An angry blog post about Bit.Trip Runner
I'd heard lots of good things about the Bit Trip series from multiple sources, and the trailers always seemed neat and interesting. Then I read a forum post on the series, and I figured I'd give one game a shot - the trailer for Runner seemed most interesting, it had good music, it showed Canabalt style gameplay (which I love) and I do like Anamanaguchi. So one Wii system update and 800 wii points later, there I was. I have to say - I have never before seen a game come so close to perfection and fail so violently. The game is absurdly hard and absurdly punishing. The game has a number of other flaws, but they could be forgiven if the game wasn't so goddamned difficult and unforgiving. This is ostensibly a game about flow and visual spectacle, so why the hell does the game make me start over the same three minutes of gameplay every single time I make a mistake? Humans make mistake - why the hell do I stop having fun every time I make one? Now - let me make something clear. I