Meeting the Beatles

Tried the Beatles game for the first time with the Wii Guitar Hero guitar controller with absolutely no technical troubles. I started out on Quick Play in order to get a feel for the game and found that the songs there are listed by ranking them easiest to most difficult. In the interest of avoiding being embarrassed, I started at the top with their easiest tunes first on medium. They were WAY too easy. When I tried Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, the first time on expert though, I failed, not to booing as with GHWT, but the band simply stopped playing and you could hear John's voice saying, "I don't know what they're doing."You an choose a No Fail mode, but I skipped that.

Visually,for some of them, the quick play starts you out in a studio with a date displayed,  and then once you start the tune,  depending on the era, puts you visually into some other animated ambience. The Beatles look a bit like they do in the Yellow Submarine film , so it's not like they are unfamiliar or a mockery of themselves. The issue I am having personally with the visuals is the same one as I had with  GHWT. While we have a good enough old school TV, it is not high def and the sound is just out of the speaker unless I crank it, much to my cats' and partner's dismay. So, maybe the visuals are getting lost on me while I am laying. It is as if they play on in my subconscious, but right now I am concentrating so hard on the game that I am not paying attention to the visuals.

This is an interesting project because while I am not the wildest fan of the Beatles, I do like them. I noticed that the more difficult songs for guitar are some of their earliest ones.

Above the tunes in Career mode is a kind of thermometer which display the relative difficulty of the instruments and some of the easiest songs , like "Yellow Submarine" doesn't even inch its way onto the thermometer. 

Next stop, I think is "Career" mode, which will put me chronologically in the various venues they played in.