#hatsune leek-u

[shark-bark]

Hatsune Leek-u >:3

I saw all the cool cultural Mikus being posted lately and decided, what if I went incredibly stupid with it. So I did, and here she is, farmer Miku

[dawnleaf37]

in honor of the tpot short with the failed debuters (assumedly) being announced soon heres my tierlist of all the tpot debuters most favorite to least

tags for longer opinions :3

[whoareyoueventhough]

Handed this in for a self directed project in textiles, the teacher asked why I wanted to make a leek and I was like uhhhhh

will update what grade I get

[redcomet-stims]

I have no idea if you have done this, but can u do a miku stimboard ?!?! with leek stims turquoise stims and music themed stims ?!?!? thankz ^_^

HELL YES I CAN!!! I DON'T KNOW HOW I HAVEN'T ALREADY!!!

CONTENT WARNING: BLADES

🎤🩵🌱 Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid) stimboard with themes of music, turquoise, and leeks for @itsjustjeremy!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REQUESTING THIS. I DID NOT REALISE I HADN'T MADE THIS YET, WHICH IS INSANE.

I literally LOVE Hatsune Miku, so I do not know how the thought of a stimboard of her hadn't crossed my mind yet. Also, I had to HUNT for the leek gifs, I literally had to use Tenor (nothing wrong with that!) for some of them :P Anyway, this one's really cute! I hope you like it!

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[mehilaiselokuva]

Essentials of Savo dialect

Want to learn the dialect of the iconic Hatsune Miku leek-spin ievan polkka or maybe you just want to buy something from the very famous Mualiman napa? Here's a general guide to speaking the Savo dialects.

(IMPORTANT: there are a bunch of local variants. This is the general way things go, your local dialect may do something else.

D changes to H.

Tehdä -> tehä/tehhä

Saada -> saaha

TS changes to HT

Metsä -> mehtä

Vitsa -> vihta

Diphtongs ending in I, U and Y change to E, O, Ö-endings (or become double vowels)

Paikka -> paekka

Taika -> taeka

Täynnä - täönnä/täännä

Auttaa -> aottaa/aattaa

For AA or ÄÄ, UA and IÄ is used

Haamu -> huamu

Laava -> luava

Pää -> piä

Määrä -> miärä

Final AA, ÄÄ and EE are OO, EE and ÖÖ

Laavaa -> luavoo

Pitkää -> pitkee

Tekee -> tekköö (see next for explanation for kk)

Single consonants are often doubled

Savoa -> savvoo

Sataa -> sattaa

Hakea -> hakkee

D is often removed in various ways, becoming V, H or J (and possibly removed altogether)

Saada -> saaha

Tehdä -> tehä

Heidän -> heijän (->heiän)

Tuoda -> tuuvva (->tuua)

Viedä -> viijä (->viiä)

Indicating plural with -LOI

Patjoilla -> patjaloilla

Kiville -> kivilöille

Tuoleihin - > tuoliloihin

“Älä” changes to elä

Älä mene -> elä mene

Älä tule -> elä tule

SAMPLE SENTENCES:

Mahettannoonko olla Kuopijon torilla?

Onko tämä Kuopion tori? / Is this the Kuopio market place?

Hyvvee iltoo!

Hyvää iltaa! / Good evening!

No terve vuan terve!

Hauska tavata! / Nice to meet you!

Mittees se tämä meenoo?

Mitä tämä tarkoittaa? / What does this mean?

Mittee työ sanoja?

Anteeksi, mitä sanoitte? / Sorry, what did you say?

