The balance between being accessible to new players and providing a workout for the fingers of players with serious chops has always been a strong-point for the series, and Future Tone is no exception. Easy mode is a fairly pedestrian affair requiring little of any musical skill to progress, while the Extreme setting will throw commands at you with such reckless abandon that those unprepared for the challenge will likely wonder if it's even possible to hit all of the notes without possessing four hands. If you time your button presses well, you'll start racking up a combo, and if you miss too many of the prompts, your life gauge will deplete and it's Game Over. You'll need to tap all four face buttons, the directional buttons, L1 and R1, or two or more of these at the same time, and how many of these button prompts you'll be required to deal with will be dependent on the level of difficulty that you're playing on.
In order to amass a score impressive enough to clear the stage, you'll need to watch intently for button prompts to appear, wait for a matching icon to move across the screen, and it's once the two meet that you'll need to input your command. For the newcomers, you'll start up a stage and Hatsune Miku will sing songs created by a vocaloid synthesizer while an appropriately cheesy music video plays in the background. The story is gone and there's absolutely no other fluff here: you'll begin with a short tutorial explaining the various types of button presses you'll need to use throughout the game, and once that's over, you're free to start working your way through all of the songs at your own pace.įor veterans of the franchise, there's little in Future Tone to differentiate it from the games in the series prior to Project DIVA X in the gameplay department. Depending on your tolerance level for cutesy characters with improbable haircuts discovering the meaning of friendship by joining together to sing songs about (among other things) accidental pregnancies, the storytelling was at best silly and disposable and at worst intrusive and counter-productive.Įnter Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Future Tone, a game which seems to have been created with the express purpose of not only eschewing any attempt to craft narrative justification for singing, dancing, and high score chasing, but also to offer the most value for money of any game in the series to date. Rather than adhering to the traditional, gameplay-focused framework of the franchise set up in earlier instalments, X thrust players into a sugary sweet narrative starring the popular virtual popstar and her equally saccharine friends trying to save their world through the power of song.
2015's Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X was a little bit of a departure for the long-running rhythm game series.
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