While sitting on the couch at home this morning, I decided it might be a laugh to tackle the infamous Dragonforce song Through Fire And Flames, in Guitar Hero III. I’d tried it a couple of times on the Hard difficulty but I’d never gotten past the intro. On Medium, I can play it through — no problem. Now for some peculiar reason, I got past the CTS-inducing intro and as I was playing, I came to the sudden realization that I might actually make it through the entire song (which by the way is a wrist-crushing 7 minutes and 24 seconds long). I saved all my Star Power for the crazy solos and got through them. Nearing the end of the song, wrists and fingers pulsating from pain I failed — at fucking 95%. My limbs couldn’t take it anymore. I tried it later again, got to 95% twice and once to 98%. During these unsuccessful attempts at beating said song, I came to a sudden realization; this is
I just thought I’d share this with you. The thing that really pisses me off is that some 9-year-old kid beat this song on Expert. Argh. That really pisses me off.
I’m going to sleep.
The Escapist’s Zero Punctuation game review are the dog’s bollocks. ‘Yahtzee’, the narrator of said videos always seems to have great insight into games that you might’ve missed otherwise. And his newest take on Guitar Hero III lands right on the money. On the whole the third installment is a hoot, and with medium and hard difficulties, ’shredding’ riffs from Welcome To The Jungle does bring about a certain Rockstar-feeling.
