Bastion

Supergiants excel at creating the feeling of quiet melancholy one experiences when coming to terms with the inevitable and the irreversible. Mono no aware, that makes you treasure your memories and cherish the fleeting beauty of life all the more.

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[b][h1] 8/10 - Beautiful Bastion [/h1][/b] [b] Supergiant's origin started with this cute game! [/b] [hr][/hr][h2][u] Gameplay [/u][/h2] Isometric hack and slash type gameplay, can bring 2 weapons, a melee and ranged, along with a special ability with you as you adventure through the story or optional score attack mode. You power up the Bastion after each story island is completed, unlocking a new building that let's you upgrade your equipment, passives or add challenging modifiers. Prepare to fall off the world's edge a lot by accident or enemy pushback attacks! Lock in if you wish you 100% all the dream achievements with challenge modifiers on. [hr][/hr][h2][u] Narrative [/u][/h2] The calamity has destroyed the world, adventure through fragmented floating islands to collect cores and shards to power up the Bastion to try fix the world... The ending is down to your choice! [hr][/hr][h2][u] Visuals [/u][/h2] Supergiant's first game, can see where their iconic art style originated from - very appealing stunning hand painted art that works well in the isometric view! [hr][/hr][h2][u] Sounds [/u][/h2] The narrator hard carries this game with his wonderful voice narrating the whole story, as well as your actions as you play, which can be funny teasing you for dying etc! Weapons and abilities have their own weighty sound effects distinguishing them apart. Enjoyable soundtrack. [hr][/hr][h2][u] UI & UX [/u][/h2] Lovely looking HUD. Very clear to keep track of your current health, potions and tonics! [hr][/hr][h2][u] Linux Support [/u][/h2] Worked perfectly fine on CachyOS with native proton package.

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Gorgeous art and music. Story also told beautifully. Gameplay felt simple but fun.

the influences on hades are really clear but the storytelling in this is unique and really nice, as is the segmented worldbuilding, the graphics are really pretty and high saturation also which is fun

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I remembered this game being charming, and loving the narrator. Was gonna play Hades, but decided to finish this instead. Good call. This is a really good game. Great game play loop, not really a rogue like but its own thing. Cool set up, good build out combinations, rewarding game play, and pretty challenging but fair. Nothing too insane. Great game play, cool art direction, great narrator and good sound track.

Peace and some challenge.