Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-69.1.61.51-20151007182338/@comment-11582536-20151009003800

(A bit of a disclaimer before I start: I don't hate Gumi. I just wanted to get that out there before I get accused of being a hater or something orz)

Honestly... I don't care for V4 Gumi, and for reasons other than Gackpo being shafted just like that (which I'm upset about as well but isn't my biggest reason for not caring about Gumi's update).

The "new" banks just sound like XSY to me, and you could probably get close or similar results if you just XSY her V3 banks. I don't think it's confirmed, but I'm pretty sure the old banks are just imports from V3 too instead of rerecorded. She sounds maybe smoother, but there's a producer I love who's always used her really well and she doesn't sound much different from how he usually uses her. No comments on growl since it was purposely overused in the samples.

About her designs... well, my first thought when I saw them was "what am I looking at", so that should probably tell you how I feel about them. :U (My opinion of them did start to mellow out when I looked at them later, but... I still don't really like them too much, and I didn't even notice the shoes until people started pointing them out)

To sum it up: I'm not surprised, but I'm not really happy about it. She's expensive as hell (her starter pack complete is over $200, and her non-starter pack complete is still ~$180; not to mention no discount for overseas buyers if you own her V3 because Internet apparently doesn't support overseas buyers and rejects forwarding services), and I just don't see the point in buying her if you already own V3 Gumi unless you really love her (or if you love her and don't already own the V4 editor).

Also she's releasing literally the week after V4 Kiyoteru and Yuki and I might be a bit salty about that too. :X