I’ve been wondering how Nintendo was going to handle Elite Beat Agents in Korea and since we’re nearing the October 11 release date information is pouring out. The short story is it’s Elite Beat Agents with nothing special except for Korean text. They get the same Western soundtrack and unless Nintendo is hiding something there [...]

Watching what Nintendo is doing in Korea has always been rather interesting to me. Unlike other companies that shovel games to the market ripe with Japanese text, Nintendo is carefully localizing each game. Releasing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team in Hangul is of their major localization projects and it arrives in South Korea at [...]

Nintendo has a really clever bonus for fans of Inis’ beat tapping series. If you have Ouendan 2 you can hop over to the Touch! Try! DS stations and download the character models from Elite Beat Agents team. Once you get the download the models are permanently available in the game and you can switch [...]

 
Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan is one of those rare games where you are going to remember the bite sized story sequences because they are so hilarious. As a treat for fans it looks Inis is bringing back some of the characters that you saved in the first game back in the sequel. Remember the struggling student [...]

During Keiichi Yano’s panel he spoke about the difficulties of localizing Ouendan for a Western audience. Before Inis decided on the cool blend of Blues Brothers, Charlie’s Angels and Austin Powers to create the Elite Beat Agents, they were considering a “hot blooded” designs inspired by the Village People. While the Village People version of [...]

Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan or better known as Elite Beat Agents outside of Japan was a novel concept made by Inis and Nintendo where you hit bubbles on the beat with the stylus. After seeing the game two developers re-created the game for the PC as ClickBeat. It’s not exactly the same game as Elite Beat [...]

The DS already has a little nub for analog control, but what about a thumb based stylus? The Thylus made by the good people at… Thylus Inc. came up with this concept. It looks kind of silly and in a way it has been done before. However, the little pointy thing on the end might [...]

Based on the manga series Nodame Cantabile is a music/rhythm game where you lead a group of misfit musicians in an orchestra. You help Chiaki, the conductor by tapping notes on the touch screen. After looking at the game I seems like Nodame Cantabile is inspired from Ouendan. You have the scene playing out on [...]

Nintendo is putting together a contest for Elite Beat Agents, which is bound to make some hilarious and hilariously awful videos on the internet. Step one find three friends who aren’t camera shy. Step two dance and groove to the Elite Beat Agents theme song. Step three film two minutes of the madness and get [...]

While Elite Beat Agents is based off of Ouendan, it has a different setting and all new music. What Elite Beat Agents keeps is the gameplay and wacky humor that made it a hit in the first place. Sum 41’s song “Make the Difference” has Chris, a movie director making a popcorn flick where the [...]