Ive always had a niche, for a great story, and the latest addition from the creators of "Bastion", Pyre creatively blends a subtle feel of sports entertwined with a fantasy world, that can't wait to deliver a unique, and engrossing experience, and story in the process. The critical acclaim earned by Bastion and Transistor, puts a lot of expectation from fans everywhere, whenever Supergiant Games releases a new title. The award-winning studio's third game, "Pyre", has the task of not only living up to the legacy of its predecessors,... BUT also delivering a unique story, adventure, and character all its own. (Even though I feel at times, it doesn't know it's own identity.) With all that in mind, I'm happy to say that Pyre is just as good, as the best Supergiant Games has put out over the years, and is definitely worth checking out for fans of the studio's previous work, and other studio titles like, The Banner Saga Trilogy. After saying all of that, I can say this is something typical for Supergiant releases, which means, Pyre is somewhat hard to describe. Basically, the game is a blend of a "party-based" RPG with sports, adding in the enemy encounters, typically consisting of contests called "Rites". In Pyre, Rites are special competitive rituals, that residents of Downside engage in to try to earn their way back to the "other side." I spent a long time staring at my screenshots of Pyre, before writing a word about it,... Every frame captures a pure fantasy world so creative, and otherworldly that I envy the minds able to bring it to such vivid life. It's the kind of art that reminds you fiction can be anything, if only you have the power to imagine it, and create it.
