This is so beautiful and yet so painful at the same time.
Feeling patriotic? You will be after this.
Rossini in the way he was meant to be heard:
"Trombone Champ," from developer Holy Wow Studios, lets players "honk, blow, & toot" their virtual trombones to more than 20 songs, including Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and the US national anthem.
"I made a quick prototype, which people online thought was funny, and thus began work on a full game," Dan Vecchitto, game designer and developer behind Holy Wow, told CNN Business. "I thought it would take around six months, but the entire start-to-finish process took four years (with lots of starts and stops)."
The game itself is remarkably straightforward: slide the mouse up and down to very quickly to adjust the pitch while holding down a button for the right length of time to play along with music. This is accompanied by visuals of cartoonish, meme-able characters playing along on trombones as well as a few jokes about the word "toot" and facts about trombones throughout history.
If you've always wanted to play the trombone but never wanted to do the work, this one's for you!
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