Damn You, The Sword…
Well, that didn’t take very long. After cruising through the Hard Mode of Guitar Hero 2, I finally got my ass soundly, decisively trounced, kicked and otherwise handed back to me. The band? The Sword. The song? Freya. There’s a bridge between the second and third verses that goes into an insanely long series of repetitions. I think I find it stupefying or something, because my alertness and dexerity just drop somewhere about half-way through it and I just can’t keep the rhythm going despite the fact that it’s just the same series of notes over and over again. Somehow, my brain actually has an easier time with changing melodies than it does with repeating ones. Thank GOD for that practice mode, because I can already see some minor improvement, though it’ll be a few days or even weeks yet before I can get past that song and the one that comes after it. Expert finally lay the musical beat down on me half-way through. I managed to squeak through 22 of 40 songs before I just finally wasn’t good enough to keep up anymore…
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I know precisely what you mean. I find I can wail through a complicated passage without even thinking about it, but when I start playing a highly repetitive sequence I suddenly become self-conscious and inevitably miss a note. I just went through this on Message in a Bottle, although I didn’t find Freya to be a problem (at this level at least).
I’ve now completely four and five starred my way through Medium (Freebird wasn’t that hard, but damn is that sucker long) and I made the bold move of trying Shout at the Devil on Hard and got my ass completely handed to me. They really don’t make the transition between levels easy, do they?
Actually I’m starting to think that Hard is a refresher for GH1 veterans. I found the songs on Hard somewhat challenging towards the end, whereas Hard on GH1 is pretty easy now.
If you want a more reasonable curve in difficulty, you might want to go back to GH1. As I remember it, the move from four to five fret buttons was more gradual, and I Love Rock Roll was a reasonably gentle transition into the world of 5 fret songs. I think Harmonix pretty much knew all the vets would start with Hard and Expert, so those levels were crafted with the assumption you finished Expert on GH1.
That’s the only way I can account for the insanity of Freya on Expert when it’s only the freakin’ halfway point…
Good call, Wayne. I did just as you suggested and made it to the second set list on GH1′s hard level before I got schooled by You Got Another Thing Coming.
Somewhere Rob Halford is laughing at me.