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I’m faced with a dilemma my friends: To buy or not to buy the much talked-about Brutal Legend. Everyone seems to be going apeshit about this game, and I guess I get that. The premise sounds pretty decent, and there’s a lot of metal gods (and Jack Black, I know) involved and doing voices and such.
We all know I love Guitar Hero and RockBand (never said I wasn’t a nerd), but I think the last “adventure” type game I played was Sonic The Hedgehog on Sega Genesis. All in all, it does look like a pretty good game, but uh… I don’t wanna suck at it. I’ll think about it.
This tip comes to me from my cousin, the most brutal Biggie fan I know. As I am a recent college grad, I can tell you that I had to take some pretty awful classes in my four year run (ECONOMICS. WHY?), but I also had my fair share of good ones. But if I could’ve taken a class on Guitar Hero, I would’ve shredded your asses and gotten an A+++! Sound ridiculous? Well, it’s not.
This fall, NYU is offering a course entitled “Guitar Heroes (and Heroines): Music, Video Games and the Nature of Human Cognition.” I wonder if there is a lab component involved? Can you use star power to score extra credit? Is the final exam playing “Freebird” on Expert? Well, IT SHOULD BE. This almost makes me want to NYU to get my masters… well, almost.
As if Kurt Cobain hasn’t been rolling in his grave enough in the past few years… with Courtney Love being a freakin money grubbing WACKO, daughter Frances Bean walking around as his evil twin, and Krist Noveselic’s balding head (get it, Elise?)… he’s probably rolled his way to Detroit by now. The last thing he probably wanted was to be made into a video game.
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Nirvana and I love Guitar Hero/Rock Band, but just leave Kurt alone. Or at least if you’re gonna make him animated, make it more realistic. It looks just like him, sure, but he never had that kind of rockstar stance on stage. When have you ever seen footage of KC looking right into the camera or right into the audience giving good face?
Why couldn’t they animate someone like Dio? Who wouldn’t want to play Holy Diver on a plastic color-coded guitar? I SURE WOULD.
A story I’ve seen on a couple different sites today is that about the air guitar world record being broken. Apparantly, 440 people collectively played air guitar to Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” at the Download Festival this past weekend. This is cool and all I guess, but I’m more intrigued by the sponsor of all of this, a new video game called Brutal Legend.
I’m not really what you’d call a “gamer.” I’m just nasty at Guitar Hero. You know, I’m not a player, I just crush a lot. Any who, any music related game with the word “brutal: in the title I just had to check out. Who knew video games had trailers? I don’t know if I’ll run out and get it, but I’ll give it some consideration.
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