Are you an energetic gamer? You should be! (Elite Beat Agents (DS))

Member Name: Ggd07

Product:	Elite Beat Agents (DS)
Date:	15/10/09 (37 review reads)
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Advantages: Great inspiring stories for each challenge, many unlockable difficulties and songs. Addictive play.

Disadvantages: None. I wish this game never ended. I hope they make a sequel for this title.

Elite beat agents is an action adventure rhythm game for the portable Nintendo DS gaming system. It is a port from the Japanese version - Osu! Tatake! Oendan! which was introduced first on the Nintendo DS. A year after that, the answer for the other half of the world was "Elite Beat Agents" - with new stories, songs and graphics.

I gotta say this game is very hard to master and very challenging as you go deeper into the levels.

When you start the game, you have to run through the tutorial to learn the basics of it. The tutorial is enjoyable, since i have been playing almost every rhythm game on almost every system, because i am a big, big fan of the genre, i find this and rhythm paradise my favorite titles for the Nintendo DS gaming system.

The energetic game-play and inspiring story cut-scenes for every different song is what makes this game really addictive and enjoyable.
Your objective is to help the elite beat agents "fix every mistake in everybodys lives". By that i mean, looking at the pattern on the touch screen, listening to the rhythm and beat of the music, following it and tapping on the numerical circle buttons. In addition you have sliding between the circle buttons and spinning a big "record like" circle around as fast as you can to catch the final beat.

The further you go and complete the levels, you unlock more and more challenges and music. When you get to the last level, the story mixes all the character until now, into one big cut-scene, where aliens come to conquer the earth and forbidding any tune, sound or music on it. People get really miserable without music, and the elite beat agents come for rescue.
When you complete this level, hold on to your pants, another one comes on, where the cut scene is even more inspiring.
The aliens turn the elite beat agents into stone, and the people are doomed, but they do not give up so easily, and start yelling " E B A.. E B A.. (elite beat agents), with belief and hope, and they come to life.

When you complete this level you destroy the aliens, and everyone lives happily ever after with some tune for each another.

As i finished the game, i though.. This was it, but no.. i was wrong!

As i recall i saw another difficulty level unlocked. I was really surprised, and when i started to play it, i noticed that it unlocks another new song, that was not in the last difficulty level.

After you complete all difficulty levels with the different Elite beat agents, you unlock one more. With Elite beat "gals". This is the most challenging and hard to master level. The circle buttons were shrunk. The game-play becomes faster and it is harder for the player to catch the beat and follow the pattern now. If you finish this difficulty level, you are truly the master.

Overall i recommend this game to every rhythm game player on the Nintendo DS.Great inspiring story cut-scenes on every challenge, great graphics, great contemporary music and three more unlockable difficulty levels. And although the Japanese versions were first to be born, the American version EBA will kick their bottoms every day, every time!

Summary: Great addictive and energetic rhythm game which is a must for every music gamer who needs adrenaline