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17 days
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February 5, 2023
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March 7, 2022
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I just want to open this by making clear that I played this after racking up over 85 hours in Project Diva Future Tone on PS4. So while I'm gunna compare the two a lot, this one is still great fun.
*For sake of ease, I'll be referring to buttons using an Xbox layout.
My biggest gripe with this entry is the difficulty. The notes are different to the later entries, in that hold notes are isolated (so you don't have to press B, Y or X whilst holding A, you release it before the next note) There are also no cases of pressing multiple buttons at once, so while Future Tone and Megamix might have you press A and B together, this will only ever make you press A and down together, or B and right together, which is a lot easier.
Along with the notes, the song maps themselves just seem to be easier, with tracks that I struggled with on Future Tone being easy to me on this, and not only because I have practice, but because there are less notes to hit in general and they're mapped in a way that's more comfortable. Couple that with the fact that you don't have a 'health bar' per se (so even if you miss a bunch of notes on a fast bit, so long as you do the rest of the song okay you can still pass) and the fact the accessories give you score boosts, it actually proved almost difficult to fail. I'm all for the game being accessible to all players, but the Extreme difficulty just didn't provide as much of a challenge as I'd hoped sadly.
That aside, final issue is the medleys! The medleys you unlock have some great songs in them, but you can only play parts of them during the medley, the full song is nowhere to be found, which kinda sucks.
Otherwise, controls are tight, modules are cute, a lot of the songs are bangers, and having some actual progression instead of just a tracklist was nice. I enjoyed it a lot (but I will prolly still mostly play FT in my free time :p)
*For sake of ease, I'll be referring to buttons using an Xbox layout.
My biggest gripe with this entry is the difficulty. The notes are different to the later entries, in that hold notes are isolated (so you don't have to press B, Y or X whilst holding A, you release it before the next note) There are also no cases of pressing multiple buttons at once, so while Future Tone and Megamix might have you press A and B together, this will only ever make you press A and down together, or B and right together, which is a lot easier.
Along with the notes, the song maps themselves just seem to be easier, with tracks that I struggled with on Future Tone being easy to me on this, and not only because I have practice, but because there are less notes to hit in general and they're mapped in a way that's more comfortable. Couple that with the fact that you don't have a 'health bar' per se (so even if you miss a bunch of notes on a fast bit, so long as you do the rest of the song okay you can still pass) and the fact the accessories give you score boosts, it actually proved almost difficult to fail. I'm all for the game being accessible to all players, but the Extreme difficulty just didn't provide as much of a challenge as I'd hoped sadly.
That aside, final issue is the medleys! The medleys you unlock have some great songs in them, but you can only play parts of them during the medley, the full song is nowhere to be found, which kinda sucks.
Otherwise, controls are tight, modules are cute, a lot of the songs are bangers, and having some actual progression instead of just a tracklist was nice. I enjoyed it a lot (but I will prolly still mostly play FT in my free time :p)