Were SEGA to stick with the 'Barbie Doll' look, I suspect it would have looked like a fuzzy mess at all times, as that look really does need a high resolution to have the right impact. The resolution drops a few notches undocked, and when zoomed out is noticeably fuzzy, but for any close up, Mega39вЂ™s character models are crisp, clean, and a significant step up on anything weвЂ™ve seen in previous mobile Miku titles. Most notably, it makes sure that Mega39 looks gorgeous in handheld. With Mega39, the character designs are given a more modern anime look, and while the impact it has is subtle, it is significant to the overall impression that it leaves on players.

As such, while itвЂ™s aesthetically gorgeous (and far be it for me to ever say a bad thing about my absolute favourite game of all time), the character models in there do have a 'Barbie Doll' sheen that was due for a refresh. Project Diva Future Tone was a console-perfect port of the arcade rhythm game that has been around for almost as long as Miku herself. The new visual engine, however, is a big bonus on the Nintendo Switch. ItвЂ™s a bit of fun to play with briefly, but no t-shirt design you come up with is going to replace your favourite costume from the dozens upon dozens that you can play dress up with. The T-shirt creator is far too fiddly and simplistic to produce anything but silliest of scrawls, without spending an awful lot of time and patience in there. IвЂ™m sure that there are a couple of newer players that will end up preferring the motion controls, but theyвЂ™re more a gimmick than a valuable edition to the property. The motion controls work, but the basic button inputs are better and, having spent (well) over 1,000 hours playing Miku games now, playing any other way feels deeply counter-intuitive. The Switch-specific features donвЂ™t mean that much, truth be told. There's a fair amount to unpack there, so to run through those in reverse order:

In basic terms, Mega39 is Project Diva Future Tone from the PlayStation 4, with about half the tracklist, but with the addition of a new visual engine for rendering Miku and the other vocaloids, and one or two tiny additional features, such as the option to play with motion controls and a t-shirt decorating mode where you can create basic decors for the characters to wear in-game. Related reading: My 4,000-word (yes, really) review of Hatsune Miku Project Diva Future Tone, which is basically what this game is a port of

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