Hatsune Miku Project Diva Future Tone
Do you like rhythm games? Cool. Do you like underage girls singing and potentially dancing suggestively in skimpy outfits? If so, you may enjoy Hatsune Mike Project Diva Future Tone, and also please go to jail.
So recently I've been playing Hatsune Mika Project Diva Future Tone with a few of my friends, and I have to say, if you can get past the whole thing of sexualized children, it's actually a fairly fun game. I'm the type who has always enjoyed rhythm games, but has never been particularly good at them. Ever since childhood with games like Guitar Hero and DDR, and into my older years with Stepmania and OSU.
Not too long ago, I spent quite a bit of time playing Melody's Escape, and enjoyed it uite a bit, but eventually grew away from it. When my friend introduced me to Project Diva, it sort of helped to fill the void.
For those of you who don't know, Project Diva (at least the console version), is a lot like OSU, but also Stepmania, and it's played with a controller instead of a mouse. You play to vocaloid music with music videos that range from realistically calm to absolutely mind-breaking. Something like someone singing and dancing in the middle of the field, to a teenage girl jumping and dancing across light-speed psychadelic shapes on the acid trip of the century. Or of course a sixteen year old vampire walking around a gothic castle acting cool as hell. Oh and one where there's a sixteen year old girl slowly committing suicide in the most dramatic fashion possible.
All of these music videos are fronted by a rhythm game that is simple yet strangely challening. Of course, a console based rhythm game like this could never really rival Stepmania or OSU in terms of difficulty cap, but it definitely proves to be a very brutal challenge for anyone who is not adept at this variety of game.
The game has issues but they're all quite minor. Little things like sometimes janky animations and bizarre body movements. However, aside from that, the game does very well at everything it tries to do. It's a simple but enjoyable game, and definitely something I would recommend to any vocaloid fans I may know who don't already play it.
I'm not entirely sure why, but I find Project Diva to be oddly enthralling. I find myself playing it for hours at a time, despite it being the type of thing I would not normally get too engaged in. Perhaps it's just the charming, upbeat nature of the game that invokes some sense of euphoria. Or, perhaps it's because I've grown to associate it with the one group of people I actually look forward to seeing regularly. Either way, I feel like I enjoy this game way more than I have any natural right to.
