User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/End of Year Vocaloid most/least favs/@comment-75.1.53.221-20151224054047/@comment-53539-20151224094827

First reactions to Luka V4x were utter disappointment. Nobody seemed to be able to grasp her for half a year and we had a lot of poor songs. Things improved, but I still have so many nitpicks with the overall package that I can never love Luka in this form. It will take another release still to make me change my mind. And that is in the court of CFM themselves to sort.

To be honest, the Ruby voice itself is a good build, but the problem is we already had the same type with Diva. For me the drama was the worst that the western fandom has ever shown. Everyone wanted to hate something but didn't know who to blame, so all took to PowerFX blaming. the only reason I didn't was that I'd e-ailed them numerous ties and knew better to jump to conclusions, especially as I'd learnt my lesson in the Taiwan accidental uploaded drama. PowerFX are clumsy. It mkes them both unprofessional and more "human" at the same time. I like them because they don't appear cold. I don't dislike them in the same way that I disliked Alys' group, because they've never promised things and asked us to believe them without proof of belief to begin with.

Plus, despite all drama, PowerFX have always tried to correct things, which other studios do not always do. "Big Al release day and nobody can download him? Oops!  Our fault, heres a free voucher as compensation." is the first time we saw them do that. And despite all the protests, despite the decision of what boxart to use, PowerFX backed off and let the fan favourite go on the box. I expect PowerFX to blunder, they always do, but they've been good at all the other things. They were the smallest group in V2 also, and this is always going to be against them, they have less they can do then Zero-G and take things more personnel. Even going so far to change the voice of Big Al to get hi out for a release when all else failed. They get a gold star for trying; even though they can often fail miserably through their own mistake.

Plus I'm in awe of how people were trying to boycott PowerFX nd support Syo and Misha... By doing the very things that would hurt Syo and Misha ore then PowerFX itself. I mean come on! Think here! If it had been Zero-G see Sonika. And despite protests against Kaito having a see-through scarf, he still ended up with one, so see CFM too. ^_^'

Maybe Syo should have been paid more, but PowerFX lacks the money, from what I gther, Syo was paid for 1 vocal. He developed others, yes, but he wasn't paid for those but promised more releases if Ruby was successful. I could write an entire essay on this event alone. I also take views from the other side, like when someone complained on the boxed version... But I own Big Al boxed... I know kinda what I was expecting before it appeared. Their not very good with boxed versions, and if you want more from boxed versions, the Japanese vocaloids do that better. ^_^'

Honestly... I'd have skipped over Ruby if not for the drama. She was the first Vocaloid that I didn't really have an interest in from PowerFX, because she just wasn't my type of vocal. She didn't seem to have as much character as past PowerFX vocaloids. Thats all.