I had seen screenshots of Trombone Champ earlier this week and thought it was immoderate benignant of Wii Music meme I’d wholly missed. Now that I cognize it’s an existent crippled of its own, though, I americium very gladsome I’ve had the accidental to cheque it out.

Developed by Holy Wow, Trombone Champ is presently disposable connected Steam, though a Mac mentation is besides connected its way. It’s a bushed crippled wherever you’re playing a trombone, and person to determination your rodent (and deed a button) to lucifer the euphony presently playing.

It’s comparatively elemental for a bushed game, but Trombone Champ is not a crippled for needless complexity. Trombone Champ is simply a crippled to play erstwhile you privation to laugh, and consciousness bully astir the mean of video games. And besides kinda larn astir the past of music, successful ways that are not wholly historical.

The game’s motorboat trailer explains beauteous overmuch everything astir it:

What’s important to enactment present is that, portion the crippled is funny—and from its lootbox parodies to the animation to the over-use of the connection “toot” it’s comic for each ages, a rarity—it’s also...pretty good?

A batch of modern bushed games spell hard connected trying to beryllium much complex, faster, truly bring thing new to the table. But Trombone Champ conscionable wants you to determination a rodent up and down the surface truly accelerated portion holding the near fastener down (or smashing the keyboard, which is easier, and besides comic since the crippled lets you mash immoderate missive key).

That’s it! I’ve played this crippled before, from Ouendan to Donkey Konga, and it’s the second this full happening astir reminds maine astir of, from the wholly unserious premise to the absurdity of smashing your mode done a portion of beauteous classical euphony with the astir obnoxious sounds imaginable.

That’s good due to the fact that this strategy works, it’s coagulated and it’s fun. The entreaty present doesn’t needfully travel from the gameplay itself, but the forever-running gag that you are playing these songs with a fucking trombone, and that the Mii-like characters are immoderate of the funniest avatars I person ever seen successful a video game.

While the game’s presently retired connected Steam, and is coming to Mac, arsenic acold arsenic console versions spell the developers accidental “further ports are imaginable but not presently planned”.