Ontama shows random Dreamcast influence

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Ontama shows random Dreamcast influence

Posted May 17th 2007 4:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Screens, Imports

This is probably more of a coincidence or an unintentional influence than anything else, and there's always the possibility that we're imagining things, but doesn't Ontama's protagonist Beat look somewhat familiar? He looks like a cross between Sonic Adventure-era Sonic (look at the poses!) and Jet Set Radio's main character, also named Beat. Well, if you had to pick two games to resemble, you could do a lot worse than these, both of which had fantastic art.

The actual game, a rhythm-puzzle thing that we totally want, doesn't look like anything else. We've got new screens after the break.

Tags: beat, dreamcast, ds, ds lite, DsLite, factory, japan, jet set radio, JetSetRadio, music, nintendo, nintendo ds, NintendoDs, noise, noise factory, NoiseFactory, ontama, rhythm, sega, sonic

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

5-17-2007 @ 6:00PM

Jayenkai said...

And there's quite a large helping of Billy Hatcher in there, too.

5-17-2007 @ 7:45PM

Vince said...

quite irrelevant, but a JSR DS would kick so much ass.

5-18-2007 @ 5:19AM

Ginger Gouki said...

JSR on the DS?! I love my DS, but lord no! Did you 'see' JSR on the GBA? DID YOU! There are systems in place to stop that, and Silent Scope GBA, from ever happerning agane.

7-13-2007 @ 7:58AM

2dere said...

There was a JSR on the Gameboy? Zomg google here I come.

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