Bitsy Bits: The Secret of Magic

Update, 12/3/2024 After 32 hours, I have finally beaten the game. Whooo what a trip. This game is LONG and you'll swear you'll never see the end of it. It even has a secret [spoiler]postgame chapter[/spoiler]. Why do I have 44 hours? Because there's a very critical bug where saving the game saves everything BUT your lives collected, and I didn't want to play the end of the game on 3 lives. It's hard, exceptionally long, and since saving restarts you from the beginning of an area, you're expected to beat the entire 104 areas in a single 3 hour sitting. So, I left my game running overnight to preserve my lives. I'm glad I did. Now, onto the rest of my original review at 2 hours of gameplay: [h1]By far the most unique and weird game I've played.[/h1] [i]And I collect a lot of weird games![/i] But don't let "weird" dissuade you. Bitsy Bits is a bizarre mashup of a bunch of different retro game inspirations. Half of the fun is playing it like an old game where you never read the instruction manual and you're just trying to figure stuff out. I'm heavily biased towards the "toy castle/living dollhouse" aesthetics, so that's mostly why I bought it. But upon some initial exposure to the …