A minimalist review for bit.trip beat: This game:  Is hard.  Blows my mind.  Has fantastic music.   Reminds me of Rez HD.  Wins the Emmy for most eyestrain.   Has motion control that doesn't suck.  Has distracting backgrounds, presumably on purpose. Should be called bit.trip pong.  Maybe pong is copyrighted? Justifies the creation of a paddle attachment for the Wiimote.  Does at least 12 things with a pong blip I had never seen before.     Is exactly the kind of thing that should be on downloadable services.     Has co-op, which apparently ...

A beat 'em up mmo: A beat 'em up mmo.  That really says it all.  If you don't like brawlers, then there's no point in going any further.  This is a straight up brawler, streets of rage style.  And it's a good one too.  Leaving everything else aside, it is fun to wander around and beat up stuff.  The mmo trappings are just gravy as far as I'm concerned.   The basic beat 'em up controls are ...

Great Karate Champ clone; also good for scaring friends: This game played almost identically to the arcade game Karate Champ.  It was impressive that it was able create a decent (at the time) one on one fighting game using a one button Atari 2600 style joystick.  It was also good for scaring the crap out of my friends.  When the title screen loaded there would be a really bad "WHAATAAWWW" Bruce Lee sound out of nowhere.  Now as you may ...

A quick playthough isn't terrible...: I actually liked this more than I expected, which is to say I didn't completely hate it.  I actually bought this game for my Dad, from the bargain bin, because he pretty much exclusively plays shooters and does appear to have any discernment as to quality.  He let me borrow it, and I started the game up on easy because I didn't really want to spend that much time on ...