[bluwus-art]

(3/09) Is miku day

[eleegiac]

my boyfriend is whole ass 21 years old and he did not know who hatsune miku was until 5 minutes ago

[scungledfiles]

may i request a text box similar to the kuromi (this user is tired) box? but with hatsune miku instead?

tysm ♡♡♡

leek anon

!!! here you go leek anon, ily leek anon, i hope this is okay, really sorry if this took more than a day i haven't checked the inbox in a little bit so fsdfdsfds, !! requests are still open if you want any changes or anything else :) insane ramblings under the cut

need everyone to know i spent possibly 2 hours going through the process of trying to install photoshop (a windows/mac only software), specifically cs6, on my linux computer to edit the product photo of this plush to be transparent. i had to change my WINE environment to 32bit windows, i had to install INTERNET EXPLORER SIX, i had to troubleshoot so many things. and then i discover that photoshop cs6 doesn't even have object detection and the magic wand is terrible compared to the latest CC version i've been using on my windows and mac computers up till now. the userbox is too small to see the white outline on hatsune miku really here but it is annoying me and so im going to go spend the next however many hours trying to install photoshop CC 2020.

i love you leek anon btw don't feel bad for having "made" me do this, you haven't made me do anything, i made myself do this. i literally have a windows laptop right next to me with photoshop CC installed on it that I know can very well edit images exactly how i want it to but I am too damn insistent on getting it to work on linux. also this has turned what was looking to be a bad afternoon into a good afternoon bc i enjoy fun little challenges like this. so like. thank u anon ily hope ur satisfied with this product.

[emuiy]

Hatsune miku and leek😖🥺

lf u dont know wtf is leek here

@itsar-kan-saw @ask-my-fandomss @b0bb0b @ykimhak01

[mintenochian]

what other people want added to Minecraft: g u n s

what I want added to Minecraft

•Birds

-For multiple biomes, but mainly for the forests.

-Songbirds would add SO MUCH life to the otherwise quiet areas of the game

-Ravens and crows would be awesome and could use some of the parrot mimicking AI

-Cardinals in the snow biomes would bring a GORGEOUS pop of colour into the white atmosphere

-Seriously we need something to populate the sky, parrots do NOT fly like they should

-nests in trees, can find eggs in them

-doesn't really add a use but fun new feather types would be cool

•Owls

-technically still a bird but would go really well in covered rooftop forests and snow biomes

-we're already getting larger avians added in the form of vultures so why not more large birds?

•Mice and / or rats

-absolute precious babies

-sadly would go well with owls :(

-with cave update coming we need adorable rodents scurrying around

-lil bastards could make mouseholes inside of blocks

-will they be tameable? idk.

-adds the necessity for cheese

•Deer

-MOJANG this is a MUST, this is a NEED

-You literally have pigs, chickens, cows, and sheep spawning in forests what the fuck

-Deer with spotty baby fawns??? Yes

-Young bucks with different stages of antler growth? Yes

-Fawns frolicking in flower forests bc they feel safe

-Stripped wood appearing on trees where bucks scrape velvet off their antlers

-Being able to collect sets of antlers when they fall off periodically (would NOT be attainable by killing the deer, you have to wait for them to shed)

•Elk and Moose

-Same vein as deer

-Bigger, much bigger, neutral instead of passive, less shy

-Snowy biomes

-Better additions than fucking llamas tyvm

-Sidenote but savannahs could also really use some endangered deer-like species to help raise awareness for their status

•Squirrels

-Mojang plz

-Adds nuts to Minecraft ;)

-Black, grey, red, and mixed colour squirrels and breeding

-Brings life to forests like songbirds and deer

•Bears

-Mojang bby you literally already have a neutral bear in Minecraft why have you not reskinned it for grizzly/brown/black bears?

-Bear caves

-Hibernating mobs

-Brings more use to the beehives and bees, bears could be attracted to any area that has more than one bee hive with honey

•WOLVES AND DOGS

-They NEED the ocelots and cats update

-More wolf types (red, timber, snow, black, etc)

-Actual wolf packs (the AI would be difficult to program but the doges are worth it)

-Please let the howl at the moon, if foxes get to say ringdingding all night long wolves deserve to be allowed to howl

-More dog breeds (I know that there's no reason for domesticated dog breeds in Minecraft but ACTUALLY THERE IS)

-Hunting dogs like springers that can jump and run faster

-Foxhounds :D

-Most Important Goodest Boy: Herding dogs like collies and sheepdogs

-Herding dogs could be found in plains where cows and sheep spawn and create herds

-LET DOGS LAY DOWN FOR FUCKS SAKE

•Herding

-Instead of having to pen up and enclose your livestock you could form herds of cows and sheep

-Your Goodest Boi herding dog would protect them and move around with them when they graze

-Just soft peaceful minecraft tingz

•Salt licks

-Something SO SMALL but would make SO MUCH HAPPINESS

-Drawing new cows into your herd by putting up a salt lick

-I'm soft

-I guess salt would be a new ore???

