Hatsune Miku followers have been pretty effectively served on Swap, with the wonderful Hatsune Miku: Mission DIVA Mega Combine giving Vocaloid devotees a beneficiant serving to of over 100 tremendous cool tracks to dig into in certainly one of our favorite rhythm video games on Nintendo’s console. Severely, take heed to the completely nonsensical pop masterpiece ‘PoPiPo‘ as soon as and it will be in your head for the remainder of your days, in a great way.
The just lately launched Hatsune Miku – The Planet of Surprise and Fragments is, with out desirous to be too harsh, about as far faraway from the fantastic arcade magic of Mission DIVA because it’s maybe attainable to get. This finances minigame spin-off takes Miku and a handful of her friends and crash-lands them on a planet stuffed with cuddly animals who need assistance.
Sure, after a mid-air collision with a taking pictures star, Miku and firm make an emergency cease in a tiny city the place it seems needs can come true. Nonetheless, the genie of the piece, Pentas, simply occurs to be that taking pictures star you crashed into. Whoops! So, it is as much as our friends to run a bunch of errands as a way to gather star fragments, put Pentas again collectively, repair their trip dwelling, and skedaddle.
The errands at hand take the type of 9 extremely mediocre minigames which can be aimed squarely at very younger kids — be warned, there may be completely no problem concerned right here — and every of the city’s inhabitants has a special certainly one of these video games so that you can play. You get a bland parcel-balancing recreation, a claw-grabbing balancing recreation, a cardboard field balancing recreation… you get the concept. It isn’t nice. There are one or two efforts to hyperlink again to the musical features of Miku within the type of a really simplistic rhythm recreation providing (in case you can keep in mind six button presses you have obtained this within the bag), however total there’s not a lot to dig into right here and we blew by means of your complete factor in effectively below an hour.
So as to add just a little longevity there are character skins, cuddly friends, and music to unlock with cash earned by means of replaying video games, however when the video games are this boring it is laborious to think about anybody over the age of round about 5 desirous to return for a second cross. This recreation is so unchallenging that even in case you utterly fail a minigame, maybe do not even contact the controller, it will offer you your star fragment and transfer you alongside anyway.
There isn’t any sense of development or enchancment on supply, the story is a bore, you are made to stroll circles round a tiny village and, even on the relative finances worth of £20 / $28 it looks like Crypton Future Media is asking approach an excessive amount of. When you’ve obtained a really younger youngster to entertain, possibly it will do the job for an hour or two. In any other case, it is laborious to advocate one thing so slight, unchallenging, and unwilling to have interaction with what makes its star such a pleasure to be round within the first place.