The DS Life: While My Guitar Grip Gently Weeps
by Eric Caoili 
{ Jul 23rd 2008 at 10:00PM }
The discs, colored green, red, yellow, and blue, tumble towards her, spilling like candy from a tipped box of Sprees, almost too many of them to catch. Her fingers lift then push, then lift then push over and over again above the corresponding frets, more mechanical than graceful. Imagine a pneumatic robot hand, and you will understand the choreographed taps of her digits; it is as if they learned to dance from footstep diagrams.
She does not sing the lyrics or hum the melody or tap her feet with the rhythm, she has attempted to faultlessly play this track enough times that she is long past enjoying the song. Truthfully, she has always loathed "Rock and Roll All Nite" as a shallow anthem. This time, though, Gene Simmons is singing her victory, as she is only a few chords away from a perfect score.
The DS Life is a weekly feature in which we scour the known world for narrative images of Nintendo's handheld and handheld gamers. If you have a photo and a story to match it with, send both to thedslife at dsfanboy dot com.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
iruka @ Jul 23rd 2008 10:24PM
Yep! Happened before but haven't played it long enough to almost get a perfect score and broken by a detached grip.
Matdredalia @ Jul 24th 2008 1:01AM
I haven't seen this one yet, but my step-dad was jamming out on Guitar Hero for PS2 and pulled so hard that he wound up frisby-ing (is that a word?) the PS2 halfway across the livingroom. It was bad.
LocalToast @ Jul 24th 2008 5:45PM
Yeah, the Guitar Grip doesn't really stay in the GBA slot. I think it was designed to fit your hand better than the DS.