•Bird feeders

-idk I think it would be cool

-excess seeds used for SOMETHING

•Raccoons

-The coolness of wolves, the chaos of foxes, the cunning of cats

-thumbs

-be gay do crimes

-can open chests (trigger trap chests to catch them?)

-Fantastic little shits

-Not tameable but will trust players like foxes do

•Snakes

-I know it's a lot to ask and it would be hard to make them look good

-But??? Imagine a tiny lil garter snake in your garden

-unlikely but would be so fantastic

•Rope

-climeable

-please Mojang we need this so badly

-imagine the ships? The bridges? The bell towers and everything?

-super easy to add, just reskin vines and add a string crafting recipie

•Butterflies and Moths

-Bflies could be a unique mob to flower forests and friends with bees

-if moobloom is added they would all be BEST BUDS

-get it "buds" ahahaha

-help with flower polination but just gives a TON of life to flower forests

-We literally have lanterns in minecraft why do we NOT have moths? Such a cool aesthetic addition.

-helps fill both the daytime and nighttime sky

•Hummingbirds

-fourth member of BEST BUDS

-just soft baby

-i love birbs okay

-the only avian who does not work for the bourgeoisie

•Fireflies

-10 million of them please

-they give great hugs

-adds so much atmosphere to the night world

•Cheese

-We have milk

-We have, presumably, goat milk

-Quit being cowards and add butter and cheese

-Butter churn job block for villagers

-V funny bc they have no arms to churn with?? Oh well

•Seashells

-Something decorative and beautiful that could 1) liven up beaches and 2) have snails and crabs inside!

-Mojang plz do not add sand dollars to the game people already don't know how to tell if they're still alive before trying to take them home

•Whales

-WHALES.

-Imagine something as massive as the ender dragon but peaceful. Allows you to stand on them (idk how but make it happen Jeb)

-WHALE SONGS.

-Being so deep and far out into the ocean, and when the moon is high in the sky and you're sitting in your boat, you just hear the beautiful melancholy sounds of the whales in the distance

•Jellyfish

-Idk if y'all know this but the glow squid is a bad idea

-Dream buddy you fucked up, please use your influence to get in contact with Mojang and have them redo the vote. People would have so much regained respect for you if you tried to fix your mistake.

-Also why does a speedrunner get to tell millions of people what mob would bring more life to Minecraft? He's only playing the game for 5 minutes smh

-aNYWAYS

-Jellyfish could literally do everything the glow squid is going to and look better for it AND possibly be neutral instead of peaceful

•Orcas

-Not much to say but it would liven up the frozen water biomes a bit

•Penguins

-You already know why

-Imagine giving a new home to all the Club Penguin players? Legendary.

-Gender doesn't exist in Minecraft but we all know penguins would be hella gay

•Lobsters

-I think they would be cute

-You would NOT BE ABLE TO BOIL THEM ALIVE THANK YOU VERY MUCH

•Mermaids

-Never going to happen since passive mobs are generally real life animals but it would be so cool

•Otters

-they can hold hands

-brings life to the rivers

-super cute

•Frogs and possibly toads

-Swamp gods

-Absolute mad lads

-maybe grow from tadpoles

-wouldn't do much but needed

•Fairy Forests

-NOT Twilight Forests. Not a new dimension.

-Just gentle hidden groves in forests

-ADD FAIRY RING GENERATION TO MINECRAFT.

