Bastion

As a gamer, you owe it to yourself to play this game. Bastion is gaming art, nearly perfectly executed. Logan Cunningham's performance as the narrator is surpassed by none. The soundtrack is amazingly awesome. In fact, I listen to it while I write this review. The graphics are nice and will date well. As to gameplay and the other reviews about the game being too simple: the game gives you full control about how difficult the game will be for you. Ten ingame options exist that increase the challenge -and the rewards- immensely. It's a wonderful system that many games should have. Thus, everyone, from children to completionist-level players will get a rewarding experience, although the story is clearly aimed at a more mature audience (I'd give it a pg/13+ rating, but only because I fear younger ones will have difficulty following the plot, since it's a story to think about). You should definitely play this game with a controller, that's how the creators meant it to be played. To all non-gamers: Gaming is an art form. Bastion is a good example of this fact. Get used to it.

The game might be crashing whenever you are trying to launch it. To fix this issue, please download the Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 3.1 and install it. This will fix the issue and you won't need to waste your time trying reinstalling it or whaterver.

Have yet to play it on PC, and i am not sure how well it will transfer over but I remember playing this gaame while I was on a very long trip and it was very enjoyable on an iPad. The only reason i bought it on here was for nostalgia and the naration always got me.

If you don't like the narrator or find the story lacking, then the game is a fast and repetitive dungeon walker. Find the correct path, fight some samey looking boss that the narrator built up for you, unock some building, talk to the characters. Get bored. Repeat.

At the end of 2011, I was asked to contribute to an article about games that I personally consider to be classics. Now, I've been playing games for a long time and I have a long list of old games which I love. So, if you ask me about good RPG, I won't say "Fallout 3"; more like the first Fallout. If you ask me about multiplayer shooters, I'll have more to say about Quake 3 over the latest COD. If you ask me about a game with a good story, RDR wouldn't be even in my top 10. What I'm saying is that I have a large pool of games to talk about and don't need to revert to just games from the last 3 years or so. And yet, at the end of 2011, I wanted to talk about Bastion almost more than any other game. There have been very few games before or since that can combine such gorgeous art, wonderful music, engaging (and innovative!) storytelling as well as silky smooth gameplay into such an (almost) perfect package. It's hauntingly beautiful, in the best way. Granted, partly due to the indie resurgence, in the last 5 years we've had a couple of games which achieved similar heights. The company's own Transistor is one of them. Other examples would include Life is Strange, Brothers: The tale of two sons or perhaps Journey. (Trine isn't that far off either.) So, fortunately Bastion has some competition and admittely it's been somewhat surpassed in some areas, but still remains one of the best examples of art in video game form.