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Bit.Trip Saga is an enhanced compilation of the series' six original WiiWare games. Retro-designed 2D levels are converted for portable play in full 3D. Players guide the game's hero, an 8-bit sprite called CaptainVideo, in trippy rhythmic shooting, fast-flowing platform levels, and explosive boss fights. The games' play styles should also be considered retro, with simple mechanics that become increasingly challenging to near-impossible levels, providing a lasting challenge for hardcore players.
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Bit.Trip Saga is an enhanced compilation of the series' six original WiiWare games. Retro-designed 2D levels are converted for portable play in full 3D. Players guide the game's hero, an 8-bit sprite called CaptainVideo, in trippy rhythmic shooting, fast-flowing platform levels, and explosive boss fights. The games' play styles should also be considered retro, with simple mechanics that become increasingly challenging to near-impossible levels, providing a lasting challenge for hardcore players.
The original Bit.Trip Beat plays like a musical version of Pong. Players move a paddle up and down the side of the screen to deflect projectile blips, which come in patterns to the beat of the background music. Bit.Trip Core is similar to a rhythm-based game of Asteroids, with colorful, fixed-screen shooting. In Bit.Trip Void, players guide a ship through a moving maze of barriers and projectiles.
Bit.Trip Runner presents forced-scrolling platform levels, in which CaptainVideo must jump or duck to the beat, in order to avoid obstacles. Bit.Trip Fate is another side-scrolling game, played along a wavy line that runs left to right across the screen. The hero is free to move back and forth along the line, in order to aim and avoid enemy fire, but he cannot break away from it. Bit.Trip Flux is a return to the paddle-based play of first game, Beat, with new projectile types and challenges.
But for the richer instrumentation and modern presentation, Bit.Trip Saga's "chiptune-inspired" music sounds as if it could be from a classic NES cartridge. The Bit.Trip graphic style is also an homage to games from the 1980s. Success through the games' increasingly difficult levels is reflected by graphical upgrades, which mimic the technological leaps from one classic console generation to the next.
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