Malstrom: Why Wii Music is Genius

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Grampy said:
I do have a musical background and in fact preferred playing Dixieland since it is generally not played from sheet music but just a cheat book with the main melody line and key and everything else was improvised. Every time you played the experience was different. Some nights you sort of felt like going along for the ride and backing up other musicians and sometimes you got into the music and took a ride going wherever you could get some variation of the melody line to take you and everybody backed you up. Usually it was good, occasionally it stunk and once in a while it was f**king fantastic.

Regrettably I put aside my clarinet too long and no longer can play like that. I got Guitar Hero to recapture some of that fun and I was very disappointed when I realized it wasn’t really about music at all, it was more a reflex game having more to do with those boxes where the heads pop up and you try to hit them with a hammer than with actually making music. I lost interest pretty quickly.

If Nintendo can make a game or a non-game where you actually have control of the music, providing the feeling and style of the music even though you don’t have to have mastered the actually physical dexterity of a particular musical instrument I actually find that very appealing. If it lacks scoring and competition to make it a “game”; fine by me because music is about co-operation, not competition and the only score that matter is the musical score.
It sounds very fresh and original to me and I plan to get in and have a hell of a lot of fun. If nothing else it is completely original and doesn’t have a 3,4 or even 14 after its name, I’m in!

And I think a lot of folks are going to be surprised/appalled at the sales.
After all everyone laughed at Wii Fit; but I play it at least four times a week. It’s greatly improved my balance, helped me lose over forty pounds and I’m still enjoying the heck out of it.

 

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