To the best of our knowledge this is the first mobile music game since the wonderful Frederic: Resurrection of Music to take a break from whatever it is young people listen to these days and focus on classical music. In Symphonica, you find yourself conducting a rag-tag group of musicians and will have to tap, sweep and draw your way to success if they're to be licked into shape.
Even those with only a passing interest in classic musical will recognize all of the scores in the game, as the developers have very sensibly selected the soundtrack entirely from the '100 Greatest Classic Hits You've Probably Heard In Adverts' school of classical music. Something for everyone basically.
Pattern design is tight for the most part, although the timing seems just ever so slightly off when it comes to scoring a perfect hit. I know as much about real-world orchestral conducting as I do about playing the trumpet, but I am prepared to go out on a limb and say the combinations of baton flicks, sweeps and taps feel as natural and realistic as any layman could expect.
Oh, and there's a story in here too, although it's so patently ridiculous you'll find yourself skipping through it fairly quickly, as there's far too much cut-scene exposition standing between you and the actual gameplay. Something about an underdog group of musicians, porcelain ghost dolls, a neo-European futuristic world where everyone wants to play a stringed instrument, and a wizard who wants to listen to The Nutcracker Suite...
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