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Elite Beat Agents or Osu! Tatakae! OUENDEN! - Helping kids not wet the bed since 2007
ArcSyn
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So I just beat Elite Beat Agents today on the 2 start difficulty. Not a difficult task and despite failing some songs multiple times I enjoyed myself quite a lot. Even while trying to learn what in the world I was supposed to be doing on the last song when I would fail out in about 1.25 seconds.
So, naturally, I moved on to the hard 3 star difficulty.
Ouch. First off, the beginning slow songs are made even harder by the fact that if there's 2 seconds between taps you are still losing your success bar and you could have 1/4-1/2 of your bar and lose the song because the taps are so far apart.
Finally, and the reason for this post, I dislike that there are times when you only have 1 song to do. I am currently trying to get through Material Girl (2 stranded supermodels) and I could seriously beat the person who designed the "chart" for this song. It's just so RANDOM!! Argh.
Back to the grind.
Also, where's the cheapest I could probably find Oendin (sp?)? Is it possible to play with zero knowledge of Japanese? I really love the whole rhythm games on the DS thing right now, despite my current brick wall.
So, naturally, I moved on to the hard 3 star difficulty.
Ouch. First off, the beginning slow songs are made even harder by the fact that if there's 2 seconds between taps you are still losing your success bar and you could have 1/4-1/2 of your bar and lose the song because the taps are so far apart.
Finally, and the reason for this post, I dislike that there are times when you only have 1 song to do. I am currently trying to get through Material Girl (2 stranded supermodels) and I could seriously beat the person who designed the "chart" for this song. It's just so RANDOM!! Argh.
Back to the grind.
Also, where's the cheapest I could probably find Oendin (sp?)? Is it possible to play with zero knowledge of Japanese? I really love the whole rhythm games on the DS thing right now, despite my current brick wall.
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Ouendan one may seem like a step back though without any bonus songs and unskippable openings as well as no download play.
It's even WORSE than "Material Girl". The taps are not on beat, or don't seem like it!!! Arghh..
It'll probably run you anywhere between $20-$30, the latter if you get it through Play-Asia or somewhere.
Well, in that song you're pretty much making the beat in that particular part. Use headphones if you aren't already.
My favorite level was the one in which a weather lady promised her son that it would be sunny and that they could go on a picnic. Then, she receives the report that it will rain, but reports it as sunny anyway and uses the power of animals to change the weather.
Come to think of it, every single level was awesome. Even if the song sucked, the game dragged you into it anyway.
That's currently my favorite song on Hard. I can A-rank it.
The only song I will never play unless I have to is the Christmas song. Never again. I was happily going along in the game enjoying all the silly stories and then they through that at me? Evil.
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CJ, you and I agree on many things, but you are so wrong here. So wrong.
(It's a gas, gas, gas...)
Echoing that anyone who enjoyed EBA will have a blast with Ouendan 1 & 2, although they definitely have a slightly different feel.
Edit: Also Jumping Jack Flash is NOTHING compaired to the last song in O2. I think Ready Steady Go gave me the least trouble out of the three, although I always though EBA was the easier game (the spiners in the Japenese titles are just terrible). Then again I did paly Ouendan after beating the second one.
but yeah JJF on Sweatin' is pretty goddamn difficult too
still haven't beaten it
I haven't beat JJF on 2-Star yet myself
It's a fun game but damn is it brutal.
Canned Heat is pretty evil too. So is the Let's Dance, I was stuck on that one for a long time.
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Sekai wa Sore is excellent, yes. I'm not Sixfortyfive, but I did manage to get -6 away from a full combo on the hardest difficulty with hidden on, so...:P
Oh goddammit, why did you have to mention that level? Now I remembered the really sad part that occurs if you fail the 3rd checkpoint and now I want to kill myself. Fuck. Seriously, never fail the 3rd checkpoint. If it looks like you're going to, turn the system off. It's too depressing.
Also Canned Heat is an awesome song but it is awful to play in EBA on harder difficulties. I got near perfect scores on like 10 songs in hidden cheergirls mode in Ounedan 2 in less tries than it took me to beat Canned Heat on the last 2 difficulties.
Wh...what? How did you manage that?
Once you get used to the syncopation, I found it came pretty naturally.
Final level, in case you don't want to be 'spoiled' somehow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvLCnKqYWzA
Because I could never hear the part it wanted me to make so I was always stumbling along to make the beat for the song. I would keep trying to hear the part I was supposed to make but it never clicked for me. Meanwhile hidden mode was just memorization and I'm much better at that.
Thinking back though I guess hidden mode did take more tries, as I just remembered it took me forever to finish that song with the women chasing after the music idol guy, but it was mostly because I'd screw up near the start and start over. Those attempts were more fun though. Canned Heat was annoying because it was just me failing at random intervals because I couldn't hear the random part of the song I was supposed to hear. I also didn't use headphones.
Can't hear an off beat, can't find a fortress door, what do we keep you around for? :P
The Let's Play threads, obviously. :P
I hate those things so much. :x
I love the replay feature because I can go back and watch my Jumping Jack Flash S Rank on Expert whenever I want
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Guess who just beat both "Material Girl" and "Canned Heat" today?! That's right, ME.
Finally past those two songs. I must just get out of sync or something with the game after a while. Took me 2 tries on Material Girl and 3 on Canned Heat before beating them, where yesterday I spent at least 10 times on Material Girl (and never made it past the second section) and about 5 times on Canned Heat never making it past the first section.
When do the cheerleaders show up? That's what the original had in it wasn't it? Then they made it men in EBA?
incorrect
the cheerleaders are the hardest difficulty on both games
the Ouendan guys actually look pretty scary and nazi-ish
Ouendan was really fun, I probably enjoyed it more because I couldn't understand the lyrics. I'm sure that if I did, I'd probably think half the songs were pretty bad.
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I'm sorry but Sk8er Boi and Believe (and also La La) made me want to cry. God how I loathe them. Most of the other stuff was pretty awesome though.
There is nothing audibly offensive about either tune, in fact they are quite catchy, which is what you need in order to get in the groove with this game. The only thing wrong with them is that they weren't popular with our demographic back in the day, but that is no reason to avoid them like the plague. Music is music, the chords are interesting, the tunes are fine.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Also: I'd kill a man for EBA2
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Granted, Ouendan 2's OST isn't very good either, but I had fun with all the songs in Ouendan 1 on some level.
And there was a rumor a few weeks back that 'Elite Beat Agents 2' was added to a ratings listing somewhere, but don't hold your breath.
I wish the hardest mode was the same level of difficulty for all levels, by the time you're at JJF with the Divas the first ~6 levels seem terribly slow.