So the other day I roamed out to the mall and got me a fabulous DS game known to the world as OntamaRama.
SO.
It's pretty much a music/rhythm game not unlike Taiko Master or Donkey Konga.
BASIC JIST: Fill notes to play them by poking little goobers in the eye, play them by pressing the corresponding directional button.
IS IT ARE BE FUN TEIM?: I think so. Quite amusing, fun and takes a fair amount of skill. Got difficult for me pretty quick, since I don't have any sorts of skills to pay any kinds of bills. Particularly rhytmical bills. However, some of the songs are rather good and I enjoy playing it nonetheless. Seems to be a fair amount of unlockables (songs, play modes, etc).
O SHIT ITS CUTE: Yeah, yeah. Shut the fuck up, douchebags. If you like rhythm-ish type games, then don't fucking pass a perfectly good one up just because it's cute. In fact, don't pass up ANY decent game simply based on cuteness. It won't make your dick shrink to play something adorable.
ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT?: Story mode is incredibly fucking short. Not much of a story to it at all other than you have to save the ontamas. Left me wondering quite a few things (what the fuck are Ontamas? how the fuck can an evil dude get power from them? etc etc etc).
So... Considering all this, I give it about a 7, or a 7.5 out of ten. Super fun, but the fun runs out faster than I wanted.
@ Excel - Ohgod. Yes. I couldn't get past the 2nd to last stage on Normal. This may be due to the fact that I fail at any rhythm game, but dang. It's HARRRRRRD.
As Neonie bitched to me about (<3), it's a multi-tasking game, and that totally isn't easy for everyone.
I totally agree. Some of the music is awesome, the game is awesome but it all just runs too short. I too epically fail at most rhythm games and think that the game is pretty hard.
Funny though. I showed it to my music-game-loving friend who is crazy good at both DDR and Ouendan (the two things this game seems to be made of) and it just confused the crap out of him, even after I explained how to play.
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I still hold that after the first eight stages it becomes retardedly impossible. I didn't even bother with the third stage on Hard yet.
@ Excel - Ohgod. Yes. I couldn't get past the 2nd to last stage on Normal. This may be due to the fact that I fail at any rhythm game, but dang. It's HARRRRRRD.
As Neonie bitched to me about (<3), it's a multi-tasking game, and that totally isn't easy for everyone.
I totally agree. Some of the music is awesome, the game is awesome but it all just runs too short. I too epically fail at most rhythm games and think that the game is pretty hard.
Funny though. I showed it to my music-game-loving friend who is crazy good at both DDR and Ouendan (the two things this game seems to be made of) and it just confused the crap out of him, even after I explained how to play.
Yeah I actually picked this up the other day based on post here on the Dtoid it is an excellent game.
If you have three hands.
I only got stuck in 2 battles for a while on my first play through on normal, one was the robot girl, the other the final boss.
And yeah, it gets kinda hard when there are a lot of ontamas on screen.