•Big cats

-Tigers, lions, bobcats, panthers

-Literally anything that could finally add a strong predator possibility to savannahs and jungles

•Zebras and Giraffes

-Shy and skittish

-cannot ride (their skeletal structure is NOT MADE FOR CARRYING HUMANS)

-Super cute tho, brings much needed life to savannahs

•Camels

-The better llama

-Can honestly just be a reskin

-brings much needed life to the desert

-spits and wears carpet and forms caravans like llamas

•Lemurs

-Easier to add to "jungles" than monkeys

-it would be really cool if we could just get a Rainforest biome

-King Julian stans awaken

•Red pandas

-we need them

-cuter than normal pandas and you can @ me

-better idea than sloths or koalas

•More Eldritch Horror Hostile Mobs

-Fun fact time

-The enchanting table language already has Lovecraftian references

-"phnglui mglwnafh cthulhu rlyeh wgahnagl fhtagn" is literally a quote from the enchanting table

-translates to "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

-Bet you didn't know that fun fact

-aNYWAYS add the Kraken to Minecraft instead of the shitty guardians. Thanks.

-imagine how cool it would be to see lights slowly extinguish as something terrifying and dangerous slowly moves in for the kill

-torches get extinguished and can get relit

-if not relit fast enough Something will be waiting

•Ice statues

-We have giant fossils and ship wrecks and cool stuff like that but please imagine finding a GIANT humanoid ice sculpture in an ice spikes biome

-maybe bones inside to show you that... That wasn't carved or naturally generated.

•Skeletons

-Not a mob but a decoration block

-Found in temples, mineshafts, and caves

-implied to be the remains of miners and explorers

-rare

-also implies that every skeleton you kill has some backstory since they look the same

•Constellations

-Not real world star maps but completely unique to Minecraft

-chance for LOTS of fun references

-The stars are your only companions in an apocalyptic world where you are the last of your kind

-Space is gay minecraft is gay thus minecraft space is gay

•Corn

-we have butter in this list

-we have salt in this list

-popcorn. That is all.

And finally

•Leeks

-mostly a joke but would be a cool crop

-100% a reference to Hatsune Miku the creator of Minecraft

DISCLAIMER: I recognize that mobs are added to Minecraft to serve a purpose within the game and that many of these mobs would be better in mods and such, but I also feel like many of these suggestions would really bring so much more life to parts of the game that really need it. Even if they don't serve a huge purpose, they would still be really amazing additions imo.

I would love to see the ideas and suggestions that other people have for what they want added to Minecraft, please TAG ME if you make a post like this, I wanna hear and read it!

[vgperson]

Vocaloid Highlights: August 2020

Did you find love? Highlights Archive

========== Stand-Outs ========== The Resonance Between You and Me Even So, I Want To Stay With These Thoughts KING Generic Girl Misérable Wah-Wah-World Ultramarine Lamplight Co- [Yuro Mashima] Picasso's Blue Clumsy Secret Himitsu Run Blue! Pagliaccio Dancer It's Hopelessly Summer. A Surprise Expression of Emotion Once More Ends in Failure Rorouge Alas, Night Summer Vacation! -Leek Flavor- Bad Person Tell Me Answer Birth HE?L Wanderer Bon Voyage The Vocaloid Songs 10 Years Later épine

========== Worth Your Time ========== Eternity's Extreme Groovy Night Mercury City Planning Dinosider Your Gaze Queen of the Midday Moon Ultramarine Reflect Exhibition Unlucky Rabbit Loves Me, Loves Me Not Mafia Tonight, You Dance With the World Silent Cinema Dive Into Ash I Liked That Kind of Summer Stagnation Nightmare! Strelitzia Reginae Recollect The Pain of Living Alone Poison Snake Starry Sky Cocktail Co- (Cohabitation) Co- (Collection of teardrops) Co- (Cobalt) Co- (Communication) August 0th Co- (Compounded) Rain Rain Rain Co- (Co-ordinal) Night Driver Co- (Companion) Tetra The World You Don't Know Twilight Station Alternative Parade Beyond the Rain Mephisto Autumn Rain and Cicadas Summer Love (2020 Mix) Wandering Heart Self-Grading Wind Chime Planet 1980POP Social Fiction Aphotic Zone Ride Mirror Venus's Obligation Intersection Aftertalk Blank 569 (Cork) and Wine Lies In Your Profile Proof Sunny Day Friends Zoetrope Razzle Dazzle Rafflesia Just 'Cause. w/o U Idol Worship Orochi Nest Summer-Colored Prologue RUNAWAY Alkaloid You Were Walking Orthodoxia Ironism Mirage Mourning, Anger, Sorrow, Depression Tranquil Walk Alone First Flower Dawn Withering and Scattering Flowers, An Illusion Be There, Forgettably So Quartz Predictive Dream Capital City Ultramarine Burnin' Burnin' Sheep's Clothing Baptism Beyond the Horizon Superscript Marionette Happiness Theory Hundred-Flower Promise Balsam Answer1.13 Boyhood Fuzzy Navel Mosaic You Took Your Medicine Summer-Born Miracle Take-a-Bath'n Bass Jumbled-Up Voice Memory The End of Summer Was Pretty Darling Dance Kissing My Lifespan Every Day On the Edge Oh My Girl Contract Oni, Come This Way Reika Dizzy Dizzy

