Epic! Plain old epic! I finally possess this awesome, popular Japanese rhythm game!!! <3 With a bit of patience and some cash saved up in my pink little tin coin box, all's well ends well :)))
It was so surprising! On Sunday morning, after a nice swimming session, me and my family had our usual breakfast of Hokkien mee and coffee at this coffee shop downtown. Mum and Dad didn't really feel like going to Gurney Plaza, since that we'd been there last week and they wanted to go home instead. My brother and I begged them to take us there, and that's when inspiration struck. We told them we'd go hang out there, just the two of us, in two hours' time, while Mum and Dad can scadoodle back home and pick us up later for tuition. They somehow agreed! I mean, usually they wouldn't consent to that, what with the random crime rates going up, you'll never know, but Dad just handed us each 50 ringgit and told us to be careful and stick with each other at all times and to make sure we had our phones with us. Woo! Clipped wings temporarily free! ^^
Giddily, both of us skipped out of the car and entered the air-conditioned interior of the mall, happy about our new found freedom, pondering about which store to go to first. We ended up escalating to the third floor to Artist Gallery, where there's a section up front selling video games and consoles. I remembered spotting the game in the glass display case last week, all wrapped in plastic, looking so pristine among the rest, screaming "buy me!" with its pretty, colourful cover. That was before I spied another game, Just Dance 4! XD My parents decided to buy me JD4 instead, along with the PS Move, since that they promised so a long time ago, to award me for my good grades during the first term. They weren't really keen on buying Project Diva F for me, though, and constantly reminded me on how long I have left until SPM =.= So I just felt like taking action. I diligently saved up my pocket money up to this day.
The storekeeper was nice enough to dock off RM8 from the original price. Once payment was made, yay! :D I couldn't help peeking into my bag every once in a while to check on my newly bought game o>w<o My precious~~~((Gollum-style~
At least both of us got something. My brother bought a James Bond 007: Casino Royale book :D Good to see my brother doing a bit of reading :) A cup of Tutti Fruitti later and we called up our dad to pick us up. Wuu~ I wished we could shop a bit longer TT^TT
...BUT WHO CARES! I GOT THE GAME! MUAHAHAHAHAHA~ ((piak~
I got to play the game today, what a rare chance on a weekday XD I started it up...and it's all in Japanese lllOTL I know how to read hiragana, a dash of katakana, a teensy bit on kanji, but I barely know how to comprehend all those long sentences TT^TT If only I can ace the Japanese language! ><
Well, forget the language barrier, I say! XD I'll just stick with the images, at least they can give some clues as to what these buttons do on the screen, lol! The tutorial is simple and actually quite fun, with Miku's Ievan Polka playing in the background and a chibi Miku holding a stick of leek at the corner of the screen. You just have to mash those buttons at the right time, tapping them to the beat of the song, with the arrow keys, and your usual square-triangle-O-X buttons. Unlike K-on, which has the notes on the screen align on a bar like a music score, the symbols in Project Diva tend to fly on the screen, flying and flying, and you have to keep up with these dayum confusing, colourful little midgets in order to achieve a high score o.O Even their speeds vary, depending on the tempo of the song, from irritatingly slow to mind-blowing need for speed @@ Honestly, they're just so hard to tell when the background gets too bright and colourful, like camouflaged hummingbirds or something o.O
The graphics are very nice, the animation smooth as clockwork. The scenes are quite cinematic, very HD. They look so pretty on the big screen~<3 The loading screen even displays countless fan art of Vocaloid ^^ They're so colourful, cute and pretty! I wish I can draw as awesome as them @@ It always chokes me up whenever the PVs play out so perfectly, like Tell Your World, I prefer it in the game more than the original one. I can't help it, it's just pure awesomeness! TTwTT The graphics really stands out compared to the one on the PSP. Even my brother, the game nerd in the family who's way more of an expert in this field than me, is impressed with it, though rhythm games are not his cup of tea. He just doesn't find mashing buttons as accomplishing as adventure games like Far Cry 3 or Uncharted.
What's more awesome is that Project Diva F features a lot of my favourite Vocaloid songs :D Senbonzakura's in it, Tokyo Teddy Bear, too! ^^ Plus, as mentioned above, the exclusive Tell Your World XDDD The game always pumps me up whenever I play it :D Apparently, those songs, along with a few more, are extras added into the game for the PS3 version. To see more songs, here's the link to the list from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku:_Project_DIVA_F#Song_List
Those epic PVs, the music, the game play, they all combine and become the ultimate pastime for otakus XD Totally worth the buy! ^^ Although it can be addictive :P
They say you can customize the way your Vocaloid looks by adding an accessory here and there and change their clothing, just like K-On. No surprise there, since that both games are made by SEGA (SEGA~ XD). I haven't tried that yet, but I do earn a handful after a few game plays. So far, my goal is to unlock all the songs first, for more variety and epicness~ XD
And so, the adventure begins, a new cycle has been created in the process, with the goal of completing Hatsune Miku Project Diva F and Just Dance 4 at hand. A challenge accepted.
...but what about SPM........llllOTL sounna.....kuso.......
Whateva! When there's work, there's play. It's called balance! =w=lll I'm just making excuses :P I better do my homework now, haha, see you!
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