I got me Gitaroo fevah

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:06 am

Holy crap, I just beat Gitaroo-Man and I can’t get the tunes out of my head…this game is so freakin awesome. It’s got all types of music, running the gamut from J-Poppy techno to really swank Motown. The story and voice actors is gold, and I just have to recommend this game to everyone. Easily my favorite rhythm game of all time, dethroning even the Space Channel 5 series

I bought this back in August (sealed at Movie Starz video..for $18

), but I couldn’t really play it because my PS2 controller would mess up the arrow and it would go everywhere. But now that I finally got to experience the game to its fullest, I’m honestly just blown away.

just totally sweet, hot damn I love this game. I know there has to be some GM lovers here, there just has to.

Post by **system11** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:04 am

I hate rhythm games.

I love Gitaroo Man though. It's brilliant from start to finish, and having to follow the riff lines makes it much more fun than simply hitting the right button at the right time. You get a sense of actually playing the music too, as notes will be missing or mistimed depending on how accurate you are, it's not a purely passive reactive experience. Not only that, but the humour and plot are wacky and Japanese, but still accessible to Western audiences, the tunes are all great, and it just hangs together as a package perfectly.

In normal settings, anyone can learn to beat the game, then there's hard mode which is quite a lot more challenging, and a masterplay mode which I can't even beat the first level of - something for all levels.

I'd have to say my favourite tune is the one for the Sambone Trio, following that mexican/esperanto(?) guitar work is a great feeling when you finally nail it without dropping a note. The level afterwards with the prog-rock stuff is pretty amazing too.

I never would have looked at a game like this, just one of the PS2 mags had a single level demo on their coverdisc (the UFO one). In a shocking turn of events, even the PAL conversion is excellent.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:59 pm

I will echo Bloodflowers and say that while I am not generally into rhythm games I absolutely fell in love with Gitaroo Man. I managed to find a sealed copy for $9.99

at Best Buy a year or so back. Wonderfull music (especially the acoustic version of the theme song) and pretty unique gameplay for a music game. Would have been worth every penny if I had paid full price. Great game, to bad its lack luster sales probably doomed our chances at ever seeing a sequel.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:13 pm

i want this game so hard, but i can't find the thing anywhere for less than $70. speaking as a person who loves Cool Cool Toon to death, i think i can safely say that i will love this game as well.

too bad my copy of CCT got scuffed and now refuses to boot. fucker.

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:55 pm

captain ahar wrote:i want this game so hard, but i can't find the thing anywhere for less than $70.

http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113989

$50 shipped if your interested.

bloodflowers, have you played Mad Maestro yet? I'd have to say that as a rhythm game, it gives the player an even more important role in how the music sounds. It's basically classical and opera, but it's a pretty fun and decent game nonetheless.

I'm a DDR fan too, even though I only own the PS2 games. Anyone into the Pump It Up series? They're coming stateside if anyone's interested.

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:48 pm

bloodflowers wrote:I hate rhythm games.

I love Gitaroo Man though. It's brilliant from start to finish, and having to follow the riff lines makes it much more fun than simply hitting the right button at the right time. You get a sense of actually playing the music too, as notes will be missing or mistimed depending on how accurate you are, it's not a purely passive reactive experience.

Sounds like you definitely want to try the rhythm game "Frequency". It has the qualities you've described plus the look and feel of Tempest

I'll have to look into this Gitaroo Man...

Post by **system11** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 12:33 am

Tried Frequency, didn't like it at all :/

Gitaroo Man is just pure quality.

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:42 am

Thunder Force, have you played the sequel to Frequency, Amplitude? I know a lot of people that couldn't stop talking about Amplitude awhile back, they really loved it. Needless to say I'm interested, but still pretty sketchy from screenshots I've seen.

I've been thinking of trying out Frequency for starters, though.

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 2:26 am

LoneSage wrote:
captain ahar wrote:i want this game so hard, but i can't find the thing anywhere for less than $70.
I'm a DDR fan too, even though I only own the PS2 games. Anyone into the Pump It Up series? They're coming stateside if anyone's interested.

I mostly play every other Bemani game 'cept for DDR now... I retired from DDR a while ago =/

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 2:34 am

LoneSage wrote:Thunder Force, have you played the sequel to Frequency, Amplitude? I know a lot of people that couldn't stop talking about Amplitude awhile back, they really loved it. Needless to say I'm interested, but still pretty sketchy from screenshots I've seen.

I've been thinking of trying out Frequency for starters, though.

No I avoided the sequel because I have a moral objection to it.

Amplitude seems like a dumbed down Frequency for the masses, quite frankly... I mean, it's for players who got confused by a wraparound tube, how casual do you have to be?

And the game design was actually broken by the flattening of the playfield for Amplitude, it now takes twice as long to get from the far left bar to the far right, so it seems the developers had to kludge a "slow time" powerup into the game to keep it playable.

To use an analogy: It's like taking out the reflect weapon from Mars Matrix because it confuses casuals to have to shoot *and* reflect, and then reducing the number of bullets in all the stages to compensate...

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:35 pm

LoneSage wrote:
captain ahar wrote:i want this game so hard, but i can't find the thing anywhere for less than $70.
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113989

$50 shipped if your interested.

stupid timing. i have no money at all. <waves with a single tear drifting down my cheek, as the game sails away on some huge-ass boat>

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:58 am

Oh wow, this game's going for $190 on amazon (or so I've been told). Man, I remember when my Best Buy had a ton of copies of Gitaroo-Man..glad I got one.