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rbandrewsI slept through about half my weekend, and classes today seem to consist of "go over the test", so I'm skipping my things today.
Saturday I played multiplayer DS games with Chris and Christian. Meteos is pretty nifty, Polarium is incomprehensible and Japanese, and Band Brothers is the Best Thing Evar™. The game, for those who haven't played it, is a rhythm game. You pick a song and an instrument, and play that part of the song. It's some guesswork picking instruments because it's all in Katakana, of course. The game is compatible with ordinary MIDI songs, and capable of both letting you edit them and recording them (badly) from the DS microphone.
The multiplayer is much the same; each player picks a different instrument in the song (with the rest being computer controlled if you have fewer than eight players) and you jam together. Two scores are displayed at the end: your score through the song and the band average, rounded to the nearest point.
It didn't take long before there were some emergent strategies. Don't take the drum track unless you know the song, for example. We played some songs (Ready Steady Go! and the Zelda theme) a few times, and each got pretty good at one or two tracks. It's a lot more fun with more than one player, and i'd love to try it with the maximum number of players (no computers at all! You're all on your own!). Only one cartridge required, of course.
Update: There's an expansion! It fits into the GBA slot of the DS and adds 30 more songs. Mostly J-Pop but also some Yoshi's Island, the DK Jungle Beat theme and some others.
Then Sunday I went to pick apples, then came back to Dave and Kayla's house, ate stew and watched Babylon 5. After you get past the first two or three episodes it gets decent, and I expect it to get really good in the next couple of seasons. Kay came over, Kayla and I made cookies that turned out all right, and all was well with the world.
Saturday I played multiplayer DS games with Chris and Christian. Meteos is pretty nifty, Polarium is incomprehensible and Japanese, and Band Brothers is the Best Thing Evar™. The game, for those who haven't played it, is a rhythm game. You pick a song and an instrument, and play that part of the song. It's some guesswork picking instruments because it's all in Katakana, of course. The game is compatible with ordinary MIDI songs, and capable of both letting you edit them and recording them (badly) from the DS microphone.
The multiplayer is much the same; each player picks a different instrument in the song (with the rest being computer controlled if you have fewer than eight players) and you jam together. Two scores are displayed at the end: your score through the song and the band average, rounded to the nearest point.
It didn't take long before there were some emergent strategies. Don't take the drum track unless you know the song, for example. We played some songs (Ready Steady Go! and the Zelda theme) a few times, and each got pretty good at one or two tracks. It's a lot more fun with more than one player, and i'd love to try it with the maximum number of players (no computers at all! You're all on your own!). Only one cartridge required, of course.
Update: There's an expansion! It fits into the GBA slot of the DS and adds 30 more songs. Mostly J-Pop but also some Yoshi's Island, the DK Jungle Beat theme and some others.
Then Sunday I went to pick apples, then came back to Dave and Kayla's house, ate stew and watched Babylon 5. After you get past the first two or three episodes it gets decent, and I expect it to get really good in the next couple of seasons. Kay came over, Kayla and I made cookies that turned out all right, and all was well with the world.
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