A fantastic product that is actually kind of bad at doing it's job. It's essentially Guitar Hero with an actual guitar. The issue is there aren't as many learning tools as there needs to be. The biggest one that is missing is a metronome. If you are actually a beginner, as in the first time you laid hands on a guitar was when you bought one for this game, do not rely solely on this game. Watch some videos and find a good community to talk to. Also playing through HDMI audio introduces heavy latency so make sure to find some videos to help with audio set up. Get yourself an amp and a tuner and practice outside of the game. Use this tool as just that, a tool.

Other than that Rocksmith is great. Once you have everything setup, Rocksmith plays like dream. I personally don't like the way it tries to teach you the songs by drip feeding the riffs based on how well you're doing. But that is entirely because I was an intermediate player when I began playing. The way I was taught to play was to keep going after you've made a mistake and try to improve as you go. This is difficult to do when the game takes away bits of the song if it feels you're having trouble. So I will make a mistake, the riff will simplify which throws me off causing me to make more mistakes and simplifying the riff even further. I turned that off immediately.

The best tool this game has is the riff repeater. You can pick a section of the song and play it over and over. You can set the speed of the riff and the game will speed it up once you get the hang of it until it gets back up to 100% speed. The songs included are a pretty good spread. Got some Metal, some Punk, some Blues, a little Pop, even some Hip Hop.

All in all Rocksmith is probably the best guitar learning tool there has ever been because the best way to improve your playing is to play along with the song you're learning. This gamifies it.

A very good experience with some small issues. I respect how realized their vision is. Nothing ever feels like they could have done more. I only have one issue with the trick system and that is that it hinges not on tricks themselves but on hitting different spots. The only way to get multipliers is to hit wallrides, ramps, and to lean into rail corners. Which wouldn't be too much of an issue if the AI wasn't a master of these things. So you have to pretty much do the same lines they are doing. The combat is there. Bosses are fun. Needs icons on the map and maybe chill on the heat system a bit. All in all Bomb Rush is fine attempt at Jet Set Radio and I hope the Developers give it another go.

An excellent wrestling game. Was advertised as a return to No Mercy style gameplay. They even got Geta to direct. However it goes beyond that but also sometimes doesn't quite reach it. It feels like a natural evolution and simplification of that system. I really like how this game feels. But I think my favorite thing about this game is how it's breaking peoples minds. A major wrestling company releases a game that doesn't have the production values of the WWE games and nobody knows what to do. I respect it. Does need more match types and I'm hoping for a tournament mode of some kind as
well. CAW is really limited but I don't really care. I really need to play Def Jam FFNY again though. That was one of the last games Geta directed and is probably the best Aki engine game. Would love to be able to compare the two.