Hi! So I recently started this game (Korean version, I live in South Korea and it's good practice to learn the language) and I'm having trouble understanding all the mechanics. I'm playing it in Korean and my language level isn't high yet. Honestly, I was going to give up and start an English account, but I pulled two UR with my first five pulls...soooo, I feel like I need to continue with it.
Anyway, is there a link with a faq or guide to help me out? I get most of the gameplay, it's the bonding...leveling...fusing?(combining two) and each cards different colors I'm having trouble understanding. Thanks.
You could always download the English version to use as a guide, but the big wiki explains all the mechanics:
http://decaf.kouhi.me/lovelive/index.php?title=Main_Page
Basically, to level a card, you feed it other cards.
Bond affects your score in the game, so you want cards that match the color of the song (Red, Green, Blue) and also have the highest bond. Bond is earned by performing well on songs and you can see it increase at the end of a song when the little flowers fill up under each character.
Fusing is when you take two of the same card to basically increase the level cap. You should do this to all your cards because it lets you score higher in songs, but also because you will get an extra heart once you max out the bond for a character (which is only possible after you fuse them).
Incidentally, are you using Facebook to log in or that Toast login? The Korean version stopped working for me today - I get an "Unknown error" when trying to login via Facebook - and I'm not sure if that's because the servers went down for them (which has happened before) or if I just lost my account. lol