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wonderful!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is such a unique game! Also, one of the more difficult games. Get ready to put a lot of time into it because it takes a long time to master. Still so much fun!

Way to short and easy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is the 2nd best music/rythem game I have ever played. Guitar Hero is the first. This game is just amazing. It is extremely fun but the fun is short lived because I beat this game in less than four hours and only lost 2 times the whole game. I hope they make a Gitaroo man two. I highly recommend renting this game because it is just to easy.

5 stars for Gitaroo Man!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game combines many types of music and themes and the concept is great. I find the game to be pretty difficult and it took me a few tries to get past the first level, but it's a lot of fun and worth the money.

Gitaroo-Man is an great innovative game for the PS2.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Gitaroo-Man (Playstation 2); Music game; reviewer: Endit

Gitaroo-Man is the story of U-1, a kid that is in love with Pico, Pico has a friend named Kazuya that is a snob and sees U-1 as a loser. U-1 wants Kazuya to like him and tell him that he is cool, but he can't do it.

One day, his dog Puma tells him that him that he is that last in the Gitaroo-Mans, and that he has to save planet of Gitaroo from the evil Gravillians. Can U-1 do it?

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Graphics:

Gitaroo-Man's graphics are great! Everything seems to look good. No blocky [stuff], or poorly drawn stuff. Really good for Playstation 2. It has a nice inter face and is easy to navigate.

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SOUND:

Well, since Gitaroo-Man is a music game, you would expect atleast one good song in the game, and it delivers that. It has great songs, (I think they're WAY BETTER that Parappa The Rapper 2) that involve the player and enemy to sort-of play the song. My favorite songs are Flyin' To Your Heart (Stage 2), and Born To Be Bone (Stage 7).

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GAMEPLAY:

Gitaroo-Man may sound easy and may look confusing before playing it, but is very challenging though, once you get used to it, it's not a fasted pasted button masher.

A stage is broken into 3 stages:

Charge: In charge, you follow a blue line around the screen using the left analog stick, you must point your arrow directly on it to turn it green and play riffs and power up your power gauge (all at the same time). To play a riff, when following the trace line, click and hold the O/cicrle button on a red, highlight thingy, until it's gone. You can click any other face button, but I find it easiest with the O/cicrle button. It will also tell you how well you did, for instance: miss, ok, good, and great.

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BATTLE:

The battle part is composed of two parts: the attack, and guard. They alternate

Attack: Attack is just like guard, but when you now play riffs, you inflict damage to the computer's power guage.

Guard: Guard is where the computer shoots attacks at you and you have to dodge them according to when they come in. You have a sort-of + (plus) thing and face buttons come in according to where they are located on the controler. You have to click them in order to dodge them. Not to hard.

Final: Final is where you can finish off the opponet, it's the same as attack, but if you finish this, you beat the level.

Although this can be hard to non-music game players, it can be picked up and is addictive. It sounds more than it is, but it seems very simple while playing. Some levels seem impossible, and you'll play a lot, they keep you playing.

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VALUE:

Although Gitaroo-Man isn't a libary of levels, it has some hard ones, some fun, and some wierd ones, they have really good songs. Besides, who would want tons of levels that stink than some excellent ones.

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REVIEWER'S TILT:

Even though it's shaort, it's memorable, fun, challenging and will keep you entertained. Koei's interesting choice of gameplay and unique storyline brightens the game and is new,with such good songs, you would wish everygame had this kind of quality.

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OVER-ALL:

Buy it if you love music games! But, if you're new to them and just learning, I suggest you learn you controler because it might not be very easy in the beginning.

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FINAL SCORE:

9.5 - suberb, according to gamespot.com's rating stystem.

Great guitaring gods! This is Great!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I see a lot of people have reviewed and wrote some stuff for this game, so I keep it short for you. If you like music at all, you'll love it! At first it's a bit frustrating, but you get better and it passes. Yes! you learn how to become better and continue through the game! One of the only things I didn't like was the little child/kiddy story line. I don't know many middle school kids that could play a game this hard. For the next one, could we give it a more mature story or something?....PLEASE?!?

Fun music/rythm style game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I played this title back in Japan at the Sony building... Its quite fun, just like a Pa Rappa the Rapper or Umjammer Lammey game.

Nice 3d effects/charecters and backgrounds, cool story.

Mega Amounts of Fun!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you liked Parappa the Rapper or UmJammer Lammy (or if you like funky Japanese techno music), this game is for you! You are the star of this music-based video game as Gitaroo Man. Your goal (as always) is to save the universe. The catch? You must do so only with your amazing musical skills.

Using the left analog stick and buttons, you play some amazing riffs on your 'magical' guitar - thereby destorying the evil boss's minions (and saving the universe.)

The game is a lot of fun, and the programmers made sure to include an extensive training level so you can get the hang of it before attempting any life-threatening battles. It takes a bit to get used to (especially since the game makes extensive use of the otherwise-dormant analog sticks) but once you have the hang of it you'll be addicted in no time!

The best part is that once you've beaten the game on easy/regular mode, you can play the entire thing again on Master! (Which, by the way, is really pretty difficult.)

Beware: This game is not for those lacking in the hand-eye coordination department.

Enjoy!

Parappa on Steroids!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you liked Parappa the Rapper - buy this game! You'll love it. It get's to be much more challenging than Parappa on 'master' mode, but the songs are so great it's worth playing again and again. This is one of those games you need to own - it's a classic.

One Of The BEST Music Type Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Since the first time I saw Gitaroo-man on the shelves, I seriously thought this game looked pretty dumb. It totally looked like something I would never even play. But after reading about it and seeing other reviews, I thought I'd give it a try. Let me tell you, I had really misjudged this game by it's cover.

First off, let me describe the music in the game in one word: Addicting!!!! Really, the music in this game is the best thing about it. I am planning to buy the soundtrack soon. Songs from (Rock to Techno to Reggae...) Magificient.

Also, the first time I tried this game, it is "somewhat" okay to catch on. Directing the analog stick is probably the most confusing parts (It still is even now). It will take A LOT of practice to master some of these songs and get to the next level. Guarding/blocking the moves from the computer is fine...until you get the part where they start throwing all these buttons at you. Definately challenging, but fun.

I recommend this game to anyone. If you like DDR, Drumania, or any of those type of music games, you will probably enjoy this one as well.

Absolutely Addicting Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Words can't describe how amazing and addicting this game is. It's easy to catch on and to learn, but it's tricky to master. If you're not a very co-ordinated person then this game might be a bit hard to pick up, but after a few tries you'll really start to get the hang of the different songs and musical styles.

I too am stuck in Master Mode at the Sanbone Trio, level 7 I think. I've got the beginning patterns down perfectly, but every now and then, mid-way through the song, different parts will come at you at different times. SO, it's really hard to try and memorize patterns because they keep changing and rearranging themselves. Best of luck for anyone who gets this far. But to shed some light on the situation, it is possible to beat. I have a few friends who have beaten the game on Master Mode but it does take some time dedicated to this game. And trust me, it's not hard to throw in hours at this addicting game.

I'd totally recommend this game to absolutely anyone, whether you like this styles of games or not. It's totally awesome!!

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