GIZORAMA - BIT.TRIP as a series has had a rather great track record. Four games before FATE and it was still going strong, with a slow progression towards a soundtrack resembling less and less of an 8-bit chip-tune homage and more its own thing. The series has gotten a slow and steady notoriety behind it and for good reason, they’re incredibly addicting games with different core mechanics behind each one, keeping the games glued together with the subtle story-line of Commander Video, our mascot. The last game in the series, BIT.TRIP RUNNER, had a less somber look and feel aesthetically, as BIT. TRIP VOID ended with the Commander figuring out what he needed, how make friends. At this point… the world was his oyster. However it also comes to show Commander Video (through the series’ use of imagery for story-telling) that love and compassion will only show Commander Video so much in terms of results, which brings us to this release, BIT.TRIP FATE.
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From the review: "Bit.Trip FATE is a fun game, but definitely not the best in the series. While it is a good challenge, a lot of the time it feels more tedious than fun, especially for a rail-shooter type game that literally has you on a fixed rail. While not a bad game in any sense, there are better Bit.Trip games out there."
GameZebo - The last Bit.Trip game to hit PC, Bit.Trip Fate is the penultimate entry in the six-title saga detailing Commander Video’s birth, life, death, and beyond. Although Fate fulfills the Bit.Trip model of “rhythm game wrapped in another genre,” it focuses more on gameplay than music, operating as an on-rails side-scrolling shooter that is supported—but not defined—by its dubstep soundtrack. This grants players more freedom, but also reduces the power of music and actions in the world of Fate.
