Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33060919-20180228003730/@comment-53539-20180410195455

In pokemon red/blue, Eevees evolutions were reasonable, there just are better pokemon now. So Eevee once was once a considerable addition to a team, and often used. Then again, in the first games Pokémon with the psychic type were just OP... Other then Dragonite, the only Dragon type, there was a Mewtwo on just about everyone's team I feel. I will never call the first games "varied" in their choices, and there are many faults within the games. The only issue I've ever had with modern pokemon games is they are getting easier. Some blame it on the games themselves, to me the issue is actually because pokemon has so many choices and teams these days can be fairly well balanced. I played the Moon and Sun games and the majority of Pokémon, went straight to the PC. I looked at the pokemon I could get in the game and jut caught the ones I'm after.

I used to say Miku's popularity is a double edge sword back in the days of V2 and early V3. Yeah, Haku was a character made to mock those who couldn't do much with the software. Haku therefore can sound no different to normal Miku, so doesn't "have a voice" despite some fans objections. Similar to NEru, who can be Miku or Rin. Both actually started out with the intention of being voiceless characters anyway. UTAU killed a lot of the OCs from the 2007/2008 period, as why make a Vocaloid OC when you can make a UTAU and have full control over it? I think its the "of Evil" series that changed this.

Getting popular with Miku is hugely beneficial, which is why so many start out with her. Most songs in the THE VOC@LOID M@STER will have Miku somewhere in their albums and merchandise and fans visiting event will mostly be after Miku content above all other Vocaloid stuff. And this is the most important event on the Vocaloid fan calendar in Japan so.... To be dominated by one Vocaloid of some 70+ is something not to frown upon.

That said, I quickly grew very sick of seeing Miku's design and hearing her vocal. I haven't listened to a single song of hers in two and a half years. I can't avoid the image of her either way, everything vocaloid related in Japan has Miku in it. It used to be worst as Japan in 2008 and 2009 had also Miku everywhere in places like Tokyo. Its hard to imagine since we don't live in Japan, but Vocaloid was very overwhelming at the time. It still is, but its not so "in your face" as it was back when V2 was around.