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  • BIT.TRIP RUN! Is on Sale for 99 Cents
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    BIT.TRIP RUN! Is on Sale for 99 Cents

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    Want a five star game at a five star price? Gaijin Games’ (now known of Choice Provisions) mobile rethinking of Runner2 was absolutely remarkable. It’s set the bar for rhythm platformers on your phone. But that’s no reason for you to …
  • BIT.TRIP RUN! Review
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    BIT.TRIP RUN! Review

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    BIT.TRIP RUN! is a shining example of how to port a game to mobile.  The tightly responsive, elegantly fluid experience of BIT.TRIP Presents Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien on PC and consoles has been translated to iOS with nearly identical content, quality, and fun intact.  Despite being best experienced with a controller/gamepad, the transition to touchscreen controls has been superbly executed, presenting mobile players with gameplay perfectly adapted to the platform without feeling watered down. That gameplay pits players against the same finite running levels found in Runner2 as they control the always-ambulatory CommanderVideo.  The dangerous, robotic minions of Mingrawn Timbletot are spread across three worlds—the Welkin Wonderland, Emerald Brine, and Supernature—in an attempt to stop our hero from escaping his current imprisonment in an unknown dimension.  Players of BIT.TRIP RUN! will be treated to the same story, Charles Martinet-narrated cutscenes, and even wacky commercials available in Runner2, although the final two worlds—the Mounting Sadds and Bit.Trip—will be released in a future, free update."Each level requires transporting CommanderVideo or one of his seven unlockable friends—like CommandGirlVideo and Reverse Merman—from start to finish while dodging everything from bottomless pits to boxing robots, spiked balls to wooden bot blockades.  Our always-in-motion characters can perform most of the same actions they utilized in Runner2, with a few changes made specifically for the touchscreen format.  Players will tap to jump, hold to glide, swipe down to slide, swipe right to kick or block, and swipe left to dance—a stylish move used only to rack up points, but one that BIT.TRIP RUN! would feel incomplete without.  Because tapping is inevitably slower than button-mashing, many of the stairway sections of levels have been fitted with automatic trampolines that propel CommanderVideo up and over without requiring the player to tap themselves to death.  Other springboards have also been automated, activating when run over instead of via player input.
  • BIT.TRIP RUN! Preview
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    We've been gleefully bounding through the colorful and surreal world of BIT.TRIP Presents Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien since its release in March, blissful yet tethered to our PCs, desperately in need of a shower.  Gaijin Games smelled our seven-month game funk and has come through with an updated port of Runner2 that can be played on the go: BIT.TRIP RUN! for iOS.  Although BIT.TRIP RUN! won't be available until an as-yet-undisclosed future date, we got a chance to go hands-on with both its beta build and the brain of lead designer Danny Johnson for a doubly delicious sneak peek.Unlike the other upcoming port of Runner2 for PS Vita, BIT.TRIP RUN! has been tweaked and rebuilt specifically for touch screens.  Stages still offer an intense amount of challenge—and three difficulty levels to choose from—but the difficulty won't be due to sloppy controls.  What once took an entire gamepad's worth of buttons can now be completed with the tap or swipe of one finger.  CommanderVideo will still jump, slide, block, kick, and dance his way to victory, performing every action he is capable of in Runner2. ""We did not remove any abilities," Johnson told Gamezebo, "but we did take out some obstacles that would be difficult with the new control style. The slide jump is trickier to perform now, so we replaced those obstacles. The interaction with other obstacles has been modified to be more straightforward and less demanding of constant input."  One example of this reduced input is the addition of "stair hoppers," or automatic trampoline-like bouncers that make the many short steps in BIT.TRIP RUN! easier to navigate.  Not every step contains a hopper; they are integrated intelligently throughout stages to prevent tap-exhaustion.