Posted on: January 20, 2021

zaq11

Игр: 6 Отзывов: 1

Want to cry?

Stylish. Satisfying combat. Incredible music and art. Bittersweet feelings after the ending. This game will have a very special place in your heart, just mark my words.

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Posted on: July 10, 2016

calmcdonald

Владелец игры

Игр: 59 Отзывов: 8

stylish atmosphere and smooth combat

Transistor, the follow-up by the makers of Bastion is an achievement in atmosphere and style as well an interesting, if not always successful gameplay experiment. You are Red, a famous singer who has lost her voice having survived an attempt on her life. Your partner is not so lucky as his mind is stuck within the very sword that was used to try and kill you. Together you'll make your way through a futuristic city to find his murderers. While the city itself is under attack from an artificial life form that seems to be connected to ones you are seeking. And while the plot remains told in broad brush strokes it is the atmosphere that drives the game. The art style - a mixture of cyberpunk and art decor with bold, bright colours - and the choice of a modern jazz soundtrack come together fantastically. Gameplay experiments with a mixture of real time and turn based combat. You move in real time dodging attacks until you can stop time and meticulously plan out the next actions, stringing together powerful abilities into devastating combos. The possibility to combine abilities with each other in increasingly complex ways allows for an extraordinary degree of improvisation. Combined with great visual effects and animations this leads to a satisfying moment to moment combat. However the over abundance of options is also an issue. The game throws so many at you in such short time, while also withholding more complexity for later, that the first playthrough is not enough to master the system. I had a great time with Transistor- with its setting and vague story, its combat and visual presentation - but while I understand that the developers want to prolong the longevity of their game I also feel that the result is an imbalance in the relationship between presentation and mechanics. After I finished the relatively short story I simply didn't feel the urge to return but knew that I would thus miss out on the depth of an still evolving combat system.

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Posted on: December 21, 2017

fade0ff

Владелец игры

Игр: 1223 Отзывов: 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.

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Posted on: June 10, 2020

Fade89

Владелец игры

Игр: 368 Отзывов: 38

Short and boring

I've tried this game because I really loved Bastion, but my expectations did not meet. The game displays an amazing combat system... just to waste it on a very short story (no, new game+ dows not count). The voice acting is amazing, the visuals are ok (the characters and eneies are well made, but the world is empty at best). The penalties for dying are fair and quite clever, and you can create dozens of different moves to adjust your style. The weakest point of the game is that the map design is terrible (you basically can't know if you activate the passage to the next zone or choose a sidetrack, and there is no turning back). Stone me to death, but the biggest problem is that the game is boring. Yeah, there is a touching story behind it, but the dramaturgy and tempo between fights and story pretty much kills it. I've alt+tabbed it more times than any other game.

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Posted on: September 23, 2024

Naminack

Владелец игры

Игр: 64 Отзывов: 2

It's lovely

Like the title says. It's a lovely short game. The music is amazing and the story is good

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