The Evergreen Rhythm Game - History of Osu! 

played a bit, nice game, can recommend

this video is cute, informative, and easy to understand for sure 😁 I hope the tournament scene keeps growing upwards!

If osu is becoming more mainstream, I'm all for it. There's just so much competitive depth and history for what the game has to offer across all four gamemodes, and within its 15 year history, countless legends have made names for themselves in big ways. Vaxei's tournament dominance, the United States juggernaut, mrekk, WhiteCat, Cookiezi are just few of the many things this game has to offer. Cloud9 also closely follows the community, so there might be a gigantic shake up in the scene in the near future. Great video as always!

Props to the Akshon team for risking their mental health by playing rhythm games

Happy to see a well developed video that seems to be bringing in lots of new players to the osu scene

crazy to see this upload now of all times; i'm playing in the world cup for osu!taiko, another osu gamemode, currently! every gamemode has its own history completely separate from 'normal' osu, or osu!standard as most ppl in the community know it. for example, taiko is based on an existing rhythm game, taiko no tatsujin, but unlike the games standard is derived from taiko is VERY popular in japan, and so japan have won the last 9 (i think) taiko world cups without ever looking like losing one and have 9 of the top 10 players by rank, while i don't know too much about the other two modes, osu!catch and osu!mania, but as far as i know they're both dominated by south korea (mania is a bit more complicated once you start talking about different ways to play it, but that's for someone that knows more about the mode to explain)

I laughed so hard at 6:48 when they were showing cookiezis plays and they showed his TIMEWARPED MASTERPIECE PLAY LMAO

hey I know this game

As someone who played in the world cup and frequently plays tournaments, I think the scene still potential to grow, especially with the addition of featured artists it may be easier to get eSports team backing for tournaments that exclusively use songs from these artists. As the biggest hurdle for expansion of the scene is probably the legal/copyright issues.

The thing about osu! is that it allows you to create story-driven levels, just like EBA & Ouendan. I wish more people took advantage of that.

i love this game!

14:19 Just saying, not only Varvalian got into an esports team in Japan, Cloud9 seem to follow the scene closely, so I’d expect a lot of things in future

This video brings a smile to my face. I'm so glad my favourite game is getting featured by an incredible channel like yours, as I've been hoping for someone to cover it for a long time now. This video is amazing, and keep up the good work

osu has 4 modes, all have their own comunities and tournements too, but the standard mode is definitely the biggest.

14:19 Varvalian has recently been signed to a JP esports team, so its not too far of a reach

The craziest thing about osu! is that for 15 years now it has done pretty much nothing but constantly grow faster and faster. I can’t think of another game that can say that.

The circle circuit that DIO (a well-known tournament organizer and commentator) organized seems like a step towards an eSports scene being made

This is really well researched, if it weren't for really minor things I would think this is made by someone who has been in the community for years. You got all the right people

cool that there’s a perspective of osu’s history that concentrated more on the mapping side of things rather than simply the players

I've been in the community since 2015 and the scene has changed immensely, to the point where now that I don't follow it so closely I don't recognise it haha. I hope to get back into things one day

Never thought you guys would do a video on Osu, pleasantly surprised :D

4:30 cant believe shroud got interviewed! Didnt know he played osu!

Really nice seeing established community figures weighing in on this video

What makes me come back to the game is the amazing community. I think I never experienced any toxicity when playing multi, even in tournies (I participated in some amateur 30k tournies). Until recently most multiplayer lobbies were organized through trust, reaching around host and only in the last few years chat bots for auto rotate took over. The mapping scene is also completely community organized and overall just really chill. Love this game and its community, even though I dont really play that much anymore

Ah, Akshon Esports. Last time I watched your videos, it was for OWL. Glad you did a video about another of my favourite games!

I've been playing osu! on and off for 9 years now and the best thing about it is definitely how dedicated the community is. Great video, well researched and written :D

The osu tournament scene has been able to grow in spite of the lack of support.

6:48 "he beat records..." just as masterpiece 3mod plays

Been playing OSU for a while now, started my official account almost 2 years ago now and I’ve been addicted ever since. Really fun game with such a array of players

After 8 years of playing it, now I get the most simplified yet accurate version of the explanation :)

Happy to see another corner of the gaming world that I otherwise wouldn't have known about. Keep up the great work Akshon!

I never got myself into osu despite wanting to try multiple times, and this year, because of /r/place, and now your video, I think I will finally give osu a try :)

Pog, I love this game so much. I've been at air force basic training so I haven't been able to play and I can't wait to get back and play again. I've tried so hard to get better and have gotten so far in one year

It is quite the hard task to fit the entire history of osu! in such a compact video. Yours and BruhmasterL's videos do a great job of accomplishing this. Very well executed!

