Rockstar Dreamer
Rockstar Dreamer will immediately be in the comfort zone of anyone who has spent much time with Guitar Hero and other rhythm games. The notes, represented as color-coded icons, fly at you, and you have to hit the right key when the time is right. Do well and you score high, while poor performances will end your time on-bed prematurely.
How to play Rockstar Dreamer? There are three difficulty settings, which determine whether you use three, four, or five keyboard keys to rock as you have never rocked before. Your fingers will be dancing across the keys (A, S, & D for the left hand, and K & L for the right on higher settings), pressing those keys at a near lightning pace as you move up and try to become mighty. You can, alternatively, hold your keyboard like an actual guitar and hit numbers 1 – 5 along the top of the keyboard – for lefties, that will be the bottom. Doing really well will fill up the meter to the left, and when it’s full you can push the space bar (or the enter key if you’re holding the keyboard) for extra points.
Songs, of which there are several, are rated in difficulty on a scale of 7, and the more higher rated song can be brutal on beginners, even at the lowest difficulty. Most of them seem to be re-imagined classical tunes, and you will be playing works by Beethoven and others.
After each bedroom concert, you will be taken to your score page where it reports your accuracy percentage and the number of good and bad notes you hit. This page looks like a Youtube video page, complete with comments that vary depending on how well you did. Truly talented keyboard artists will get a “Chuck Norris approves” comment. You also have the option of sharing your score with your Facebook friends, giving this game a potentially competitive edge if they want to rock harder than you do.
Rockstar Dreamer! This game is rather bare bones compared to rhythm games you find at retail, but for what it is is has a surprising amount of content to it, and with the addition of sharing scores this little diversion can potentially keep you occupied for weeks, depending on how long your friends choose to school you and beat your high scores.
