Is there a guide (preferably English) for majimas management game play? How do you keep the girls happy and well rested?
Thanks
alright, let's see what I can do. I'm not in front of my PS4 right now so I'm kind of going off memory.
The grand plot of it is to take over all areas by gaining a large amount of fans in each area, which triggers story events. Once you've finished the last event in an area, you've conquered it. At first you can only go for Mars, but afterwards, more areas open up.
The general flow of events is
- Recruit any girls you can. The easiest way is to buy them at the CP clearinghouse (the third menu). Others are gained by substory progression, progression in the management game, and hiring off the street.
- go "buy" fans from any businesses you haven't already done so from
- Take care of any staff management
- Open for business
Repeat this list until you've done all of 1 and 2 that you need to do.
for #1, there are a number of girls on the street that you can hire. they're pretty easy to spot because they're wearing glittery dresses. You'll need to bribe them with presents that you can buy at Le Marche. If I remember, you'll need 1 purse, 1 piece of jewelry, and 1 thing of perfume for the three girls I hired. Total, not each.
You can find the businesses you'll need for #2
here. It's in no way mandatory but it's a quick and cheap way to increase your fans in a given area. They're available to buy or whatever when you unlock them in the story.
Management/ Maintenance
When you talk to the Maitre 'D, the options on the menu are
-Girl Management
-Open for business
and the rest of the options change depending on what you have available.
You can train your Platinum-tier girls, and you can do it once per one shift they work. So you'll train them, have them work for a shift, repeat. AFAIK, if they don't work, you can't train them again, even if you ran a shift.
For the training, there are three types. Talking to the girls, dancing, and karaoke. Dancing and karaoke are the same minigames you've already played. When you're talking to the girls, you'll be presented with multiple choice situations. Just use
this guide and pick the appropriate answers. If you don't speak japanese, feel free to just mash X until the next prompt appears to skip the dialogue.
You can also dress up the Platinum girls, which lets you tweak their effectiveness in specific traits. Since almost all of the pieces of clothing have positives and negatives, I personally try to pick 2 traits and get those as high as possible (the double circle), while not worrying about the other two.
The bottom option on the Girl Management menu lets you change up your active roster. Unlike Kiryu's management game, this one isn't based on real time. Meaning, any girls you shift out of the rotation will recover stamina and happiness by not working when you open for business.
Opening for Business
The second option on the main menu starts a shift. The goal here is obviously to serve customers and keep them as happy as possible so that they pay more.
Frankly a lot of this is pretty straightforward. Seat patrons with girls that are closest to what they're looking for (the smiley faces are the key). If you have to seat someone with a girl with a frowny smiley face, all is not lost. Majima's R1/heat action both raises happiness and restores a small amount of the girls' stamina, so save it for those situations or for when you have a full house.
Every so often, the girls will flag you down with a request. Highlight them, press triangle and it will zoom in on them. They'll make a gesture and a menu will appear. match the gesture with the request, and your guest will gain happiness and tip more.
Scroll down on
this guide and there's a handy picture guide with the correct options you'll need to pick.
When the guest is ready to leave, you'll usually have a final chance to raise their happiness and get a boost to the money you've earned. What choices you'll want to pick will depend on their mood. The guide above has a chart with the correct answers. ctrl+f 客の対応の仕方 to skip to it.
If you don't want to mess with that, just pick the second option every time unless it's the ;D face, then pick the first option. There are sometimes better picks than the second one but if you don't want to bother with it, you could do worse.
