BIT.TRIP BEAT
Rhythm/Music
Steam Link

Hi friends, and welcome to the BIT.TRIP block of Pike's Steam List. I've got four of the suckers in this series, and I've only played one, so let's see how things go.

BIT.TRIP BEAT works off of the premise: what if Pong was a rhythm game?

No, really. That's the game.

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Little dots come at you in the rhythm of various funky chiptune songs and you have to hit these dots back with your Pong paddle. A miss slowly but surely fills up your little miss bar at the bottom of the screen.

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Things get kind of difficult as you go on.

If the miss bar fills up, you wind up in Pong Purgatory and are given a chance to redeem yourself. There is no music in Pong Purgatory and it's actually kind of terrifying.

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Survive Pong Purgatory and go back to the game; fail it and it's game over for you.

And that's about it, that's the game.

Also there's a Portal level.

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THE VERDICT:

  • It's a casual game more than anything
  • It's fun but unless rhythm games are your thing you probably won't spend more than an hour or so on it max
  • Good music though
  • ~Retro~