
“Some people might stumble on it because they like music, and because it’s a game, they’ll pick up the guitar just because that’s the instrument that works with the game.
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“If somebody wants to learn how to play to guitar, it’s one of many options available today,” said Slash. Slash has spent a lot of time supporting different organizations that are implementing music programs in schools or making private ones, but gaming is opening up a new opportunity. Games like BandFuse and Ubisoft’s (UBSFY) Rocksmith franchise are bringing about a resurgence in videogame music at a time when many schools have eliminated musical education. Slash’s “Back From Cali” song from his 2010 self-titled solo album is one of the tracks aspiring musicians can learn in the game, along with 54 hits from the past five decades such as Blink-182’s “All the Small Things” (2000s), Megadeth’s “Hangar 18” (1990s), Judas Priest’s “Breaking the Law” (1980s), and Cheap Trick’s “I Want You To Want Me” (1970s). The game works with any electric guitar, but there’s also a special $180 Guitar Bundle sold exclusively through Guitar Center that includes the game, cables, and an authentic Fender Squier Bullet guitar. Developer Harmonix, which also created the Rock Band games, worked with Realta to fine-tune the BandFuse experience. There is a direct connection between Guitar Hero and BandFuse beyond Slash. “I have friends who had kids, and they couldn’t believe that the guy on the box was a real person, and they were completely astounded when they would be in the same room with me, ‘There’s the Guitar Hero guy.’” “I guess the whole idea of a rock star guitarist thing - even just faking it, just a little bit above air guitar - just seemed to turn everybody on,” he said. I was locked up in my office with my Guitar Hero.“ The franchise blew up with Guitar Hero III, which featured Slash on the box. They couldn’t even get me on the phone at that point. “I hooked it up, and I was completely addicted to it for maybe two months,” said Slash. He looked at the soundtrack and was impressed with the catalog of music, which featured a lot of well known rock tracks such as “Shout at the Devil” by Mötley Crüe, “Monkeywrench” by Foo Fighters, and even Guns N’ Roses’ own “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” Not too long after that, he got his own copy. He had his kids with him, and they played the game while he watched. He first saw the game Guitar Hero II on the back of a tour bus. Slash knows firsthand the addictive nature of Guitar Hero. This game is fun, but it uses a real guitar.” “The most frustrating thing about Guitar Hero was you could spend all that time getting good at it, but it was a completely useless skill that people were spending 18 hours a day doing. I had high hopes for Three Hopes, thinking it would be the same, but it wasn’t.“ BandFuse is a very basic concept, in essence really it’s Guitar Hero using real strings instead of whatever that was that you used to hit with your right hand,” said Slash. But Persona 5 Strikers functions damn near as a Persona 5 sequel, and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity fiddled with the canon of Breath of the Wild in a way that had some emotionally resonant and satisfying moments. It would have been easy and expected for these games to be narratively light - after all, there’s only so many times you can rehash the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Dynasty Warriors has managed to do that nine fricking times.


It’s not only because they scratch the itch of just wanting to go ape shit in a game but also because Koei Tecmo didn’t skimp on the storytelling. And since those games have taken a bit of a dip in quality (the most recent Dynasty Warriors 9 has abysmal reviews), the licensed flavor of this genre has become a welcome substitution. I voraciously consumed the middle handful of Dynasty Warriors and Warriors Orochi games.
