Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor

Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor is a 2008 video game for the Nintendo DS published by Warner Bros. Studio and developed by Eidos Interactive.

Plot

Bugs Bunny stands in front of the audience on a stage. Bugs says that the Tazmanian Devil destroyed the classical music in some old Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, so it's up to the player to conduct a new orchestra to fill the Looney Tunes cartoon background music. Bugs then will teach about how to conduct the orchestra.

Gameplay

The 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 full, the show will be a complete success and the orchestra will go on. There are four difficulties: Apprentice (easy), Conductor (normal), Maestro (hard) and the unlockable Looney (super hard).

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: A (perfect), B (well done!), and C (bad). The musical grade can be guessed by the audience effect at the every end of the cartoon.

Music & Cartoons

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

• "What's Opera, Doc?" with "Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Wagner
• "Rabbit Fire" with "Symphony No. 5" by Ludwig van Beethoven
• "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe" with "Mexican Hat Dance" by Jesus Gonzalez Rubio
• "Haredevil Hare" with "Mars, The Bringer of War" by Gustav Holst
• "Feather Bluster" with "Carmen" by Georges Bizet
• "Hyde and Go Tweet" with "Toccata and Fugue" by Johann Sebastian Bach
• "Fast and Furry-ous" with "Flight of the Bumblebee" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• "Rabbit of Seville" with "Barber of Seville Overture" by Gioachino Rossini
• "Devil May Hare" with "Hungarian Rhapsody" by Franz Liszt
• "Robin Hood Daffy" with "Concerto for 2 Horns" by George Philipp Telemann
• "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" with "William Tell Overture" by Gioachino Rossini
• "Can Can't" with "Can Can" by Jacques Offenbach
• "Rabbit Fire Remix" with "Symphony No. 5 Remix" by Ludwig van Beethoven
• "Feather Bluster Remix" with "Carmen remix" by Georges Bizet
• "Fast and Furry-ous Remix" with "Flight of the Bumblebee Remix" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• "Rabbit of Seville Remix" with "Barber of Seville Overture Remix" by Gioachino Rossini
• "Bugs Bunny Rides Again Remix" with "William Tell Overture Remix" by Gioachino Rossini
• "Can Can't Remix" with "Can Can Remix" by Jacques Offenbach

The music for the main menu was "Dance of the Reed Flutes from the Nutcracker" by Piotr Tchaikovsky.

The intro theme for the game and the stage clear theme was none other than "Merrily We Roll Along", the theme of Merrie Melodies.

Cast

• Joe Alaskey as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian, Speedy Gonzales, Barnyard Dawg, and Road Runner
• Bob Bergen as Porky Pig and Tweety
• Jim Cummings as Tasmanian Devil
• Bill Farmer as Foghorn Leghorn and Mouse
• Maurice LaMarche as Yosemite Sam and Wile E. Coyote
• Billy West as Elmer Fudd

Reception

Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor was chosen by WatchMojo for the #10 spot in their "Top 10 Looney Tunes Video Games" list.

Music

Robin Hood Daffy with "Concerto for 2 Horns"

Haredevil Hare with "Mars the Bringer of War"

The Pied Piper of Guadalupe with "Mexican Hat Dance"

Hyde and Go Tweet with "Toccata and Fugue"

Trivia

• This game is similar to another Nintendo DS game known as Elite Beat Agents in terms of its gameplay.