Ouendan 2 rhythm game for Japan, Elite Beat Agents 2 possible?

21 February 2007

Posted by:Ferry

“Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan” means “Go! Fight! Cheer Squad” is a rhythm game developed by iNiS and published in Japan only by Nintendo for the DS on July 28th 2005. Ouendan stars a cheer squad rhythmically cheering for various troubled people and was very popular with importers (that helped it sell to 60,000 a year ago) because of it’s wacky Japanese pop tunes (list at Wikipedia).

Instead of just translating Ouendan, on November 6th 2006 Nintendo released a new iNiS-developed game titled “Elite Beat Agents” to the North American market. This game features the same game play as Ouendan, but with a different song list geared towards western audiences. The all-new scenarios in the game have also been tailored towards a western audience. Several general game play improvements were made as well. It’ll be released on March 1st 2007 in Europe.

Today, Nintendo of Japan announced a sequel to Ouendan, titled “Moero! Nekketsu Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm-Damashii Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2″ meaning “Burn! Hot-Blooded Rhythm Soul Go! Fight! Cheer 2″. The sequel is confirmed to have 1 to 4-player wireless play, no further game details were revealed. The game is set for release in Japan in 2007.

So unless this turns out to be the American Elite Beat Agents translated into Japanese, it’d be possible for Americans to get a new Elite Beat Agents 2 sequel as well.

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Angelbabe531

*Crosses fingers* Man I love Elite Beat Agents!! If they keep making them, I’ll keep buying them I don’t think it sold too well when it first came out, but I noticed people were snatching it up for Christmas, so I hope it has sold well enough for a sequel. That’s cool that Japan’s getting a sequel though, I do want to import Ouendan…maybe I’ll get both 1 and 2 together
supadupagama

Maybe with some extra luck there’ll be FOUR different versions of Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents by the end of the year. For a niche game that’s quite some fan service there. My guess is they’re hoping it’ll attract a new crowd by doing sequels now that the DS Lite has gained so much popularity the past year.
Mc_Rib

Man.. Ouendan rocks and is the best game ever… but EBA sux >.
astrotriforce

Yeah I’d like to get both versions as well. I think they should just take Ouendan and do a direct translation and release it here. Instead of making us have to import.
http://none wii 2.0

Elite beat agents rocks if they are making elite beat agent 2 i’ll be waisting money CRAZY like theres no tomorow
Agent Chieftain

Aaw man!! EBA 2 better come out soon, cuz EBA is the best game EVER. And whoever said EBA sucks? GO HANG YOURSELF.
http://www.cafepress.com/artgiftsbyhs Shad0cat

I’ve played both Oendon and EBA. I love both. I’m glad that they did the American version different because I love variety and now there’s 3 versions of a great game and hopefully a fourth. Long live music for every mood and occasion!