Welcome to the creepy cute world of KimoKawaii. Here you will find the home page of Joshua Normal, artist, programmer, amateur absinthe brewer, pirate, and all around modern scoundrel. Look around, enjoy my works, enjoy the strange things I find around the net, and most of all enjoy yourself.
Did you see the shark, I sure did. I thought that Guitar Hero Aerosmith was the signal of the end of the Guitar Hero franchise. I was wrong. No matter how good you are at the game you have to admit that you look like a spastic monkey flailing around with a kids plastic toy guitar while playing Guitar Hero. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy every minute I have spent playing Guitar Hero and its younger more evolved relative Rock band. However, I still understand that it’s silly and I look like a fool doing it. Slapping a fat piece of plastic to the back of a Nintendo DS forcing you to hold it like an awkward book while strumming with an action more closely related to flipping through the pages of your grandmothers romance novels looking for the bits about throbbing members and aching womanhoods takes looking like a stupid twit to whole new levels. Throw in a song that sounds like it should be aimed at the listeners of Radio Disney instead of an honest to satan rock station and that just closes the deal. Guitar Hero is dead and needs to be taken out behind the barn and quietly put out of its misery.
Bionic Commando was one of my favorite games as a child. The new version doesn’t really have me too excited yet. However, a redone version of the original makes me so happy and I can’t wait for it to hit xbox live.
Just finished up easy mode on GH3. It’s exactly what you would expect from another Guitar Hero game. Songs you know that you pretend to play guitar to. Having original artist tracks this time around is a real saving grace for this edition. As always the cover band they have doing the non-artist tracks is horrible. Some of the songs make you cringe. However, getting to hear the original tracks for some of the songs makes up for it.
Outside of the same old game again they have added guitar battles. It’s a lot like the competitive two player mode from the earlier games with the addition of attacks to try and screw up your opponent. Some of them are easy to work around, some of them will basically cause you to lose some serious points as your brain tries to wrap itself around the changes that just happened.
Some of the characters have been reworked. Some are improved some are worse for the changes. The store is more full than in previous games giving you a lot more to spend fake money on to customize your character.
It’s fun, though it really is making me look forward to Rock Band more than ever.
