Moero! Neketsu Rhythm Damashii! Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Just got this game today and I already beat the normal mode.

As with it's predecessor it is, in a word, fairly amazing.

The new cheer squad may be more bishounen, but their commander is extremely manly so that makes up for it. And he has a cape.

The stages are the same nonsensical weirdness the first one had. This game is very, unabashedly Japanese.

Oh, and it has a Left-handed feature! I'm not sure if the first game had it but I never found it. This makes me happy. Very happy.

Anyway, those of you who own a DS, it's definitely worth importing if you have the means. Even if it's all in Japanese, the storylines are generally fairly easy to understand and completely hilarious.

[JKTrix]

Quendan 2 On Display In Japan - GameBrink.Com (http://www.gamebrink.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15759)

Take a look--it's the Elite Beat Agents *IN* Ouendan 2. Unfortunately, I think this is only available as a download in Japan and not something normally unlockable in-game. I'd have loved to be able to have the Agents in my game.

The Ouendan series (all 3 of 'em) are some of my favourite games on the DS. I recognized quite a few of the songs this time around as well, from anime and other games I'd played. The first song you play was actually part of the expansion pack (http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-1u6b-71-9g-77-1-49-en-15-daigasso-84-j-70-xpy.html) for another DS game, 'Daigasso! Band Brothers (http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-1u6b-71-9g-49-en-84-j-70-d7p.html)' a couple of years ago. Other songs I recognized immediately were from Eureka 7, Densha Otoko, the NANA movie and Monkey Magic(!). A couple of the other songs I'd heard previously on internet radio stations.

I have all the songs on my iPod now :p You can find torrents of the 'soundtrack' for both games (and probably EBA too).

I was also pleased to see that they included support for the DS Rumble pack (http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-1u6b-71-b8-77-1-49-en-15-rumble-84-j-70-1fgo.html), which EBA did as well.

[Necronopticous]

I got a perfect on Sekai wa Sore wo Ai to Yobundaze on Cheer Girl/Blind mode, that was my personal endgame.

So good.