25 Charts, almost entirely consisting of royalty free music, occasionally with MLG horns slapped on top whilst PNGs fade in and out of transparency in the background. There are beatmania games on the game boy with song lists less sparse, and they even have Rydeen.

I get this is a meme game for kicks, but it's £12 and the joke will probably be old by the time you buy it, which is inevitably after your favourite streamer has butchered "lets all go to the ball game", and it just becomes increasingly annoying.

It's a shame because the music game portion at least has potential here. It's not good, but things like running out of breath, the wavy notes and the way it psuedo-mimics a trombone is cute. Truly, if it had any worthwhile content, it could maybe be the donkey konga of our day. Add 20 songs, increase the variety (some Jazz would have gone a really long way) and give each song 3 charts for various difficulty and it's a product that could at least entertain for a few hours.

Alas, Trombone Champ is as throwaway as they come. I just feel sorry for the steam support reps that have to process all the refund requests for this game.

Reviewed on Sep 26, 2022


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