What are you playing/watching until Destiny is released?

by Beckx, Thursday, February 21, 2013, 09:18 (4075 days ago) @ stabbim

Miku is a vocaloid - a "virtual idol" (see: Idoru, and life imitates art). In other words, there's a computer program that combines various singer's voices to create the voice of "Hatsune Miku" and then use that to create the vocals for songs. There's a real band (Supercell) & songwriter (Ryo) that uses Miku as the vocalist. Long before holographic Tupac appeared at an awards show, Supercell has performed with holographic Miku.

The games are Sega-produced rhythm games. Instead of something like RockBand, where you hit notes in time with a specific instrument, in the Project Diva games you hit buttons in time with the vocals. (More fun for me.) Fairly simple set-up, button icons go flying across the screen and your score is based on how successfully you hit them in the required windows. Meanwhile a rendered video plays in the background.

Very Japanese, very fun.