Guitar Band Reviews

This game is horribly made half the time when I press the right chord at the right time it says I missed or didn’t hit it. When you have to hold the chord I do and halfway through it says I missed it or let go of it when my finger are still on and if there’s a chord and the right and I hit it it says I missed on the left which makes no sense. Also there is no way that you are up against real people because if you slow it down and you opponent doesn’t you still finish at the same time or the other way around. You have to press two chords at the same time for some of the levels but it doesn’t let me do that if I press them at the right time at the same time it says I either missed one or I missed both which is dumb because how else are you going to win and sometimes it randomly says I missed even if there’s nothing to be played. All in all very crappy game poorly made learn to make a functional game for once because all this glitches haven’t been fixed from the start.

In short - this game is just WAY too complicated. It tries to be Clash Royale + Guitar Hero all at once. I love both games, but just because 2 things are good doesn’t mean they’ll be good rapidly mushed together.

People love games like Guitar Hero because you can select the songs you play, improve, and challenge yourself. When you get a random song and play against a random person, it’s FAR less rewarding than beating your own personal best at a song you’ve been grinding. The objective just clashes with what you want as a player, I don’t care to beat the person I’m going against I care to do good in the song.. and when I can’t challenge myself, it just doesn’t mean anything.

That’s not even mentioning all the weird stuff they throw in this game for no reason, I don’t care about band members or how cool my guitar is or upgrades. More complicated ≠ better.

This is a decent game. The gameplay is nice, the adjustments to the songs aren’t a problem and I even find myself humming these versions throughout the day. The big problem with this game is the difficulty as levels increase. Once you hit 2000 discs you transition from medium to hard automatically. Not a problem because practice does help. The issue is that as you move up in the battle mode it gets to the point where missing one note will cost you the match every single time. On the flip side, you get a perfect and check the score and your opponent isn’t anywhere near you. I also doubt that these are live matches because a) a match is found immediately every time and b) your opponents seem to use all their boosts each time and at about the exact same time in each song. I’ve also had big leads heading into the last ten seconds of the song as opponents starting compiling points in extremely large chunks and end up beating me. Also, what’s the deal with your perfect calculator? If my opponent beats me and I get a perfect, the bonus always says 10% but it’s always just enough to win.

I would recommend this game, just be ready to be frustrated in the later levels. Patience is a virtue I guess. It is also totally worth it to make a small purchase to eliminate the ads. Especially because they run that stupid sniper ad and sometimes my young son is watching over my shoulder.

Okay... This game is very addictive and I love it so much. But there are many many flaws! To start the number one concern and honestly kind of scares me, is that the game has some sort of access to my camera roll Because in the game there is a little logo by your band name that you could to create. Now whenever I click “ready” to start a game a picture of me that I took on the beach pops up onto the logo. I never remembered the game asking me for access to my camera roll... and even if it did I still would have said no. Because this game doesn't need that kind of information. So that’s the biggest reason why it’s getting two stars. In addition I barely win any games I don’t know if I’m playing against people even if I get a perfect score I still end up loosing. And that’s very frustrating as well. And also sometimes it will be very laggy and skipping beats and pausing and right when it un-pauses the person or computer or whoever I’m playing against is 300 points ahead of me and I can’t catch up with only 10 seconds... so yeah thoes are my two major complaints if that could be fixed that would be great because I still do love this game...

I paid for the ad removal but there are still ads if I click on the little movie things… if I pay to remove ads I want 100% ads removal. Even the option to get extra points. Just give me the extra points… also the ads are super long. I have decided within 5 seconds if I will ever play a game. Seems like only the worst games pay to put there ads up. It’s like save the king or move the guy up the ladder games. Ads in games are going away so it’s time to start finding a new way to make money. Sell the songs for $1.00 each or something. Or add a 2nd level of ad removal that gives you the optional rewards you would normally have to watch an ad for. Free to play with ads was bearable for a while but now it’s time to focus on making great ad free games again. You wouldn’t sit at you PlayStation , Xbox etc and have to sit thru ads to play your favorite games…

Its fun but theres a few bugs ive noticed. When opening the free case you get after completing i think 4 battles, the game will kind of freeze, not allowing you to open the case. When this happened to me, i closed the game and reopened it to find my free case had been opened but nothing had changed. Coins, exp, etc.

Also, there is a bug which causes the game to freeze when loading into a battle after being matched up with someone else; never making it past the matchmaking screen. Ive noticed during this time, i swiped down from the top of my phone to look at the time, and when i swiped back up, the battle had started and continued to freeze, causing me to forfeit the battle. Due to these bugs, ive rated the game a 3/5. If/when these bugs are fixed, i would gladly rate the game a 5/5. Please please please look into these game breaking bugs. Thank you.

I’ve been playing this game off and on for 3-4 years now, so I’ve seen it go through many updates. I was excited for one of the most recent ones where music was changed, and you’re able to play for longer periods of time vs only using energy for battles.
The downside to the update is I feel like those of us who previously paid for the ‘ad free’ version of GuitarBand before, got screwed over with the new version of the game. There’s still not as many adds as before, but everything wants you to watch an ad in order to play a song you don’t have, upgrade, earn more money, etc. I totally get trying to make money for your app, but I feel like there was somewhat of a disservice to those of who have already paid for GuitarBand but don’t have the monthly/yearly subscription to play all songs again.
It’s still fun but I’m disappointed with some of the changes that have been made.

