Elite Beat Agents

[psychopete]

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EBA is awesome, despite the utter utter **** that makes up the song list. If it convinced ME to replay La La by Ashlee Simpson (WHOM I HATE WITH A PASSION), then it must be addicting as hell. It can also get frustrating as hell, especially on songs like Jumpin' Jack Flash (except once you beat it on any difficulty, you can go back and beat it easily).

It's not the DDR for the DS, it's something that can only be described as 'very Japanese'.

As for an Ouendan simulator, I'm not sure if one exists or even if it would work very well on the PC.

If you were to compare it to Ouendan, it'd be like comparing Mario to Sonic: impossible to decide which is superior unless you have a bias. While Ouendan wins in the soundtrack department, EBA wins in having songs you've AT LEAST HEARD, if not some you might like (September = AUTOMATIC WIN in my book). Other than that, they're basically the same game.

[luigihann]

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Don't be put off by the song list (Not directed at anyone in particular, just in general). EBA is a great game despite the odd song choices.

[g4z33b0]

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Ya, it's a fun game, definitley buy it if you have DS

[Shashakiro]

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Bump because I bought this. It's fun as hell (Cirring was the flash game someone posted, which is very similar) but kinda easy, as I beat the highest difficulty in 3 days and S-ranked Jumpin' Jack Flash Sweatin' the day before.

Things I don't like, though:

-You can't skip the cutscene at the END of a song. I can understand the ones in the middle since the song would get chopped up a lot if you skipped those, but you should always be able to skip the last one (ESPECIALLY in JJF where it's minutes long)
-The lifebar on the last two difficulties is dumb. I know they're supposed to be hard, but you can make things hard the way all the other music games do, by, y'know, having hard charts, rather than just making a lifebar harsher than DDR Extreme Extra Stage (for those who haven't played it, this is no exaggeration at all).
-Hard Rock is a really dumb idea. I always have and always will hate uncomfortable scroll speed (fast or slow) as a means for making something harder in any music game, and that's all Hard Rock is. To make something harder, make faster/harder charts. It's a foolproof method that always works.
-Spinners. Don't get me wrong, I'm actually pretty good at these, but I think they're kind of a bad idea. They introduce a variable that makes maximum scores impossible, they damage your touch screen, and they don't really go well with the music at all, on any song (except arguably JJF, definitely no others).
-Cheerleaders. They aren't at all funny, and are often TOTALLY out of place (You're My Inspiration level, for example). Guys in suits bustin' out moves are funny, and it works well IMO. There was no real reason to have the cheerleaders in the game, and the only point in watching them is for the "omg hot cartoon chix dancin'" factor, if that works for you.
-You're forced to play bonus stages to advance. This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, and was probably unintentional since you can avoid all bonus stages by just getting bad scores, but it can be really really annoying.

Things I like:
-Replay/Review feature. Every music game should have this. It's especially useful in EBA since you can see all the action on the top screen that you miss ingame, but it's also a great feature for seeing where exactly you messed up and why, and what you should've done.
-The game idea itself. I loved Cirring when I played it, and it only suffered from having basically no songs (3). This is Cirring with a lot more songs and some new gameplay mechanics (like holds, which are handled excellently). I'd have preferred to have more than 19 songs, but I guess you can only fit so much on a tiny little game cartridge.
-The story sequences. They're just kind of randomly wacky, and it works well.
-Total score/ranks, and easy access to all your best score SS's. It's nice to have goals even after finishing, which this provides, and it's nice to be able to look through all your old accomplishments (ala FFR's levelrank.php)

Overall, it's a really nice game, and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes music games (which, if you're reading this, probably applies to you). It's got some flaws, but none are crippling, and it's quite an enjoyable experience. I'm satisfied and don't regret getting it at all.

[SethSquall]

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I didn't get the whole cheerleaders thing either until I found out Ouendan means, "Cheerleaders" hahaha. Got to be honest though, I dig the cheerleaders.

[sjoecool1991]

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Is this game like Clickbeat?
Cause that was insanely fun.

[superpowers_girl]

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It's a fun game to play.

[luigihann]

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Is this game like Clickbeat?
Cause that was insanely fun.

ClickBeat was based on EBA, so if you like ClickBeat you'd love EBA.

[ShadowSkill]

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loved the game

I need to get both of the japanese versions

the second american game is coming out
I'm just not sure when [I remember reading about it]

[Silver_Brian]

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I was addicted to this for the 2 weeks it took me to actually buy the game (I played it on a friend's DS) and the few days it took me to beat it on hard rock. Then I figured out to get the highest rank you'd have to get perfect 300s on every song. =/ Still pretty fun, if not irritating and annoying on certain songs on hard rock.

[Shashakiro]

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I got all S ranks on everything before losing the game (fell out of my pocket).

It's not really all that hard.

[Raveren]

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Yea, I saw a dude playing it in school and I was like...whoa.