I haven’t laughed so hard at a game in a long time. Trombone Champ is hilarious. It’s everything the legendary melodica cover of the Jurassic Park theme tune is and more. And it’s hard enough trying to play it without struggling to breathe while laughing. This is rhythm action comedy at its finest.
Why it’s never been done before, I don’t know. It’s a startlingly brilliant idea – one of those ideas that stops you in your tracks (as it did when PC Gamer brought it to our attention). Take one of the most notoriously difficult instruments to play in tune, the trombone – a brass instrument without defined keys but just one long sliding arm you have to learn the position of notes on – and make a Guitar Hero-style game out of it.
You control the trombone arm with your mouse, sliding it up and down to move the pitch up and down, and then you press the mouse button, or pretty much any button on the keyboard, to sound the note. You have to keep an eye on your breath – you can’t just hold the ‘play’ button down and honk endlessly because you’ll run out of breath and have to pause to recuperate – but otherwise that’s all there is to controlling it.
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