Aren’t you supposed to get better at something if you keep trying? You may, for example, take your midlife crisis in the form of a triathlon and find yourself flailing on your back in the swim portion, looking up to realize that not only are you not doing the smooth front crawl you imagined but you’ve been heading in the wrong direction for much of the race.
That will probably get better with time – a little more experience and practice, perhaps some therapy.
More time, however, did not help with the two games on offer this week. Both started strong and then faded fast.
First on the bill is Guitar Hero: On Tour for Nintendo’s dual-screen portable, the DS. The Guitar Hero brand, built around a series of games that make music interactive using life-size instruments and on-screen cues, has mushroomed over the past three years – few recent trends have been so thoroughly monetized. Walking into a video-game store now feels more like entering a music shop run by Fisher Price, given the number of fake plastic guitars and accessories of all kinds for Guitar Hero and its spiritual successor, the multi-instrument party game Rock Band.
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