Whatever you’re doing right now, stop it, head over to Play Asia or Lik Sang and order yourself a copy of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! If you don’t have a DS, you’ll want to buy one of those, too. Why should you buy it? This is why:
A big-ass samurai dude is trying to make pots. He is having difficulty with his pots. They’re all coming out wrong, like little tree spirit things, rather than like pots. He’s getting very angry and frustrated, and he can’t sell his pots to make any money. So, finally, desperate, he yells out “OUENDAN!”, and the super-special Ouendan taskforce turned up. These are no normal superheroes, though. Ouendan are three six-foot tall dudes with slick hairstyles and sunglasses, wearing long black trenchcoats. Oh, and they’re cheerleaders, too. As they dance to the funky sounds of Japan’s hottest pop artists, the pot maker finds his mojo again: he spies a young lady emerging from a lake and creates a pot with a mermaid on it; he goes to a club and uses the turntables as a pottery wheel, creating funky pottery for the dancers in the club! He is happy! Ouendan have done their job and another citizen can rest easy knowing everything is back to normal. Hoorah!
You see now?
And that’s just one level of this game.