Every day, I have a new favorite thing. Wednesday, it was a delicious chocolate cupcake. Yesterday, it was Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Today it is this video.
In the clip, Vocaloid star Hatsune Miku puts her synthesized spin on the popular and catchy song “Still Alive” from Portal. If you are not familiar with Vocaloid, you really need to click here. It is amazing.
Up until now, I have had a Vocaloid recording of the opera song from Final Fantasy VI on my iPod (nerd alert!) that is so awesome I thought it would never be topped. Well, I am happy to say that “Stay Alive” trumps it. In fact, I am going to download this tonight so I can embarrass myself even more on the treadmill at the gym.
Oh, and if there are any attractive Asian women reading this that happen to be looking for a husband, just dress like Ms. Miku and sing this to fellow Destructoid editor Topher Cantler. I give you my word you will be taken care of for the rest of your life by a very handsome and talented blogger. Toph, you can thank me later.
Chad Concelmo is Destructoid's features editor. He loves hanging out with awesome people. That's why Destructoid makes him so happy, since it is full of THE MOST AWESOME PEOPLE OF ALL TIME! Also, dolphins.
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Totally butchered it. I've got a few good sounding japanese songs on my computer, I don't think teh language as a whole sounds like shit or anything, but that did in fact sound like shit. Less like singing and more like a very small child being strangled.
I had played Portal and I never once heard or saw the phrase "The cake is a lie". Maybe I needed to play it at anything other than the lowest possible settings?
@ The-Excel: There's a few hidden rooms with the message scrawled all over by a previous experiment subject. Even on the lowest setting you should be able to see it.
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4:17 PM on 06.13.2008 | 
I demand MOAR asian singing game songs.
Ha ha ha. I know, I catched it seconds after I posted. Whew! I don't know why I typed that!
Thanks, though. :) :)
Anyway, I think I may just try out Vocaloid. maybe.
Freudian slip?
It's cute!
... and, yeah, I guess that's it.
But IT'S SO CUTE! :)
And it's a very bad translation if you understand Japanese.
well you got the blogger part right....
i kid i kid.
THANKS CHAD!
MINE.
Also this version is interesting in which a woman plays the Still Alive using Jam Sessions on the DS.
But this song? I don't see the draw. Why do I want to hear a digitized version of a song, that has not been changed at all, and sung in Japanese?
Cute? Because it's cute?
It's not cute.
No thanks.
It's so hilarious!
Says the one with a dancing cat in a suit...