Rhythm games aren't normally my cup of tea, but this one strikes a beat just right.
This is the most laughably absurd story I've heard in years. In the Japanese version, you're a bunch of male cheerleaders who cheer people on in their activities. Somewhere along the way, they discovered in America that male cheerleaders aren't all that popular. So to count for this, they changed the people into agents. So now, you're an underground agency of bad ass lookingagents who fall from the sky whenever people have a problem and dance to help them solve it somehow. This and the hilarious missions you go on makes this one of those stories that's so weird and stupid that it's awesome.
Graphics:
Everything is stylized in this game, right down to the menus. They keep a consistent anime stile for all the characters and only on the bonus missions have I seen reused frames, and those are only for the intro agent appearance. There's not much to say when it comes to rhythm games having graphics, but the 3 agents are kool looking, and the comics passing by as you do a mission are fairly well detailed and animated.
Gameplay:
Let me get the low points out of the way here. There are a couple of times in some songs where the moves you do don't feel right, and completely out of rhythm with the moves they ask you to do, and the spinner can occasionally be inaccurate, or just annoying. Other than that, this is the best rhythm game I've played in years. Unlike what I feel guitar hero and dance dance revolution have done over the years, this game actually makes the stuff they ask you to do relate to the music you're going to. And I don't mean like every so often, I mean like most to all of the time. Your beats actually contribute to the overall music, and your screw ups screw you off until you can get back to feeling the beat again. The touch screen is obviously accurate, and you can't blame it when you fall off tone. If you do, calibrate your damn screen.
There's also a small multiplayer mode. It's not too well done, and only a small bit of songs are available there, but it has potential for a showdown if you find someone else with this game. There's also a few bonus songs to reward players, ranks to move up, and little rewards to go with each song, and punishments, depending on how you do.
Sound:
It features a good amount of songs but they're not sung by the original people though. That's fine however, the singers are fairly accurate, only a couple of lyrical changes have been made, and only in 1 bonus song did I ever shutter at the singing, and that's in 1 part.
Who wants this game?
People who have an interest in rhythm games, or people who want one but don't particularly like the old DDR stile.
Extra note:
I did not fully beat the game yet. I am only mostly through Sweatin difficulty. There is still 1 song which I have not seen yet. But because I have seen most of the package at the moment, I feel it may take longer to unlock this stuff than I would want to take to write this review.