It does get quite a bit difficult to hold, yep. It's like they want your fingers to be perfectly straight, except our fingers aren't perfectly straight, so it causes your hand to cramp up a bit after extended play. I've gone hours playing it, but I must be a masochist or something. It does feel like it's gonna slip out of your GBA slot, but most of the time it only seems to rock a bit and you have some slack to be able to push it back in further before it locks up your game. But then, I've got the original phat DS, not the Lite, so I don't know if that makes a difference.

While you may not be able to return it to Amazon if you're unsatisfied, it is currently going for $39.96 new right now over there, while a used copy at GameStop is $44.99. Be forewarned that with a used copy, you never know what kind of condition the grip is in. I played it at a Toys R Us Kiosk on the day of release and two of the buttons wouldn't register because of how badly customers had treated it.

> About Guitar Hero I had that, but I left it off the list because the game
> literally is painful to play for most people. The shape of the grip combined
> with the DS causes you to have to grab it really oddly which feels like it
> separates the cartilage and bones in your hand after a short bit of time and
> gets painful to continue. The grip itself anyways is awkward and has no
> securing mechanism and when rocking out can fairly easily slightly come out of
> the GBA slot causing the game to lock up until you hard-restart it. It's a good
> game, but the grip is a whore, so you may want to try before you buy perhaps
> using a USED copy at Gamestop you can take back within a week.


Alyas
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