GITAROO MAN!!! great game.

DDRkrazy · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Location: Roebling, NJ

this is possibly the best music game to vary away from the linear (but legendary) bemani style button pushing. but ill get to the game mechanics later.

Well, the game is very.. very japanese, and when you play it, it screams crazy anime style story. Along with that are the anime style characters, but rendered nicely in 3D. The storyline is simple, U-1 is a normal guy, then he finds out he is destined to wield the magic gitaroo (a wild electric guitar) you use the gitaroo to do battle, and you have to save the planet gitaroo along with the universe by fighting WIERD bosses, (WIERD).

Heres where the fun is, the gameplay. there are in basic 2 modes of play during a battle, attack and guard. in attack theres a line that comes toward a dot in the center, when it hits you have to follow the line with the analog stick and also hit it with circle, this comes in many challenging forms. guard is the 4 buttons on your controller, they float down to the center, (thats where the ddr button mashing comes in).

The music is FANTASTIC, songs ranging from Rock, Jpop, Reggae, blues, neo classical metal, this game is packed with awesome songs!

you can never really understand it till you play it, its very rare....in fact i cant find it (really wanted it for christmas) but i found it at block buster collecting dust, i must have beaten it 30 times within those 7 days lol. yeah thats my only gripe, if your a music game genius, or you play guitar and know alot of these soloing riffs it makes it easier.

A+ great game. anyone else like it?
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RAJ821 · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 10:50 pm Post subject:

I've never played it. BUT NOW I MUST! I've read reviews saying that it was horrible. Until one fateful day when a PSM magazine had best games that weren't too popular. Guitaroo man was on there. There were totally going gaga about it. I almost drooled...

But alas, I can't find it. I MUST!
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VxJasonxV · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 1:17 am Post subject:

Gitaroo Man is awesome. I just got it back from a friend who had been borrowing it for quite some time now.
I bought it months ago at Toys'R'Us for $20.
And I do mean, MONTHS ago. Like, May or June this year.

I agree with DDRkrazy. You can do your best to explain it, but without all the flashy images and such, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

This game totally rocks. Definately the 'best kept secret' of the music catagory for PS2 games.

Mr. Mosquito comes in a close second. Obviously not a music game though

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Good game.
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ver314 · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Albuquerque Nm

well being the proud owner of jason's game...

I enjoyed the time i had with the game, The game was challenging (althought i could never make it past the flying-o's on master ) yet very very fun! The only person i knew who beat the whole game is my little brother.

Maybe,,i should've picked up a copy at work when i saw it there..for like $10..plus my discount so probably $8 ( not sure if that was the actuall price, saw it a long time ago)

Anyways, i would really like to see a sequel to this game..
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Kerf · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: ISZK LAND

*looks at soundtrack wich is at his friend's house*

Yay

I love this game, ALOT. My friend has it tho, I need to find this game and rez. Without a doubt one of the most fun and awesome games ever, I think stage 3 or 4(the JPOPey song with the flying hamburgers

), the bones level and the last are by far the best levels.

VxJasonxV · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 11:18 am Post subject:

The Flying-O's (Song Title: Flyin' To Your Heart) are stage 3. That song is my absolute favorite as well. Rediculously fun.
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Kerf · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: ISZK LAND

yeah! And the dodging part in that level is fun too. I just remembered, it's number 4 on the soundtrack because the intro is number one.

VxJasonxV · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 3:22 pm Post subject:

This is true. I forgot about the title theme and all that. Yep, track 4 on the OST, level 3 in the game

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Captain Howdy · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

I though that was level 2...

Err...spoilers, I guess?

I mean, I remember Panpeus, Flying-O's, Mojo King Bee, Shark dodging stage, Shark fighting stage, serenading Kirah, Sambone Trio, Gregorio Wilhelm III, Kirah/what's his face.

But that adds up to 9 stages, and I could have sworn there were 10. But, for the life of me, I can't remember what's missing. If only my damned PS2 was working...

Did the training stage count as a stage?

DDRkrazy · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Location: Roebling, NJ

kirah and zoey the 9 and 10 are 2 seperate stages.
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VxJasonxV · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 12:27 pm Post subject:

I just played through it.
Overpass (the first part with Kirah) is a normal battle.
After U-1 stops and the story happens, The Legendary Theme has Charge, Battle, and Final.
However, there is no dodging during the Legendary Theme

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PeePeeBoy · Trick Member Joined: 20 Nov 2003

GITAROO MAN = BEST GAME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AH of course other than ddr might that i ad that i am half lizard?

EDIT: "Ah" does not have 278 Hs. Thx. ~CStar