========== The Power Move ========== Beyond Dimensions (Oniku Kurumi loves Hatsune Miku)

If you're wondering about all the "Co-" songs, they're for a project led by Yuro Mashima for a bunch of people to make songs all with the same title. This time around, that title was "Co-", but the idea was to base the song on a word that started with "co"... though Yuro Mashima seemingly did the galaxy-brain move of choosing the prefix itself. Also, what word each song is actually using is a little vague in some cases, so my names may not be totally accurate. And of course, I'd be remiss not to mention OSTER project's arrangement of Bubblegum K.K. (Turn on English captions.)

[pokemagines]

Okay, so if Lillie is a fan of Vocaloids; has she ever been to a Vocaloid concert? Would she even want to go to one? Also please tell me she drags her brother and bffs ((the protag and Hau)) to it? This is too adorable of an idea and I demand answers to how this would go down.

U KNOW IT SIS…

lillie. stans. miku. so. hard. 

gladion doesn’t understand the hype since miku is literally a hologram but of course his edgy russian rap-listening ass wouldn’t get it! i mean, have you LISTENED to world is mine? the disappearance of hatsune miku? secret police? not only those, but other vocaloid slaps as well, like meltdown, kokoro, just be friends, butterfly on your right shoulder??? and even some more modern ones, like ai dee, ohedo julia night, echo? if you don’t think vocaloid can slap, you ain’t her friend.

lillie avidly supports her fave vocaloid producers and always leaves them encouraging messages on twitter. she owns vocaloid merch. she converted guzma and kukui to be miku fans as well (guzma proudly wears a hatsune miku pin on his jacket). 

the first time she goes to a miku concert, it’s held in kanto, and she has gladion, hau, and moon fly out to accompany her! gladion is like “i swear to god if you make me stay the whole time-” but hau and moon are so supportive, ugh, precious. hau and moon made sure to listen to some of the songs so they could participate in the fan chants with lillie and they were going crazier than she was during the actual concert!!! even gladion got a leek lightstick and moved in time with the crowd (”i’m only doing it so you’ll get off my ass,” he lies, hau and moon giggling as they see him mouthing the words to the song).

- mod elesa

[smuglemon]

i... i don't even listen to vocaloids but, hatsune miku has the thiccest thighs in the wild west and it's her 10th birthday and??? I need to show her some respect?? this is like a primal instinct and i cannot control it..???????? (but seriously i've spent so long on the internet i remember the leekspins i've GROWN UP with this disaster i deserve to draw this)

[sibylia-a-blog]

REPOST.   DON’T  REBLOG.   post  TEN  characters  you’d  like  to  roleplay  as ,   have  roleplayed  as  and  might  bring  back .    (   if  you  can’t  think  of  ten  characters ,   just  write  down  however  many  you  can.   feel  free  to  go  over  ten ,   too.   )

tagged by @pierxer

tagging: anyone!!!

CURRENTLY PLAYING

lunafreya nox fleuret / ffxv / @sibylia (ur here!)

rinoa heartilly / ffviii / @wingheld

sakura kinomoto / cardcaptor sakura / @staright

serah farron / ffxiii / @lacrymas  ( i just made her tbh )

leaf / pokemon frlg / @karehaid

i play more on discord with my friends !! this is the least amount of blogs i’ve had in a while.

