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    DJ Hero demo impressions (& future blog posts)

    Sunday, October 11, 2009, 02:41 PM EST [Impressions]

    GameStop had a special exclusive demo (10/11) of DJ Hero, so I went to check it out, & now that I'm back, I'm going to give some quick impressions.

    At 1st, I didn't seem to care much about the game & the controller left me wondering how it was actually going to work. But after spending some time playing it, I felt like it worked perfectly & my interest in the game sky-rocketed up. There was only 1 set of 3 songs in which you HAVE to play them in order ("Heard it From the Grapevine vs. Feel Good Inc", "Hollaback Girl vs. Give it to Me", and "Boom Boom Pow vs. Satisfaction"), so it was kinda weird not being able to just choose a song like in most demos for rhythm games. The only difficulty you couldn't choose was Expert, which kind of makes sense seeing as nobody has actually played the game until now, so I just played on Hard after going through the Tutorial (which does a good job explaining how to play)

    At 1st, I would overshot the crossfader (which is used to switch the lanes for green & blue), but I eventually got the hang of it, & it was really fun to scratch & rewind (which, w/ the spin of the turntable, will rewind a few seconds of the song to replay & score extra points) the turntable. The music selection (to me) was mixed. The 1st song was "meh", the 2nd was really good, & the 3rd song wasn't as good as the 2nd, but was better than the 1st.

    To summarize, I had no interest in the game until now, & I really had fun w/ the demo. Sucks I can't buy it since I'm saving up for a laptop.....

    Now, for future blog posts, I'll be reviewing Bit.Trip Void once it gets released, I have an imported PS2 game that'll be shipping this week, so I should be getting it in about 2 weeks or so, & since I was the winner of those Miles Edgeworth Tokyo Game Show posters, I'll show off those once I get them & I'll even throw in some pics of the Dark Void jetpack shirt I won awhile back.

    P.S: Since I turned 18 on 9/21, my blog posts are now public, so everyone will be able to read them now, so spread the word of my blog.

    4.1 (3 Ratings)

    Sounds good. I guess I should stop buy a Gamestop & see if they have it.

    TwiGGy
    October 11, 2009
    06:33 PM EST

    Initially I had mixed opinions of the idea of "DJ Hero", despite being a big music (and music game, particularly Rock Band) fan. Although I respected the idea of covering another major type of music, thinking about it's future, and shared name with Guitar Hero (being Activision = tons of sequels) sort of bummed me out.

    That said, seeing gameplay of it (plus Daft Punk, holy @#$% yes!), in addition to it's extremely large soundtrack, I must admit got me interested more.

    What will definitely be the barrier is the cost of the peripheral though. It looks like it works great though. I'll probably eventually look into it if I feel the purchase will be worth it down the line.

    Nonetheless, nice coverage Zonic!

    HeavyHorse
    October 12, 2009
    01:18 AM EST



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