Elite Beat Agents: I suffer From EBS: Elite Beat Syndrome
Boricua_bob
85% score
middleimg src="http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g150/Boricua_bob/Elite_Beat_Agents_Cover_Art.jpg"/middle middleEver since I got Elite Beat Agents, I can't put the game down. Other games became absolite to me, I put down my iPod, I stopped having breakfest (no Fred, I can't take your Pebbles today, or your cereal), but most of all I've stopped caring./middle middleIn the beginning, you start off in a tutorial simulation, which is ok if it weren't...so...slow. You'll tap, slide, spin, and then tap-slide-spin until you get into the real meat of the game. You'll be asigned with a group of 'Agents,' who will save the face of humanity with a little jig. Once you finish all of the storylines for all three difficulties (first starting with two), you'll have the opportunity to dance it out all over again with *gasp* 'Divas!'/middle middleLet's check out the characters you get to dance as. There's 'Spin,' the new kid on the block who looks a lot like Will Smith's early Men In Black years. "J," the main character and the guy on the cover, is a skillful dancer whose "styles of dance range from hip-hop to ballet." That's one graceful gangsta-wait, is that a mullet? "Chieftain" is a dancer who looks like he wants to bring back the elusive cowboy. No chance on that buddy. Then you got Three divas, two background dancers, and Commander Kahn who, unlike Khan from StarTrek: The Movie 2, isn't a dick. But who really cares when your never gonna what their stories are, and that your just playing the same games over and over again, with different people and difficulty./middle middleYet Elite Beat Agents is one of those games that has everything you'd want in a game. And although the game is in definate need of a DDR makeover, you'd have to agree with me that your not gonna want to dance to Ashlee Simpson's 'La La' or Cher's 'Believe. But no matter the music you play, you'll love how they make the touch screen into a dance mat, with excellent replayabilty, quirky storylines (One story takes place where you're helping a retired baseball player turned janitor defeat a fire-breathing golem, and all you do is cheer him on to the end.), and the need to just wave your hands in the air like you don't care. But you're going to have to get used to game, since the difficulty is high, and you will have to do a lot of memorization. Still, with the loss of a training mode (tutorial doesn't count), this is one of the greatest DS games out there, and can easily become a killer app./middle middleOne thing I hope Nintendo does is put the same gameplay into the Wii. It probably would be a good game if it were on the Wii, having many of the same characteristics made from the DS. Also, if they make a sequel, they should definatly add a bigger library by using it's Wifi capabilities to make an iTunes-like store where you can earn songs through rank and points, like 360's achievment system. And if they make a sequel with Wifi, then Nintendo should make a replay board to go with it so you can strive to be better. You see, once you play this game, you would never want to let go of it. This is a game you should get./middle middlestrongScore: 4.25 out of 5/strong/middle strongThefont color="blue"iGood/i/font:/strong Quirky storylines. strongThefont color="red"iBad/i/font:/strong Where's the training mode? strongWha?:/strong Where's Thriller? *Written on 11/17/06. Updated this year.
