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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Or: The Elite Beat Agents Thread is Go!

I have brought the game up on a few other threads, but thought I'd give it some limelight.

There's something wonderfully arbitrary about this game. There is little rhyme or reason to any of its objectives. It knows how preposterous the things it asks you to do are, which is why I love doing them so much.

I am a compulsive steering wheel/desk/leg/air drummer. I love keeping beats to everything, so Elite Beat Agents clicks with me on a really automatic level. I tap my foot while I play it and keep off-beats to keep my timing on.

Getting S-ratings is my new obsession, and the songs all stay in my head for hours after I have been playing the game.

I think about the screen like it has been branded onto my brain just like I used to do with Meteos when I played it all the time.

So, yeah. Elite Beat Agents. Is wonderful.
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JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

It's ok. The problem I have is that the animations are far more enjoyable to me than the actual boring, simplistic and arbitrary gameplay, so after playing through normal and hard I've become almost totally bored with it. It strikes an interesting halfway point between games like Parappa and games like Taiko no Tatsujin, though.

DonMarco · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 349 Location: 33903

I'm stuck at the final boss on two-star. Is there a three-star mode?? One that would require two stylus things?

This game is all I hoped for. I'll pick up the Jaypanese version somewhere down the line.
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JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

When you clear the two-star mode you unlock three-star, which has harder patterns. Then when you beat three-star you unlock 4-star, which is like three-star but the circles contract extremely quickly. It's like playing the game with a fast speed mod from another music game or something, except that it's much faster than is comfortable for the player and is uncontrollable. It's... really not much fun!

Karoshi · . Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 43 Location: Philadelphia, PA

Does EBA have a foxy cheerleader squadron like Ouendan?

BalbanesBeoulve · . Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 84

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject:

i rented it, stopped playing, and sent it back. it's hard for me to play any abstract rhythm game after playing rhythm tengoku. i just couldn't find it compelling.
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dongle · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 290

I think people like one or the other. I gave an EBA-liking friend Rhythm Tengoku and he became upset at the game during the kung fu stage. Really mad, as in "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? THIS IS FUCKED UP"

another strike against eba/ouendan is that it doesn't have a cat soundbox

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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

On the blue drums you hit the side of the drum or the edge.

I like Taiko no Tatsujin more on the PSP surprisingly enough even though I'm not holding fake plastic taiko sticks.

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

"September" is a whole lot of fun on the hard mode. I like trying to alternate thinking about the horns and the lyrics. I think I just like horns, actually. Hey, somebody tell me to import rhythm tengoku so that I can really enjoy it just to prove that guy wrong.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Rhythm Tengoku is GO!
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:34 am Post subject:

i don't think nintendo's planning to localize rhythm tengoku.

go go go go import do it
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I love Rhythm Tengoku. Should I buy Elite Beat Agents?

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

The two have little to do with each other.

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:56 am Post subject:

if you want to go by my experience, "no"?

go and get all the medals in tengoku.
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internisus · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 354

So Tengoku is not in any way hampered for the English-speaker by being Japaneasy?

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

No, it's Japanbloodydifficult at times! LOL

Uh, I mean, no, the language barrier is not a problem.

I unlocked Rap Machine the other day by the way Dess. Is that the last thing you unlock?

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:15 am Post subject:

the last thing you unlock is a game!
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

dongle · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 290

I have about 10 medals left in Tengoku. That damn game show...

But, really, the way the game visualizes rhythm is brilliant. It's the only one of the bemani spawn that actually makes you want to make music.

It has really awesome drum lessons, too! I transferred the skills to real drums

Also, helicopterp, I'm going to be sticking around even after IC and SB go up so you can call me by my handle rather than 'that guy' =P

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject:

dongle · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 290

yeah i'm able to count the number of times a pattern was played but the embellishment at the end gets me.

helicopterp: update the thread title every time you are late to class again

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject:

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

I'm on top of it, Dongle.

So yeah, I tried to read some Chaucer today. It got really hard because diminishing circles kept appearing over all the words.

And I was doing great in Hard mode until I hit "Canned Heat"--that Jamiroquai is one crafty bastard.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Hey, I just remembered that I'm not good at doing things on a computer. Does anyone want to tell me how to re-name a thread?
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject:

edit the first post in the thread and change the "subject".
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:55 am Post subject:

son of an auto mogul dresses up as a ninja to retrieve stolen car plans.

it's the first genuinely hard stage in the game.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

It's an inspired choice for the game, even with the napoleon dynamite tie-in, but then I might say that about most Jamiroquai songs.

Mister Toups · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:45 am Post subject:

The thread title has "stop the love you save" stuck in my head now.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

I just unlocked "Survivor" by Destiny's Child this morning. I only got to try it once before I had to go to class and work, but I love it! The scenario involves a peanut delivery man and either zombies or aliens. At one point he shoots the zombie/aliens with a peanut gun and they become normal people again. More as the events unfold...

Mr. Toups--This thread title is now slightly misleading, because I was whistling Jackson 5 tunes in class even before "ABC" in this game. I recall taking my shirt off and dancing on a table in a bar last time I heard "I Want You Back" in public.
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Mister Toups · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:15 pm Post subject:

"stop the love you save" is one of the best songs ever written, IMO.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

That's how I feel about "I Want You Back"
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Mister Toups · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject:

we must e-fight over this
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Nintendo just sent me an email asking me to take a survey about this game. Neat.

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

BalbanesBeoulve · . Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 84

"A B C" was the first song where I actually paid any attention to the Agent's dancing. Gotta love the classic Michael Jackson moves.

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Update: I still love this game and play it more than anything else right now.

I have decided that all of the songs are wonderful by the time you get to the hard mode except for 'rock this town,' which has sucked balls since the moment I heard it.

Also, the extra hard mode features divas instead of agents dancing. They are hilarious.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Dongle, consider yourself wrong. Rhythm Tengoku came in the mail for me this weekend, and I love it. I don't know that I can say anything about this game that hasn't already been said, but I have medaled each of the first twelve stages (I haven't gone on to the next round yet).

I don't know that it grabs me quite as much as Elite Beat Agents does--I'm still playing that one, too--but it's a more thoughtful, smarter game, sophisticated in the way that WarioWare Twisted! is.

The Japanese is a bit of a barrier for me, though, in that I am not quite sure why some games keep getting little funny white boxes around them after I finish them, as if inviting me to play them again. Also, there seem to be five play modes from the title screen, but all I have tried is the first one because I don't know what the other four are supposed to be. Help?
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dongle · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 290

I accept defeat, but being wrong is a price I am willing to pay to move another copy of Rhythm Tengoku Razz

At least we agree that it's an intelligent game.

When you get that funny white box, you have three chances to replay the stage and get a perfect to earn a bonus.

One of the other modes is drum lessons. It's pretty f'ing awesome.

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Does it count chances against you if you don't go and try it immediately? Because I've been ignoring them so far. And is perfect the same rating as getting a medal, or is there something better to shoot for?

Also, I've medaled each of the first 36 stages. Does the game get hard?
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:49 am Post subject:

Persona-sama · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject:

My favorite rhythm game is still Bust-A-Groove, guys. ;_;

Flyin' to your soooooul~
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