Pyre

6/10. Somewhat fun gameplay with nice visuals that sport Supergiant's signature art style. The best way I can describe this game is some sort of 3v3 quidditch or wizard basketball, where your goal is to shoot or dunk a celestial orb (the ball) into the opponent's pyre (the goal). There's a little bit of Space Jam in it as you strategise and plan your roster around character stats, abilities and the terrain. You can level up their skill trees and equip them with talismans. There's even a tinge of CRPG element as you're often faced with a fork in the road where you can choose and roll for a chance to gain either a temporal buff, gold, or equipment. The reason why I'm not giving it a strong review score or recommendation is because by the time I've played up to the first liberation rite and released my first character, I felt like I've already seen most of what the game has to offer. And that took me only around 3 hours. I'd suspect it's largely got to do with the fact that the core gameplay described earlier only happens ~30% of the time, interspersed with a lot of dialogue and world building. Will only recommend if you can pick this up on a steep sale.

Wunderhuebsches Roguelike der Bastionentwickler und deren Qualitaet scheint auch hier stark durch.

It's unfortunate how underappreciated this game is in the Supergiant Games collection, but Pyre is a truly fantastic experience. It's difficult to explain in a way that makes coherent sense, containing many disparate elements and aesthetics that seemingly shouldn't really work together, but they do anyway by sheer degree of effort put into them. The Rites - the basketball-esque game at the heart of it is a brilliantly creative idea executed flawlessly. That's enough to make this game good. What makes it great is the placement of the characters you use in the Rites within a story where each of them is trapped with you, with the Rites being their only chance of escape, and only for one of them at a time. You have to level up characters and then let them go - it's tough, both mechanically and emotionally in a way that weaves them together amazingly.

Pyre ha sido el primer juego de Supergiant games que he comprado acá, en Steam y sólo por eso tiene un pedazo de mi corazón. ¿Cómo describir Pyre? Bueno, una novela visual con partidos 3v3 de basket mágico. Sí, así de rimbombante como suena, no hay algo igual y creo que ahí radica su belleza; este juego se separa de todo lo que ha establecido Supergiant Games en sus juegos anteriores y eso me parece fantástico. Es corto y en sus 20 horas no llega a aburrir, siempre se mantiene fresco. Eso sí, no es un juego para todo el mundo. Si no te gustan las novelas visuales o leer, pasa de él, porque es el juego con mayor lore de la compañía. Lo que le faltó de historia a Transistor a este le sobra. ¿Qué comentar sobre la impresión que me dejó sin llegar a los spoilers? Qué es una experiencia que te enseña a "soltar" a las personas que más amas, por su propio bienestar. Pruébalo, si te gusta leer, te gustó Bastion y Transistor este te va a encantar. Eso sí, la banda sonora es INCREÍBLE, como siempre. Darren Korb no falla. Chécate este temón: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQhbktFT7HI

Отличная игра. Такие горько-сладкие эмоции не дает никакая другая игра.

do it for rukey

9 years ago we went on an amazing journey across a land of imagination and style that has yet to be matched, save for Supergiant's other games. Beautiful artwork and style, incredible music that still slaps to this day, and a cast of lovable characters bring this incredible game together to make it one of my all time favorites!