DS #4397: LEGO Rock Band (USA)

[Kirby102]

It seems this game is more lenient in the failing of the songs, you start losing pts if you fail your pts bar... and if you hit 10 notes successfully, then you are 'saved' from the pts losing.

Also, instead of the 'phrase' system on RBU, it uses a somewhat similar system... but it decreases by 1 note each time you miss it, rather than the whole 'phrase'.

Other than that, no AP, and its quite fun

Decent tracklist as it's quite... modern... ish.

 

[+jump;+duck]

# The All-American Rejects - "Believe"
# Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"
# Black Eyed Peas - "Let's Get It Started"
# Blink-182 - "First Date"
# Boys Like Girls - "The Great Escape"
# Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf"
# Eagles of Death Metal - "Wannabe In L.A."
# Evanescence - "Call Me When You're Sober"
# Fall Out Boy - "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs"
# Foo Fighters - "Monkey Wrench"
# Kaiser Chiefs - "I Predict A Riot"
# The Killers - "Spaceman"
# Kings of Leon - "Manhattan"
# KT Tunstall - "Suddenly I See"
# Lacuna Coil - "Our Truth"
# No Doubt - "Excuse Me Mr."
# Pink - "So What"
# The Presidents of the United States of America - "Lump"
# The Pretenders - "Boots of Chinese Plastic"
# Queen - "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
# Queens of the Stone Age - "No One Knows"
# The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - "You Better Pray"
# The Rolling Stones - "Under My Thumb (live)"
# Spin Doctors - "Two Princes"
# Sublime - "All You Need"
# Sum 41 - "In Too Deep"
# Ugly Kid Joe - "Everything About You"
# Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk"
# The Vines - "Get Free"
# Weezer - "Troublemaker"



band hero got these

 

[cosmiccow]

Wow, this is lots of fun

When I was looking into it a few days ago, I thought the tracklist was mediocre at best. But when actually playing it yourself, it doesn't matter anymore - even the supposedly "bad" songs are fun to play

The mechanic for switching between instruments in the middle of a song is pretty well done too. If you wait for a purple note and hit that before switching the instrument it's very easy. Although when you want to "keep all band members happy" all the time, it can get a little bit stressful. But you don't have to do that: You can just as well keep playing drums through the whole song and it still earns you stars for unlocking everything.

I don't know how long it will last, because I already had to play some songs twice. But it's definitely a great game.

 

[PettingZoo]

Hmm the setlist for this doesn't seem to be that much appealing to me, I guess it's ok if I don't get around to playing it for a while.

 

[Clookster]

- It has ~5 languages included (German for sure)
- No problem with M3 Sakura, maybe no AP at all

Edit: I was wrong.

It won't let you select a band name in Skaura. Obviously an AP.

 

[Raika]

# The All-American Rejects - "Believe"
# Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"
# Black Eyed Peas - "Let's Get It Started"
# Blink-182 - "First Date"
# Boys Like Girls - "The Great Escape"
# Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf"
# Eagles of Death Metal - "Wannabe In L.A."
# Evanescence - "Call Me When You're Sober"
# Fall Out Boy - "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs"
# Foo Fighters - "Monkey Wrench"
# Kaiser Chiefs - "I Predict A Riot"
# The Killers - "Spaceman"
# Kings of Leon - "Manhattan"
# KT Tunstall - "Suddenly I See"
# Lacuna Coil - "Our Truth"
# No Doubt - "Excuse Me Mr."
# Pink - "So What"
# The Presidents of the United States of America - "Lump"
# The Pretenders - "Boots of Chinese Plastic"
# Queen - "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
# Queens of the Stone Age - "No One Knows"
# The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - "You Better Pray"
# The Rolling Stones - "Under My Thumb (live)"
# Spin Doctors - "Two Princes"
# Sublime - "All You Need"
# Sum 41 - "In Too Deep"
# Ugly Kid Joe - "Everything About You"
# Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk"
# The Vines - "Get Free"
# Weezer - "Troublemaker"



band hero got these

Hmm... these songs don't really appeal to me, so I think I'll stick with LEGO Rock Band...

 

[BastarB]

Well in my opinion it would be nice to choose if you want to play with buttons or with a hardware addition similiar to the one in Guitar Hero for DS!

