VG Music Game

Is it a port of an existing game?

No.

The preview of this game featured two songs in the public domain; only one of those songs would be featured in the game. Name that song and the game in which it featured.

The song has already been solved. Find the game.

The game...

• was released within the past ten years.
• was not rated T or under.
  • Not rated M.
  • Not on Wikipedia's page of AO-rated games.
  • Unrated.
• is an adaptation of existing media.
  • Not an adaptation of a movie.
  • Technically not an adaptation of an anime.
  • Technically not an adaptation of a TV show.
    • Not a sequel to either of the above.
  • Technically it doesn't combine elements from different shows/anime. Debatable.
  • Not a port of an existing game.
• is not part of a series.
• Is out already.
• Lacks a page on this wiki.
  • Lacks a page on The Other Wiki.
• Not PC.
  • Not Xbox Live.
  • Not Nintendo DS.
  • Not virtual-console type.
  • Not on the PSP or related.
  • Not on the Nokia N-Gage.
  • iPhone app.
    • Thus, it's certainly younger than five years old.
• Technically it's available on the Internet.
  • Official release was over the Internet.
  • Not available from non-Internet sources.
  • "Available to buy over the internet, but playable on a console": statement is technically false.
    • It can't officially be played on a console.
    • It is a handheld game.
    • It is available on some model of mobile phone/smartphone.
    • Not free.
      • Available for under $3.
      • Not available for under $1.
• Not part of the following genres:
  • Action.
  • Visual novel.
  • RPG.
  • Simulator.
  • Puzzle.
  • Platformer.
  • FPS.
  • Does not involve lining up objects. (So it's not Tetris and Korobeiniki.)
    • It's a strategy game.
      • Real-time strategy.
• Not indie.
• Not flash.
• Probably counts as casual, though some degree of YMMV.
• Not present-day.
  • Not past.
• Unrelated to Nintendo.
• The title is not three words long.
  • The title is not one word long.
• The game does not feature a character who has appeared before.
• The game does not take place on Earth.
  • Takes place in space.
• Does not appear to feature multiple unit types.
• Enemies are "mechanical" in the sense that they are not infantrymen.
• Not themed after a movie.
  • It is themed after an anime.
  • Not GUNDAM themed.
  • Not Cowboy Bebop themed.
  • The anime in question does have its own trope page here.
  • Not on the Cool Starship page.
• Not:
  • Zenonia.
  • Empire of the Eclipse.
  • Ascendancy.
  • Gemini Wars.
  • Space Harvest.
  • Space Station: Frontier.
  • Warpgate.
  • Auralux.
  • Sector Six.

The music...

• besides the two songs mentioned, there are no other public domain songs in the work.
• has shown up in many non-game media.
• classical piece.
  • Not Baroque.
  • Not Classical (in the chronological sense).
  • Not Romantic.
• Composer is not on our Music Of Note page, oddly enough.
• The two preview songs are not by the same composer.
  • Nor are they of the same musical period.
• The composer of the target song was born before 1921.
• Neither composer is Western European.
  • CORRECTION! Neither are from the Western Hemisphere.
  • Neither is from America.
  • Both are from Europe.
  • Both are from a former Soviet client state.
  • Both are Russian.
  • One is on Wikipedia's list of 20th-century composers.
    • Not Stravinsky.
    • Not Prokofiev.
    • Not Glazunov.
    • Not Savoyarov.
    • One of the composers is Dmitri Shostakovich.
    • Our target song's composer is Shostakovich.
• The target song:
  • Is not the 1812 Overture.
  • Is from an opera or symphony.
    • Not from an opera.
  • Not Shostakovich's 5th Symphony.
  • From the Leningrad Symphony. (You'll still have to be more specific still.)
    • From the first movement of the symphony.
    • The invasion theme. (Bits of it are quotations from his earlier opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District.)

edited 11th Feb '11 8:49:41 AM by SabresEdge

Is it under three dollars?

Yes.

Is it under one dollar?

No.

Are the enemies mechanical?

As opposed, to, y'know, infantrymen.

Yes, in the technical sense.

Woo, brute force method time, I guess.

... Um. Sector six?

Is our game a sequel to an existing TV show or anime?

No. (And I'm warning you, brute force will take you forever and a day.)
And no.

I noticed. I've been searching through anything to do with iphone stuff, trying to find something, since I've never used them and have no way of looking in the actual store.

I've found a tiny site with a few, and the other random guesses from googling various combinations oh hints, but....

Does the title only have one word?

No.

Does the game combine elements from different TV shows/anime?

That's somewhat difficult to answer, but I'll say no.

Is it themed after an anime at all?

Yes.

Is it themed after GUNDAM?

No.

edited 10th Feb '11 10:45:02 PM by SabresEdge

So it's none of the gundams....

... Cowboy bebop?

Nope.

I give up for the night. This is all so far out of anything I know about games that I'm taking random potshots.

Plus, it's extremely late, and I still have work to do.

.... Is it an anime with a page here?

Yes.

See you tomorrow, then.

Is the anime mentioned on this page?

Nope.