Amazon.com Product Description: Gitaroo Man is an entirely new type of music rhythm game, in which your instrument is actually your weapon in the fight against evil. Unlike traditional music games that simply require the player to press buttons in rhythm with onscreen actions, Gitaroo Man makes players use both the analog stick and controller buttons at the same time, thus manipulating the onscreen characters with jumps, ducks, and attacks.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - 5 stars for Gitaroo Man!
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.
Rating: - Way to short and easy
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.
Rating: - Get it while it's cheap
Back in October of 05, I bought this game for $90 from eBay, because my brother wanted it for xmas and I couldn't find it anywhere else. To him, it was worth the $90. Now, I have seen three copies at local game stores for $39, and now I see more than ten copies on amazon for only $45. It wasn't even available here in October! Less than half a year has passed! If the price/availability keeps fluctuating, the prices will be back up to $90 in a matter of weeks! Get it now while it is cheap, I urge you. Do not wait, because I doubt it will get much cheaper than this.
Rating: - Crazy Japanese music game, but it's great
This is one of those wierd Japanese games that you often hear about, but rarely make it over to our shores (Europe anyway). It is not the kind of game I would usually consider buying, though I did own Parappa The Rapper, but though that was amusing initially, I quickly grew tired of it. Gitaroo Man is so much better than Parappa.
I first saw this game on a demo cd from a games magazine, and it had the second level from the game on it. I ended up playing it hundreds of times and became completely hooked, to the point where I had to get the game. I found a cheap copy about 6 months after it's release and for the money I paid it was easily worth it. While there are only ten levels and if you are any good you will complete it within a couple of hours, there is definetely a lot of replay value. Also a very hard difficulty level is unlocked when completing the game, you can now play through again on this difficulty and it is very hard. Only experts need apply for this difficulty as the notes come past at such speed, with tricky button combinations, and guitar sequences. Anyone who can complete that can rightly call themselves an expert.
The only problem with the game is obviously the length, it is short and it is debatable whether it is worth full price, if you can pick it up cheap though it is great fun, and the music, though cheesy, will stay in your head for weeks. The multi-player mode is also great, so get a few friends round and you'll have a blast on this, excellent game.
Rating: - I had to get this game out of my house.
I owned Gitaroo Man for well over a year, close to two years probably. I finally ended up selling it on here for $30. (Who knew it was worth so much?).
Gitaroo Man is your standard (read: Japanese Weird) rhythm game, where you punch buttons and move the analog stick in accordance to the 'music'. Whether you have any sort of rhythm is really arbitary to your success in this game. Gitaroo Man really measures your ability to remember the button patterns, your reflexes, and your knowledge of where those buttons are on your PS2 controller.
I had to get this game out of my house, though. I had been stuck for 6+ months on the 6th song, and I knew it was hopeless for me to try and finish it.
- Crazy Japanese music game, but it's great