I play rhythm games pretty often but never on my phone, this is a pretty good rhythm game for mobile devices but I have some problems. I’m able to easily read the patterns in songs but sometimes can’t hit them due to having a small screen so I resort to play with my 2 thumbs which kinda works, I kinda wished you made the hit box for the notes bigger by increasing the hit box from the bottom to all the way to the top of the screen (doing this would allow me to use 4 fingers with ease). Another thing that annoys me is ads, after finishing a song and declining a ad reward it still gives me an ad which is very annoying. These are really the only 2 problems I have with the game, other then that the games pretty good!

Okay for starters this is a great game. Good quality (most of the time), Addictive, etc. I love the songs because you’re trying to not give it away and the characters. Started playing it yesterday but now I can’t put my phone down for it. It’s a great game through and through.

My but though is that the game does glitch from time to time. When it does, you miss a note and mess up the whole song. One time I kept hitting the one note but it said “miss.” I kept having to restart seven times because of it. Another thing is the battle mode. Once you level up, you get picked for that rank which yes you do practice for. Yet I don’t like it. Why not just have it in the tabs for the ranks. Sure you might think differently but think. What if you had a losing streak and needed an easy song for battle. Don’t come at me and just think.

This game is very fun, well made, and entertaining but after I’m finish playing a song in either solo, or in a battle it always asks me, “Would you like to watch a short video to get some bonus stars/money?” And I don’t really care for the bonus stars or money, so I always press the x, but either way if I press the x, it’ll always give me and ad, even though I said no, and it also doesn’t give me the stars/money. Like if you’re going to give me the ad either way, at least also give me the stars/money. It’s crazy!!! Suggestion, I have some family/friends that play this game too, and I think it would be fun to challenge them in a battle, so I suggest maybe adding a friends list thing where you can add other people as friends so you can battle them. Me personally I honk that would make the game much more fun.

I’ve been playing for a while now and there’s some real positives to this game, very nostalgic, the buttons line up to the songs very nicely you get that guitar hero feel for sure. The song choices aren’t bad at all and the covers are good to the point you don’t mind hearing them while your playing. The only thing keeping me from the 5 stars is that if you want to play this long term the songs get redundant. There’s a good selection but definitely not enough and paying for the VIP isn’t worth it because as you get to difficult levels they unlock anyway or the legend version is almost impossible. I’d throw $5 at it to get more songs if the covers were good and I actually got new songs but $10 a week? That doesn’t make sense to have to keep paying for the songs. Overall if you want a time killer every now and then it is good for that.

Don’t get me wrong the game is amazing with the guitars you can use and the ability to customize them. But, there are to many ads and I don’t mean that their are ads in ads I mean that ads pop up way to often. You should at least be able to play at least 3-5 songs without an ad popping up saying. Do you want cash watch this video we should be allowed to have some space, to have fun and not get overwhelmed with ads after every song. Like I said it should at least be every 3rd song or 5th so then we can have more fun. But overall the game is really great it’s a lot of fun I recommend you play it, but I’m just telling the creator/creators they should fix the ad pop up amount so it’s not to often. It’s at least a 4 star game because of the ads but when they fix that issue it will definitely be a 5 star.

I picked up the game a few weeks ago and I can’t resist but play it at least once a day. The difference in levels are obvious and I enjoy practicing songs in Pro and Legendary level to get 3 stars. The battles aren’t too difficult and I’ve only lost a few as I’ve ranked up to Stage 9. Earning money isn’t difficult and doesn’t feel impossible to accomplish objectives. The only downsides I’d have to say, is for one, the song catalog isn’t very big, maybe less than 50 songs, and a lot repeat throughout, at just different levels. Also, even at a level pretty high, there are still a good number of good songs locked behind a VIP only option, despite saying that I’ve unlocked it. Another questionable downside would probably be the guitar choices and design elements. It could definitely be improved.

However overall, it’s a fun game and can definitely get addicting after a while. Would recommend

This is a great game hands down. Im sitting here reminiscing the good ol days when i use to rock out with Guitar Hero. This feels that void everything about this game is fantastic probably one of the best mobile games ive ever downloaded and very addicting EXCEPT i feel like once you pay for the AD FREE version i shouldnt have to watch a 30 second video to upgrade my stuff. Everything should be a click and boom upgrade no 30 second videos no ads nothing i feel like its a bit of false advertising with ads when i purchased ad free. Also, how do you change your name? I got my band name but under my band name in my profile it says “No Name” and it doesnt really explain how to change your name. This should be addressed too. Aside from that there are minor bugs/glitches like when pressing notes it causes you to miss the note even though you definitely hit it. Ive noticed this alot and im playing most of my songs on pro and legendary. I can 100% a song several times and then when im battleing other players same song same difficulty i hit the double notes and it only registers 1 note being hit. Also, maybe add a friend list type deal to challenge friends or family. Me and my daughter been playing and i think it would be cool to challenge her. Other than that GREAT game. Awesome.

