BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien

very fun and addicting rhythm game
you can also play as raz and dr fetus 10/10

Replaying this game while trying to 100% it for the third time just reminded me of why I like it so much to begin with. Runner2 is the best out of the RUNNER tetralogy. RERUNNER is SO SO close, but I think Runner2 still beats it out by just a hair. This game just has so much charm and personality. Runner3 is more experimental with it's gameplay which I can respect, but Runner2 has the perfect moveset for CommanderVideo. (I still miss the block mechanic in R3.) The soundtrack is still as incredible as ever and Charles Martinet is always a joy to have around. This is one of my favorite games ever and I highly implore everyone to buy it and support the devs.

Also a ranking just for fun:
Runner2 > RERUNNER > Runner3 > RUNNER

Respect your elders of course, but the other three are still vast improvements over the original BIT.TRIP RUNNER. :P

Scratches a certain itch in my lizard brain
Very satisfying

Broke my spacebar when playing. 10\10

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☑ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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It's a good game. :)

they call me ... The Runner 2 Future Legend of Rhythm Alien Of Bit Trip

lol

amazing, better than the first one, a must play !

I am only a man, and that is amazing.

Goodness, this was even BETTER than the first one, which I already liked a lot.

runner :)

I want to meet the visionary that sat back in their chair, put their fingers to their chin, and said "What if an acid trip, a platformer, and a rhythm game took ecstasy?"

Extremely fun platforming to the rhythm. Can't get enough.

mario talks to me every time i open the game

I'm so glad Choice Provisions exists so that they could deliver their Runner games to us. The music is good, the rhythmic pace of the levels is spot-on, and the difficulty is easy enough for any rhythm game fanatic to perfect everything without too much trouble.

It's great for more casual enjoyers of the genre as well, as the difficulties are balanced (though easy is a bit too barren sometimes, I'd pick normal for the easier playthrough to stay interesting) and it's a very relaxing experience that can be made chaotic and much faster-paced when you decide you love the game enough to shoot for perfects on every level.

The cannon minigame is honestly the worst part, because it's a tiny bit of relatively untelegraphed timing you have to nail in order to perfect-plus a level, right at the very end, after which you have to restart and perfect the level again for another try if you messed it up. But that's a minor complaint from a completionist who went through the effort of triple-perfect-plussing every level, so it shouldn't be a big deal for most.

Enjoy the game at your own pace, on your own difficulty, and you will feel satisfied with the vibes you're rewarded with.

Completed this game! Some stuff is a little bloated (did I HAVE to get a bullseye 3 times in EACH level?) but the levels, while tough, are much more fair and well-paced than the first game and even its sequel.