Transistor

Clearly Bastion feelings with storytelling being happening as we go. Visuals are okay, but combat system - while looked promising - is just boring after an hour. Not really much happening besides combats: walk and look around, grab another piece of the story, fight 'em, repeat.

Transistors is a fun game with great music and voice acting and excellent game play. It's a good mix of real time and paused strategy based combat using a lot of different weapons that can be your main, secondary or support tool that you can mix and match for different effects. It's a robust system but it's a bit hampered by an admittedly sparse variety of enemies. But it works well, and combat ends up being a puzzle, especially if you raise the difficulty with limiters. It's good that the gameplay and aesthetics is so good because the story is down right incomprehensible. That's not to say it's bad or anything, it's just inaccessible. You're in maybe a simulation or a futuristic city? Your friend or lover was murdered and is stuck in a sword? A secret organization wants to remake the world/simulation? It's not really clear through normal gameplay and while the final boss fight is cool it didn't clear anything up. It's pretty with a good cyberpunk vibe, and you will have to interpr...

This game has my favorite soundtrack out of every game i own, absolute bliss

If you want the quick sales pitch: Great music, great art, great gameplay, nice narration and story. Its Supergiant, so it's obviously good. Short but very sweet. So, I don't usually do serious reviews. Most of them are one-liners, and Transistor is a game that I wasn't sure about at first. I played it for a little under an hour awhile ago, and I felt that I wouldn't like it as much as I wanted to. Well, I can now confidently say that I have no idea what past me was thinking because this game is AWESOME. From the outset, the game utilizes its art style, soundtrack, and narration to show just exactly what this game is trying to do and how great it's going to be. If you've played Supergaint's first game, that being Bastion, and you liked the whole narrator and silent protagonist vibe, I think you'll love how transistor does it, as I am a big fan of both. Everything about this game is beautiful, and I mean it when I say EVERYTHING. The art and visual aspects of the game are absolutely st...

Not at the same tier as Hades (though, that's a high bar), but definitely still a solid Super Giant game! Played fully on Steam Deck with only minor issues here and there.

For as simple of a game this is, it has so much character. I love games that drop you into nowhere and tell you nothing until it's relevant. You are more prone to explore and ask questions about whats going on. Which helps fill the world even more. Thank you Super Giant for a lovely game.

I bought this game purely because it was on sale and I love Hades, and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. The art? Absolutely stunning. The music? Amazing. The gameplay? Part turn based and part real time with the ability to experiment and find the most overpowered builds possible. The narrative? I cried, and honestly my second playthrough made me even sadder because I noticed even more heartbreaking details. 11/10 would devastate myself emotionally again

Promising combat system, but the story is quite nonesense and it is just repetitive walking and combat.

Lovely

stylish, artistic and atmospheric, with average to above average gameplay. not mindblowing, but memorable and fun.