Posted on: April 28, 2015

CephalonKet

Games: 313 Reviews: 9

Short but great!

GOG ate my review for some reason, so I'll keep this brief this time. -Gorgeous art -Phenomenal soundtrack (and great singer) -Cool, strategic combat with optional pause and play and an AMAZING amount of abilities, combos and passives. -Abilities can be used in three different ways and can be combined together to make hybrid ones to your liking. -Great voice acting narrates your every move, making everything you do feel like they have an impact. -Story and backround lore is interesting and makes you want to search for more. -Game rewards you for experimenting with abilities with lore. -Game is challenging on its own, but is also very flexible. Player can add optional 'limiters' to make combat even more challenging. -Game is pretty short but is meant to be played more than once to experience everything. The gist: The game is absolutely beautiful, and is pretty much a must if you enjoyed Bastion.

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Posted on: April 29, 2015

Mersadeon

Games: 95 Reviews: 8

Mysterious and emotional

Finally finished it. It's great. The story and the mechanics both work wonderfully. My only complaint would be that during the middle of the game, the fights can get a bit too hectic since your options of Functions (spells) out of Turn are a bit too limited. It also has a great NewGame+ mode.

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Posted on: April 23, 2015

vmz

Games: 226 Reviews: 3

Recommended, but not as good as Bastion

It's hard not to make the comparison since this game shares a lot of the same individual people who contributed to Bastion. When you do make the comparison, Transistor falls just a tad short of Bastion in my opinion. The story is a bit more jumbled and doesn't have the appeal and agency of Bastion. The music is a bit more ambient and doesn't stand out as much as the excellent soundtrack in Bastion. The narrator voice from Bastion is back, and he doesn't really have an interesting script to read. He mostly just makes short witty comments about the situations the main character finds herself in, and doesn't expand on the lore/characters as much as the narrator did in Bastion. Combat is pretty much objectively better in Transistor than it is in Bastion. It is an interesting real time combat system with slottable and upgradeable skills, and it also has a time pause mechanic where you can plan your moves safely to be executed immediately after the pause. It is still a very good game but if, like me, you wanted something as good as/even better than Bastion, you might end up a bit disappointed.

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Posted on: November 20, 2018

FollsFulls

Verified owner

Games: 128 Reviews: 1

Unexpectedly great game

I was not sure what to expect, but it was not much. Instead it was a very enjoyable and great game! Beautiful drawings, amazing OST with singed songs in very emotional moments, intriguing gameplay mechanics and so on. It has a lore meant to let you understand the strange world you are in, and therefore an higher level of the plot interpretation. The plot is simple and the storytelling choice is a cold start: at the beginning you don't understand much but you have the interest high due the understanding of the mechanics and the setting. You need the first boss fight to understand what's going on, but it doesn't require much to arrive there. However, I suspect that the release was premature: up the the secondo boss fight has a style, after it seems too row. Deadline approaching and the will ti give a complete game anyway? Maybe they should have split in two chapters, with half price each, and having more time to complete the second half. But this is my hypothesis and my two cents. ****SPOILER! DON'T READ BELOW**** The first two boss fight are really emotional: sybill in duet during the last round of the fight and the final blow to a crawling creature, "I will find who did this and I will break its heart" and she does in the second boss fight inside a beautiful painting. Both a fight and a final blow to deliver and both fought also against helper. Then come the third "boss": both suicide and not much a hard level to reach them. And the fourth and final boss: trivial and alone. Plus at the beginning you have a simple puzzle to solve with the turn(), but then no more. I suspect that there should have been more puzzles, the third boss would have been an Asher that attack you because willingly to die because grant suicided, Asher would have gave some explanation before the fight (and not everything told by Royce at the end), and Royce would have spawn the creature in the background (maybe some of the characters in the cards). I guess Supergiant didn't have more time

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Posted on: September 1, 2019

rr42

Verified owner

Games: 98 Reviews: 7

Outstanding

I really smooth and captivating narrative is combined with fluid gameplay. I enjoyed it all the way. Really recommended for everyone who was left wanting more after Bastion. Congrats to the Supergiant staff on this one. Bravo.

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