WOULD LIKE TO PLAY

tifa lockheart / ffvii

yuna / ffx

kairi / kingdom hearts

xion / kingdom hearts

beatrice / umineko

sakura saber / fate go

sakura haruno / naruto

ayumi shinozaki / corpse party

alice / heart no kuni no alice

kushina uzumaki / naruto

HAVE TRIED TO PLAY / HAS A BLOG FOR

rise kujikawa / p4 / @fairlived

lenalee lee / dgm / @havenfelt

artoria pendragon ( saber ) / fate / @kingfell

yui komori / dialovers / @belicf

shinoa hiragii / ons / ---

chess belle / ons / ---

hatsune miku / vocaloid / @leek-lover , @sperovoce , @htsune

sapphire / pokemon special / @corundm

serena ( rival ) / pokemon xy /  @advrsrid

nanami chiaki / sdr2 / @encodedgamer

& so many more. if u know me from really old blogs im so sorry sdfghjk

[chasingbxtterflies-blog]

tagged by: stolen from @royal-blood​ eeek

tagging: @sakuradreamerz​ ; @dolce-diviinity​ ; @all-fxr-prxfit​ ; @princess--rules​ ; everyone else who wants to do it - please don’t be shy <33

A - AGE: 15 (16 on april 9th, yes i share sakura’s birthday) B - BIGGEST FEAR: fear of experiencing derealization?  it’s happened before and it’s not fun at all C - CURRENT TIME: 6:15 pm D - DRINK YOU LAST HAD: cherry mountain dew because we had a birthday party for the teacher’s assistant at school-- E - EVERY DAY STARTS WITH: mom frantically trying to wake me up and me bein like “this bed is so warm and it’s very difficult for me to move, mother” F - FAVOURITE SONG: officially, live and learn.  but lately i’ve been listening to a lot of hamilton so i guess dear theodosia. G - GHOSTS ARE THEY REAL: that’s quite complicated I - IN LOVE WITH: philip staying alive K - KILLED SOMEONE: i’ve beheaded someone with a leek before.  but it was in skyrim with my hatsune miku mod. L - LAST TIME YOU CRIED: literally like at 10 am?  i cry every day lmao M - MIDDLE NAME: kulsoom.  it was my paternal grandmother’s name. N - NUMBER OF SIBLINGS: 2 that i would not trade for the world O - ONE WISH: for willpower to combat them mental illnesses P - PERSON YOU LAST CALLED/TEXTED: @juliethenerd Q - QUESTIONS YOU ARE ALWAYS ASKED: where are you from? R - REASONS TO SMILE: @juliethenerd, all my friends, and the characters that inspire me. S - SONG LAST SANG: the room where it happens T - TIME YOU WOKE UP: 9 AM U - UNDERWEAR COLOR: dark blue V - VACATION DESTINATION: iran or spain!  or japan because i’m a frickin wEEB W - WORST HABIT: procrastination, yup X - X-RAYS YOU’VE HAD: the thing that the dentist does when you go for cleaning Y - YOUR FAVORITE FOOD: haleem Z- ZODIAC SIGN: aries (april 9) 

[vrheadsets]

10 Franchises SEGA Would Be Crazy Not To Bring To VR – Part 1

Welcome to another edition of VR vs. The weekly VRFocus column where the ‘other one’ from the site talks about most anything and everything to do with virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) or some crazed combination of the three. Today we’re continuing a thread begun last week in the final part of my three-week feature into what may lie ahead in 2017.  There I mooted the idea that of all the studios currently involved within VR, certainly from a gaming perspective there is one that is conspicuous by its absence. SEGA. Yes, yes, I know there are Hatsune Miku games but as I pointed out at the time Hatsune Miku and the vocaloid bunch ultimately aren’t SEGA property and aren’t a traditional franchise. They aren’t one recognised within their All-Stars series for instance – and whilst that isn’t a qualifying marker for this list considering how big the Project Diva series is and how iconic a figure Miku is in Japanese culture certainly, you’d’ve thought SEGA would make more of a deal out of things than they have were she theirs. So on that basis, scrub those out PSVR games off your mental tally.

