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Lttp: Elite Beat Agents (EBA)
urahonky
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So I picked up EBA from that TRU Buy two DS games get one free, and I have to stay it's a great game. Although I really don't have any rhythm in me, so I am pretty much sucking it up when playing this game. But I'm still enjoying every moment of it.
I got all the way to the "last" stage (at least I think so) to where the agents get turned into stone, and they make a glorious comeback to a great song. But I can't get past the second "stage" of it.
Anyone here really good at the game? Any tips for playing?
I got all the way to the "last" stage (at least I think so) to where the agents get turned into stone, and they make a glorious comeback to a great song. But I can't get past the second "stage" of it.
Anyone here really good at the game? Any tips for playing?
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It's seriously a finely crafted game.
The last song was a great choice, too.
In the later difficulties of Canned Heat (the mission with the ninja), the beats in certain places (mostly the very beginning) don't follow the lyrics; they follow the bass instead. It might be frustrating at first, but that stage is now probably my favorite mission in the game.
I've NEVER really enjoyed rhythm games, but damn... I'm having a blast with this.
I didn't want to fuck up on the kid stage, as I knew something bad would happen. :P
That stage (on easy) was my only "good" stage, with a grade of B.
But man, I have that last stage music stuck in my head. I want to play it some more, but I don't think I can hurt my ego anymore tonight. Tomorrow, on the other hand...
In a week you'll be chugging through the hard difficulty, a week after that the insane setting will be doable. you'll start s-ranking hard songs.
Then the urge for more sets in. You'll import ouendan 1 and 2 and be able to blaze through them in a couple days.
Aha! So that's what Ouendan is? I've heard that name around, and I (embarrassingly enough) didn't want to ask what exactly it was.
Now I get pissed when my very first run through a new song on very hard gets a "b".
And you should know that you MUST play all 4 difficulty levels in order to truly appreciate the game.
There are 3 bonus songs, did you know that?
No I didn't.
My problem is that I hit the numbers WAY too early. And when I screw one button up, I'll end up screwing a few more up in the process of fixing it.
Yeah. Ouendan came out before EBA, and is better in some ways, but worse in others. Ouendan 2 is fairly new, I haven't even gotten around to importing it yet. I probably will in August.
Not really.
I already beat the regular campaign. Working on hard, but Jumpin' Jack Flash is just too damn hard...
I frag, therefore I am.
Just once, I'd like to be able to go on XBL, and NOT be called a mother-fucker.
Haha, I worry about that myself.
I think the YMCA song was great... kinda helped that I knew the song. :P
Haha, that's awesome. Well... sorta. It's true. How about that?
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ROFLMFAO.
I frag, therefore I am.
Just once, I'd like to be able to go on XBL, and NOT be called a mother-fucker.
Oh God, I laughed so hard at that. Every time it would happen I'd be like "WTF? I knew he'd do that!".
But I could find you some proof, it may take me some time, but I can find it...
I frag, therefore I am.
Just once, I'd like to be able to go on XBL, and NOT be called a mother-fucker.
Totally made me all teary the first time I went through it. Perfect music selection for it as well.
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
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Yep. Found it. Undeniable proof.
then I went to canned heat, nailed the hard part and screwed up a simple slider. *hangs head in shame*
Eh, don't be too hard on yourself. I screw up on the carousel part of Jumpin' Jack Flash every time.
I frag, therefore I am.
Just once, I'd like to be able to go on XBL, and NOT be called a mother-fucker.
The high score for rank is the sum of all your scores on each difficulty. Getting that final rank (approximately) requires a near perfect run on 80% of the hard/very hard songs. Perfect means keeping a combo through the whole song, not all 300s. your scores on easy/normal are much less significant.
The idea of hitting the 80 million mark is basically to perfect* as many stages on hard and very hard as you possibly can.
*Perfect here defined as no misses/uninterrupted combo throughout the song.
THREE MONTHS of trying that song on-and-off, and when I finally get through that one hellish chain of notes I find myself blindsided by the final scene. So I limp through, get to the spinners and just go all-out on my DS screen.
I was stabbing the peace sign at my DS and shouting "HEY! HEY! HEY!" along with the game in the ending. I do not regret it.
Also the guy that for some reason yells VULCANOOO!
Then you absolutely have to get Ouendan 2.
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That would be Leonardo da Vinci. I'm trying to think of any person in the history of forever less likely to be called "that guy". Coming up blank.
Also, I'm with you on Ouendan. Though I hear the menus are simple, the j-pop is a complete and total deal-breaker for me. It would be like an entire game made out of levels like the Material Girl level in EBA. Tolerable, even fun in really small doses because of the awesome game play but could turn horrible if I were forced through any more.
For the impaired: I am not comparing stylistically all of j-pop to Material Girl, I am comparing my enjoyment of the songs based on the giant youtube song lists I've perused to the enjoyment I get from Material Girl.
My favorite mission:
FIRE BREATHING GOLEM
The song is fine until you actually pay attention to the lyrics. They are horrible, to put it kindly. It definitely tarnishes the level a bit, but the rest is awesome.
You bet kid!
Hoping for an EBA 2.
Oh man, I was just coming here to post this, but you beat me to it. That was awesome.
Also, Material Girl was hardly the worst song in this game. Good Charlotte, Avril Lavigne, and Sum 41? Damn
I held off on buying this game for a long time when I found out how horrendous the song list was, but I finally gave in after playing a friend's copy. Still, though, was there ANYONE out there who wanted Good Charlotte in this game?
Really, it was just "HOTDOG = FOOTBALL" that sold me on it
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Wikipedia comes to the rescue once again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_Beat_Agents
Warning: Above link may contain spoilers etc etc.
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They must have reached the 300K+ mark by now.