Well, the game has arrived. My wrist now hurts - holding the guitar is painful if you don't move for a while
So - first impressions. I wish there was different music, it's not really my style... Oh well, let's go with what we've got. Good tutorials - I need them, because I suck. The character creation is _really_ detailed, that's very neat. Oooh, you can customise just about everything.
-- 1/2 an hour later --
OK, I think I've got my character created now (Yes, I did spend that long fiddling with it!). Let's go play some music. Oh - I can only play a few songs - fair enough, I unlock more as I proceed. But what if there are none that I want to play, or that I like? That's... disappointing. The playback is cool, but all the dancing and stuff in the background is very distracting - I'd rather have ambient graphics rather than actual animated players and stuff. Still, it's good for onlookers, I suppose.
I'm not very good at this!
Oh, monitor calibration. That's cool - it's picked up that I'm missing a lot of beats by a slight amount, and sent me to calibrate with the monitor. Sure enough, there's a noticeable lag (Around 45ms according to the calibrator), which is now fixed. That's a known issue with the Dell 2408WFP 24", which normally doesn't cause an issue... Calibration was easy too.
Hmmm - I still can't play, but it's quite a bit easier now. Let's try that song again... OK, I think I'm getting the hang of this. Finished my first song... 93%, 82 note streak. Holding the guitar flat so I don't turn on star power all the time is rather annoying - I'd rather have it upright. In fact, it gets my wrist... quite a bit. Ouch.
Time to give it a break
So there you go - first impressions, written pretty much as I played. I'm going to look at the DLC and see what's there...
