押忍！闘え！応援団 Shrine

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The 押忍！闘え！応援団 series pronouced "Osu! Tatakae! Ōendan" in Roman Latin, literally translating to "Osu! Fight! Cheer Squad" or "Go! Fight! Cheer Squad" in English, is a series of games by iNiS developed for the Nintendo DS console(s) 押忍！闘え！応援団 and 押忍！闘え！応援団 2 are the original game(s) that were only released in Japan with Elite Beat Agents being the counterpart for English speaking countrys.

In the 押忍！ games you play as a Ōendan who try ro encourage people to do what they are doing???? I guess a better way to word that is "Cheering people on" and in Elite Beat Agents you erm... Dance and that uh does something??? I don't know.

Every level is presented in panels like a comic book, the top screen of the DS shows an animation of the current segment and the bottom screen is where you play the 3 cheer-ers or agents in the background change depending on your difficulty. Gameplay wise there are circles, sliders and wheels that you have to tap, follow and spin to the beat my ADHDlovesit, it's always challenging but never unfair.

I don't know why I like these games so much maybe the just came into my life at the right time when I was 12 I was going through a lot of stress and I needed something to calm me down and I had a lot of memories with the DSI so I bought a DS lite and New Super Mario Bros then I beat it and I didn't feel like re-playing another New Super Mario Bros game for the 1000th time so when I was at a thrift store with my parents I spotted a super ugly copy of Elite Beat Agents for like 8 bucks because I heard good things about it and when I say ugly I mean ugly the cartridge had 2 holes in the back and it was dirty as hell but when I popped it into my DS is somehow worked and even after all of these hours of playing itstillworks.

When it comes to the 押忍! games a little bit after I turned 13 school was just getting started again and I needed a game to play to get me through itandI was starting to learning Japanese at the time and I knew that there was a Japanese counterpart to Elite Beat Agents and somehow out of pure luck when I was walking down the road one day I manage to find 2 lone copies of 押忍！ and 押忍！ 2 and that isdefinitely how I played these games and I did not obtain them throughANYother means.

Despite how silly the games are 押忍！taught me a lot about Japanese culture and while it's not a very text-heavy game I still did learn some words from it. They're great games and I'd hate for them to be forgotten so if you have the time consider checking them out.