#the second half isn't nearly as bad as the official album is the thing. but i dont care im done with her mind games i want to live again

[anewbrainjughead]

I don't go here but pls know I've been watching the contextless tswift posting like 😦🍿👀😔 and. Condolences. How many songs??? On one album?? /why/

THIRTY ONE SONGS!!!! thirty. one. songs.

as for why i honestly could not tell you she's a serial killer. she's the jigsaw of pop music. she's like the joker. she released a really bad 16 song album then 2 hours later added 15 more songs on the end as a ✨surprise✨. it's a fucking disaster

[absolutementality]

Media Log - The Beatles Rock Band

This is easily one of the best games Harmonix ever made. Getting The Beatles license was the best thing they ever got. All the songs are a lot of fun to play, and this game just looks outright amazing. Neversoft also was fighting for The Beatles license, however from the footage we have of their pitch, It didn't look great. Neversoft isn't bad and I don't think Neversoft Beatles Guitar Hero would have been bad, but god it would have been such a disappointment compared to this.

This game is built off a fork of Rock Band 2, even though the highway is more similar to Rock Band 3. Gameplay wise, it works pretty well. I don't think there's anything wrong with the gameplay here, and feels pretty much the same as RB2 and runs very well even with all it's effects. The menus are whatever, they work for what they need to do, but definitely feels really cheap compared to the main Rock Band games. Something fun is the game refers to Overdrive (also called Star Power in the GH games) as Beatlemania, which is a neat little renaming.

However, the in-game venue animation for this game? Holy fucking shit. This is one of the most beautiful games I've played. There are so many visual effects I'm impressed by in this game. There's effects that recreate analog effects which are super impressive, but even the smaller parts impress me. This game somehow got dynamic lighting from a projector working, and it looks great. The models for the individual members look amazing, and are all very recognizable for who is who. There's no wonder Paul McCartney still uses footage of this game for live shows, Harmonix just absolutely killed it here. The game has a venue mechanic called "Dreamscapes" which are most closely to how Project Diva does it's background videos, they can do basically anything, customs venues, swapping outfits mid-song, moving text, special venue animation, special effects, it's absolutely amazing how well it works. The game also has more traditional "character on a stage preforming" venues also, though these are more limiting in what you can do.

The game has a pretty good setlist overall, containing 44 songs on the disk and 29 as DLC. With the Abbey Road DLC they releases, on PS3/360 there was the addition of Abbey Road Medley, which is nearly 20 minutes straight of the B-Side of Abbey Road. Second longest official song in these games, only losing to Rush's 2112. This wasn't included on the Wii version because the song needs more memory then the Wii can consistently provide (However there is a port to Wii, and it runs just fine. Though it can crash if you play multiple songs before). However they missed some REALLY big songs, like Strawberry Fields Forever, and also almost the entirety of Magical Mystery Tour is missing (only 3 songs!! From their best album!!!). However, this game has an entire group of people making customs for this song. I mean custom charts, custom venue animation, everything. These feel just as high quality if not higher quality then the official stuff Harmonix did. Some of these even contain custom outfits, venues, and effects just for specific songs. Including customs, this game has MORE THEN HALF of the entire Beatles discography.

This gif is a custom, for the song Magical Mystery Tour. This is the only custom I'm going to show, however there's (as of writing) 70 custom songs for this game. I'm impressed by their work and use of effects.

The game and its customs are just a general love letter to The Beatles. It celebrates basically the entire life of the band, containing venues based off iconic performances, like performances in The Cavern Club from their very early years to the iconic Rooftop performances. The Career mode (which I haven't played too much of, I've just played every song in Quickplay) is a timeline of the band essentially, with some pretty good pre-rendered cutscenes that have their own unique style. It even just celebrates their visual style with how bright and colourful or even calm and psychedelic. the dreamscape venues can be, and the songs that use animation and venue based off their actual real life performances.

This game is just, nearly perfect. Where this game falls flat it makes up for everywhere else. If you want to play the console games and you have a guitar (or drums. or vocals) you should definitely play this one. All the charts are real fun and the venues are just absolutely beautiful. This game with just what Harmonix released, it's a 9/10. The fact it's missing some iconic songs are just sad and does hurt the experience a litte. With customs though? This game is an easy 10/10. The inclusion of basically every song most people would want, and overtime addition of more and more songs just push this game to being even more perfect.