Review: Bit.Trip Rerunner

 

Bit.Trip Rerunner (2023)

Developer: Choice Provisions, Gamecraft Studios
Platform: Personal Computer

Induction Date: 09/25/2023

Bit.Trip Rerunner is an odd remaster. It's sort of a revamped version of Bit.Trip. Runner with completely recreated levels plus the music from the entirety of the Bit.Trip universe presented with their own playable stages in the new visual style and presentation. You would think that it would make sense for the developer to just improve the entirety of the series into this new collection since they all come in a variety of play mechanics but seemingly, the developer only want us to experience the musical journey in the vein of the Runner gameplay style: that is, an auto runner where the correct actions that are needed to be taken to complete a level are synchronized to the rhythm of the musical track.

Take me to the finish line!

Just Like Life Itself, Gaming Feels Infinite

Playing video games has never been a cheap hobby. As with everything else these days, gaming is getting more expensive by the day and the majority of the community's compliance in accepting wholly unnecessary norms like light-speed console cycles, huge bump in price for a single game, and other money-hungry post-release content access schemes signaled to the game developers and publishers that they can get away with everything. Of course, those who approach this hobby with some degree of intelligence don't have to suffer with everyone else. I have written in the past that for me, personally, I consider $39.99 as the sweet spot for a price of a single game. I came to this conclusion in 2011: that was a lifetime ago. This means that a lot of indie games are easy for me to justify getting because they are usually way cheaper than that even to this day. Still, with the number of games I have in my library, I still tend to wait for some kind of discount, unless of course, I truly want to play a game that bad.

Infinite physical gaming means having infinite space. Is that even possible?

All the Lies: A PP Tale

Lies of P, the new action game from Neowiz, does have a really strange title. Well, the whole game is uh, crazy? It's the delirious retelling of the Pinocchio fairy tale? I guess we will see if it makes any sense at all when I finally get to play this game soon. What's more interesting though is the representation of P's face. It looks like recently, the developer has updated P to look more masculine. When I first heard about this game and looked at the close-up of P on the cover art, I really thought P was a lady. I didn't even know that P stood for Pinocchio at that time, I just thought those crazy non-native English speakers were just trying to find intriguing ways to title another one of their games. I know we are all used to the Final Fantasy series by now because it's so popular, but you know that title doesn't make any bit of sense in relation to any of those games.

Notice the difference? The original look on the right and the "reworked" face on the left.