I love this game, the glitches aren’t as bad as they used to be and the song selection is nice (VIP is tempting but I don’t find it worth it yet) I’ve been playing for awhile now, I want to say around a year/ year and a half, and I don’t really have any complaints but the one thing I do wish is that you could orientate your phone to the sideway position instead of straight up and down. It’s not a problem all of the time like when I’m in a car or a chair of some kind but while I’m laying down I feel like it hinders my performance and the fun-ness of the game. I also feel it could fix people accidentally exiting out of the game when trying to hit the amp. These could all very easily be a problem only I deal with as my hands are much larger than my phone (iPhone 11) but I would not be surprised if it was a lot more than me. My wife also plays on the iPad and I don’t see how it’s comfortable since it has to be straight up and down like a phone. Any reason as to why this wouldn’t be possible is greatly appreciated but if it is possible I would love to see it in a future update!

I find this game so much fun for when I’m waiting for long periods of time and need something to do, it’s really easy to get into without having to collect fifty gifts or non stop ads. Now I’m lying a hit on the ads part, I usually have no problem with mobile game ads since I understand that they need money, but what makes me mad is that you get them after every song, and even if you don’t watch one for more money you have to watch one anyways. What makes it worse is 9 times out of ten I can’t back out of the ad and have to swipe the game off and restart it.

Overall it’s a really good game with very few problems and I recommend atleast trying it out if you have nothing better to do

I’ve been playing this game for over a year, and it’s a very enjoyable game to play. One thing I’ve had issues with were the hitboxes with the notes (specifically the green one) every time I go to hit the pedal, it would play a green note, causing me to lose my multiplier (which makes using the pedal worthless to use if you can’t get the 8X multiplier.) if you could fix this, it would make all the difference.

Ps: for the love of god please rework the vocals on Pantera’s Walk, they are unbearable! Also, I feel like there isn’t much to do in the game once you hit the final stage, and buy a level 8 guitar. If you could add more game modes, then that would be awsome.

Recommendations to add

add more power ups than pro help, I have like 180 pro helps because I never use them, because you get more points from just trying to hit the notes

Add a microphone mode so you could sing (similar to guitar hero and rock band)

Guitar rumble
(You have a selection of 3-5 songs in a row, where you get powers to make your opponent get less points. You get these powers from hitting special notes in a row, the same way you get star power in guitar hero)

If y’all even see this review, I just want let yall know that yall are sitting on a gold mine with a game like this. Keep improving the game to make it more enjoyable, and keep fixing bugs.

Kinda installed this to see if it’d be a nice alternative to piano tiles for my niece and ended up really liking it. I never got super into guitar hero as a kid, but the mixes remove alot of downtime from old rock songs. The controls feel tight and have good adjustments, and I’ve seen other reviews about dueling ai’s or super weird things happeninv in battles but I haven’t experienced that every loss I’ve had or last second comback I’ve fallen victim to I’ve been able to pinpoint what lead to that. I think some people just don’t realize how much a 4x or &x multiplier really means. Plus there are boosts for partially perfecting a song that makes it pretty competative in 1v1’s. I’ve made enough premium currency to buy one of the best guitars in a week with only $1 spent to remove the ads thag you get after a song, and after that ads did not really impeed my enjoyment of the game.

I was excited to download Guitar Band after seeing the ad featuring the song 'Rush E'! As a fan of music games like Guitar Hero, I was looking forward having fun like I used to on my ps2 with this new app. While I haven't found 'Rush E' within the game's soundtrack yet I've still been having a blast playing Guitar Band. The gameplay is reminiscent of Guitar Hero, and I love the challenge of tapping along with the notes. GuitarBand has a lot of potential, and I hope the developers will consider adding more songs like 'Rush E' to the soundtrack in the future. Overall, Guitar Band is a fun music game that's perfect for fans of the genre - give it a try and see for yourself

This game is 100%. Ive read a few other reviews and I definitely agree about the AD thing. If you pay for no ads, i do think you should be able to get, like, a free upgrade once a day, rather than having to watch a video. However, i get when devs do this, because you get $$ if a player decides they wanna go the cheap route to upgrade.
HOWEVER, bugs/glitches are yet to be fixed. I’ve played for a week and have noticed some things that players have experienced months ago.
Example, sound cuts out if you get a notification or if you accidentally swipe out of GuitarBand .
Another, sometimes when i press the pedal button, it glitches to where any double note hit, it only pressed one, even though i’m certain i press both. Even when this doesnt occur, the glitch in the timing of the screen causes me to lose my x4 bonus because it ticks a few beats ahead and i miss a note or two. This doesnt happen every time, but enough for it to be slightly annoying and inconvenient, as it could cost the few hundred points to the win.
Other than this, GuitarBand is absolutely amazing. Very nostalgic in song choices and appearance. I like the idea of upgrading your band and customizing everything. 10/10, except for the glitches. Please fix!