A game
to make your own music? This would be fun, if it isn't needlessly
complicated. Well, at least the demo offers a tutorial. During
the tutorial, the game will take control of the cursor and show you
everything you can do. You get access to a large selection of
“musical loops” with which you'll build your mix. To help you in
your search, you can select a genre and a category of instrument
(bass, drums, etc.). Each musical track has
a length and you can arrange all the pieces until you get something
that sounds good.
And that's
it. No really, that's pretty much everything this game is about. I
wouldn't complain. I mean, I've tried it, and the result you can get
sounds very nice. Yes, it will sound repetitive. If you keep using
the same musical tracks to build your song, that is. We've seen stuff
like this on Internet, it's very common. Which is why I really wonder
if it's that important of a game.
Okay,
no worries. Instead of just repeating the same things over and over
again, let's instead take a look at what the demo offers and doesn't
offer. The tutorial shows you every single aspect of the game, or at
least those you can access in the demo. It's pretty long, but
ultimately it's better to watch it entirely in order to know what you
can do and how to do it. And I bet the full version gives you access
to this tutorial at any moment, so I guess that's a nice touch.
Like I said,
the music sounds great, and even with your limited demo time you can
get a nice-sounding tune to dance on with your friends. There's not
much in terms of graphics, or in terms of difficulty, as it's more a
tool than a real game.
HOWEVER!
That said, it's not perfect. The demo only
gives you TEN minutes of play time. If you use it to watch the
tutorial, you lose at least half the minutes you had to try the demo.
That's kind of bad. Even with the ten minutes, you never quite get to
test out the demo well enough to have an idea of how fun it is. Also,
as you probably guessed, a few features are absent. Okay, that's
normal for a
demo. Among the missing features, there's the possibility of
recording your own voice tracks for the game, using the Wiimote.
It isn't for
me. I don't have the patience to build whole tracks, and besides,
those songs wouldn't be of much use for me. I prefer when good lyrics
go with good music. Oh well, whatever. If you always wanted to make
your own dance tracks, Try this demo. And if you really like it
(despite the 10 minutes of test time only), you know what to do.
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