Pata-Pata-Pata-PON!
Her'es the thing...this game is great. It's got everything games should have. Cute and charming characters. Stunning art. In depth and engaging modes of play. Things you can collect. Things you can upgrade. And it's on the PSP so you can take it anywhere and annoy people around you with it's cute sounds and fun animations.
It's a rhythm game. What that means is, you need to play with sound, and you need to have a tad more rhythm than your white, soulless, tone deaf grandma. If you can do that, you'll have fun...for a while. Then the fun will turn into obsession. And then the obsession will turn into resentment. Then into fear. Then hatred. And finally....death.
You see, this game is kind of a tease. It looks great. It's got these cute little eyeball dudes that sing and dance at your command. It's like you're a god or something. You need to tap buttons to a rhythm...and the better you do that, the better your little dudes will fight. You go along fighting other cute dancing tribes, great looking monsters, and buffalo-things. Even the buffalo-things are cute. And the game is a load of fun! tapping along and seeing the little army fight the better you tap makes you feel like there is nothing you can't do.....until you get later in the game.
The game gets harder. Fast and in a hurry. Oh sure, you'll upgrade your little dudes. You'll go back and forth collecting everything you can. You'll add cooler and cooler dudes to your army...but it won't do you a lick of good. It gets to the point where as awesome as you are...as cute as your guys are...as strong as your rhythm is....you just can't get past certain levels without having an aneurysm. I mean, you can tap and tap and tap like your friggin Keith Moon (look it up youngsters)...but it ain't EVER gonna matter! You'll NEVER be good enough! And it will become painfully obvious how pathetic and worthless you are the harder you try! You'll just sit there wondering why you didn't take school more seriously...why you ever decided to try a career as a drummer...and why you thought it was a good idea to start your career on a portable gaming system. I mean look at you! Get yourself together! UGH! Just bury your head in the sand and wait for the apocalypse...because your just wasting everyone's time otherwise....
Jerk.