More crap to hang off your DS!
When news of a Guitar Hero DS port first reached my horribly deformed ears I reacted in the way I suspect many people reacted, with utter confusion. I hear the kids these days are saying something along the lines of "WTF". How could you possibly port Guitar Hero, a game that relies on having a fair amount of room at your disposal in which to rock, to the DS, a system that is best played while on the bus crammed between two smelly hobos so fat they defy description. Somehow, the developers at Vicarious Visions, the company I suspect we will grow to hate immensely for releasing this, intend to deliver portable illusory rock god status right into your hot little hands.
However the big news isn't that the DS is getting a Guitar Hero port, it's that you won't use your stylus, one of the main input devices for the DS, with the game. Adrian Earle, design manager for Vicarious Visions, reported that they're developing a new peripheral for the DS on which to tap furiously thus irritating the ever living fuck out of everyone around you. Keep in mind the tapping bit is simply speculation on my part, I'm hoping for some kind of light emitting theremin control so that next PAX there will be rows of enraptured gamers, twiddling their fingers over light emitting boxes, thus fulfilling my "the future is now" wet dream.
In addition to the intriguing prospect of a new peripheral, Adrian Earle informed the folks at GAF that they won't be adapting the graphic style of Guitar Hero to a cartoonish 2-D style, instead keeping the iconic Guitar Hero look. I only hope they can reproduce the Guitar Hero feel as well.
What say you?!