Elite Beat Agents Soon to Rock the DS

Here’s a groovy new rhythm game for the Nintendo DS that’s been revealed at E3.

This is the basic storyline: the super-secret agency known as the Elite Beat Agents roams the world looking for people in need of ‘rescue’ in the form of an emotional boost or encouragement, and when they find such people they perform a song and dance number that supplies their targets with “groovy” energy to help them overcome their problems.

Game play begins when the Agents meet a person or people in need of aid. A funky musical number starts, and players need to tap and trace patterns on the screen with their stylii in tune with the rhythm of the song. (Of course the patterns and the beats get more and more complicated the further along one gets.) The story proceeds depending on how the player performs, and a so-called “Elite-o-meter” shows how the player does.

It’s a whole lot of fun that’s very much in the vein of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, a rhythm game that’s mostly in Japanese with almost exactly the same story line. Thanks to this game’s developer for making a quirky, kitschy (but nonetheless catchy) game like this accessible to non-Japanese speakers!

Check back with us for more from this year’s E3, all this week on QJ.

 

Here’s a groovy new rhythm game for the Nintendo DS that’s been revealed at E3.

This is the basic storyline: the super-secret agency known as the Elite Beat Agents roams the world looking for people in need of ‘rescue’ in the form of an emotional boost or encouragement, and when they find such people they perform a song and dance number that supplies their targets with “groovy” energy to help them overcome their problems.

Game play begins when the Agents meet a person or people in need of aid. A funky musical number starts, and players need to tap and trace patterns on the screen with their stylii in tune with the rhythm of the song. (Of course the patterns and the beats get more and more complicated the further along one gets.) The story proceeds depending on how the player performs, and a so-called “Elite-o-meter” shows how the player does.

It’s a whole lot of fun that’s very much in the vein of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, a rhythm game that’s mostly in Japanese with almost exactly the same story line. Thanks to this game’s developer for making a quirky, kitschy (but nonetheless catchy) game like this accessible to non-Japanese speakers!

Check back with us for more from this year’s E3, all this week on QJ.