I own them all on WiiWare, and still want. Although I do kind of worry that I would jump around them a bit and never really make much progress in any of them, since I already put the real work into them long ago. Then again, there are a few that I never beat and this would be a good excuse to go back to them and finally beat them.
Tell us more about the challenges. That is the main draw for most of us who already own them on WiiWare. Considering that I'm probably going to buy the disk anyway just because it's BIT.TRIP, how much game will I get out of the challenges?
BEAT's and CORE's challenges are the best ones. They're like doing quick mind puzzles that train you to play the games better. They throw really tough patterns at you, and you need to figure them out and master them. I found VOID's challenges to be way too hard. The challenges in RUNNER and FATE should be pretty easy for you if you've beaten the games. I barely touched FLUX's.
I'd wager that the challenges add an extra hour or so to each game. They're the equivalent of playing through a world in RUNNER.
Man, I love, love, love this series. Complete is my first time really spending a considerable amount of time with each of the games, and I'm hooked. I seriously think it's in my top 25 games of all time. So amazing! I'll get SAGA as soon as I can actually find a copy.
OK, why did I not realize before this collection comes with a soundtrack CD??? Sweet!
Having only played the first three in the series through WiiWare (shame on me!), I definitely would like to get this and/ or Saga (3DS). I realize Complete apparently is the better of the two collections, in part because of the extra features and such.
You have to unlock all the extras by beating levels and doing challenges. They're nothing special to be honest- the art isn't anything we haven't seen before, and the videos are just cutscenes and trailers. The letters from Alex Neuse are pretty cool. There are also remixes, but to unlock those you need to get perfects in levels. Well, actually, I unlocked two of them from doing challenges. They're alright.
You have to unlock all the extras by beating levels and doing challenges. They're nothing special to be honest- the art isn't anything we haven't seen before, and the videos are just cutscenes and trailers. The letters from Alex Neuse are pretty cool. There are also remixes, but to unlock those you need to get perfects in levels. Well, actually, I unlocked two of them from doing challenges. They're alright.
I think you get one audio unlockable for every ten challenges you complete... at least I unlocked one when I completed 8 beat challenges and 2 core challenges.
I'm not sure about the letters and videos... at least for beat and core I unlocked the trailer and letter without any real effort and the cutscene by beating the third boss.
Art and audio unlocks must be random then, with one unlocking each time you clear 10 challenges. You unlock a game's trailer when you beat its first level and the cutscenes after you beat its third level. You get letters by quitting out of stages while playing them.
This is my first time playing Runner, and it's been extremely satisfying. What's funny is that the game doesn't frustrate me, but rather I simply jump right back in due to the quick nature of starting the level over (never any down time), and the music never stops; it just becomes subdued once again when you restart. In fact, I feel somewhat disappointed when the song in the level really gets goings, and then it's over. What can I say, the music is amazing.
I'm on 3-9 now, the Gauntlet. This one is pretty tough, heh, even the first segment with the groups of 3 that you have to jump then slide, in perfect harmony.
Looking forward to playing Fate and Flux and listening to the music CD.
Played Fate for the first time. This game is so somber, and rightly so. There's little upbeat music, you can sense CommanderVideo's journey coming to an end.
The on rail mechanic strangely works really well. It's so confining, and dodging bullets becomes all the more trickier as you have to keep an eye on your path. Sometimes it's overwhelming when you feel like there's no escaping enemy fire when the bullets trace closely along your path.
I am not always sure which of the buddies will be most helpful, but it seems no matter who I pick, whether it's Meat Boy, CommandgirlVideo... All the help is greatly appreciated, even though it's only temporary.
Getting through this game has felt a bit easier compared to Runner, but now I am stuck on the boss of stage 6 (Fall). It's like I'm in a sea of multilayered bullets, and then... the lasers. of death. It doesn't matter if I make it to the boss with a max meter, I am quickly decimated.
I think I'll save it for early next year.
