Cymbalism

Cymbalism
Appears in	WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!
Type	Reality
Command(s)	Catch!
Info	"Catch the musical note in the cymbals. Be careful. Do not fail."
Controls	/ – Catch Symbols
Target score	15
Music track	Cymbalism (Levels 1 and 3) Drifting Away (Level 2)
Music sample Level 1 (first variant): Level 1 (second variant): Level 2: Level 3:

Cymbalism is a microgame found in the Reality folder in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!.

Gameplay

The objective of the game is to play the cymbals to destroy the music notes, coming from the drummer, to the rhythm of the background music. When the notes get between the cymbals, they turn into rabbit heads, hinting at the moment in which the instruments need to be clashed. As well, the drummer opens his mouth in case a vocal is heard. If they're hit one by one at the right time, little, red notes disperse out of the cymbals until there's no more notes left, and the microgame is complete. However, it is lost if the cymbals are either played too early or at least one note passes by them without crashing them, in which case the leading note eventually becomes red.

• Level 1: One note on the eighth beat. It's either one of two vocal sounds. The drummer sings in either track.
• Level 2: Three notes, each note on the sixth to eighth beats. The song is "Drifting Away". The drummer sings throughout the track.
• Level 3: Four notes, each note on the fifth to eighth beats. The music consists of telephone noises, and one of Jimmy T.'s voice clips, "Hello?", can be heard on the last note. Unlike the other levels, the drummer doesn't sing at all.

Gallery

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  Level 1

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  Level 2

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  Level 3

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  Microgame loss #1

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  Microgame loss #2

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  Microgame complete

Descriptions

• Japanese:「ながれてくるおんぶをシンバルではさんでなりそう!」(Romanization: "Nagaretekuru ombu wo shimbaru de hasande narisō!"; translation: "It looks like I can use cymbals to catch the flowing notes in between!")
• Chinese:「敲准活动音符的节拍, 小心点, 不要错过了!」(Romanization: "Qiāo zhǔn huódòng yīnfú de jiépāi, xiǎoxīn diǎn, bùyào cuòguòle!"; translation: "Be careful to strike the beat of the moving notes, don't miss them!")
• French: "Coince la notre de musiques entre les cymbales. Attention, pas d'échec!" ("Catch our music notes between the cymbals! Careful, don't fail!")
• Italian: "Prendi le note musicali con i cimbali!" ("Hit the musical notes with the cymbals!")
• Spanish: "Atrapa las notas musicales con los platillos. Hazlo con cuidado." ("Catch the musical notes with the cymbals. Do it carefully.")

Naming

The name is a portmanteau of the words "symbolism" and "cymbal".

Internal names

Game	File	Name	Meaning
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!		BEETMANIA	From the video game Beatmania

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	シンバル Shinbaru	Cymbal
Chinese	敲锣 Qiāo luó	Gong (percussion instrument)
French	Cymbalisme	Cymbalism
German	Bigband	Big band (named after the music genre involving numerous musicians playing jazz)
Italian	Cimbalismo	Cymbalism
Spanish	Musicalismo	Musicalism

Notes

• This is the only non-boss Reality microgame in the game whose theme music plays within Dr. Crygor's stage, overlaying his theme music in the process.
• This is also the only microgame whose music is not in the sound test of WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$! Because of this, Level 1 and 3's music tracks are the only tracks in Mega Microgame$! without an official name.

See also

• Castanet, First Chair