Hello, I'm Cherry Jam from Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures, today I want to show how the reboot era of Parodius to contain a classical music rhythm game like Fantasia: Music Evolved and Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor in Nintendo DS.
Plot[]
The game starts with Pentaro standing in front of a stage. Pentaro explains that Takosuke destroyed the classical music in some previous Parodius games, so it's up to the player to conduct a new orchestra to refill the Parodius game background music. Pentaro then will teach the player about how to conduct the orchestra.
Gameplay[]
Players must conduct an orchestra to perform at a previous Parodius stages. To start the orchestra, players must inhale and exhale into the mouth, then click three times on the curtain screen, like a real conductor. To make the orchestra perform perfectly, players must tap or drag the notes at the right times; if not the performance meter will go down. If the performance meter depletes completely, the orchestra will be canceled and the game will end. If the performance meter was full, the orchestra will followed by the medley mode, reminiscent of Mad Maestro! in PS2. There are four difficulties: Apprentice (easy), Conductor (normal), Maestro (hard), and a fourth, unlockable mode and the hardest one: Sexy. This mode is about as hard as Maestro mode, but unlike the other difficulties, the player must play through the intervals instead of just watching them.
Each time the player taps or drags a note, the player will gain a varying number of points. The number of points depends on the player's accuracy. There are four accuracy levels in the game: Gold, Silver, Normal, and Miss. The score level, scores, and combos also affects the performance meter, the audience, the cartoon, and the musical grade. There are five musical grades: S (perfect), A (awesome), B (great), C (good), and D (not bad). The musical grade can be guessed by the amount of applause when the stage ends.
Track list[]
| Stage | Name | Music | Medley Music |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Departure from Gradius | Symphony No. 5, 1st Movement by Ludwig van Beethoven | Humoresque No. 7 by Antonín Dvořák |
| 2 | Bathroom Problems | Badinerie from Orchestral Suites No. 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach | Autumn from The Four Seasons, 1st Movement by Antonio Vivaldi |
| 3 | Beautiful Gals | Waltz of the Flowers by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | The Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Johannes Brahms |
| 4 | Requiem for Yoshiko | Resurrection Symphony, 1st Movement by Gustav Mahler | Ride of the Valkyries by Wilhelm Richard Wagner |
| 5 | An Icy Journey | Skaters Waltz by Emil Waldteufel | Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, 1st Movement by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| 6 | Konami Code Cheater | L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 from Farandole by Georges Bizet | Frühlingsstimmen Op. 410 by Johann Strauss Jr. |
| 7 | Shake It Parodius! | Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov Autumn from The Four Seasons, 1st Movement by Antonio Vivaldi (from before) William Tell Overture by Gioacchino Rossini |
Radetzky March by Johann Strauss Sr.* |
A music that indicated with asterisk (*), which is an encore.