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created by Sega and

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for the

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. The game is an expansion to the 2010 video game, '' Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA 2nd'', and was first released on November 10, 2011 in Japan with no international release. Like the original the game primarily makes use of

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s, a series of singing synthesizer software, and the songs created using these vocaloids most notably the virtual-diva

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. Rock band

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served as

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models.

Gameplay

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as Hatsune Miku,

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as the Kagamine twins, Rin & Len, and

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, all in their original human voices.

Song list

There are a total of 50 songs available in ''Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Extend''; 45 songs (14 new and 31 old) are obtained normally by playing through the game, and 5 songs are only available through Edit Mode. *Songs with a light blue background are returning songs with charts ported over from '' Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA 2nd''. *Songs with a gray background can only be played in Diva Room and Edit Mode.

''Dreamy Theater Extend''

Similar to ''

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'' and ''

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'', a companion game for the

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, ''Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Dreamy Theater Extend'', was released digitally via the Japanese PlayStation Store on September 13, 2012. Like its predecessors, the game features updated high-definition visual improvements over its respective PSP game while featuring the same content and PlayStation Trophies support, and requires the player to connect the PSP (with ''Project DIVA Extend'') to the PS3 via USB to access the content in the game. In addition, the game also supports stereoscopic 3D for the first time in the series.

Live Concert Mode song list

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, where the ''Hatsune Miku Concert: Saigo no Miku no Hi Kanshasai'' (発音ミクコンサート最後のミクの日感謝祭) concert was held at in real-life on March 9, 2012 as the second part of ''Miku no Hi Dai Kanshasai'' (ミクの日大感謝祭); in addition, the characters also perform exactly as they did in the concert. While watching a video, the camera can be controlled to change viewing angles by using the analogue sticks and shoulder buttons.

Notes

References

External links

Official Site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2011 video games Japan-exclusive video games Music video games PlayStation Portable games PlayStation 3 games Sega video games Creative works using vocaloids Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA games Video games developed in Japan