Hey everyone - welcome back at the discotheque!
Last night, after much anticipation - The Daft Punk Experience launched on Fortnite - and in my humble opinion, it is awesome. For those that have been living under a rock - it was announced a few weeks ago that Daft Punk would have their own in-game skins and cosmetics, and that there would be a game mode dedicated entirely to their work.
So, last night - me and a bunch of others from French house collective Creux La Nuit (in particular - Guv'nor Funk, Opierm, Luv4Loop and DJ Supernick - Sboulouf Le Detective came in for the minigames!) joined forces and explored the event together. What followed was a night of practical chaos, but a lot of fun - here's what went down at this killer event!
The Daft Punk Experience opened with players being taken through a portal directly up into space - while Contact - the final song from Daft Punk's legendary final album Random Access Memories played. Then, players flew directly through an incredible light show containing references to tons of the duo's work - there was an appearance from Stella of the Crescendolls at the beginning (which I got very excited about!) and also the lyrics from Human After All, Technologic and Robot Rock appearing several times.
After the amazing visuals, players landed onto what looked to be a desert planet - however those that are huge fans of Daft Punk will know it is where the end of their 2006 film Electroma was set - and where the Epilogue was set. Players walked until finding Thomas' helmet - and players then accessed memories by putting the helmet on. For me and the CLN crew - this was a moment which had us all pretty shocked - and by that, we were all collectively screaming.
Players were then transported outside of a large, glowing pyramid, and upon going in - we were officially at an incredible in-game recreation of Alive 2007.
This was an extremely awesome way to open the event - and ALL of Alive 2007's set list was played within half an hour - complete with some incredible visuals tying in with the duo's incredible work (above is an image taken by Guv'nor Funk from when One More Time / Aerodynamic played) - The Crescendolls appeared as a full band, alongside Shep's iconic ship, featured in the original Interstella 5555 film - for the opening of the concert when Touch Ir / Technologic played - there was a large replica of the music video mascot - shown below - and there was also tons of large scale replicas of the robots, fantastic lighting, effects and overall - it was a great atmosphere!
Aside from the killer concert that consistently repeats so newcomers can watch it at any time - the team at Epic Games delivered with buckets of bonus content, mini games and quirky things that make this new game mode super awesome - let's break them down!
Robot Rock Arena:
One of the most awesome features of this brand new event is the inclusion of a Robot Rock themed mode - a third person shooter mode featuring twenty waves of enemies which spawn around the venue themed map. Alongside this - the Alive 2007 version of Robot Rock, Harder Better Faster Stronger, Contact, Technologic and Giorgio by Moroder play through each wave - which is super awesome. I've always wanted to see a Daft Punk shooter game with their music as a soundtrack. To add, when you shoot the enemies - you do so on beat to the song playing - and the enemies die on beat too. Neat!
(Below is Opierm's score in a 4-player game where he carried us - even completing the mini game and defeating all of the waves!)
The Daft Club:
Yes, you read that right - there's now an official Daft Club!
Named after the online service active in the early 2000s and the remix album from 2003 - this part of the event has a fully fledged club inside - with tons of spots to dance with your friends, very awesome lighting, programming and effects - and you can also spot Daft Punk themselves sitting together upstairs - as a reference to the Random Access Memories era. It's a super awesome and neat addition to this already killer event!
Below is a photo DJ Supernick took of Daft Punk upstairs in the club when he was playing on mobile:
And here's a photo of inside the club:
Dream Chamber Studios:
In the entrance to the event, if you went upstairs, you could find a Tron Legacy inspired room (which looked absolutely fantastic!) - where you could check out some sweet Daft Punk memorabilia (as shown in the photo above) - as well as create your own mashups of some of Daft Punk's best tracks. Me and the rest of the CLN crew had a ton of fun doing this for a good 20 minutes - we created some dope mashups, but also some equally cursed (and stupid) ones at that.
One thing I also loved about the mashup feature is they included loads of Daft Punk's discography - most of Random Access Memories was in there - three songs from Homework, four from Discovery, three from Human After All - one from Alive 2007, and also Starboy, which was great to see. All in all, a fun little room that I'm going to be spending a lot of time in over the coming weeks!
Around The World in LEGO:
Finally, alongside the new LEGO pyramid bundle that arrived in the Item Shop a few days ago - in the event, you can access a mini game in which you are able to make your own version of the iconic Around The World music video - and also dance around various characters, too. This recreation is super awesome, detailed and very fun - and I'll likely be spending a fair bit of time in this mini-game alongside the others included!
Conclusion:
In short - this event was absolutely brilliant. As a massive fan of Daft Punk - being able to experience the grand opening of something so awesome and detailed - all with some fantastic friends in the process, made this one of the most awesome nights ever. The Daft Punk Experience is available in game for the next five weeks - so be sure to go and check it (also, look out for Charles, the dog from the Da Funk video!)
You can see the CLN crew's reactions to this event on Guv'not Funk's excellent video, linked below!
Credits go to:
Guv'nor Funk (photos 4-6. 8)
Opierm (photo 8)
DJ Supernick (photo 10)
Epic Games (photos 1, 9, 13)
Daft Punk Reddit server (photo 2)
Various video game publications (photos 3,7, 11-12)
As always, keep enjoying your stay at the discotheque!
was it cool?
ReplyDeleteit was freaking awesome
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