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Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd 02-19-16 12:26 PM
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Project Diva - Where safe isn't actually safe
A currently strong series based on a voice program seems like a very unlikely story to hear, but Hatsune Miku's popularity alone has kept this series strong with multiple entries for the series starting from the PSP, then was soon remade on the PS3, though it did required the PSP games to play, there are two arcade versions of Project Diva: Project Diva Arcade and Project Diva Arcade Future Tone. And now the latest entries: F and F2nd, that were the first two Project Diva games to be released outside of Japan, really showing how extremely popular Hatsune Miku is. Since the new Project Diva is around the corner and the Arcade Future Tone port for the PS4 will follow suite, I thought it would be a nice time to talk about its latest entry: F2nd, for the VITA.
Straight from the menu, you are presented with a lot of creative options, which I will get right into later but the main point of interest is the rhythm game. You can either choose to go through the tutorial in which you are taught the mechanics of the game with the very popular song Levan Polkka playing in the background; or you can simply tackle the 40 songs, 20 songs that are new to the series and 20 songs that have been remade but have been in its last entries. All the songs come with their own difficulty, easy, normal, hard and extreme. Which helps for both veterans and people that are new to the genre.
Once you get started, a very energetic PV will be playing in the background while you play the game. The main game is pretty simple to play, there will be silhouettes of the familiar PlayStation buttons will appear and those shapes will fly from any side of your screen into those silhouettes, you will need to press the button at the right time which will grant you an accuracy rating depended on timing, ranging from Cool, Fine, Safe (I hate it), Bad and Miss. Not only that but there are hold notes, hitting and holding, then letting go at the right time, arrow notes which you will have to hit t... Read the rest of this Review
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