10 Times YOU Made A Video Game Impossible
7. Performance Mode - Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero can be a challenge for some even on the easiest difficulties. Not everyone can master five buttons, a strumming thing and a whammy bar on a big plastic controller. Thankfully you get various difficulty modes that change up the frequency of notes, and even limit the number of coloured buttons you’ll actually use. On Expert, using all five buttons and occasionally a clusterfuck of notes is bad enough, but imagine doing it blind?
A cheat present in most games from Guitar Hero II onwards activates ‘performance mode’, which brings you into a playstyle most resembling that of being on stage; playing all notes from memory. No fretboard, no multiplier meter, no star power meter, nothing. Just the stage and the music. Watching people get at least a four star ranking on Through The Fire and Flames is absolutely nuts. Once you’ve got your head around playing a track in expert, and you’re feeling kind of comfortable with it, why not input the cheat and see how much you really know? Think you’re good at Guitar Hero? Think again.