Great summary on the rise and fall of music games.
Gamers just wanna have fun. When things start getting complicated or inconvenient, the customer loses interest pretty quickly.
In this issue of PB & Jason, we see lots and lots of really incredibly amazing stuff.
To begin, I talk about the whole Rock Band/music game trainwreck. That goes on for quite some time. We follow up with some quick impressions of a few WiiWare titles, namely BIT.TRIP BEAT and Ghost Mania.
This particular issue of the podcast concludes with a critical mention of material published in Entertainment Weekly.
No music video game companies were purchased in the making of this podcast.
Music by Kathrine Theidy.
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen an entry in the Metroid Prime series - 18 years, in fact. It was 8 years ago that Metroid Prime 4 was originally announced and its development was more than a little turbulent. Initially developed by Bandai Namco, it was later scrapped completely and development was shifted back to Retro Studios to start the project over. In the end, Retro has delivered a solid new entry in the series, but one that doesn’t totally capture what originally made the series so compelling.
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