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Quick Look: Fret Nice

Finally! Another use for all those plastic guitars you have laying around.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Feb. 20 2010

Cast: Jeff, Ryan

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Fret Nice

103 Comments

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Edited By joey2683

Oh no...
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Edited By Dallas_Raines

Ah, delicious quick look.

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Edited By IvanOoze

Sac Magique!

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Edited By metal_mills2

Does this video seem to have no bass or is it just me?

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Edited By ShakeItBaby

I'm waiting for Fret Mice

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Edited By nanikore

DON'T FRET 
 
 
 
AHAEAHEHAEHAE

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Jeah!

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Edited By Thoseposers

 Wonder how this'll go...

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Edited By raviolisumo

Nice nice nice nice nice

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Edited By Zaapp1

The tilt-to-jump problem will be fixed in the sequel, Fret Twice.

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Edited By wwfundertaker

The controls will be a killer for me.

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Edited By blair

Fret NOIIIIICE!

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Edited By Olivaw

Looks pretty lame. Tilting to jump sucks, fighting dudes seems unintuitive, music is not impressive.
 
Except for that AirWolf-esque tune.

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Edited By jmrwacko

I can see people getting unjustifiably pro at this game. Especially the expert+ guitar hero players.

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Edited By ApertureSilence

I love the concept behind this, but the moment they said that you had to tilt the guitar to jump, I knew this was not something I'd enjoy.

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Edited By stevemanu

I like it. But why  use the guitar controller? Its just a gimic. 

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Edited By jeffk38uk

Seems interesting, but the fact you have to jump each time to kill an enemy seems a little awkward.

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Edited By Vrock

They should've done this to Brutal Legend.

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Edited By MetalGearSunny

Interesting.

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Edited By mordi

The RB2-guitar has improved tilt-detection, though. They used an ancient quicksilver-contraption in the RB1-guitars.

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Edited By Chuggsy

Cool idea.

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Edited By Osaladin

Seems like too much work.

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Edited By RobotHamster

Helicopters are NOT nice!

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Edited By edtwo

wait, why is heavy metal the bad guys?

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" I don't know how to deal with mouths"

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Edited By Krelle

jeff & Ryan: 
 
You say you havnt tried the regular controller, but still end the QL with "if you want to play this, the guitar is the way to go". 
wth? 
 
Ive played the whole game with a Wireless controller and it was alot of fun. Its a great platformer. Fret Nice can stand on its own without the guitar gimmick. 
The learning curve is steep, and the awkwardness of using a guitar (it seems) is not helping. 
 
This was a weird QL.

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Edited By Afroman269

Looks way gimmicky. 

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Edited By PhatSeeJay

Yeah starting to see why this won Swedish Game Awards.

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Edited By callumbay

This game looks rather frustrating to play... but cool nonetheless.

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Edited By GagnarTheUnruly

lol at ryan jumping over all the defeated enemies that give him points

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Edited By Shifty_Mcfly

Fret Nice will be my gameshow host name.

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Edited By Dynoro

That game is just....awful...there is no good is this game
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Edited By Brackynews
@Shifty_Mcfly: Fret Cashman already taken, huh? 
 
So... sequel possibly Drum Nice.. then.... Ride.. Nice? Maybe? I dunno. 
I can only wonder what would happen if LBP got Guitar support.
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Edited By KillerFly

Sequel Idea: Fret Twice

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Edited By Ghostiet

@Vrock: It was considered, as far as I know.

@EdTwo: Because this is Fret Nice. They'll get their revenge in Fret Badass.

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Edited By Teaspoon83

Man, watching Ryan struggle with the game made it look bad.  Would be great if the guitar controlled really well. Wonder what playing with a controller would be like.

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Edited By Deusoma

I really like the look of the game, but I don't own any guitar controllers, so I guess it's not for me.

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Edited By lordofultima

Best part about this quicklook is the Airwolf song. Actual game looks like poop.

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Edited By XXL_Bomb

Played the demo, thought it was awful. Controls killed it.

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Edited By Danterion

That was frustrating just to watch.

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Did the game flash up "LOL" when Ryan killed a group of enemies?
 
Oh man.

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Edited By D_Man_Taylor

I suppose I should get this. Since I do have like 4 guitar controllers in my house.

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Edited By Sin4profit

tilt jump has got to be a bummer...i have a hard enough time getting mine to work in Rock Band let alone a platformer, which by genre has you jump a bunch.

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Edited By benderunit22

This game just seems like a hassle to control with imprecise tilting and buttons with multiple actions assigned (like not being able to steer your jump and "attack" enemies at the same time). Good idea, but the reality of it just doesn't seem to add up - judging only from watching this QL of course, maybe it's awesome.

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Edited By BlazeHedgehog

As somebody who considers the Gamecube version of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (with bongos) to be one of his favorite games of all time, Fret Nice doesn't look very fun.

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Edited By Th3_James

Played this along time ago

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Edited By Milkman

Looks better than I expected but still not good.

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Edited By Rowr

theres nothing i like about this game

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Edited By zaglis

LOL!
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Edited By Daryl

What an ugly game