After a wait of over three months, the music-based shooter has finally made its way onto the European PlayStation store. Has it been worth the wait? Eight levels, five pounds, many hours of hair pulling and screen-shouting - quite possibly.
Enjoy the show!
-K
The backrounds look too distracting to actually play the game.
I played it last week but can’t remember if there was any rumble.
Why haven’t you bought a Duelshock 3 off of ebay yet? I got a new one for £30 delivered from honk kong.
Great Review. Loved it, all-tough i don’t have a ps3 
But loved the part.
“Fresh air being nice to me or something, but don’t worry I brought reinforcments” ROFL loved it.
And love your show !!
Great show as always. You my absolute favourite video game reviewer, right up there next to Yahtzee.
Mike
Have you given Audiosurf a look yet? It’s another game that uses rhythm to influence gameplay. Sort of a cross between Tetris and early racing games with suitably trippy visuals. Not the deepest of games and it does better with certain kinds of music than other, but it’s about six quid on Steam and is quite a nice casual game that you can just come back to every now and then.
Good thing you brought reinforcements. Another great review.
Just bought it now and im loving it! All because of your amazing review of course 
Nice review. Seems like a fun game, although it’s a bit weird that the shooting directions are capped to the 8 d-pad directions although you shoot with the right analog stick, or did I just misunderstand that?
There is one thing I really don’t get:
Why is it taking forever for stuff to appear on the PSN store for Europe? I read somewhere that the european PSN store takes longer for games to appear because they have to be available for all the different languages, but still, it’s pretty annoying, especially if the content you want wouldn’t contain any localizable content anyway, like Guitar Hero track packs or things like that.
Currently, the EU PSN store is more frustrating due to these things than it is good for me.
Nice setting this time! Good ‘ol Oxford.
The tree you were sitting under reminded me of Zelda for some reason. Hmm….
It looks like Every Extend Extra Extreme, even the having to chain explosions
Good job on another solid review. 
There needs to be more serious girl gamers like you on the net, even if just to show that it isn’t just us fellas that spend far too much time curled up in a dark room with our latest video-game adventures. :-p
@RawSteelUT:
Now I know why it took that long to appear here in Europe. Adding that “Riff: ” at the beginning of the title is truely an achievement for that short time Seriously though: I have no clue why that was added… but at least in Germany they have an awkward tendency to a) translate titles into awkward other things that often have no relation to the original title and b) add something even more pointless to the title to make it sound like a B-movie from the 50s. Perhaps the same happened here?
Small example: The TV series “Threshold” got “translated” into “Nemesis: Der Angriff”, which means “Nemesis: The Attack”. This has no relation to the original title, the series itself or anything else, it’s just some random stupid title and “Der Angriff” / “The Attack” sounds like the sequel to some trashy monster movie. 
@ Schmung
Audiosurf is the absolute nuts.
I recommend ‘Water From A Vine Leaf [Xylem Flow Remix]’ by William Orbit for fast paced action or the full 10 minute version of ‘Marquee Moon’ by Television for a more mellow experience.
I actually played Chopin on it last night and it was fantastic. Ballade No. 1 in G Minor worked especially well.
Thanks for all the feedback guys
RawSteel - ROFL! Right on.
Matches - yeah, you got the control thing right. It’s a bit weird, but you do get used to it.
EDS is pretty fun and I enjoyed your review, as always. However, it’s a shame that games like the aforementioned Every Extend Extra Extreme don’t get the same amount of hype. I found the latter far more interesting. EDS gets a lot of cred for being (initially) developed by a single person, but Every Extend has indie roots too. Give it a try on X-blah sometime, if you haven’t already.
@Norbit : I’ll give them a go.
I’ve been mostly trawling my collection to see what will give me the highest possible score as well as trying to pick the most obscure music I can in order to have a scoreboard to myself because I’m basically crap at the game. My glee lasted barely a day before I got an email telling me that I’d been dethroned.
Ed - Check out my E4 review here http://www.playdigital.tv/2007/10/31/14-e4-and-speedball-2/
I thought the game was ok, but was frustrated by the inaccuracies of analyzing BPM on imported tracks. Still waiting to try Audiosurf… (issues with broadband on my home PC).
I love your show, I’ve seen every episode. I loved the episode when you reviewed Halo 3. When is your next episode coming out. I would like to see more DS game reviews.
If you’re looking some gaming action that changes based on the music you feed into it, then audiosurf is definately worth checking out
http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=12900
Also, since I can’t find an email addy for you katherine, I’ll have to resort to posting it in here (sorry).
I do a series of videos where you have to guess the name of the game based on a 5 second clip from its rolling intro - it’s a lot harder than it sounds
linky: http://www.pissheadnerds.com
Lemmie know how you do
@Katharine: Your reviews are consistently fantastic and this was no exception. Since it’s been 3 weeks since your last video appeared on your RSS feed, I decided to actually come to the website and comment! w00t.
Off topic: Where did you get that awesome scarf? me wants one.
Great show!
However, can you post an audio only mp3 version so i can listen to it while driving. Cranky geeks and diggnation post mp3 versions.
Hey Katherine,
I recently came across your channel when both you and I were featured on a recent pop-17.com vodcast.
I LOVE your work. You are hilarious and have such great camera presence. We would LOVE to syndicate your videos on GEN if you are interested and would also love it if you would be interested in writing for us as well. You def. have a passion for geek culture and that’s exactly what GEN is about!
I haven’t been able to find an e-mail for you so, if you could shoot me a mail that would be fantastic!
keep up the very entertaining work!
Becky “Aktrez” Young
leading lady
The Girls Entertainment Network
http://www.girlsentertainmentnetwork.com
Hey guys, just wanted to apologize for the delay in comments going up and my responses while we were getting the new site ready. As I’m not the moderator I’ve only just read them, so thanks as ever for the feedback!
Alphaxion: - can you send a direct link please? I’ve been browsing your site (nice one btw) but can’t find it…
Andre Sala: - Cheers. Someone gave me that scarf years ago. You can get them most anywhere now though, try street markets.
Al: - will pass on the audio suggestion to the powers that be - thanks.
Aktrez: - thanks *blush* will drop you an email.
katherine: sorry for the lack fo response, things have been very busy (I attended the Blizzard Invitational in Paris in June!).
If you check out http://www.pissheadnerds.com/news_cats.php?cat_id=9
you’ll see all of the media I have produced, the buttonmasher test videos are labeled up as such.
I haven’t made one in a while cause I have been taking a break from them. I do plan on making more of them soon tho.
You shouldn’t be so hard on the amount of time it took to get over to Europe. It must have been a titanic effort translating it into Spanish, French, German and Italian. You guys should really pay homage to the dedication and perseverance Sony Europe showed in localizing such a text-and-dialog heavy game.
And if you haven’t figured it out, that was MASSIVE sarcasm.
On a more serious note, why “Riff: Everyday Shooter”? It’s just “Everyday Shooter” over here in the US.