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DS News by Tom Bramwell
Elite Beat Agents - the Western take on brilliant Japanese DS rhythm-action import Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan - is due out on 6th November in the US and finally we have the track-listing.
It is, according to designer Keiichi Yano, who spoke to Wired, based on the concept of "roaring songs you would want to hear if you went to a college frat party", offering a mixture of "oldies but goodies, great new songs, and a wide array of genres". There are 19 songs at this point, although they're not revealing the final song.
- Walkie Talkie Man - Steriogram
- ABC - Jackson Five
- Sk8er Boi - Avril Lavigne
- I Was Born to Love You - Queen
- Rock This Town - Stray Cats
- Highway Star - Deep Purple
- Y.M.C.A. - Village People
- September - Earth, Wind and Fire
- Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
- Material Girl - Madonna
- La La - Ashlee Simpson
- You're the Inspiration - Chicago
- Survivor - Destiny's Child
- Without a Fight - Hoobastank
- Believe - Cher
- Let's Dance - David Bowie
- Jumpin Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
- Makes No Difference - Sum 41
- The Anthem - Good Charlotte
Ouendan and Elite Beat Agents, in case you haven't been keeping up, see little icons appear on screen with shrinking rings around them, where the idea is to tap the icons with the stylus as the rings shrink to fit the outline, all in time to the music. It's very fast-paced, with icons dotted around the screen and variations that have you dragging the stylus back and forward along short arching pathways to match the beat, along with some hilariously quirky background imagery. It's an incredibly addictive and well balanced challenge, and probably the best new rhythm-action game since Gitaroo Man, iNiS' last effort. Even the multiplayer mode is rather excellent.
Anyway, for all Yano-san's explanations, there's likely to be a bit of grumbling about the absence of Japanese music; Ouendan was comprised entirely of really good facsimiles of J-Rock tracks, with the occasional stirring J-Pop melody to even things out, and it really did the trick. Still, that's all the more reason to dig the original out again - or buy it anew, if you haven't already, since it's fairly cheap and perfectly playable in Japanese.
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Wrestlevania
17/10/06 @ 09:10
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The peaks and troughs in the quality and consistency of that selection are extreme. About the only track I'd get excited about would be Bowie's contribution.
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But the songs in Ouendan that I enjoyed playing the most are the songs I actually liked; Melody, Ready Steady Go and Over The Distance. Of that list I can imagine ABC and Sk8er Boi being quite entertaining to play in the context of Ouendan but there isn't a single song on there I would consider to be great.
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@Spanky - yes, the japanese game is great and made all the more great by it's bonkers japanese-ness :-)
The missions/songs themselves are easy to follow what is happening with the cartoon/manga cutscene action on the top screen, and once you've figured out the menu layouts from the translation FAQs readily available at GameFAQs, the lack of English is certainly not a problem. |
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IMO rhythm and music games are almost purely about the gameplay anyway. As another forumite put it: 'Press these buttons, do it in this order and if you get it right, be rewarded with music'.
And anyway, when you see how much monstrosities like More than a Feeling get picked in GH when I've got friends over, you just stop worrying and embrace teh ch33zzz. ^_^ |
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I agree with jamesphilp about the track listing. They certainly fit in the mold of the songs on the Japanese version and appear to be perfect choices for the funny stories that the focus of the cheerleading in the game! I really don't see how tracks from Artic Monkey, Razorlight etc. would fit into the style of the game unless they completely changed the tone of the game i.e. the fun, bizarre and wacky nature of cheerleading to e.g. help someone pass an exam or make better noodles!
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The last song wouldn't happen to be "Ready Steady Go", would it? The game would be a cinch without it.
Personally I'm not really enamoured with the playlist. It doesn't give the same vibe as Ouendan's playlist. It would be difficult to make it exactly the same, but they could have done better. Still, I really would like to play it, as I need more Ouendan style madness. |
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Well, personally, I was thinking something like Franz Ferdinand's Matineé would be quite fitting. The sort poppy-rocky sort of music of recencey. Not total pop of yesteryear. To be fair not all of it is that bad, but to be more fitting of the music from Ouendan, I think it could have been a lot better.
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PinkSpider
17/10/06 @ 17:25
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^ I agree, as a fan of Japanese music it sounds relatively normal. And the bands 175R, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION and nobodyknows+ are all excellent (and are currently mixed in with my english/ american faveourite bands on my mp3 player).
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ProtoformX
18/10/06 @ 06:43
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I prefer J-Pop to this stuff, myself, so I will be picking up Ouendan at some point. However, I see this game selling very well. This could be another of those games that hits the female market. From what I've seen your stereotypical girl is into dance mat games, as well as actual dancing. So a little beat matching game they can carry around I think would go down well. Now, I know you shouldn't stereotype, but Nintendo ran the risk with pink consoles to start with and they turned out to be right.
I just hope it has the Ouendan box art. :-D |
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