Michael Jackson : The Experience

Michael Jackson: The Experience

What is there to say about Michael Jackson: The Experience 3D? Well, it is an experience, and since he is dead, anything more than lying inert is probably a step up. (Too soon?) Michael Jackson: The Experience 3D is a bit too different from the console dance games to be called a port. Instead, it's a 3DS rhythm game in which a digital, semi-3D Michael Jackson of an indeterminate era dances in the background while you tap, scratch, and swirl the stylus to the beats of 15 songs of the posthumous King of Pop. What I can say about it is this: It's tough wanting to like a game, but feeling like you can't. It's like the feeling you get when Darth Vader yells \"Nooooooooooo!” at the end of Revenge of the Sith; at first you're so happy to finally see the black chrome-dome, until your smile turns down in horror as James Earl Jones' voice starts whining about Padm. With no button controls, everything in the game is accomplished with flicks or taps of the stylus, including menu navigation, which can at times be tedious. And make no mistake, the game demands the use of the stylus. This by itself isn't that bad, but the controls require a degree of precision that makes it difficult to hold the 3DS within its 3D \"sweet spot” while playing, which for a game that has \"3D” in the title, is a poor indicator.