You may hate me, but it’s not a lie
My husband may have bought it in 2003 American Idol on the GBA (for some reason), but I’m the one who conquered it in one car trip. I don’t like it too much American Idol. I don’t really like reality TV in general, but I see American Idol bored. It describes a mindset in which a career is not built through hard work, practice, and motivation to improve, but rather something to be won in front of an audience. It views music as merely a product rather than art, whatever your definition of art.
However, I don’t need to see it. I only have to listen to music when I go shopping. The only thing that forced me to play the game was a sick curiosity, which I had in abundance.
Ever wanted to be judged by your Game Boy Advance? I have the game for you! Have also a PS2 version, same but different. How is it similar? You put your dignity first to try and win a record contract. How is it different? PS2 version of American Idol you play a rhythm game with directional buttons, while GBA only gives you A and B buttons.
Also, the GBA version is uglier, but to credit the developer, they used 3D polygons for the characters. That doesn’t earn it an award or anything, but it’s neat to watch at times. The PS2 version might also sound better, as it’s on DVD rather than a fun-sized Kit-Kat. I guess what I’m saying is that it’s very impressive from a technical point of view if we’re doing charity.
Here’s an admission: I like button-based rhythm games. That’s probably because we’re sure that the most basic gaming ability any of us has – the ability to press the right buttons at the right time – still works optimally. In that way American Idol Shrinking it down to just two buttons is what you’d normally expect to see as a minigame in a larger trial, but here’s the whole concept.
Before you get there, you create a character with your choice of horribly outdated outfits. Is this what we wore in the early years? Some of these look like they belong in the 80s. Oddly enough, this is actually one of the criteria. American Idol rate you on. It didn’t like my chic evening gown, but when I tried to create the ugliest combination possible, it boosted my ratings. Not sure why you should care about what American Idol thinking about your outfit, but judging you anyway makes you feel inadequate.
Then get ready to push the button for the golden classics of Brittany Spears and the Backstreet Boys. Or NSync? I can’t really tell the difference since I heard Weird Al at the turn of the millennium. In any case, the playlist will be horrible or nostalgic.
In each level of the competition, you choose the song your character sings from a list of two or three. This ensures that you will suffer from many different impressions and also means that if you play the game more than twice, you will suffer many times.
The game is as basic as it sounds. Your cursor goes around a circle and whenever it goes over A or B, you press the corresponding button. Behind your rhythm circle, your pixellated origami avatar will move. I won’t suggest that the paper plane monstrosity moves with the timing of the music because, even though I’m not a dancer, I’m pretty confident that doesn’t happen.
You are then judged on how well you pressed the buttons. Then describe (wait, I need to look this up) Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell will give you vague comments about your performance. These are pretty good sounding samples, but I guess you need the judges out there somewhere.
It’s not all bad. While the song selections aren’t exactly my style, and the accompaniment sounds like demos on a cheap keyboard, the vocals do shift in pitch as you twist. In fact, it’s also not where they can be too high or too low, but rather it starts to heat up. It’s funny every time it happens because the track is going well, when suddenly your character’s face starts peeling to reveal the living lizard underneath. It almost makes me chuckle every time it happens, distracts me and my vocalist gets worse and worse.
You unlock more wardrobe items as you progress through the game. During the car ride mentioned earlier, I was able to unlock all of them, so it barely lasted a long time playing. How far do you expect it to go? I saw deeper in a hack mini game.
I’ll admit it American Idol It’s not a terrible GBA game, but mostly because it tries so little it’s hard to play. It certainly lacks the glamor of the show; There are no crowds or many visual signs that you’re not just locked in a room with three judges.
In fact, now that I’ve gone through the details, I realize that American Idol is a terrible game. I’m perfectly fine pressing the buttons; it only lost some of its charm when it pissed off Livin’ La Vida Loca with me.
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Zoey Handley
Zoey is a gamer. She has played video games her whole life and is a lover of both new and classic games. She loves to dig in the dirt and pick out games that are perfectly fine if you clean them up a bit.