 

[stanleyopar2000]

Well, here's my initial impressions:

- Sound quality is a little low. For a 256MB file the sound quality seems slightly lower than that of the GHOT series which is half the size. It's too quiet and a little grainy.
- Gameplay wise it's pretty simple. I personally prefer having the guitar grip, but this might kill an hour or two every now and then. I'm of the ilk that feels playing a guitar without the guitar is kinda pointless. It's like playing DDR without the dance mat. What's the point? But it's mildly amusing, at least until Band Hero makes its appearance. The EU release is today so it should show up in some manner in a few hours.
- The song list isn't overly offensive but it's hardly the best in a DS music game. Although I can understand the 'safe' choices presented here since the Lego style makes this a little more accessible to the younger gamers, I can see why there's not all that many songs aimed at the older gamer. No screamy death metal, etc.
- graphics aren't bad. a bit blocky, perhaps.
- track swapping is easy enough to get the hang of, although as a Guitar Hero fan I've yet to understand why you have to switch tracks.

I'll play through it a little more, give it more of a chance to impress me. But for now I'm thinking that Band Hero will in all probability blow it out of the water in my opinion. Unless you're a DSi owner in which case this is the better choice.

ya. this is the only types of safe choices that would get Guitar Hero games in MY house.

 

[dragonbladerxx1]

IT WOULD OF BEEN AWESOME IF IT HAD WIFI!! LIKE GUITAR HERO 5! IF ONLY.... (sorry for caps)

 

[Raika]

Ahh, my download "completed" when it hasn't even completed! Damn, I'm gonna have to REDOWNLOAD the whole thing!!!

 

[Domination]

Ahh, my download "completed" when it hasn't even completed! Damn, I'm gonna have to REDOWNLOAD the whole thing!!!

Don't use torrents, those suck. Its already spread around the web.

 

[Raika]

Ahh, my download "completed" when it hasn't even completed! Damn, I'm gonna have to REDOWNLOAD the whole thing!!!

Don't use torrents, those suck. Its already spread around the web.

I don't use torrents lol. I download from the romsite that you use as well.

 

[Austinz]

So what do you do for the singing bits, I take it ya dont sing into the mic

 

[ragingchaosgod]

Ahh, my download "completed" when it hasn't even completed! Damn, I'm gonna have to REDOWNLOAD the whole thing!!!

Don't use torrents, those suck. Its already spread around the web.

My torrent's working just fine! I only have 11 minutes to go.

 

[+jump;+duck]

Ahh, my download "completed" when it hasn't even completed! Damn, I'm gonna have to REDOWNLOAD the whole thing!!!

Don't use torrents, those suck. Its already spread around the web.

My torrent's working just fine! I only have 11 minutes to go.

suportahan ang torrent! awoo awoo awoo

 

[Raika]

So what do you do for the singing bits, I take it ya dont sing into the mic

If the gameplay is similar to Rockband Unplugged for the singing bits you just play as normal...

 

[Fabis94]

Ahh, my download "completed" when it hasn't even completed! Damn, I'm gonna have to REDOWNLOAD the whole thing!!!

Don't use torrents, those suck. Its already spread around the web.

If you don't have your hands growing out of your ass, torrents can be a lot easier and faster.

 

[ragingchaosgod]

Ahh, my download "completed" when it hasn't even completed! Damn, I'm gonna have to REDOWNLOAD the whole thing!!!

Don't use torrents, those suck. Its already spread around the web.

My torrent's working just fine! I only have 11 minutes to go.

suportahan ang torrent! awoo awoo awoo

XDXDXD Mas naiinis nga ako sa direct download kasi napuputol siya e.

Getting back on topic. I've got less than 7 minutes left. I'm hoping this'll be a worthwhile distraction.

 

[shito]

but you have to pray to not have a f***ig virus on it, for some reason this game remind me of pop'n music for ps2 lol

 

[Domination]

Ahh, my download "completed" when it hasn't even completed! Damn, I'm gonna have to REDOWNLOAD the whole thing!!!

Don't use torrents, those suck. Its already spread around the web.

If you don't have your hands growing out of your ass, torrents can be a lot easier and faster.

The stress is on can because a lot of the rom hosting sites on the net can download at faster speeds than torrents. I just finished mine in 16 minutes, its average 10mb per second minute (edit: typo) , and the site is trustworthy.

But then I should have added "IMO" instead, because there are always people who don't agree.

Gonna play it now!

Edit2: ANd I'm not gonna continue this debate, I conceded defeat or w/e, torrents the best. Shouldn't even have said that.