TÁR - The Video Game
Appropriating greatest hits classical music into quirky Japanese kitsch with infuriating pressure sensitive rhythm gameplay resolves in one of the biggest perplexities this medium has ever produced. For all its brazen post-modern sensibilities (the distasteful fusion of high and low art), there is certainly some worthy discussion to be had about Mad Maestro's existence for the sheer lunacy, audacity of it all. Like, when did the decline of classical's stature in culture get so bad where the idea of literally playing Schubert over a cartoon lion riding a motorcycle around a circus ring over and over became palatable?
Appropriating greatest hits classical music into quirky Japanese kitsch with infuriating pressure sensitive rhythm gameplay resolves in one of the biggest perplexities this medium has ever produced. For all its brazen post-modern sensibilities (the distasteful fusion of high and low art), there is certainly some worthy discussion to be had about Mad Maestro's existence for the sheer lunacy, audacity of it all. Like, when did the decline of classical's stature in culture get so bad where the idea of literally playing Schubert over a cartoon lion riding a motorcycle around a circus ring over and over became palatable?