‹ Another rant (not about IIDX…) •
So Etrian Odyssey for the DS is awesome. I haven’t played a game that challenged me like this has in a LONG time. IIDX is different, haha.
If you have a DS, pick it up – it’s an old school RPG that’s hard as balls. Plus, you have to draw your own maps on the bottom screen. A really fun use of the touch screen in my opinion. *yay*
More about this past weekend…I played IIDX either Friday or Saturday, I can’t remember. It was a moderately OK session. I think I got an A on one song? That pissed me off a bit, but it’s better to put some time in than none, right? *heart*
I also have seen major progress on my piano playing skills – that’s VERY exciting for me! I’m able to play both hands together pretty well now – my most recent achievement is playing the main line from Simple Gifts. It feels really good to be able to play music now. It’s going to take more and more practice always, but this is one of the most rewarding learning adventures I’ve ever gone on. If you ever wanted to learn piano, take it from someone with NO previous experience…ANYONE can learn piano!
I’d like to get some more IIDX in within the next few days. Hopefully my controller will still be on schedule like Steve said it would. The 5-6 wall is still not fully scaled on my part. Some 5’s kick the shit out of me still. 6’s can get pretty rough, too.
I realized my biggest issue thus far is when there are streams with chords in there – I just don’t have a solid way to hit the keys yet. I feel like my hands are too hectic. I’ll keep practicing. And Fake Time L7, those crazy chords at the beginning? That’s hard for me still. I need to get better at reading (chord, note, chord, note, chord, note, etc) patterns. And damn Blue Mirage L7 – all that TT!?!?! I seriously need to get better at the TT so I can progress.
Ah – and I’m at work again. Not much to do today. That’s why I brought my DS.
OH YEAH! And we bought my papi Tiger Woods 07 for the Wii. I *heart Wii.
1 comment
Comments feed for this article
Trackback link
http://blogs.beatmaniaiidx.com/djsaint/2007/06/18/a-pretty-good-fathers-day-weekend/trackback/
June 23, 2007 at 4:09 am
eight
Key to anything IIDX is this:
You have to learn how to read it first, and then you can try to play it. Pattern recognition is huge. Once you can see how a song is “meant” to be played, you’ve won a huge section of the battle. The other section is, obviously, successful play, but that tends to come after the first section.
Almost every other music game works the same way — it’s just the unforgiving nature of IIDX tends to mask it. That and IIDX loves the clusterfuck more than ANY other music game out there… (although TNT is a close second, tied with Pop’n)
Persistence will always serve you well, though. The “top players” tend to be the ones who have played the most.