VG Music Game

Is it part of the Macross series?

Did the Anime originate before 2000?

No and 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.
  • Not Macross themed.
  • The anime in question does have its own trope page here.
    • Post-2000 anime.
    • Not a Humongous Mecha anime.
  • Not on the Cool Starship page.
  • Based on a game that was in the show.
• Not:
  • Zenonia.
  • Empire of the Eclipse.
  • Ascendancy.
  • Gemini Wars.
  • Space Harvest.
  • Space Station: Frontier.
  • Warpgate.
  • Auralux.
  • Sector Six.

• SOLVED by Runic: The Day of Sagittarius III, a defictionalized game from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

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 9:05:21 PM by SabresEdge

Does the anime contain Humongous Mecha?

Nope.

Is it based off a game that was in the show?

Yes. (I think you may have found it.)

edited 11th Feb '11 6:22:56 PM by SabresEdge

The Day of Sagittarius III?

I hit something last night about it, but discarded it as not right. Then got the anime clue and thought about it today, so...

Bingo!

The Day of Sagittarius III, defictionalized and out for the iPhone. The background music, as mentioned before, is Dmitri Shostakovich's Invasion Theme from the Leningrad Symphony. (The original episode from the anime features that song, other snippets from the same symphony, and a Tschaikovsky piece tropers have identified as the fourth movement, fourth symphony.) Normally I'd be against using an iPhone app, but in this case...

Nintendo Hard round is finished. Excellent work, Runic. The show is yours.

edited 11th Feb '11 9:16:41 PM by SabresEdge

Wooo. I get to close all my tabs of random research. XD

Well, I have a game in mind, but I still need to pick a defined song from it....

Alright, Song picked, methinks. Do I give a starting clue?

edited 11th Feb '11 9:32:19 PM by Runic

Yep. I prefer to give the clue about the song itself rather than the game, since a) otherwise there'd be less work for the guessers, and b) it makes it less of a random guess-fest after the game is identified, but it's really up to you.

edited 11th Feb '11 9:45:28 PM by SabresEdge

I certainly enjoyed watching this round unfold. Good show! And yeah, I recommend the hint being about the music. More interesting that way.

Alrighty then. This track is one of the original included in the game it comes from.

That should give you a few hints about the game itself as well. ^-^

Subtle hints, but still.

• The majority of the game's soundtrack was not taken from another source.
• It is a computer game.
  • It's not exclusive to computer
  • Has not had a version on a home console
    • Was ported to a handheld
• Not a 4x

edited 11th Feb '11 11:08:35 PM by Runic

Is the majority of the game's soundtrack taken from another source?

Is it a computer game?

No.

And yes.

edited 11th Feb '11 10:08:33 PM by Runic

Is it PC-exclusive? (For the purposes of the question, Macs and Linux boxes are counted as PCs.)

I'm... Not sure how to answer. The series isn't. And it's been ported...

Just the game in question, not the series. (If the game's been ported, then it's not exclusive to the PC.)

Hum...4X?

No.

Has the game also been on any home console?

No.

Ported to a handheld console, then?

Yes.

I'm assuming the game originated on PC?