I played Um Jammer Lammy the other night. Now that, that is a fucking music game. You know why? Because it contains both music, right, but it's also a fucking game, with everything that entails, including years spent working on constructing story and learning how to make things fun.
Guitar hero isn't fun. It's a series of button presses in the most basic and thoughtless style, with absolutely fuck all else included. If it was played with a controller people would gawp in disbelief. The fact it comes with a stupid shaped controller doesn't change that.
It's just like a fucking dance mat. You add a controller which removes everything you've ever learned about playing games and thus they can sell you something so basic and shit it wouldn't have sold on the fucking spectrum.
Now Um Jammer and Parappa, they're fucking games. They're funny, have a plot, have plenty to look at and entertain you with. They're rammed with memorable characters and, most importantly, they reward you for doing your own thing. They're the spirit of music games which is burning and dying on our streets.
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