Hatsune Miku – The Planet Of Marvel And Fragments Of Needs Assessment (Swap eShop)

Hatsune Miku followers have been pretty effectively served on Swap, with the wonderful Hatsune Miku: Venture 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. Significantly, 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 Marvel and Fragments is, with out eager to be too harsh, about as far faraway from the wonderful arcade magic of Venture DIVA because it’s maybe attainable to get. This funds minigame spin-off takes Miku and a handful of her friends and crash-lands them on a planet filled with cuddly animals who need assistance.

Sure, after a mid-air collision with a capturing star, Miku and firm make an emergency cease in a tiny city the place it seems needs can come true. Nevertheless, the genie of the piece, Pentas, simply occurs to be that capturing star you crashed into. Whoops! So, it is as much as our friends to run a bunch of errands as a way to acquire star fragments, put Pentas again collectively, repair their experience residence, and skedaddle.

The errands at hand take the type of 9 extremely mediocre minigames which might be aimed squarely at very younger kids — be warned, there’s completely no problem concerned right here — and every of the city’s inhabitants has a distinct certainly one of these video games so that you can play. You get a bland parcel-balancing sport, a claw-grabbing balancing sport, a cardboard field balancing sport… you get the concept. It is not nice. There are one or two efforts to hyperlink again to the musical features of Miku within the type of a really simplistic rhythm sport providing (when you can keep in mind six button presses you have received this within the bag), however general there’s not a lot to dig into right here and we blew via your entire factor in effectively underneath an hour.

So as to add somewhat longevity there are character skins, cuddly friends, and music to unlock with cash earned via replaying video games, however when the video games are this boring it is onerous to think about anybody over the age of round about 5 eager to return for a second go. This sport is so unchallenging that even when you utterly fail a minigame, maybe do not even contact the controller, it’s going to provide you with your star fragment and transfer you alongside anyway.

There is not any sense of development or enchancment on provide, the story is a bore, you are made to stroll circles round a tiny village and, even on the relative funds worth of £20 / $28 it seems like Crypton Future Media is asking manner an excessive amount of. If you happen to’ve received a really younger baby to entertain, perhaps this may do the job for an hour or two. In any other case, it is onerous 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.