David Bowie and Cher become Elite Beat Agents - Joystiq

1. The track list looks pretty good overall, and in many ways faithful to the tone that INiS set with the original Ouendan, but I do admit having more than a few reservations on a couple of the tracks ("Sk8ter Boi" being an obvious one). For someone like myself, who rarely imports games (a 0% knowledge of the Japanese language may be a factor in that), Ouendan is easily one of my favorite DS titles, despite the fact that I usually stay away from touch-screen-only titles.

The music and the humor were a HUGE part of that, and I have faith that Nintendo won't let me down on localizing this one. *In before the 400 "ZOMG THIES SUXXX GODDAM AMERIECANIEZED POP BS, ALWAYS RUENING MY JAPANIESE GAEMS!" comments*
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Why do I have the feeling to boycott this game while telling everybody to get the Japanese version instead?
Sorry but I really don't like the list..

. Most of the song on that list are songs I wouldn't be proud of listening too..

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5. The hell?

I ended up never importing Ouenden because the bloody awful J-rock soundtrack, but this...

atleast it's 20 dollars cheaper. Hopefully Bowie, EWF, and the gameplay make up for the rest. I'm interested in how a few of these will play now.

6. i feeling the eart wind fire angle but i would have to see a complete track list, joystiq u listening
7. How did they get Bowie to let himself be surrounded by such crap (Earth WInd, and Fire excepted)?

The man made Lodger, he should have his own game.
8. Oh wow.

This game has liscenced music - and shitty liscenced music at that? GG Lumines 2 syndrome. Guess that rules this game off my list.

9. half those titles look fine, the other half look shit. ill try my best to hold back my complaints.

im sure some of the songs on Ouendan were seen as overplayed and trendy by the average japanese gamer. im just glad its more Ouendan! and its still iNiS!

10. Whoa, don't knock Bowie!
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I think the songs fit the themes for the game, even if they seem awfully for how we know them. After a few plays, I bet people will start tearing their hair out when they find the songs they've always hated start to become insanely catchy..

.I never thought that would be the case with J-POP tunes, but the game made all the songs memorable for me.
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Sadly, most of the songs on the list I hear on a daily basis at work. Three times a day. I'm not looking forward to those.

But I'd be lying if the classic prog rock inner child isn't excited about frantically tapping my DS screen to "Highway Star."
13. About what I expected, to be honest.

You've got a mix of cool titles (Now I've got "September" stuck in my head) with crap ones meant to appeal to the pop music crowd. Seriously, the Japanese release is the same way. The difference is, since we don't follow Japanese tabloids and most of us don't speak Japanese, we don't realize that we're getting into the Land of the Rising Sun's answer to Britney Spears.

Remember - people have a remarkable tolerance for bubblegum pop when they have no idea what anyone is singing about.
14. I'm actually still pretty excited about the game, it's just that the combination of songs strikes me as truly bizarre and frightening (hence its ability to melt the universe).

I'm pretty sure the music will end up suiting the visuals just fine. Props for putting in Bowie and Queen, but I really can't get over Destiny's Child, Ashlee Simpson, Hoobastank, Ashlee Simpson, Avril Lavigne, Ashlee Simpson. Also, Ashlee Simpson.

:)
15. "Remember - people have a remarkable tolerance for bubblegum pop when they have no idea what anyone is singing about." Yaeh >_>;; I dont know anything about American music, I have tons of Japanese, Chinese, German, and blah blah blah, but hardly anything in English.

.. (Oh and spanish, I hate the language) so I dunno whats good and whats bad, so I'll probobly just not care, gonna get it anyway.

Of course, if you listen to too much of them, you're liable to come down with an onset of diabetes.
17. David Bowie can't be an Elite Beat Agent.

Everyone knows he's the Sovereign of the Guild of Calamitous Intent. 18. Deep Purple?

Guh? How the heck does this fit in with the other songs? (of course, highway star is one of my favorites, I just don't see how it fits.

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#16, yeah, I like them too, but Morning Musume IS bubblegum pop, its just in japanese, which makes it fun. (Though it starts to make less of a differnce as I progress though college japanese and actualy understand what they say >>;;)
20. David Bowie, Cher, and Madonna The transexual inside of me screams with glee!

Points to Richard Mitchell for the Venture Bros Reference!!!

21. Sure, not all the songs are going to be our favorites. Personally, I would just want a bunch of dance/techno/trance crap to keep me obsessed.

However, I've played the VERY brief demo from the Download Station and I CANNOT wait for this game to be released. It's very fun. Don't let the tracks keep you from buying it because "tapping" to the beat w/ the stylus is soooo addictive.

22. Walkie-Talkie Man is a cool song (with a cool video) that I only know about because it was on some version of Pump It Up I played once. Other than that, this isn't really looking too exciting.

Besides, will any of the stories be as cool as helping the guy get his ramen shop off the ground, or helping in a float race at a matsuri? And how can you save the earth from a giant meteor without L'Arc~en~ciel? Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.

23. I don't think even Lambda Lambda Lambda would be caught dead rocking Sk8er Boi and Ashlee Simpson.
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Ha! It's the old localisation issue rearing its head once again: this is what Ouendan! appeared as to the Japanese, but to American otaku not immersed in that culture, it's weird, harmless fun.

When they try to translate it so that the intent is intact, everyone complains because the otaku didn't understand the Japanese version and are horrified when they find out what it was actually about. That said, the idea of secret agents singing along to sk8er boi is really, really funny. Which is the whole point, I think.

25. This makes me want to cry :'( too late..

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26. great!

now i'm curious about the Japanese version...

27. I want it. And I happen to like that kinda music, so Im good :D
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Not a bad list. I can see some song like Believe, ABC, and Material Girl be absolutely ridiculous (in a good way) given the right situation.