Gitaroo-Man

PS2

Koei - 200X

     This game is pretty cool. Each song is divided into two play styles. One is the traditional hit the button as it flies by style. If you can play music games you can do that. It gets a little confusing because they come really fast and from four directions. The other style is the impossible one. A line will come on screen and you have to follow it. To do so, you point the analogue in the appropriate directions as you travel along the line. In addition, there are orange sections of the line. You have to hit O at the beginning of each orange section and hold it until the end. If you mis-time your button press, or mis aim your arrow, you miss the note. It is extraordinarily hard to use both hands in this manner. Actually, it is impossible. I lost both arms and typed this with something else.

What I liked:Styles of songs I've never heard in a music game. Innovative controls.

What I disliked: Impossible.

What to expect: Losing

What not to expect: Winning

What sets it apart from the genre: Impossibility. And the controls. And the guitar pooping dog.

Ratings on:

Controls: 7 -The game was designed to have these controls. So they do their job prfectly. Too bad their job sucks.

Graphics: 5 - who cares, music game.

Sound: 8 - good vartiety.

Style: lots of that

Ratings on

30 minutes: 5 pretty neat, impoissible

2nd hour: 6 - still undecicded, controls are getting easier. impossible

2nd day: 7 - Got the controls down. Last few stages are impossible anyway.

4th day: 8 - I beat it, totally in control

1st week: 5 - Master mode is impossible. Even though I know the controls.

#1 thing I hate about this game: Impossible.

      by Sundu-a-go-go, baby!