Okay, I bought this game yesterday night after there were additional copies of it in stock that night and some customers already bought it before night. Also, that cost like $88 once the game was out. Well, I don't want to annoy anyone like that but I have been embarassed to mention out these things like this game and other stuffs I want to buy and support.
Nowadays, most of the Vocaloid songs in the arcade rhythm games are rock-based and especially for the ones in Project Diva F 2nd. In addition, certain songs that will be in this game already made it to other rhythm games before the game's release. Hmm, be it Maimai Green Plus, Sound Voltex II, or whatever. They are obviously licensed Exit Tunes songs but they should be listed as Vocaloid songs as well as not all Exit Tunes songs are Vocaloid songs actually so there's such a Category you can see in rhythm games in the arcades nowadays. You see the Exit Tunes, Vocaloid, Originals, Touhou Arrangements, etc. Speaking of Originals, we surely prefer the ones from Bemani games alot but for Vocaloid songs in rhythm games nowadays in the arcades, there may be tons of them in stores to play as if they were already our first reasons to play Maimai and Sound Voltex.
The music videos for the existing songs from the previous Project Diva games are remade with multiple endings and the intro video has those hovering stuffs that look like the ones from BTTF II. Yes, this is where you can compare those to the ones from BTTF II, not the ones from ***** Free Riders as that game is really terrible to me. The main menu is for some reason a futuristic/digital/cyber move in this game compared to previous Project Diva games. You move around with the touchscreen or D-Pad and 'the interactivity works'.
Plus, in AR Mode for the Vita version, you can have the Vocaloid character to perform in front of you. With all those improvements, it may look like a strange move to us as you may look like a freaking producer watching that character perform in front of you while you're holding your device. Also, the W scratch note is another strange one. You're supposed to slide the screen the same way you press the corresponding buttons from both sides at the same time to do the Arrow notes.
In the prequel, the song list kind of falls short until the DLC popped up that increased the song list but it wasn't that enough until this game was recently released which has 40 songs in total. Now that meets the 39-song objective but then, there should be more songs after the game's release if we want this next generation Project Diva series to be on par with the previous one.
The bottom-line, this series is a must buy for fans of the Vocaloid technology like us