Topic: Bit.Trip: Core

@Chicken Brutus - That's right! They DID have powerups in the first game.

I don't remember reading about the power-ups in the manual. I'll have to look at it again.
There's alot going on at times, plus the don't look like normal power-ups in other games, So I might have overlooked them.

Thanks.

It's so frantic and the D-pad so small that I often hit two directions at once.

As for the "power-up" white pixel, you can't miss it. When you hit it, the game will say CHALLENGE across the screen, and you'll see the Core rotate. In my experience, it has always rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, so I just adjust my remote so the IR emitter thingy is pointing at me and play without much challenge at all.

depending on how well you've been playing at the moment the power-up/challenge bit hits the screen, too, it can either be a plain white pixel drifting across the screen or it may be a little white comet trailing its square-littered and sparkly tail (i think it sparkles, anyway) behind it, so at that point it's really hard to mistake for something not-special. :3

The dpads rough on my thumb. Analog would be easier on it, but probably not the game.

Adam - Yeah..I haven't noticed anything yet.

This is true...except when you're in the nether zone, in which case everything is white, and you don't get the CHALLENGE indicator. I wouldn't mention that, except that the first time I hit the CHALLENGE pixel I was in the nether zone, and I thought the wii remote was malfunctioning. I lost the game because I didn't understand what had happened. My own fault, obviously, but that didn't make me curse any less.

PS--I DID see the core rotate...I just didn't connect the two until it was too late. I'm what you would call a slow learner.

Eh, I don't think it's your fault at all. The Nether mode is an amusing concept, but it's really flawed in that regard. The intent, I assumed, was to make things simpler so that you could recover easier, but in my experience it makes the game harder -- well, in Core at least, maybe not Beat. Not being able to see which beats are challenges in Nether seems really unfair.

I've never been in Nether at that point, though, fortunately.

@WolfRamHeart - Yep. I think so. (At least it seems that way.)

Man...I CANNOT beat this second boss. The trouble is with the fast missiles that come in from side to side in the lower two quadrants. You only have one chance to hit them, and it's hard as heck to do so, because, unless you have it memorized, you can't predict when they're coming!

Also, if they destroy your little "bases" or whatever at the bottom of the screen, do you die more quickly than usual? It seems like I can only afford to miss two or three missiles before my game ends!

I've played it so many times I'm becoming a master of level 2...I more than tripled the default high score, but I can't beat the darn boss!

Tails86 found a big problem in the game (I've tested it 3 times myself). In level one (Discovery) if you have the highest multiplier (Mega, i think) and use your bomb on the two rainbow-squares that intersect from left-right at the bottom of the screen, it will freeze your game every time!

This is the second game fron Aksys/Gaijin with an unfixed bug. I better see a patch soon!