OK, I was kind of shy to play such kind of rhythm games like this in the first place at least, I managed to outcome the shyness two days ago. Unfortunately, the entire place was completely filled with tons of players hogging everything but I happened to see the same uncle playing this GITADORA like always. I guess that he's a better individual player than me at this but it's rare for him to see me back playing Beatmania IIDX at the arcades.
Even better was that there were some cosplayers out there trying to show off their playing but depending on the intention, it may be a special show off or a normal one. Maybe there should be a list of animes that have some arcade scenes where various rhythm games are shown in action. Of course, as long as we can see some character playing the game, that should be something you should try to mimic at the real life arcades, like playing that specific game that character plays dressed up as that character and then trying to fulfill the same objective by fulfilling various goals from the anime if available, like getting full combo for example. If there's a song from that anime in that rhythm game and that anime has the song in the same game, this should be an opportunity for you. The example will be Connect by Claris on DDR in which its anime already involves the DDR machine playing that song. However, you should take note that not all things can de-fictionalized although there may be other epic real life in-game challenges for the cosplayers dressed up as those characters who play rhythm games in the epic way. However, those challenges are extremely difficult if you're going to take up the challenge like that.
So after sometime watching that uncle play GITADORA, I eventually took a turn in playing GITADORA Guitarfreaks edition myself, only to realize that I needed to get used to the controls of the guitar controller. The pick is kind of weird at first but you're supposed to shift it to both sides like you're strumming it so I had a hard time like that. Another weird thing is that to trigger the game option for adjusting timing, speed and other stuffs similar to the ones in IIDX is that you're supposed to press the purple button to toggle that option but I made the timing adjustment to 4+ as I still need to figure out the new interface which looks uneasy compared to the mobile version which is split up into three gameplay parts and the worse thing is that you won't have much time left trying to adjust all that. The Help button is more like an Info button to me which displays your gameplay information. Unless I adjust the timing correctly, it will still behave like crap on me when trying to play the songs, affecting the grades. I actually got better grades in the mobile version than the one in the arcades but I still need to keep playing the arcade version if I want to unlock the remaining songs from the remaining Collection Mall Volume sets in the mobile version. There are also Volume sets in the arcade version but that is more tedious than in the mobile version which requires additional credits. Better playing, we can care about that later because this is the first time I played Guitarfreaks in the arcade.
As this was the first play, I didn't need to insert coins or anything as stated by the First-Time-Play campaign and although IIDX Pendual recently came out, that doesn't mean I had played IIDX for the first time by playing IIDX Pendual for the first time as I had already played the previous ones. That means, I still had to insert 4 coins to get started in IIDX Pendual for the first time and then migrate my E-Amusement to the latest game, resetting everything. So, keep on rocking until we have enough Gitadrops needed for the remaining Collection Mall Volume sets from the mobile version to unlock the remaining songs so that I can video capture some.
