Gaijin Games offers first screen of Bit.Trip Runner

by JC Fletcher on Dec 31st 2009 4:00PM

A single screen from the next Bit.Trip game from Gaijin Games has been revealed, and judging from the look of it, Bit.Trip Runner is going to be significantly less abstract than the previous entries in the retro-themed musical WiiWare game series. In fact, it looks like a side-scrolling platformer, which would make sense, given the name.

But, of course, Gaijin made a Pong-esque game with 15-minute long chiptune-based levels, so we shouldn't assume the obvious when it comes to the adventures of Commander Video. This could be controlled with the Your Shape camera, for all we know.

[Via Destructoid, GSW]

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Tags: Aksys-Games, bit-trip, bit-trip-runner, gaijin-games, Runner, wiiware

Reader Comments (8)

Makes me think of Tap Runners from Let's Tap...

Heck, Tap Runner's control scheme can easily be adapted to a rhythm game.

awesome.

This excites and worries me. I was a little disappointed with Void and the changes they made with that were nowhere near as big as the changes they seem to be making with this one. I'll definitely buy this on its release day, though.

i've never played on any of the bit.trip games, are they worth the money?

They are only 6$ each, so I would say that they are very worth the money and more.

What you may or may not know is that Gajin Games is comprised of former Working Designs people. That includes Victor Ireland, the guy who founded both Gaijin and Working Designs. If you're like me and you're familiar with Ireland's work, than you shouldn't be surprised if he makes some changes to both the gameplay and whatever script comes with the game. Read up on what some peoples thoughts of how Working Designs' handled some of their ports and translations. I just pray that he's learned his lesson and won't take three or four years to do a single game. The wait for Magic Knight Rayearth and Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete was horrendous.