Transistor

It is beautiful. Soundtrack is fantastic. Humming idea alone makes wanna scream "YES! That's how a game experience should be made". This is not just a game. It is a piece of art. Not to mention, games that can make me cry, earn a special place to my heart.

Transistor is one of these games in which you start knowing almost nothing, you are just in a beautiful world knowing nothing about your surroundings, but as you advance through Cloudbank streets, the narrator is always uncovering things about the world and the situation you are in, with some remarks being very subtle while others are not. The combat system is also very interesting, and despite looking somewhat complex or maybe overwhelming at the beginning, once you get it, you really create strategies and combos that can transform a typical battle into a dance of sorts

This little game is masterpiece. Devs had the idea, and executed it to the end. However game is short, but or me, it just end when gameplay is about to get boring, and story comes to conclusion. Cant blame game to end, when it ends on right time. The gameplay is very fun. Easy to learn. Allows to find your style, either real time action or turn based, or mix of both. Player can setup own favorite attacks, and apply combos with it. Can just play own way. Encounters are hard enought, especially in the end. Beside story mission there are challenges to break routine. One can complain that there is not enought enemies variety, but then game ends before things get boring. Game has story. Which is presented with notes found here and there, and talks with our weapon. Story is open to interpretacion, there is some love, or story of young game dev finding his way in big corporations. Game is beautifull. Preatty background and arena design, stylish cutscenes. Even better soundtrack.

I first need to say this, if you liked Bastion you would love Transistor. I played Bastion a couple of years ago and I thought it was brilliant. The only downsides were in my opinion the gameplay itself and the story. The combat felt out of date, and I forced myself through it because of the great atmosphere. The same with the story, it was not really believable that a little kid would save the world. But then again, the atmosphere was amazing and the thing that made Bastion one of my top gaming experiences. Fast forward a couple of years to Transistor, take Bastion but take away all the bad stuff from it and you have Transistor. Supergiant games have thought up an interesting story and put in a very cool combat system, which is easy to learn but takes time to master. A lot of strategy is involved in the combat and to combine all of the different functions (moves) and see what happens was one of the games strong points. The atmosphere and music are top notch and the story is interesting. You feel for the characters, Red the heroine and also the talking sword. Who was he ? Can we save him ? Can we get our voice back ? What is happening in the city ? A lot of questions pop ups the first ten minutes and I feel that they were all explained around 6 hours later. The story is brought to the gamer mainly by the swords voice, with some occasional reading on terminals. If you want to dwell deeper into the lore you can read about the different functions and who they were when they were alive. But to do so, you need to equip them in battle. A smart thing from the developers, leading to more experimentation of the different functions. Great graphics, great story, great music, great atmosphere, great combat. Well, this is one of the best games I have played.

The art style is beautiful and the color palette very fitting with the theme.The music is excellent, superb, I don't know what else to say about it! The gameplay and game mechanics are a little weird at first like some mix of turn based gameplay but in real time but it has a freeze time "planner" function that recharges in realtime..., its not as good as the rest parts of the game but it does its job good enough and the combinations you can do with your abilities gives you some variety in how to play although there are some combinations that are a lot stronger than anything else. All those parts fit together nicely and the result in an awesome game, I just wanted more in my opinion is short and the replayability is not that good. For those that care about the games performance in Linux, I played it in Manjaro(4.14.27-1-MANJARO) with the latest Mesa drivers available on the Manjaro's repos and run buttery smooth, it is not a demanding game but still manages to have very beautiful visuals :) [Hardware: AMD PhenomX4 965, R9 270x, RAM 8GB].