Updated total? Zero.

This is unusual for SEGA. Historically SEGA (at least in the third-party era) have rushed in to support whatever new technology comes along. Do you by any chance remember the EyeToy, Sony’s camera accessory for the PlayStation 2? Yes? No? There weren’t exactly a whole heap of games for it. But SEGA were there with the original SEGA Superstars to fly the flag. They supported the Kinect they fell into bed with Wii U pretty quickly, etc, etc. For SEGA to not have had one of its more noted franchises in the West ready to rock and roll when VR came to retail, certainly the PSVR, was pretty unusual. (Again, discounting the leek-swinging singer lady.)

But that’s not to say there aren’t plenty of opportunities for SEGA to embrace VR and thrown a bone to its more beloved franchises. It’s one of the sad truths about SEGA that their most iconic of series, with the exception of the fast spiky one, have never exactly been humongous successes financially. Still, why not use some of them and maybe give them a new lease of life outside of a new racing game? (No, really SEGA. It’s time for Transformed 2. Throw some money at SUMO Digital, will ya?) It’s also not like we don’t know SEGA aren’t messing around with VR either. Both SEGA Europe (SOE) and SEGA America (SOA) revealed their ownership of VR kits (HTC Vive and PlayStation VR for SOE and Hololens for SOA) thanks to community videos. Way to keep that secret chaps. A+ work.

So let’s get things underway. As before I must point out that I used to work for SEGA for several years and worked on a number of the franchises listed that I’ll be bringing up. It was some time ago now, but I’m reliably informed that if I don’t do that the world will apparently end. We begin first with an honourable mention.

Honourable Mention: Alien Isolation

It’s just not going to happen folks. Many have said the masterfully creepy atmosphere of “SEGA’s Good Alien Game” – tho everyone forgets they also did an Alien game on the DS in that discussion – was a perfect match for a full and proper adaption into a VR experience. The scare factor would be immense, obviously. As it’s bad enough being stalked by a Xenomorph without actually looking down at your chest as its tail pushes through it to kill you.  As much as we’d all like it to, the economic factors involved just mean Alien Isolation is a non-starter for Creative Assembly to even get involved in really. Boo-urns.

However, speaking of Creative Assembly…

  Total War

It’s one of gaming’s little quirks that one of console gaming’s most well known names is the publisher that is in actuality one of PC Gaming’s powerhouses. Between Sports Interactive’s Football Manager series and Creative Assembly’s Total War franchise SEGA have an commanding grip of the PC chart, one would go far to say dominance at some points in the year.  If you have lived in a hole for the past couple of decades, Total War is a series of real-time strategy games that takes keen players take on the role of General in various eras of time. Replaying notable battles and playing tactical hardball with history. Whether it’s the Medieval period, the time of Rome, the rise of Napoleon or the era of the samurai there’s plenty to do. Heck, you can even throw history right out the window now and enjoy some Warhammer in your Total War.

Total War has always been about getting stuck in to battles. The planning, the preparation, the implementation and the execution.  The buck stops with you, and as the series has developed the control system has allowed you to get ever deeper into the action.  You can even follow individual soldiers. It’s such a well developed system that there’s even been a BBC game show (essentially) based on playing the series. One that’s recently had something of a comeback.

So with this in mind how would VR make Total War better?  Control.

Now, considering what I’ve just written you might be wondering what I’ve been talking about since I’ve just been praising the system. But you can always improve and everyone and anyone who has played Total War has always had periods where the game just won’t place units right or you can’t get the camera in jussssst the right position. Now imagine you are in the map as opposed to looking at a 2D surface. Imagine you were, with your motion controllers able to to manipulate your units and your surroundings just so. How much easier and dynamic and engaging an experience that would bee if you brought a touch of Minority Report to proceedings.

Heck, can you imagine a Hololens version of Total War? With you waging battles from your sofa over your coffee table, and manoeuvring your archers onto the high ground of the TV unit? That’d be amazing.

Samba de Amigo

Break out the Bellini boys and girls!

