Posted on: December 21, 2017
fade0ff
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 1221 Rezensionen: 83
Beautiful but short and muddled
After playing Bastion, I had high hopes for this game, but apart from its gorgeous visual style and great voice acting, Transistor falls short of my expectations. Also while I really, really liked the mixture of Art Deco an Tron, the enemies don't really fit in. Well, the music is nice but even there I liked Bastion's better. Now while Bastion was some sort of mini action RPG with stylized graphics, the only game mechanism in Transistor is a mixture of real time and turn based combat in arenas. The only other thing you can do is accessing terminals now and then to get story pieces and restore disabled "functions". The game has very little contents and is stretched by challenge rooms. This also serves to train using different "function" which are combat skills that can be either used as "active" or "upgrade" ability. If you die in a fight, you're punished by disabling one of your functions (until you accessed two terminals). This was obviously meant to force the player to also use function combinations that he/she wouldn't use otherwise. To be honest, this didn't work for me at all and found it totally frustrating to be forced into using a suboptimal function combination in fights that I already lost with the best possible combination. This adds to the already very unbalanced difficulty. E.g. one of the hardest boss fights in the game is very early in the game. On top of the already sufficiently confusing skill system the game also implements "limiters" which are handicaps that e.g. make the enemies stronger but give you more experience points. I must admit that I enabled some in the middle of the game without really understanding their purpose. Honestly I still don't understand why I should use them. The story is somewhat muddled. It's quite obvious that everything takes place in a computer and the characters are programs, but in the end all of this doesn't make any sense. So the storytelling isn't minimalist - there just isn't any sensible story to be told.
Hilft dir das weiter?
