Elite Beat Agents gameplay video
Elite Beat Agents, the wacky English version of music-and-rhythm seizure game, Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!, sees the cheerleaders getting replaced by gyrating secret agents who swoop in whenever people are in need of their rhythmic assistance. In the case of this video (higher resolution version here), they're called upon by a frantic film director struggling to complete his latest masterpiece, "Romancing Meowzilla." Looks like the English variant will be every bit as zany and unpredictable as the Japanese original.
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(Page 1)2. Ahem Elite Beat Agents is a new game. New story, new characters, new music.
It's basically something that the Japanese fans of Ouendan would import from the US.
Nice to see something interesting coming for the Japanese import market at last.
Posted at 10:00PM on May 24th 2006 by idioteraser
3. just get both of them. import the japanese one, and buy the US one, im sure the US one will be just as good
Posted at 10:33PM on May 24th 2006 by Stephen
4. FOOOOOOOO!
Wow, is about all I can say. The words are sucked out of me by that one.
Posted at 7:56AM on May 25th 2006 by PodMonkeys
5. Well, I love Ouendan... love it love it love it... finished it on Cheergirls difficulty and everything. There were two songs in the E3 build of Elite Beat Agents, and while they were only vaguely familiar to me, they in no way ruined the game. They weren't pop tripe... and they fit the storylines as well as the music in Ouendan fit the storylines.
If anything, Elite Beat Agents looks like it'll be more fun, as the text of the comic strips was hilarious (something I can't appreciate in Ouendan not speaking japanese) and the storylines are probably even more off the wall if these two were anything to go by.
Sadly, the game only had easy difficulty, so I can't compare the two just yet, as I'm used to much harder patterns, but the signs are good. It's not Ouendan it's a whole new game that uses the same game dynamic, that looks to have been pulled off with the same style that made Ouendan great in the first place.
Buy both.
Posted at 10:32AM on May 30th 2006 by plagiarize
6. I'm actually happy they didn't retain the Japanese songs and went for new songs and new scenarios. That way, we'd have 30 unique songs and stages total from Ouendan+EBA.
Posted at 9:26AM on Jun 2nd 2006 by pixelizr
1. Bah, I'd only get it if they kept the original Japanese music, which isn't happening, so I'm not getting it!
Humbug.
Posted at 9:40PM on May 24th 2006 by Josh