I know rhythm games aren’t exactly giving much time for story, and Mad Maestro sure ain’t blowing anyone away with a new story, but man, this is just from the back of the box. So Takt gets the help of a flying fairy that tells him that she can find people around the city to help him and so they begin to search to find clowns, lions, aliens, and some other people to join their orchestra… Oh I’m sorry, did I miss a few steps in the plot? Well it certainly sounds that way, but no, this game just goes a bit from reasonably cartoony but grounded to just total madness before you even realize it. A typical “We gotta save the old monument” story. However, the city has decided that the hall is too old and needs to be torn down. Mad Maestro follows our main character, Takt, this Arin Hanson looking motherfucker who runs an orchestra band at the city's local theater hall. Is there a reason why Mad Maestro went over or was it just too niche for us Americans? Let’s take a look. Mosquito, which sold badly in America, and of course, Mad Maestro… What do you think happened? Needless to say, after this, they stopped with the Fresh Games attempt and just fucked off to join Square after just four games. Fresh Games was a project to localize more Japanese style games in the west, and published some titles like Legia 2, which sold poorly in America, R-Type Final, which sold badly in America, Mr. The game was also published by Eidos, now a part of Square Enix, but under their Fresh Games division. They never made much else that was known here in America after the PS2 era, so I can only assume that they are super underground, even for me, or they went defunct after ChainDive in 2003. They were a very small Japanese studio who only worked on Tomarunner for the PS1 and another PS2 game called ChainDive. So Mad Maestro was developed by a Japanese studio called Desert Productions. What does the game mean by that? Well I guess we’ll find out soon enough. And the game is rated E for Mild Violence. I expect this for some PS2 games like Freekstyle, the extreme sports game. But if that’s the case, why is the title font in this sort of urban graffiti style. The game is called Mad Maestro, and it features this little conductor on the front cover inside of a big musical hall. So already from the cover of the box, I’m getting mixed messages. And hey, maybe today’s game will be something special. But when you can find something good, it may work out. Even the bad stuff has this sort of charm to it, like Yanya Caballista having cool designs despite being the most frustrating game I’ve ever played or Marc Ecko’s Getting Up has this cool urban setting despite being one of the most atrocious games ever. Hell, I love looking into the strange library of obscure PS2 titles. That said, after my Top 20 Games of 20202 article and being really proud with how it turned out, I thought about giving PS2 games a try. Not to mention, the pain in the ass of finding a decent PS2 game when they can go for over a hundred dollars tops. I didn’t want to try any of the old stuff and just wanted to dedicate my time to one console. I’m gonna level with you, people, I did not enjoy 2020 and, despite having so much free time, I felt very unmotivated to try digging up the PS2 every time I popped in the PS4. Hey… So it’s been a bit since I did one of these.
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