I've personally been playing osu for over 5 years now (on and off) and as of recent I've been logging in at least every other day, though that spot is being taken by some VR rhythm games at the moment, this game is where I've met some amazing people that have helped me out in more ways than you could imagine and I still talk with some of them daily even after years. I hold this game dear to me and I always look forward to new mappers and generations of players, I myself am already seeing changes in how people are able to play, considering how players ranked at 100K and above (The lower the rank the better) are now playing maps that only the top 30K used to play when I was around that rank. It's amazing to see the generations just get more and more naturally gifted over time, though with enough dedication anyone can do what they want. I really appreciate the video that you've posted since it told me about the history of the game, which I had never truly looked into before, it's an eye-opener to realize where everything started. Thanks Akshon ^^

This is the last game I was thinking would be on this channel and I'm all for it.

Lowkey a bit sad that OSU!Lazer wasn't mentioned, not unexpected but I kinda wish the "next major update to osu!" which is an experience and a half to be had which only yesterday was given an official video by the OSU! Channel just wasn't mentioned

It's like a fighting game with the rapid input and quick reflexes but music

This is an amazing channel, you really show how great video games are not just as hobbies but as legitimate sports and pasttimes for people to form communities around and shape lives.

Prayge 🙏

Really cool osu introduction video! Speaking of making rhythm games esport, KONAMI is trying hard and launching its BEMANI PRO LEAGUE series, after a long time of hosting KONAMI Arcade Championship (KAC) (also, it's been 10th KAC this year.)

6:50 good to see his masterpiece 3 mods score getting more attention

"based around anime" *shows a beatmap with a background video which is clearly a touhou fan-animation* ah yes, anime. totally.

Whaaw you really made a osu video damn, been playing the game for 8 yrs I'm not good but its hella fun and addicting that I enjoy it more than most competitive games.

Been playing osu! for since like 2009, in my own little corner of the world, and had NO CLUE about the competitive scene being THIS in-depth. Thanks for this!

Missed the part where cookiezi comes back every now and then out nowhere and submits some crazy plays and leaves again after a bit.

This channel never fails to deliever. I love how they can make a well written/edited documentary from shedding the light on some really underrated video games. GREAT JOB!

out of all the things akshon could cover, i never expected osu to be one. damn

did not expect to get an osu video from akshon, really glad we did !

God makes my day to see you talking about this. 7 Year KB+M vet and can say this is my fav game and no matter how much I try to quite I can't. I'm also a 8 year melee player so yeah this game is gas

9:40 i cant believe i made it into an Akshon video

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Osu!, is in fact, osu!. The game has an all-lowercase name, mirroring its creator Dean "peppy" Herbert's habit of avoiding capital letters online. In a similar vein, many components of the game and related projects also have lowercase names, such as pp, the four gamemodes (osu!standard, osu!taiko, osu!catch, and osu!mania), and lazer. Due to many people habitually capitalizing the first letters of given names and being unfamiliar with names containing punctuation, this game is often incorrectly called "Osu!", "Osu", or even "OSU!". There really is an Osu! - the name is an abbreviation of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, a rhythm game for Nintendo DS that inspired peppy to make osu!. The circle clicking game people know today is osu!, with three lowercase letters and an exclamation mark.

Nice video, i never expected to see a osu video in this channel lol, i would like to see more mention to new recent players tho, like Whitecat or Mreek, but huge upload!!

Just in case someone is wondering, the song at 2:36 is the instrumental version of Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer

It makes me so happy seeing videos about osu. I’ve only been playing for 2 years or so but man it’s one of the only games I play and I don’t think I’ll stop.

I remember playing Elite Beat Agents on Nintendo DS, definitely one of my best gaming memories

Oh wow didn't expect osu to be covered here. Absolutely loved the game, stopped playing about a year ago. Miiight give it a try again

not only OWC, other tourneys such a Corsace and Perennial are well-organized - bigger orgs pls have a look at the top players

I have witnessed various games in my lifetime that grew to be massive e-sports like DOTA and League. The thing is, I can definitely see Osu becoming an e-sport. Team matches have clearly defined win conditions and high stress situations. Some level of tactics is involved too such as what map to pick or who's the player to send in for this certain map. The game has so many different playstyles and almost no one can master all of them. E-sport teams can definitely be built with different people having different playstyles. That is one of the factors of a game becoming a massive e-sport. It has to have enough variety in it's playstyle and players to be interesting to a lot of people.

Somehow I had no idea Osu was just the clone hero equivalent for Elite beat agents

I've started in 2016 and was really into it for an year or so. I encourage anyone to install it, download a few songs you like whose beatmaps are there and give it a go. It changes the way you once perceived that song.

I've played Osu! occassionally, but never knew there was such a competitive scene around it! Also very impressive seeing what some of these people can do. WubWubWolf clearing that map on a finals stage is just insane.

Osu's release was greater than Obama's campaign

Was that One OK Rock playing in the background? Wonderful that an essay on a good rhythm game has some good music, loved the video!

Whose the good looking guy at 0:22? Couldn't be me. ;o

I love hearing ONE OK ROCK dreamer in the background of the video! I started listening to the band when I was like 6 years old!!! I've been a Jrock fan and a musician because of JRock since I was about 4 or 5!!! It just makes me so happy to hear the music I love!!

