![]() ![]() Ouendan 2's music, to our ears, simply doesn't have the same qualities which made the soundtrack of the first game so endearing. Plenty of Ouendan players ended up discovering artists like Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Tomoyasu Hotei, Kishidan, Yaida Hitomi and L'Arc~en~Ciel through the game - quite the reverse of what the developers had probably originally planned. However, what could have been a crippling flaw with the game's import chances turned out to be a master-stroke, because the music was chosen with an ear to upbeat, fun, unusual tracks. The first Ouendan was a peculiar gem, because the vast majority of people outside Japan who played the game had never heard of the bands or tracks it featured - most of which were fairly widely known in Japan. Sadly, however, we can't conclude this review without a single caveat in the mix - because there's a niggling but deeply worrying suspicion in our minds that Ouendan 2's sole failure may lie in a very crucial part of the game. ![]() In other words, in gameplay terms, Ouendan 2 does exactly what you'd expect it takes everything we saw in Ouendan and Elite Beat Agents, concludes that most of it was unbroken and requires no fixing, and merely tweaks and nudges the formula for our continued tapping delight.
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