This game is fun, and well made for that matter. As someone who loves Rhythm games, this is definitely one of the better ones that I've played, mechanically that is. However, the surprisingly sparse amount of content, coupled with some pretty middling covers, makes this game feel pretty bare bones when compared to its contemporaries. You can find better games in this genre on the DS, let alone the PSP, PS2, Wii, and many others. This is still a good game, so if you love Rhythm games you will find something to like here.

Was obsessed with checking this game out after the Into the Aether podcast waxed poetic about the fun absurdity of this game. Extremely eccentric, with very early 2000s vibes.

The premise of secret agents helping people by bringing dance and music into their life already starts out absurd with helping a babysitter and her boyfriend take care of kids. Then they go help a captain and an oil tycoon find riches, help two supermodels survive on an abandoned island (by...seducing literal lions and bears?), and then takes a SHARP turn into helping a daughter and mother mourn the loss of their dad during Christmas.

And at the end aliens come and two ridiculously difficult levels later you dance your way to victory.

Gameplay-wise, it's a frenetic rhythm game and a Westernized version of an OSU! game (that I tried and was basically the same as well). Tapping and holding beats, with a wacky spinning mechanic that I felt bad destroying my touchscreen with.

I found that it actually got a bit easier after unlocking and switching to the "Sweatin'" hard mode, since the beats more closely follow the full lyrics instead of switching between lyrics and off-beats. Once I got used to the mechanics, would replay a level over and over just to try to not miss any notes.

Was able to get perfect combos for every song (besides one of the finale levels) on all difficulties. Was terrified when the Elite Beat Divas were unlocked, but turns out theirs is just a mirrored version of Sweatin. Wouldn't have kept returning to this and high-score chasing if I didn't enjoy it, and it really did hook me. Was able to accumulate enough points to get the highest rank (Lovin' Machine, excellent).

Overall, an intense obsession for this game for a good month. And also feel bad about my touchscreen, I whaled on it with those taps and swirls.

Really fun. Quite challenging at points, but it feels very rewarding once you finally learn the songs enough to pass the maps. A lot of the scenarios are genuinely super sweet and made me smile and/or laugh super hard (besides the one about turning the rich dude into an oil baron so he could further spoil his bitch wife, like wtf?). I love that the music selection is like a playlist of songs every 2000s American white kid has engrained in their DNA (saying this as one, I'm biased). Really fun ending section too. Music LIVES!

Kind of fucking sucks when you play the other two. It's obviously not something inis didn't really GAF abt it and everything feels very half baked. I really like some of the scenarios, the track list, and a lot of the characters still but man it's way harder to go back to this one. The other two Ouendan games are way more comedy driven than EBA's semi-frequen feel good or emotional moments which makes Ouendan like just better. And the bonus levels aren't really that good :/ But ofc the Carrington sisters are jus like me fr and Cap White is a #need