iNiS, the fellows who made this, previously worked on the under-appreciated Gitaroo Man for PS2, and this Nintendo-backed follow-up is every bit as beguiling as that by many accounts. The DS didn't have one of those, but now it does - and with excellent pedigree, too. As their masters, it's our job to tap little icons on the screen in time to the J-Rock soundtrack without missing too many beats. Whatever you're having trouble with, a quick shout of "Ooooueeendaaan!" is all it takes and they're there. In a town of problems, these chaps can always be called upon to help you through. Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan is about cheerleading. Now, three blokes in long coats shouting and doing what appears to be some manner of hopscotch: that gets our fingers firing. It's bad enough trying to get anything written with neighbouring curtains, cushions and biros throwing shapes in the dancehalls of our eyes introduce dancing girls to our periphery vision and the two would get on so well they'd probably elope, leaving us with tunnel vision, a lingering sense of inadequacy and an impending deadline. It's certainly our excuse for being rubbish at basketball and, thanks to the finely balanced televisual marketing equation of "product + woman = sale", the reason we're writing this in the early hours of the morning and not earlier, when we'd set aside time. The motivational benefits of lithe, blonde, pompom-wielding acrobats are better measured in the crotch area than the cranial cavity.
The problem with cheerleaders (apart from eating disorders, low IQs and other Saved By The Bell stereotypes we're lazily appropriating for these parentheses) is that their obvious aesthetic qualities can be overpowering.
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