Osu! Tatakae! Oendan!

[Jaxon]

It appears that the developers have addressed that complaint. I saw a video of someone trying Elite Beat Agents, either at E3 or Comic Con, and he was able to skip both the comic panel story portion and the Agent Intro where they arrive in the car, and begin to immediately play the song.

[Golgo]

Don't know if anyone's posted this link yet, but anyway:
some obliging chap has compiled all original versions of the Ouendan music...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ratczx

[Mayhem]

It appears that the developers have addressed that complaint. I saw a video of someone trying Elite Beat Agents, either at E3 or Comic Con, and he was able to skip both the comic panel story portion and the Agent Intro where they arrive in the car, and begin to immediately play the song.

Yep that's definitely true of the demo I played.

[w?stling]

Imagine it keeping an account of how many attempts you've made to do it?
I reckon me personally about 170 times!

I remember trying it on normal for about 50 times...
Well, half of them was in replay mode. I thought that button means something like "play again". I nearly destroyed my DS because it always seemed like I missed that one part.

On cheerleader mode it took me 5 trys or so. Seems like it's got the same notes as in hard mode but only reflected vertically. I found the last songs before RSG MUCH harder tbh.

[Fibber]

It's Ouendan, with 'u' being the double length 'o'. You could also write it Ooendan, but that would cause some people to mis-pronounce it with an 'oo' as in 'loo'.

Not want to nit pick but it is never OOendan but always OUendan because the word is おうえん and not おおえん.

Okay, back to work...

[r3z]

It appears that the developers have addressed that complaint. I saw a video of someone trying Elite Beat Agents, either at E3 or Comic Con, and he was able to skip both the comic panel story portion and the Agent Intro where they arrive in the car, and begin to immediately play the song.

But with Ready Steady Go there is a long intro for the song itself which you do not interact with, so you have to wait ~20 seconds until you actually start actually playing even thought the music has started.

On the name issue, imho it should really be Ouendan or Ōendan. Oendan is ok as it's typical for Japanese to drop the long vowel sound when writing in romaji (rōmaji!), but it's a bit misleading.. I had to write an email recently to someone whose name I had only seen written in English as Kyoko, but when writing in Japanese there was a chance that her name was actually Kyōko, Kyokō or Kyōkō rather than simply Kyoko (I went with Kyōko in the end as it's the same as a friend of mine.. it was spot on ).

[stainboy]

On the name issue, imho it should really be Ouendan or Ōendan. Oendan is ok as it's typical for Japanese to drop the long vowel sound when writing in romaji (rōmaji!), but it's a bit misleading.. I had to write an email recently to someone whose name I had only seen written in English as Kyoko, but when writing in Japanese there was a chance that her name was actually Kyōko, Kyokō or Kyōkō rather than simply Kyoko (I went with Kyōko in the end as it's the same as a friend of mine.. it was spot on ).

So Kyōko, Kyokō and Kyōkō are three seperate names? Missed out on learning Japanese years ago because the classes clashed which is a shame because it seems so different that I'd love to understand it one day.

As for Ouendan, in my head I've been pronouncing it "you-en-dan".

[babs]

I don't see the confusion in the name, they say it at the start of every song

Over The Distance is the easiest to hear it on.

[stainboy]

Didn't have the game yet, it just arrived this morning actually 8)

EDIT: Hahaha, I cleared 4 stages before realising I was on Normal mode. Least I must be better than I thought

[dlittley]

I often had the feeling of hitting a wall with it, but after seemingly stuck on a track, something just clicks and you realise its you being wrong as opposed to the game. Absolutely stunning game.

I'm actually pretty pumped for EBA now, if the track list posted earlier is accurate

[vertigo]

It appears that the developers have addressed that complaint. I saw a video of someone trying Elite Beat Agents, either at E3 or Comic Con, and he was able to skip both the comic panel story portion and the Agent Intro where they arrive in the car, and begin to immediately play the song.

Which is a bit silly coz the comic intro provides the intro to the song. But anyway, to the guy who can't do Ready Steady Go on normal, I'm playing through very hard now and went back to normal to see if I could up my ranks and normal is so extremely easy after tackling hard and some of very hard. That's not very helpful, is it? If you're having trouble on normal, switch to easy mode so that you can learn the song, coz that was the biggest barrier to me getting past levels.

[jim g]

Being playing this now evey day, for 2 months, have completed easy and normal modes and am half way though the hard mode (I was late due not getting a DS until the Lite came out).

I have to say this is the best game I have played in years. It is the ulitmate in challenge, fun and 'just one more go'. Never has the game cheated me, it has always been my error when failing, so some patience is required!

Without doubt it is the best game on the DS and one of the best games I have ever played (and I have been playing games for over 25 years).

When the US one comes out I will get that also, cos I think reading the previews it, will be a whole new challenge.

[vertigo]

The funny thing is that normal mode feels really hard at first, mainly coz you don't know the songs, but once you've unlocked very hard mode if you go back to normal to go on the S rank hunt, you find that most of the normal levels are really slow and a piece of piss I haven't played it for a little while though, been too tired, just know I won't be able to keep up.

[vertigo]

Bumpety-bump.
How irritating is this: I was on a coach back from Edinburgh today and could just about get to a comfortable way to sit so I could play easy mode to some sort of decent degree, so went about getting S ranks on it. Did them all, but have S ranked Ready Steady Go but didn't beat my previous highest score on it which only got an A rank, reason being there's a bit where you spin a disc and it's in the middle of a set of dots and I must have made that go crazy for points but muffed the next hit on a dot, so I ended up with more points overall but hit a 50 or a miss and only ended up with an A. So now on my ranking screen for easy mode I have all S's apart from Ready Steady Go which shows as an A, even though I got an S on it earlier.
Annoying!

You also don't seem to get anything in particular (not even a shiny golden mode select button) for S ranking a whole difficulty level. Can anyone confirm/deny that? That's the only thing the game seems to be lacking, a reward for people who want to play it even deeper than just getting the cheerleaders.

[briareos_kerensky]

I still have to get a single S from any song (I lack any sense of rhythm, I still wonder how I beat all difficult levels), but from what I know if you reach 8 million points the game should unlock a bonus CG (and a new rank).