When I first saw the HTC Vive controllers my first thought, partly because of how they were being held and moved at the time, was that they kind of looked like maracas. And there’s only one game that invites you, without a hint of suggestiveness, to get your maracas out. Samba de Amigo first burst onto the scene on SEGA’s much loved Dreamcast and was actually developed by Sonic Team if you didn’t realise it. It also came out as an arcade experience before next surfacing on the Nintendo Wii. The game plays with you in amongst a vibrantly coloured carnival, armed with your maracas you control Amigo, one of SEGA’s two monkey mascots (the other being Super Monkey Ball‘s AiAi, strangely the two have never been seen as rivals in the Superstars/All-Stars titles. Which has always puzzled me.) You move and dance along to a selection of upbeat tracks, shaking your controllers in time to the beat and occasionally having to strike a pose. It’s a simple enough title, and well and truly puts the party into party game.

VR needs more games like that I think. More games that are just full on fun and colours. It’s why Balloon Chair Death Match got people excited, it was a simple premise and it looked fun. Job Simulator is the same. Bright colours and poitively oozes fun. Yes, we can all enjoy a nice serious game with high stakes, but in dammit we all just want to be silly sometimes. Samba allows you to do exactly that. Now, what I’m essentially asking you is to imagine this in VR. Please watch the video below as in this instance it is important to what I’m writing about.

A warning before you do however; if you are wearing headphones please turn them down. There’s some loud audio distortion on the video from the outset.

Just look at this man. Look how bloody happy he is. He doesn’t care he’s in the middle of an arcade, he doesn’t care he has a crowd. He’s just going for it: a master at work. Nevermind your beloved Salt Bae (a reference I realise will date this article terribly), in your heart of hearts you wish that were you. You wish you were as cool as the Samba Bae.

Now I’m waving any potential wire-based issues here. Forget ’em. Let’s lay it out. You put on the headset and you step into a party; a “Carnaval de VR”. Everyone around you is interacting with you. The movement is infectious. You are the centre of a mass celebration with bouncing creatures and an equally bouncing musical beat. You have motion tracking controls. You wave them about in time to the music. It’s escapement, elation, exercise and fun. Now we bring things up to date with the new technology and throw in a dash of evolution to the game as well. Unlike before you can use the sensors or PlayStation camera to fully track your movements. All of a sudden Samba can have a touch of Dance Central in it, evolving it into a bit more of a full body game with one stroke. You have greater accuracy than ever before on the controllers, the game can actually see you for the first time and you get one of the most smile inducing experiences on VR. As an added bonus it gets to be a game franchise fully realised on VR, something people are clamoring for.

Yo SEGA. You’ve got my number. Call my people (me) and let’s make this happen. I’m totally open to being Producer on this thing. SAMBA! Du du de-du du-du du de-du…

Condemned 

There’s a very good chance you don’t remember Condemned: Criminal Origins. There’s an even better chance you’ve never played it or Condemned 2: Bloodshot. Which is a pity really. Condemned is a first-person experience which puts you in the shoes of Ethan Thomas, a police officer investigating a murder which slowly takes him down a path to discovering secret societies, mysterious entities, encountering nightmarish visions and the city falling into the grip of madness. Both games are a twisted mix of dark menacing settings, genuine scares that mess with play on psychology and improvised combat usually involving whatever Ethan can get his hands on. It’s frantic, up in-your-face stuff and perfect for VR with the combat emphasis on melee.

It’s not just that though. The first Condemned game especially has you dealing, within your role as a police investigator, a number of different crime scenes. These are technical, and involve you hunting for clues, such as finger prints and making deductions. What Condemned is, is what I suggested it could be back at E3 2016. It could be the Batman VR game you’ve always wanted but combined with all the best twisted bits of Resident Evil VII.

We’ll just ignore the bit about shouting people to death from number 2. (Check out my good friend John’s Let’s Play of Condemned 2 to see what I mean.)

That’s all for this week. On next week’s selection of titles we’re embracing freedom in a couple of ways and I use the term “wave shooter”. Which will probably annoy people. Until then…

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