

It should be noted that, like Future Tone, this does feature the arcade style gameplay, whereby "hold" notes cross over with pressing other buttons whilst keeping the holds held down. Just over 100 songs is no pushover, of course, and the high quality rhythmic gameplay is still here as it was before. Just ten brand new tracks are included, and even these will be available to Future Tone players as DLC, instantly rendering this Switch title almost worthless for PS4 owners, unless they want to play portable Miku - which is what the main appeal is going to be for many. As a tenth birthday celebration, though, it really feels like SEGA copped out to get a game out quicker than usual. Not much of a mega mix, huh? The franchise relies a lot on its past songs, and that is fair enough when there are so many brilliant tracks that fans cannot stop coming back to in each iteration.

Unfortunately, less than half of the songs in Future Tone make their way over to Mega Mix. With over 220 songs playable there, it surely bodes well for the conversion here… The arcade experience was brilliantly converted to PS4 and received huge praise from Cubed3 when reviewed three years ago - and it is Project Diva Future Tone that is used as the base for the Switch edition. Subsequent PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS editions have come and gone, but the success of the Nintendo Switch gives a great opportunity to create the biggest and best handheld rhythm game. It started out for Hatsune Miku in this format with the original PSP release, and has only gone on from there.
