BIT.TRIP BEAT

I have had this game sitting "uncompleted" for almost 1.5 years now, and I'm now throwing in the towel. Bit.Trip Beat is great fun, and I completed 4 out of 5 of it's levels (which amassed 4 hours of gameplay), but the last one is very tough. It's not tough because it's a challenge, which it is don't get me wrong, it's tough because it lacks any checkpoints, and is literally a 15-20 minute long level. When you reach...

24 found this helpful, 2013-03-17

It's a fun game which combines music and gameplay a lot better than other music games. Sadly it's really, really short with only 3 levels (+1 bonus level). Also levels two and three require godlike reflexes and the ability to forsee the future (or you replay the level a 100 times until you memorize all those unpredictable bullet patterns)

16 found this helpful, 2013-11-25

To be trite, you could call this "musical pong." But if you're bad at it like I am then it isn't particularly musical, and it lacks the analog controls of classic pong. Instead you get to use your withered claw of a hand desperately clutching your mouse. Delightful. Strawman cheapshots aside, I'll tell you the real tragedy of this game -- the visual design. You've seen this complaint in other reviews. In my mind, a...

35 found this helpful, 2017-06-11

Underwhelming. It's basically just Pong set to music with annoying backgrounds that often hinder you from seeing the objects you're supposed to hit. If I didn't get this with other games in a bundle, I'd feel cheated.

42 found this helpful, 2014-06-20

BIT.TRIP BEAT is a game that will only appeal to a certain kind of person; one who likes a challenge, is accepting of unorthodox game design (i.e. intentionally making the screen difficult to see / misdirecting the player), doesn't mind playing a small amount of content focussed on the gameplay and likes the music (because it's essentially a rhythm game, you'll be hearing the game's music the whole time). I don't...

8 found this helpful, 2021-06-12