Friday, January 3, 2020

Sonority Scouts - Prankfully Yours '19, a Nine-Months-Later Addendum

Talking about April Fools' day in music gaming has been a yearly tradition for us, one which we've renewed our attention to even in the now-ended 2019. However, it appears we missed out on a couple of jokey-jokey scenarios in our past post about them, so we'll be bridging the gap with this post.

Indeed, to quote some guy in a gaming convention's Q&A inquiries, you can say that -given the date- what we're offering to you today are a bunch of "out-of-season April's Fool jokes"!



First up, we have Bit192's Tone Sphere, a mobile music game which greeted its fans last year with a joke difficulty for Conway's Child, one of the game's latest (at the time) boss songs.

Its supposed 'Spherical' difficulty setting will change the song's title to 'Conway's Tomatomania', in relation to other Tomato-labeled joke difficulties for older tracks. As for the former songs' prak enhancements, have fun figuring out how to read and play its chart!




Sega's Ongeki wasn't the only one last year to fake a management hijack from someone else, as a similar prank was done for the mobile music game OverRapid as well.

It appears that getting a meme revival renaissance in early 2019 wasn't enough for good ole' Doge, so he decided to hack a music game in order to release a new song by Sound Souler "way ahead of its intended time", with title and artist credit mentions being masked to its likeness! Such challenge, much tap.

The song's extra mode was only made available for a week, but who knows! It may pop up some time later.