It can be funny to hit the griddy while Peter Griffin sings Bad Romance but when you have to pay $5 per song if you want to play ones outside of the daily rotation it's a bit ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that the charting feels pretty wacky and spammy with some insturments. To be clear I've never played Guitar Hero, but based on what I've seen of it the charting does feel like it'd work better on a guitar controller rather than an actual controller. When there's no way to officially link up a guitar controller and the main draw of this game like the rest of Fortnite is that it's completely free to enjoy, it kinda sucks.
Jam Stage is also just...baffling. They basically made Fuser but you walk around on a hub-area map that looks like it was made in Creative and each person can contribute their own track of audio. But...you still have to pay $5 per song? So what's even the point, besides grinding out playtime XP or the quests that expect you to play on the Jam Stage for 30 minutes daily? There's no way Epic doesn't know everyone will just load it up and then go AFK until they hit the daily XP limit from it.
But in all honestly, it isn't entirely bad, and despite its flaws I do appreciate the effort to try and make a sort of gateway rhythm game that tries to maintain the mass appeal Fortnite had but in a different format entirely. The song choices definitely are an example of that. If this gets more people into rhythm games, I won't complain - although I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them better ones myself.
Jam Stage is also just...baffling. They basically made Fuser but you walk around on a hub-area map that looks like it was made in Creative and each person can contribute their own track of audio. But...you still have to pay $5 per song? So what's even the point, besides grinding out playtime XP or the quests that expect you to play on the Jam Stage for 30 minutes daily? There's no way Epic doesn't know everyone will just load it up and then go AFK until they hit the daily XP limit from it.
But in all honestly, it isn't entirely bad, and despite its flaws I do appreciate the effort to try and make a sort of gateway rhythm game that tries to maintain the mass appeal Fortnite had but in a different format entirely. The song choices definitely are an example of that. If this gets more people into rhythm games, I won't complain - although I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them better ones myself.