Other stuff exists simply to be messed around with for a moment or two to see what it might do. Some of your actions will result in little musical mini-games that will reward you with more of the magic fragments necessary to unlock the Composition Spells mentioned earlier, as well as bonus songs later in the game. Use one of your hands to control a glowing sphere called the Muse and try mucking about with anything that looks interesting, like balloons or street meat or a dragon. Here’s how things work: Enter a realm – essentially a themed level, like a factory, a space capsule, or the ocean – and shuffle around your living room to explore it. It only takes about four hours or so to breeze through all of the realms and finish the game, but with additional tracks slowly unlocked through play and the ability to compete against a pal in a separate free-play mode, there’s plenty of reason to keep playing once you’ve finished the story – assuming you dig the music and enjoy the action. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. These spells eventually combine to create a final song that will drive the Noise from the realms. This will unlock magic fragments that coalesce to create five Composition Spells.
Your goal is to visit each realm and play the songs you find there. The song she’s long been composing – it takes the form of a star in the sky – drifts down from the heavens, and as it does a malevolent “Noise” begins to creep over the realms that Yen Sid watches over. Scout quickly runs into a spot of trouble. Players take on the role of a new apprentice under the grey-bearded sorcerer Yen Sid. But the wizened old man disappears nearly as quickly as he arrives, leaving you in the company of Scout, another young apprentice.
Music Evolved isn’t based on the 74-year-old animated musical classic with which it shares part of its name, but instead set in the fantastical world that Disney’s landmark film established.