IGN Says: How many times have you played Super Mario Bros. and thought to yourself, "This is ok I guess, but I really wish I could play this with a Guitar Hero controller." Never? Oh…well, you get to anyway! Fret Nice is a musical platformer that can be controlled entirely with a guitar peripheral. I say can be because the game mercifully doesn't require a guitar and actually plays much better with a regular controller. Without the gimmick, though, Fret Nice becomes a pretty standard affair. It's got a unique art style and some kick ass tunes, but the gameplay was designed around a novelty that doesn't really work.
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Fret Nice might make your arm fall off. The game began its life as a college project, and like a lot of ideas borne from unrestrained youth, it's centered around a crazy concept: it's meant to be controlled with a plastic guitar peripheral. You move right or left by holding down different frets. You kill nebulous enemies by furiously strumming the flipper. And you jump, well... you jump by jerking the guitar upwards and activating its tilt-sensor. Since this is a platformer – one where all attacks must be performed airborne – you'll have to yank that instrument's neck more than you ever did playing Guitar Hero.
Do not use the guitar. While Fret Nice had always been hyped as a game that was designed with the guitar in mind, it just doesn't work very well, and we imagine this could be why it contains full support for the pad. It's not even like you're particularly making music with the peripheral, instead you're simply holding down any of the chords in accordance with how many 'parts' (eyes, antennas etc.) are on enemies, and strumming madly until they're dead.
