Sunday, November 30, 2008
Hello. I went to the gym this morning with my family. I tried out the machine that makes you pull up the weights. I dunno what it's called. Anyways, I got until 200 kg, then my arms started hurting, so I stopped. There was some scary guy there lifting 250 kg again and again.We went to some coffee shop near West Mall, then we dropped off my mother at Bukit Merah NTUC and then we went back home. I got motivated all of a sudden to complete my half fixed Gundam, but I didn't finish it in the end. The thing is so complicated that you have to fix 9 tiny pieces to form one of its fingers. Screw it, I'll finish it some other day.
I slacked for a while, then my family went to AMK Hub. I went to Funz Centre with my father and brother. The place was freakin crowded. Anyways, I got Guitar Hero World Tour, and Naruto: Broken Bond was out as well, so I bought it too. Now all that's left this year is Mirror's Edge and Prince of Persia, and Oblivion if I have extra money.
I got back home at ate my dinner, then I fixed up the Guitar Hero instruments. Then I tested them out. Drums worked fine thankfully. Guitar was alright too. It too me quite a while to figure out that you have to turn on a controller first before the microphone can be used. I thought the mic was spoilt at first. So every instrument I got is fine.
I played the game. Drums take a bit getting used to, because you have to cross your hands to play, unlike the Rock Band drums. The guitar is awesome. The strum bar is perfect, and the whammy bar is longer and easier to use. There's also a new touch sensitive slider bar to help noobs who cannot hammer on and pull off.
I think the slider bar isn't necessary, because since you can't see it, and you can't properly feel the different notes, it only makes you miss. Singing is fun, because you can talk crap into the mic and your voice comes out of the TV with a echo effect.
Overall, the instruments are good, but then again, they are made by Red Octane, so the quality is expected.
I didn't play Career mode, so I only could play with the songs that were already unlocked. I played guitar, my brother and sister took turns playing drums and bass, and my brother was also singing while playing his instrument.
I played a lot of "Beat it" and "What I've Done", but the songs are so easy for the guitar even on Expert mode that I got bored really fast. The slider bar is gay it makes playing the solo parts so easy that it isn't even challenging.
I also tried out Naruto: Broken Bond, and it's basically Naruto: Rise of a Ninja with improvements, but it's not a bad thing since Rise of a Ninja was awesome. It's nice that the replaced the clips from the anime with actual cutscenes. The anime clips are standard definition, but the cutscenes are crafted from the game's beautiful graphics engine.
Here are pictures of all the stuff:
Big box
Lately, I've gotten into the habit of buying 2 games at a time.
New plastic guitar
Longer whammy bar, conveniently placed Starpower button, perfect strum bar. I love this guitar.
The 5 buttons on the right are the standard buttons, and the five on the left are the slider buttons.
It's bigger than I expected.
You're not going to find a more realistic plastic drum kit. The way its cymbals are located forces you to cross your hands while playing, just like a real drum.
The bass pedal is good, better than the flimsy Rock Band one. Having played both the World Tour and the Rock Band drum kits, I can tell you that this one feels more sturdy. 
The microphone looks nice. If only it could work just as nicely.
It's bigger than I expected.
You're not going to find a more realistic plastic drum kit. The way its cymbals are located forces you to cross your hands while playing, just like a real drum.
The bass pedal is good, better than the flimsy Rock Band one. Having played both the World Tour and the Rock Band drum kits, I can tell you that this one feels more sturdy. 
The microphone looks nice. If only it could work just as nicely.So now you guys can come over to my house to jam with plastic instruments. It's going to be fun. Ok, I'm off to read One Piece. Ending off, see you tomorrow.
posted @ 11:50 PM
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