Hop Step Sing! VR Live Hop☆Summer 2nd Reviews

you can remove the creepy dolphins 10/10

I was bummed I couldn't watch it live because of personal reasons but having bought this I am glad I couldn't. As previous concert, this is again an amazing show. However, I imagine that during the live show the girls had a hard time managing the show as there were several times they asked the audience to back away, which detracts from my enjoyment somewhat. The girls are amazing as usual but the audience are kind of annoying, I have several instances where they clip into my view as well. They probably has reduced the avatars in this recorded show but it might've been worse live. Maybe for the next show they should focus less on horny and more on the stage gimmick? This and the previous show had the girls in rather intimate appearance (bath house then floating island), maybe do something more gimmicky achievable only in VR rather than sexy appeal. This could've made the audience more controllable; as it was evident alot of them are trying to ogle at the girls at the lowest angle as close as possible. Shamefur behaviour. Anyway, HSS game when? It doesn't have to be long games, maybe 10-15 minutes experiences and sell them at $10 a pop. I'll buy them. Just recycle the songs, maybe make acoustic versions of them, idk. Waiting for new releases are way too long unlike other idols.

This is the best VR concert I've seen to date! A lot of love and effort went into it and it's even better and longer than the first HSS concert at about 1.5 hours! I got to see this live and I was hoping a few things would be fixed for the standalone version but, sadly, they weren't and there are a couple new things I wish were fixed/added, as well... 1) This one is the biggest problem, IMO. Shikiri's eye tracking was glitched the *entire* concert. Niina and Mikasa had some issues with their eye tracking, too, but it was minor enough that it could be ignored. Shikiri's eyes are glitched almost 100% of the time outside of songs, though, and it looks horrible. 2) Shikiri's head glitches out a few times during Kisekiteki Shining. It snaps like 180 degrees at multiple points and looks really bad. (Why my girl Shikiri gotta have all the issues? :( ) 3) The audio levels are very unbalanced, especially Niina's dialog during the Hop Summer Queen segment. The volume is just all over the place. I noticed this while watching live and it's still an issue. 4) There should be more chapter select points. Right now they only have chapters for the start of each song but the Hop Summer Queen segment is very long. I would like chapter select points for each of the Hop Summer Queen games and one for the start of the intermission, at least. It would also be nice to have chapter select points at the *end* of each song that way you can listen to the dialog parts before each song begins, if you chose to. 5) The speakers at the front of the first stage are floating about 6 inches off the ground. It's not a big deal but it looks weird. One thing they *did* fix from the live concert was the avatars blocking the second stage. At the second stage you can move vertically so when this was live, there was a SOLID WALL of avatars blocking the view of the stage. I was forced to turn them off just so I could see which was very disappointing. It's supposed to be a live concert and being there with other people is part of the fun. They did leave some of the avatars crowding the stage during the part where Mikasa was yelling at them to get back and to "maintain social distancing" (XD) but, if you didn't see it live, just know that it was MASSIVELY worse during the actual concert. As for the concert itself, it's fantastic. The setlist includes 2 songs that they've never performed in VR before as well as all their VR music video songs except for kissxkissxkiss. In the middle they take a break from singing for the Hop Summer Queen competition where they play 3 games to determine which of the girls is the queen. It's a fun segment that let's you get a feel for the personalities of the girls. (If you want more of that, they also do "Hop Nama" livestreams on YouTube/NND from time to time.) Overall, despite the issues, this is still the best VR concert I've seen to date and it's fantastic that there's a standalone version to rewatch whenever I want. There needs to be a LOT more VR concerts like this. I highly recommend it!