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Nintendo News | Famitsu Loves Ouendan 2, Plus Official Website...

12.05.2007

Quick News - With the sequel to Ouendan / Elite Beat Agents from iNiS on DS due for release on 17th May in Japan, Famitsu has given 'Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Tamashii: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2' a score of 9 / 9 / 8 / 8 - (34/40). The game's official website is also live now:

Ouendan 2 Official Website

Stay tuned for more updates...

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The Croft 12.05.2007#1

Was it just me or has no one else been able to get on the site for about five days now?

On Topic; good score for Quendan, there are some Quendan whores on C3.

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jesusraz 12.05.2007#2

On C3? There's a news piece about that: http://www.cubed3.com/news/7506/ Smilie

Ouendan looks good, but sadly I never took to Elite Beat Agents (I know most here love it...), so I'm not bothered by this. It'll be interesting to see if it does better in Japan this time, though.

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Mason 12.05.2007#3

It's very good news indeed for us Ouendan whores, especially those of us who have our copies pre-ordered for the release date. Smilie

Adam, while Elite Beat Agents is in the same vein as Ouendan, I view them as completely different experiences, so if you've only tried EBA, I would recommend trying Ouendan as well. Completely different scenarios, and while the music in EBA can be VERY hit and miss, all the music in Ouendan is spot on. The concept just seems to work better with J-pop and J-rock...

jesusraz 12.05.2007#4

I might give Ouendan more of a chance then, since it was indeed the music that REALLY put me off EBA. I'm hoping the Euro delay is to change the music, since some songs are not recognisable and they did change things slightly for the Euro Donkey Konga.

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Mason 12.05.2007#5

Some of the music is terrible in EBA, really terrible - I'm not sure how its been accepted so readily by fans of Ouendan to be honest. There's one song that I just cannot get past because it's so...bad/doesn't seem to fit in properly (Let's Dance, for those interested...). There are some excellent choices that fitted in well - YMCA, Material Girl - but others just totally wreck the experience when compared with the likes of artists such as Asian Kung Fu Generation and Tomoyasu Hotei in Ouendan. If they aren't changing the music for the European version it's been a waste of extra development time.

I like parts of EBA more - I have found it to be funnier in sections (partially due to being able to understand the language, though it was easy to follow what was going on in Ouendan anyway), and it has some useful features such as skipping to the start of the gameplay (something that could grate on the last level of Ouendan, since it was pretty difficult and you'd have to sit through a minute of build-up before attempting it again), and I hope they've brought some improvements over from it to Ouendan 2, but the original concept and execution just has so much more charm and feels much more concrete to me.