Fuser Review (PlayStation 4)

From the creators of Rock Band and Dance Central. Welcome to FUSER, a non-stop digital music festival where YOU control the music and share it with the world!

Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 22.28GB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Character creator-choose from 8 presets or create your own.
• Cross-platform play-on/off.
• PlayStation 4 Pro settings-Ultra graphics or 4K resolution choice.
• Calibrate audio/video sync.
• Colourblind support.
• Cursor and scroll speed sliders.
• Can skip cutscenes.
• Introduction set that acts as a tutorial.
• Music creation DJ gameplay.
• Four game modes-campaign, freestyle, co-op freestyle, and battles.
• Social-share and listen to other players mixes.
• Crates-these act a bit like profiles where you load it up with tracks, instruments, effects, and snapshots.
• Snapshot-save a mix and it allows you to import the snapshot to then edit it.
• In-app purchases.
• Campaign-six promoters you work for and you can then unlock new tracks, instruments, audio effects, etc.
• Has DJ Hero vibes.
• Stage kit-light shows, stage effects, fireworks, projectors, and crowd effects.
• Gameplay-you have four turntables and add discs (songs) to them. The Gimmick is you add an element of the disc to a turntable like just the beat or just the vocals or the percussion. This makes it like a DJ mix.
• Play how you want in a show.
• Downbeat-lay down a new disc on the downbeat to get a bonus as it makes the song coherent and gives the impression it all flows together.
• Crowd meter-tells you how well you are doing.
• Really satisfying when you easily mix songs.
• Bar to show when to do a downbeat.
• Earn EXP and level up to unlock new items for your set and currency to buy songs.
• Can replay songs.
• Able to eject discs on the fly.
• Campaign-you will get new tasks popping up as you play.
• Performances in the campaign are judged on a five-star system as you had in Guitar Hero games.
• Audience requests can pop up and doing them gives bonus scores.
• All the disc dropping is color-coded and assigned to each face button for ease of use.
• Elements of the disc will not only be colored but have an icon to say what it is.
• Really good selection of songs from all genres.

Cons:

• In-app purchases.
• Hard to judge the downbeats.
• A lot to take in.
• The big learning curve in terms of understanding what you can do.
• Not a game you can stream due to the DMCA likelihood.
• Small bars and icons making it all much harder.
• The campaign serves more like an extended tutorial.
• The difficulty in keeping the crowd happy is so up and down and can be brutally unfair.
• So many songs are locked.
• Had a couple of blue screen shutdowns.
• You need excellent reflexes.