This could very well be a E-sport that I could get into… but DAMN it’s a brutally hard game!

been playing since 2013 and i’ve taken breaks here and there but i still love the game, it’s crazy to see how far it’s come i might get back into it

honestly i just play osu for fun and as warm ups before playing other games lol. i didn't know the "serious" scene is this huge lol

gotta love the bad apple in the background

I remember the time when toxic Redditors ruined Osu's Reddit mural, calling it a waste of space.

Osu man. I really did love playing osu. But also it really showed me a bunch of songs i never even heard of. But also helped me find touhou and bring me back to it.

the osu world cup should be watched by the entire gaming community imo.

Man, those older screenshots and the shit-ton of Touhou in it it really brings me back to those night of OSU! with that girl. Good times. We used to play a lot of "Troll maps".

This is an awesome video that shows people more about the competetive side of osu! I think when people see this game for the first time they just see it as an indie game that has some crazy good people playing it and doesnt expect it to have tournament potential. Thank you for making this video

really well made video, thank you!

Crazy, downloaded it 2 hours ago!

It’s only a matter of time before the monster known as Touhou makes its appearance

the biggest roadblock to becoming a "legitimate" esport is the amount of unlicensed music. Not very many companies are going to risk their reputation sponsoring a game that survives because a lot of music labels haven't filed a big takedown, yet. That and the scoring system is god awful and makes no sense competitively to anyone who plays other big rhythm games

Finally, I've been waiting for someone to make a video on this

this is cool but do you guys know that niko fced perditus paradisus with dt in 2011

I discovered this game when I was 12 years old. Today I'm 20 and I still love this game to death. By far one of the greatest things I've played in my entire life. Also, the competitive scene is INSANELY interesting, and always manages to catch my attention

I remember back in 2012 or so, tons of League of Legends players/streamers played Osu while in queue for a game. I thought that it would help me get sick at League so I downloaded it. Super fun game! There's some anime theme that I loved which I played all the time but I have no idea what it was anymore :( also used to play To Zanarkand constantly lol

This video like barely scratches the history of osu

9:40 OH MY GOD THATS ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!

As a polish osu player since 2016 it makes me really happy that the owc and the whole WWW impression on the community was mentioned. It's really crazy looking back in time for this awesome memories and maybe someday there will be again just random pop off of Poland in OWC, maybe maybe

so true oomfie

I started playing last year , coming up on my one year anniversary in about 4-5 months! About to hit 5digits and I'm very happy and eager to continue playing and hopefully one day I get to play with all these names mentioned and just have fun! This is not an addiction I'm recovering from anytime soon so I hope to enjoy it as much as possible.

I was expecting a bit on how some FPS pros use Osu to practice their coordination.

happy to see osu has been getting more recognition as the years go by, very well made video!

Well i'm some noname 5 digit, but whatever. I started to play this game in march of 2015 and i'm probably went right in the most cool time of osu life, because i started to play when old legends played this game yet and inspired me (such as WWW, Azer, Rrtyui, Cookiezi, Rustbell, Angelsilm, Rafis, Kynan, HappyStick, _Index, Rucker, Xilver and so on) and i went right in time when Aspire maps started to grow, this game give me a lot of fun and access to a pretty huge community, and also this game introduced LapFox Trax's music for me (and today it's my most favorite and exemplary artist for my entire life, (s)he inspired me a lot) and just in general this game gives me a lot of music and artists, who i listen to now and know about them. It's surprisingly how such a simple and repeating game has a such big history and community within and around it, i'm so thankfully for all mappers, who create all those beautiful maps, you all literally an artists (and of course guys who making storyboards too, y'all are chads). They inspired me too, so after 7 years of playing i started to make my own maps :D And now we're going into new era of osu! AKA Osu!Lazer, so hope to continue this history of osu with all of you together further, high respect to all chads, mappers, pro-players, streamers and content-makers who sharing the positive energy with others and help them to live and be fine, to all informatic channels, which sharing many stories and useful information with us, all kindly and respectful players, community and game, which gives me a lot of fun and new artists and inspirations, and of course to our main chad Peppy, thanks to you for all of this. :) I'm so happy to see how much popular it becomes today now. Damn i playing this game almost half of my life, holly molly, osu is a part of my life and history of my life and this world around me.

The nostalgia, oh boi, I was so bad at Osu, but I loved to play it, but I was very 9ut of the community, so it's very interesting to see it's history now!

cant wait to join FaZe clan

Ironic how this video came out not long before r/place and it’s legacy of the giant OSU! Logo

r/place brought me here.

As someone who mostly played in 2011 to 2014, coming back to a us dominating in terms of good players, still is really really weird.

as an avid osu player im so glad its getting even more recognition

OSU is about to blow up in streaming. Last game I said this would happen too was rust and it was right before Offline TV made their server.

Shit now I want to play osu again

Love the pishifat b-roll when talking about mapping haha