Living in Europe (the UK to be more precise) means we get the ass end of every major release, be it games or consoles. So I decided to take matters into my own hands and took a stand! Of course by all this I mean I indulged in some over priced importing, and incidently so began the curse upon my life that is.... Elite Beat Agents!!!

The curse started one early morning with a £16 pay upon delivery fee, which was nice, but a part of me didn't really care, as I now had in my possession a fairly fun looking DS game that I could wile away some hours with, how wrong I was. Everything started innocently enough, hitting small circles in time to the smash hit advert theme tune 'Walkie Talkie Man', needless to say i was gleefully amused with the profound impact my ability to hit something with a stick/stylus had. I was helping all manner of people: high schools sluts, gay pirates, the potential heroine for 'Innerspace 2', the usual really. The fun stopped with 'Without a Fight', I was perplexed about how the game had managed to make me lose, it had all been so easy up to this point. So I did what any man would do at this point, I downloaded (legally from iTunes of course) the song from the internet. I figured if I listened to the song enough I'd have the rhythm down and the song would be a synch, maybe two or three times. How wrong I was....

The song became the theme tune to my life, every track on my bloody mp3 player would have to be 'Without a fight' if I was to save humanity. I listened to it alot and trained endlessly with the earlier levels, I would say my struggle was comparable to Goku training with King Kai on that small planet. After an indiscrimate amount of time I decided to once and for all kill 'Without a Fight', for my honour, for my family's honour!!! I was going well, I thought I had bested them, then all of the sudden Jumpin Jack Flash comes into the equation, what was happening!!?? I should have seen this coming, metaphorically speaking this was like Vegeta going Oozaru, the song continued to beat me to the ground. But with the sheer power of will that I will not listen to f***ing with a fight ever again I mustered all my cheering ability into beating those bloody aliens once and for all.

I was now a champion of the people, I thought to myself 'This has taken up too much time, I'll leave the other difficulty settings for another day'. The other songs started to niggle at me, I woud play for minutes at a time and lose horribly, at first I was apathetic, thinking I didn't care about winning or beating the other difficulty settings. Soon after that the burden of failure became too much.

Next came the Elite Beat Agents playlist, a playlist quite simply comprised of songs featured in 'Elite Beat Agents', this playlist was my two times gravity training and the next setting up was my namek.

To be contnued....