The ‘Happy Adventure! Treasure Island Smiles’ event is upon us, and it being a Challenge Quest event means two things: Anyone can reach a sense of completion without sinking too much time in the event, but also that less experienced players are barred from ever fully completing it no matter how much time they put into playing.

Challenge Quest events are events in which the player has to complete a set of 10×5 missions, and then another, harder one of 5×5 in order to complete everything the event has to offer.

There are five categories of missions to complete and I’ll be going over each one and my suggested songs and strategies for them.





Score Goals

The score missions require you to clear songs with at least a certain score. By the level 10 mission, you’ll have to score at least 900,000 points on a song. This number is the bottom line that makes your team able to be considered decent, meaning that getting here should be easy enough. The EX missions require 1,100,000 to 1,500,000 score points by the fifth level, upping by 100,000 on each.

Things you can improve on, apart from skill, to get higher scores are:

-Team composition;

Try to use the featured band and attribute. This time it’s Pure Hello Happy World members. But remember, the correct band members only land you 10% on the score bonuses while the correct attribute is a 20% increase. Always prioritize attribute over members.

According to the BanG Dream! fandom.com page, the optimal team for this event is as follows:

-Tsurumaki Kokoro – New Year’s is Full of Fun

-Matsubara Kanon – Have Courage (Current event gacha banner)

-Kitazawa Hagumi – I’ll Teach You!

-Seta Kaoru – My Former Nickname

-Okusawa Misaki – How Did this Happen? (Current event gacha banner)

-Score-up skills

If for some reason you’re playing solo on score missions, try adding band members that have score increase skills. Or, if you’re playing Multi-Lives make sure your band leader has a well-leveled score-up skill.

-META songs

You can also gain a higher score by playing META songs (songs with short duration and high point counts) like Kizuna Music, Legendary (English), A to Z, etc. and avoiding long yet low point songs.

-Playing on Expert

Playing on Expert gives you a higher score percentage coefficient than playing on lower difficulty modes.





Energy/Life Goals

The energy goals require you to clear a song with a certain amount of energy points left. Song levels 8 through EX 1 require the songs to be from Hello Happy World and on Hard or higher difficulty, but that proves little of a barrier as they have a variety of songs you can easily finish well on Hard. Levels from EX 2 to EX 5 require at least 1000 health on songs level 25 to 28 respectively.

Combating energy loss is simple, though you will have to sacrifice some score points for it. By filtering by Health-Up skills when building your band, you should pick members with the highest health gain from their skills, and even level them up if you can/need to. You don’t have to focus on event members or attributes for these missions so any cards with energy gain will suffice.





Note Goals

Note goals require you to have less than X amount of Greats or worse notes when finishing a song. There are also obstacles in these goals as the levels rise, and this time they’re all song level requirements. The level 10 mission asks that you complete a song with less than 50 Great or worse notes on a level 20 song, which is fairly easy and should be possible for most players. The EX missions prove far more difficult though, with the hardest one being less than 30 Great notes on a level 28 song.

Be sure to pick girls with skills that guarantee Perfect notes in the same regard as the previous mission set. I’ll be going through each requirement with a song suggestion below to help out as well. As much as I’d like it for there to be more, I’m afraid these mission sets are mostly dependent on your skill for the most part.





Combo Goals

Combo missions require unbroken streaks of hit notes or to fully clear songs without any Good or worse notes. The level 10 mission requires a Full Clear of any level 20 or above song, which can be somewhat difficult for newer or more casual players. Level 1 EX requires you to Full Clear the new song added with this event, “High Five ∞ Adventure” on Hard or Expert. This means you can clear it easily if you made it through level 10, as this song, in particular, is level 19 on Hard. Levels 2 EX and 3 EX require Full Clears on level 25 and 26 songs by Hello Happy World, while 4 EX and 5 EX need Full Clears on any songs level 27 and 28.

Same as the Note goals, use teams that have skills that rank up your Good and higher notes to Perfects, just for some few extra chances of success.





Multi-Live Score Goals

These require you to play Multi-Lives and hope that everyone you played with got a score high enough to complete the mission requirement. By far the easiest or hardest missions to complete, completely based on luck. Some of the EX ranks also have song level requirements up to 26, but if you complete the rest of the mission sets first this set will mostly finish itself passively.

Use the same build as the first set of Score Goal missions, as your score can also make all the difference in most cases. If you’re low on luck in public rooms, you can also get some friends to help you out or even message a discord/social media group for help. A lot of people would be glad to level with you.





If you would like to see all the goals individually, please click here.





Song Suggestions

I understand that not everyone can complete all the quests, including me, but some of us want to go as far as they can anyway. So, I’ll list my suggestions which I’ve collected from community posts and personal experience to list off the easiest songs for each level barrier.



-EX 2 – Minimum level 25 Song

There is a lot of variety on the 25th difficulty level. If you’re having a hard time, opt for slower songs or a lot of the earlier original songs as they’re usually more on the long and easy side rather than actually challenging.



-EX 2 – Minimum level 25 song by Hello Happy World

Looking at HHW’s songs, we have 6 songs to choose from. Based on personal experience the easiest songs here are “Romeo” and “Silhouette”, with a mention of “Alien Alien” if you can deal with the ending sequence.









-EX 3 – Minimum level 26 song by Hello Happy World

Here, I can easily say that “Taiyou Iwaku Moeyo Chaos” is the best choice. Even better since it was recently a challenge song meaning it might have stayed in your muscle memory. Other than that, “Wacha-Mocha Pettan March” and “Happy Summer Wedding” are also good choices.









-EX 3 – Minimum level 26 song

The general level 26 pool is wide, and no one can have a definitive answer of which songs are the easiest as it’s mostly personal skill that determines this. My choice is to go with the HHW songs recommended above as I do believe they are some of the easiest.



-EX 4 – Minimum level 27 song

My level 27 song recommendation is “Guren no Yumiya”. If you’ve been around in the fandom you already know it’s often regarded as the easiest of the hard songs.



-EX 5 – Minimum level 28 song

There are currently only four level 28 songs in the game, and the general rule of thumb is that you always go for “Sugar Song & Bitter Step” if you’re having a rough time.



I wish you good luck in completing the event as best as you can!