Over the weekend I started (and just yesterday completed) the game
Elite Beat Agents for the Nintendo DS. I haven't played many "rhythm" games, having briefly owned (and never played) a copy of
Guitar Hero 2, and never touching
Band Hero,
DJ Hero, or any of the other games that had you simulate playing an instrument. I did have a long, happy affair with a copy of
DanceDance Revolution Megamix and a play mat for the PS2, though, if that counts, but that was primarily the feet, not the hands.
Having now played this, I'll admit there is a lot of fun to be had in tapping and sliding a stylus on a screen to the beat of music, but someone really needs to sit down with the Japanese and talk about what it means to suddenly have the tone of a game hit a hairpin turn and start plunging into a complete shift in tone.
