Eden Belladonna

It’s a project diva game so I’m inclined to at least give it three just because I love Vocoloid. Other than that I kinda hate it tbh. They pretty much only used songs written for Miku and while you can play them as other characters you get the same dance and Miku’s voice instead of anyone else’s. They shoved a story into the game needlessly and as such your forced to do songs in a relative order. You have /some/ control over the order you play them but when picking a group to play you’re blindly selecting that group and then can play those songs in any order. It also has 14 less songs than the last game which doesn’t sound like a lot less until you take into consideration the lack of variation between the songs that are included. They’re all good songs don’t get me wrong, but they all sound the same as they are mostly Miku songs. Then there’s the scoring system. Oh the scoring system. Half of what I loved so much about Project Diva F was that during the songs there was a bar along the bottom marking your score as you got more points. In this game you have a number. A seemingly arbitrary number. Instead of a graded feel to the song it’s entirely a pass/fail system which leaves no feeling of gratification to play songs multiple times. Yeah you’ll probably score better but if you’ve already passed the song and you can’t get a better grade than passing why bother? Obviously no one is going to max out the score no matter how many times you play unless you’re some sort of genius at the game in which case congratulations you’re way better at the game than I could dream could to be. Over all I think it’s just a rather poorly executed game. The actual controls during songs aren’t too much different (they added one new feature from version F in the actual songs which is a spamming function on certain notes to get a higher score), the songs are still Vocoloid, it’s still by Sega obviously. It just lacks the allure of other games. Sega took out some of the best parts in my opinion. Ultimately it’s just a game centered around Miku and a very forced plot line (which I won’t go into for spoiler purposes) that regularly interrupts game play. Final tip: they don’t tell you which character is supposed to sing which song unless you google it every song but you’re typically safe to just assume Miku. It’s seriously that many Miku songs.