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Rhythm based DS Games

Recently, I have just been addicted to these rhythm based video games on my NDS. It all started last year when I was at a Game Stop, and saw the promotion of the game "Elite Beat Agents" coming up, and bought it the following week when it arrived into the stores. For the next week, I was thoroughly addicted to the game.

So while playing the game, because of the manga style graphics, the cheesy story lines, and references and style that were very remiscent to Japan, I figured that it is probably originally a Japanese game, and then found that it is the sequel to a Japanese game called "Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!". I was playing this game for a while as well, and the last level was way too difficult for me, and it took me a week or so to get good enough to barely pass the level.

Thanks to the power of BitTorrent and the R4DS, I was able to get my hands on a copy of several other games I otherwise would have had no access, including the "Nodame Cantabile" game, which I found pretty disappointing since it was way too easy. I guess for that game, they were trying to emphasize the storyline more, but I was more interested in playing, so skipped all the story elements of the game.

I played some other rhythm based games like "Pinky Street: Kirakira Music Hour", which I found a little too girly to play, and was also another game way too focused on the story line, and also tried "Daigasso Band Brothers", which was way too difficult to play, and I just got turned off to it after trying it out for 30 minutes.

So I was really happy to see that the next installment of the "Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!" series was out, and quickly went out and got it: "Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2". So I spent an hour playing it last night, and since I had been playing the original game over the past week, the first 7 or 8 songs I have done so far were pretty easy to get through on the first try (although not with very high scores on all of them). For the most part, I don't know most of the songs, and a few I know from hearing other friends singing them in karaoke, and the only song I knew was the Ken Hirai song, "Pop Star", which has got to be one of the gayest music videos ever: