Sunday, July 8, 2018

Groove Coaster 4 First Play

Well, that's that. There's still no English Dub for the other two default navigation characters from Groove Coaster 3 EX and 4 but this is going to be more than the first time play of Groove Coaster 4.
So I made a visit to Century Square as it had made a recent return after a long time of renovation although there are tons of stores related to house stuffs like those for kitchens and bedrooms to name a few. The arcade there had made a return as well although the Beatmania IIDX machine was located elsewhere. The other rhythm games that remained there were probably Maimai, Sound Voltex, Jubeat, Drummania and of course, Groove Coaster. I believe that Dance Evolution Arcade machine was already relocated to other location in the past in favor of more active arcade games but there are other arcade games that happen to be placed in that arcade center such as Tsum Tsum Arcade version along with Initial D Zero which runs on the newest Sega arcade system.
One serious downside of this move from Virtualand is that although the arcade center in Century Square has the same card and card reader for inserting coins as the one in Bugis+, you can't use the card from the other arcade center for inserting coins in the arcade center you're currently in. It's ridiculous not to make the quarter-insertion card universal when compared to the past times where you can use the same card in the other arcades run by the same company. As I had the card that was for Bugis+ arcade center, that would throw me an error when inserting that card in the reader as if it isn't compatible. So, I was supposed to use the card that was for the Century Square arcade center as a result since I was at that arcade center. Sure, things were still working fine for other people despite having inserted the card supposed to be for the other location that threw me some error like the reader showed me some garbage on display. Have you ever seen an arcade center where only tokens/coins/cards for credit insertion are acceptable there but not other locations despite the fact that all those locations are run by the same company? From what I saw in the revitalized arcades in the US, even the Round 1 arcades there are using the card reader stuff as the replacement for coin slot for inserting coins. Question is, I don't know if the same card is acceptable through multiple Round 1 arcade locations there.
Then, about the machines' conditions. The one on the left has some technical problem regarding one of the booster buttons. Someone already reported that to the staff and the staff eventually covered the card reader for inserting coins with something made out of paper to indicate that something is wrong with that machine. What an useful indication but there should be a plastic cover or some sort. The one on the right as I played on had some kind of delay as it took time to initialize some stuffs.
Needless to say, I had already attempted the song, Echo, on the other rhythm game before this one but I forgot that I did that in the past. At that time, I didn't know much about that song until the recent time, I discovered a Virtual YouTuber cover of it. The song originally came out like several years ago and it is one of the Vocaloid songs to make use of English language entirely. Unfortunately, from the music structure, it's not easy to put the song in rhythm games without screwing it up.