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Easy Piano Game/Peripheral Announced For DS
The video game landscape has been awash with music games recently, but this one has us slightly intrigued. The game is called Easy Piano, and as you can see from the screenshot above, it features a piano peripheral for the DS.
With Easy Piano, players will be able to learn how to play the piano, or play a traditional rhythm game similar to Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Players – or pianists, I suppose – will also be able to record their own songs, though your DS cart’s memory will max out at total of four 3-minute-long songs. So you’re not going to be able to record Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, but it’s still a step up from most DS music games.
It’s hard not to be skeptical of Easy Piano, considering the fact that your keyboard only has 13 keys (though the software will feature eight virtual octaves). But it’s also hard not to be at least a little excited as well. With perhaps the exception of the drums in rhythm games, this is the first attempt to make a peripheral that’s true to its real life counterpart. Can we really learn how to play the piano from Easy Piano? We’ll let you know when we get our hands on a copy. Until then let us know what you think in the comments below.
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