How good is this game? I played Transistor years ago, thought the gameplay and music were great.
How good is this game? I played Transistor years ago, thought the gameplay and music were great
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James Gutierrez
It's better than Transistor because it doesn't feature a sword which simply won't shut up.
Matthew Nguyen
Remember when people called this the best video game of all time?
Ethan White
I like it more than Transistor, it's probably one of the best indie games ever made
Dominic Powell
I didn't care for the sword or the story, I liked the setting and the gameplay.
Logan Peterson
It's better than Transistor since it doesn't have an obnoxious sword who doesn't know when to shut the fuck up.
Jaxon James
If someone on Zig Forums tells you it's a shit game, chances are they're a tourist. It's a pretty satisfying hack-and-slash that tells its story through a nice mix of the environments you go through and voiced narration which doesn't really ever get grating. I don't think it's the best game ever or anything, but it's definitely fucking good.
Isaiah Collins
Bastion is one of the best games I've ever played. Good gameplay, good music, good story told nonlinearly, pretty graphics. It's great.
Asher Nguyen
>How good is this game? I played Transistor years ago, thought the gameplay and music were great.
It's brilliant. Story-wise, I genuinely think it's actually underrated and goes up with some of the best videogame stories I know about - up there with titles like Cryostasis, Silent Hill 2 or SotC, and only one step bellow IPL titles. The fact that it does not have equally as "epic" scale does not change how charming and well written it is.
Gameplay-wise, it's OK. Very, simple, but absolutely inoffensive. It's like a 8 hours long basic action RPG with decent variety for the lenght.
Visually and sound-wise, it's an absolute treat too. I enjoyed it a truck ton more than Transistor, to be honest.
Overall, I absolutely love it. It's the kind of game that does the absolute best with very little, knows exactly what it wants to be and succeeds perfectly.
And you can regularly buy it for like two bucks.
Cameron Collins
My personal favorite of their games. Extremely solid and the narrator is great.
John Gomez
It's good, if you liked transistor you will like this one. However, I think transistor is the better of the two
Christian Diaz
it's yet another random western indie game that because it focuses on story and has a fun gimmick (dynamic narration) people decided it must be THE main case study of what video games as art are
that said, it's a fun little romp if you wanna just get through it, and there's plenty of fun and challenging optional content, decent weapon variety, and the gimmick is genuinely like a really lovely presentation for the package. i recommend.
Grayson Cox
I thought it was definitely better than transistor because you didn't have that annoying sword which was talking nonstop
Jackson Campbell
Bastion is a lot like Braid. Both games are objectively bad, but they were indie award bait. Braid and Bastion got a lot of praise when they came out, mostly because reviewers wanted to be nice to indie developers and give them a platform. The games are honestly garbage on their own merit.
Ryan Gutierrez
Bastion is good. A very simple game but it doesn’t overstay its welcome. I prefer it to Transistor. Transistor has more unique ideas but I was miserably bored with it after a couple hours.
Blake Evans
Pyre is their best game and Hades is their worst.
Joshua Myers
Very good, but sort of strange. The gameplay is quite average, but it's solid and enjoyable. The game really shines in presentation with excellent art direction, music, and narration.
Cameron Cook
>it's yet another random western indie game that because it focuses on story and has a fun gimmick (dynamic narration) people decided it must be THE main case study of what video games as art are
I would not say it has to be THE main case study considering that games like Pathologic 1, MGS2, Silent Hill 2, Ico and SotC have been steadily coming out since 2000. But it is a good item for a case study precisely because of it's relatively small scope and ambitions to begin with.
If you want to study how games can function as a meaningful narrative device, one with a relatively small scope and humble ambitions, focusing on clarity rather than epic scale, is going to be much more handy for analysis.
Gavin Rodriguez
Its fucking awful, the game play, the animation and especially the writing, fucking terrible.
Lucas Rodriguez
Zig Forums called it the best video game of all time
then reddit also called it the best video game of all time
thus Zig Forums hates it ever since
Ian Collins
Literal shit, anyone claims its good is a low IQ drooling retard who has likely never played an actual good game in their life.
Michael Thompson
Post your favorite games
Nolan Evans
Gone Home
Gabriel Jones
Transistor is better in every regard. Better gameplay, better music, better story
Mason Hernandez
Why do you waste your and everyone's else time like this?
Adam Evans
That is how these things usually go down yes. Personally I played it last summer and really fucking loved it. I've been having an itch for these games since I played Hyper Light Drifter and while this is very different, it still scratched that itch and blew me away.
Alexander Gray
Gabriel Murphy
It's pretentious crap with weak gameplay.
Also the MC is a shameless ripoff of Gene from God Hand.
Logan Price
I agree with this, Transistor is way better
Though Bastion is top notch too
If you like one, you'll like the other
Christopher Moore
These posts are the embodiment of the kind of desperation that has slowly grinded this whole board into ground.
Grayson Sanchez
It hasn't really aged well visually but gameplay is alright. Weapon variety is the best
Jonathan Flores
I think it's much better than Transistor. Transistor never really grabbed me as particularly original or interesting. Its world-building felt more appropriate to the types of games like Deus Ex than, well, Transistor. Transistor has so much story just packed behind logs and hours of reading is actually preferable than listening to the sword.