Parodius Conductor

***Parodius Conductor*** (パロディウスの指揮者, *Parodiusu no Shiki-sha*?) was a rhythm game based on the *Parodius* series.

## Plot

Pentaro stands in front of the audience on a stage. Pentaro says that Tako destroyed the classical music, popular songs and soundtrack in some previous *Parodius* games, so it's up to the player to conduct a new orchestra to fill the *Parodius* game background music. Pentaro then will teach about how to conduct the orchestra.

## Gameplay

The game is similar to *Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor* and *Fantasia: Music Evolved*, player must conduct an orchestra to perform at a classic Looney Tunes cartoon. To start the orchestra, player must tap three times on the touch screen. To make the orchestra perform perfectly, player must tap or drag the notes at the right times, if not the performance meter will go down, if the performance meter is empty, the orchestra will be cancelled and the show will be a total failure. If the performance meter is half, the orchestra will complete quickly. If the performance meter is full, you will got the medley mode (reminiscent of *Mad Maestro!*). There are four difficulties: Apprentice (easy), Conductor (normal), Maestro (hard) and the unlockable One Credit Champ (intense).

### Scoring

Each time the player taps or drags a note, the player receives a score. The score depends on when the player taps the note. There are four score levels on the game: Gold, Silver, Normal, and Miss. The score level, scores, and combos also affect the performance meter, the audience, the cartoon, and the musical grade. There are three musical grades: S (perfect), A (awesome), B (great), C (good), D (bad), and Z (game over). The musical grade can be guessed by the audience effect at the every end of the cartoon.

## Music

The player's performance affects the gameplay. If the player misses just one note, the gameplay will go a little wrong. Here are the music used in the game:

* "9th Symphony, New World Symphony" by Antonín Dvořák
* "The Sabre Dance" by Aram Khachaturian
* "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg
* "Scene from Swan Lake" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
* "Violin Concerto in E Minor Op. 64" by Felix Mendelssohn
* "Under the Double Eagle" by Josef Franz Wagner
* "Revolutionary Etude" by Frederyk Franciszek Chopin
* "Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major" by George Frideric Handel
* "Procession of the Sardar from Caucasian Sketches" by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
* "L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 from Farandole" by Georges Bizet
* "March from The Nutcracker" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
* "Trepak from The Nutcracker" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
* "William Tell Overture" by Gioachino Rossini
* "Csikos Post" by Hermann Necke
* "Can-Can" by Jacques Offenbach
* "Thunder & Lightning Polka" by Johann Strauss II
* "Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor" by Johannes Brahms
* "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa
* "Entry of the Gladiators" by Julius Fučík
* "Egyptian March Op. 335" by Johann Strauss II
* "Flight of the Bumblebee" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
* "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach
* "5th Symphony, 1st Movement" by Ludwig van Beethoven
* "Rondo Alla Turca" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* "1812 Overture" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
* "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* "Marche Militaire" by Franz Schubert
* "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens
* "The Hut on Hen's Legs from Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky