Levels and Star Levels work, and helps to explain the difference between them and whether or not you should expend your resources on them!
Understanding Potential Levels and Stars in Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Other Umamusume Content on Our Site
If you’re reading about series this for the first time, then we urge you to take a look at our editorial in which we unpack the way in which the Umamusume franchise uniquely takes historical events to craft engaging and endearing stories of tragedy, competition, and triumph:
How Umamusume Pretty Derby Breathes Life into Historical Fiction
How Umamusume Pretty Derby Breathes Life into Historical Fiction
And, if you’re curious to know our feelings about the game itself, you can also read our review of the game to see why we think Umamusume: Pretty Derby is worth your time and consideration:
Goonhammer Reviews: Umamusume Pretty Derby
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