Transistor

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.

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

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.

One of the best games i'v seen for a long time

I really like the combat mechanic and the different ways you can fight and combine the skills. Didn't finish the game yet and ~4h in i think. For -80% / 3,79€ this is a great value. Love it!