(Everyone has those, right?
A Musical Story review
Playing A Musical Story made me think of tone poems.
Thankfully, the soundtrack is more than up to the task.
Which is probably a good thing, for a rhythm game.
This music is ostensibly coming from a Hendrix-esque young man called Gabriel and his bandmates.
While not quite as outstanding as the tunes it accompanies, A Musical Story’s animation is also lovely.
Succeed and proceed to the next section, another snatch of music, another few seconds of animation.
Fail and you repeat the section.
Over and over and over and over.
The music repeats and you have to press the buttons at the right time.
Sometimes you have to hold them, sometimes you have to press both buttons at once.
There’s no room for creativity or interpretation, no real interaction.
It’s all binary, pass and fail.
Pass and you proceed, fail and you don’t.
It makes it much easier to focus on what you’re doing while paying attention to everything else.
There’s a whole chapter devoted to refuelling the van!
It’s a shame that my main takeaway from A Musical Story is boredom.
