Elite Beat Agents
by Nintendo
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Product Summary
Brand: NintendoAudio: English (Manual); English (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Release Date: 2006-11-06
Platform: Nintendo DS
Model: NTRPAOSE
Publisher: Nintendo
Product features:
- By tapping and tracing patterns that appear on screen with the stylus, players play along with the song's rhythm
- After each section, the player gets judged; The animated story changes depending on how well the player performs
- If the player makes it though the whole song, he or she will be judged on the whole thing and get one of three endings -- the worse players do, the worse the story might end up
- Every scene is accompanied by rump-shaking tunes, but players have to keep the Elite Beat Agents grooving
- Rhythm games have come and gone, but no one has ever seen anything like the Elite Beat Agents!
Video Game Reviews of Elite Beat Agents
Customer Review: Great game with a irritating flaw
Summary: 4 Stars
First of all, this is an amazing game. Being a hobbyist drummer, I love rhythms and music and this game got me addicted. Initially, it seems not that difficult a game to play. You start with the easier level of difficulty, playing the easiest stages, and, one by one, stage by stage, you start practicing, and practicing, and beating the stages and the first difficulty level. When you get to the second difficulty level, things start to get a little more difficult, specially in the latest and more difficult stages, but, after trying it some times, you will manage to beat them all. Then comes the real challenge, the hard mode (called Sweatin'). That's when you feel the thrill! The most advanced stages are really demanding but, again, you will eventually beat them all and advance to the next and last level, the Hard Rock level (that I'd call insane! :-)). History repeats itself and will probably manage to beat again the 19 available stages. So, what is it that I want to tell you? What I want to tell you is that if you are happy with just beating each stage at each level, the game is not THAT difficult, BUT, if you plan on getting to 80 million points so to unlock all the unlockables, then you will need persistence and practicing a lot. THEN, after you get there, you will start looking at that score and you will start thinking why the heck there are NINE digits for the total score and not eitht, after all, 80,000,000 uses eight digits! The thing is that you can get past the 100,000,000 points! How to? THAT is when you will need more then ever too much patience and too much training, practicing, and going back to previously beaten stages to beat them again but now that you are used to it, without missing ANY hit and trying as hard as you can to not miss ANY 300-point hit. The way points are counted and accumulated in this game, if you miss ONE SINGLE hit, during a stage, your total points for that stage will EXTREMELY decrease; you need to start it over and try again until you miss NONE during the whole music. That is the only way to make points enough to get you to the 80 million mark. BUT, if you want the 100 million mark (which doesn't bring you any more bonuses at all, just the beauty of having an "1" in that ninth digit and make that ninth digit worth), you will need not only not to miss ANY hit but also score 300 points in MOST of them, which means PRECISION! (you will need no more than 5% of the hits with no-300 points, as an average!). And THAT is when you find that this game CAN BE A PAIN IN THE NECK because the exact timing for some 300-point hits is just awkward, out of sync with the most obvious references, sometimes in sync with some very obscure element of the music, so obscure that you can do it sometimes, but not always, and hitting 300-point through the whole music without any mistake becomes mostly impossible! I've seen some videos on youtube of some players that do score all 300-point hit in all songs but, for me, it is just impossible. I have managed to have all-300 point hits in just some musics in the easiest level of difficulty and in just one music in the next easiest difficulty level! Anyway, I got to 101 million points being the maximum around 104 million. I got happy with my acchievement, anyway. It reached my limit of patience and skills for the game.
So, I removed one star from this game because, when you reach the level where you want all 300-point hits, to get to 100+ million, it becomes, many times, frustrating and irritating because the "point of exact hit" of the markers are too much obscure, even for a hobbyist drummer that knows about rhythm very well like me.
Description of Elite Beat Agents
Elite Beat Agents DSClassic Games & Retro Arcade
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