Glad I finally experienced this but this has aged WAY more than the rest of the series. The biggest issue is complete lack of any calibration settings, which means if you don't have a CRT (I don't) you have to learn to play just the right amount off-beat. On top of that the hammer-on/pull-off system is extremely finnicky and way too faithful to a real guitar to be reliable. Both of these things make the game way harder than it should be so it's a good thing the game itself is quite easy, the timing window is incredibly forgiving and charts are generally not difficult at all, there are even multiple sections which have been notably dumbed down in an effort to keep things more simple. All that being said I find great charm in the game's simplicity, career mode is barebones but the series signature humor and absurdity is still here although more tempered than what it eventually becomes. The setlist is pretty good with lots of recognizable songs and they did a shockingly great job recreating all these since this is still the era of the series where every song is a cover. Probably won't revisit this but the core gameplay is just so fun that I still had a good time, not really worth revisiting unless you're a big series fan though.