Ever since 's release in early December 2024, the cozy adventure game has featured a bright loading screen involving a full trailer-like movie and catchy theme song, at least until a couple of days ago. This title screen was a wonderful showcase of the game, featuring animations of Nikki and Momo using several of the abilities in various locations in Miraland, but it could also be difficult for systems to load effectively while also running updates. Sadly, this change to a new loading screen may only be temporary for the current in-game event.
As part of the massive update for the Shooting Star Season event in , there has been a very noticeable change to the loading screen. As MsMaiko recently shared on Reddit, the long period of maintenance was made worth it just for the loading screen.
As MsMaiko also points out, despite the previous theme music being fun and upbeat, having such a loud song with lyrics play was a bit much for many players. Even more important, perhaps, was the game playing such a graphically intense video with the music while also attempting to install updates and load the game, which could cause many issues.
's new loading screen is much more simple and pleasing to the eye, as well as friendly to technology.A simple image of Nikki standing underneath a night sky with shooting stars flying above is shown alongside some peaceful, calming music. This is in stark contrast to the previous loading screen which had so much going on that it caused lags on many systems, especially on mobile devices, as was highlighted in a comment by Reddit user mediumdeviation, delaying people from getting to log into the game itself.
This is one of many changes that devs have made recently with regard to player feedback, although many fear that this new loading screen is not going to last. As this new screen is so clearly themed to the current limited-time event of the Shooting Star Season, it may revert to the old movie and music on January 23rd when this event
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