If you are like me and was hooked by the PSP Project Diva you will definitely love this game which has essentially the same gameplay and the songs are good as well. Besides it's worth the full price for the simple fact that you can play it with a controller, much more comfortable. One of the most frustrating part of the original game is the fast notes in extreme mode which is literally painful to play. The same mechanism remains in this game but playing it with dualshock is much easier on your hand.



The core system remains the same but now there are technical parts where you get a bonus for completing the combos in addition to the chance time which unlocks extra part of the songs. One other major addition is the star note which you play by flicking either analog sticks in any direction. This is by far the easiest note to play and serves very well as free transition notes where you can rest your fingers a little bit.



I just played through all the songs once and tried a few on Extreme. It seems overall difficulty is slightly higher than the PSP version though with the easier control they are still quite easy on Normal and Hard. Extreme is still challenging for me. This is probably not as easy as you'd expect just by the cover. However, you can still unlock most things at Normal difficulty so most people shouldn't have any problem completing it.



The old game had an excellent selection of songs, especially if you like playing fast paced, melodic songs such as Romeo and Cinderella, Meltdown, magnet, Kokoro, Melt etc. The new game with its original songs does seem slight underwhelming (on the other hand there are more happier themed songs). However, the US version comes with six extra songs that are all great songs and very fun to play, Senbonzakura included. Nonetheless I'd love to see some of the old songs released as DLC.



Overall, this is a great game for any Vocaloid fans and is worth a try if you like rhythm games.