Super Bit Chip Pro Trip
Nightclubs. Nightclubs. Nightclubs. Have you ever been to one? They are always fun. Hot sunny girls, laser lights, music, and don’t forget the music. You know with some of these tracks there is guaranteed to be a bit where the music bpm will slow and the ebb of the dancefloor luls? And there is hot anticipation to the next beat, or when the music picks up it just goes nuts?
Well playing bit.trip runner (yet again a steam purchase) is reminiscent of this phenomenon. Slow beats on a 8bit track slowly building up as you progress along the side-scrolling levels. Each button you press, each obstruction you jump over, everytime you slide that black slim body along the ground will produce a note, and every note helps compose the soundtrack to the game. The further you dance through the level and the more glistening ‘+‘ things you collect; the faster the beat goes.
Now this gets you really into the game. You just want to flow to the music. Move with the crowd. Dance with the hot sunny girl. Maybe get her number. But no. If you’re playing for the first time, and you have had a few drinks (who doesn’t drink at a nightclub?), and you have a bit of an issue with hand-eye coordination. This game will be extremely frustrating. Imagine sex with no climax. Kindersurprise with no surprise. SNSD with only Hyo Yeon. It is like being stuck in infinite anticipation, you know for a fact that there is guaranteed awesomeness just a little further. You can hear it building up, but you are forever stuck in the first portion of the short levels. Listening to the same parts of a track over and over. And you can’t die. EVER. You are stuck in forever alone territory.
Or you could take it as it comes. Close your eyes and let the spacebar smashing, arrow tapping fingers go. Embrace the music.
No. Sorry. N00b. gtfo.
Still a lost cause.
You just look like one of those pouting dbags that seem to be pointing at things.
In this case they’d be pointing at the huge hounds that you’d be sliding under. Or the über colourful rainbow trailing behind you…but remember this is all in pixel or bit world. Everything is blocky and pixelated. It really put my 5770 crossfires to test. REALLY. Fine I kid. My 5770s were bored.
Who cares though?
It’s an aesthetically pleasing art piece, with lots of colour and movement to both distract you and also to enhance your experience as an acid tripping gamer. So it really doesn’t matter that it isn’t running the latest crytek engine, it just works as a game that you will play because it is fun, quick, and simple.
Number of nightclubs I’ve been to out of the only 10 in the world worth mentioning: 7/10