Monday, April 1, 2013

Swords and cyberpunk: ‘Transistor’ is a darker, grittier take on ‘Bastion’

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Transistor doesn't stray too far from the roots laid down by Supergiant Games' excellent debut title Bastion . It's an action role playing game full of vivid colors, a gravelly-voiced narrator, and very satisfying combat. All of these things were apparent during the all-too-brief demo I played at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week. But there are differences, and in some ways they make the game slicker and more appealing. There's the cyberpunk-esque setting, for one, which replaces the fantasy-meets-Western world of Bastion. Perhaps more important are the changes to the combat, which let you attack enemies in both real time and turn-based battles — or a combination of the two. It's flexible and strategic, and even...


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