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2 weeks ago
Feature: I don't know why, either, to be honest
I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Supergiant Games. I loved Bastion, didn't really get on with Transistor, and have never summoned the strength to try another one since. Indeed, fellow Supergiant admirers Matt and Ollie were, and I quote, "aghast" when I said I wasn't much of a fan of Transistor's soundtrack earlier in the week (which are fighting words coming from…
3 years ago
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Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. After the Calamity, few remain on the floating worlds of Bastion [official site]. You're one of them. And you love doing roly-polies.
7 years ago
There's a new Humble Bundle, wouldn't you believe it. And blimey, it's a good-un. I'm not in charge of deciding what's best, but this looks to me like one of the best bundles I've ever seen. Just look at this list: Amnesia, Limbo, Sword & Sworcery, Bastion, and Psychonauts. Seriously. And it has an absolutely brilliant video to promote it.
The headline doesn't refer to an extravagant orchestral rendition that you'd have to pay money to see, but rather a short video containing two of Bastion's most glorious audio treats. I'll never find these songs as powerful as I did when they first drifted in, just as the structure of the world and the melancholy of the situation slotted into place around my gun-toting kid,…
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Twenty one. It's a good number. Three times seven. Less occult than 23, but more interesting than boring old 20. Right next to handsome 22. (They're getting married.) It is the perfect number, therefore, to introduce our twenty first game of Christmas. Can you guess what it is?
Edit: We're reading below that lots of regions outside the UK are being charged a really very much larger sum. Which sucks. Valve will always insist prices are decided by publishers, so yell at Warner. There's also confusion over the inclusion of Arkham City and War In The North - to be absolutely clear, the Warner Complete Pack definitely currently includes those games, whether by…
Supergiant are apparently fully aware that when talking about Bastion over the summer, they say they designed the original game to be complete, and therefore not really requiring of DLC. Needless to say, that stance has changed a little, as they explain: "HOWEVER! In the weeks following the release of the game, we decided to put a little something together for the holidays as a…
OK, Google's Chrome browser just officially became scary/magnificent. It's been able to run a few games - like Plants vs Zombies - in a browser window for a while now, but the excellent Bastion has just been added, marking a serious step up in what's technologically possible. The game starts playing in less than a minute of clicking the button to add it, it looks…
8 years ago
Well this is unquestionably glorious. Did you play Bastion? Of course you did. You wouldn't be so epically silly as to ignore our insistence that you do, nor to have failed to buy it last week when it cost about 7p. So since you did, you'll be familiar with the wonderful voice of the narrator, and his real-time commentary on the action. But, wondered Dorkly,…
Beautiful, beautiful hack and slash dungeon-crawler (if a shattered archipelago of floating islands in the sky can be said to be a dungeon) Bastion is now half-price on the Steam digital computer game distribution pipe. I would use this opportunity to direct you to John's review, where he implores you to buy the game. But you don't need to believe his big lying face, because…
Feature: Writing With The Kid
Artful dungeon-crawler Bastion charmed us with its strange world, solid combat mechanics, and elegant narration. John loved it. It even inspired Alec to a big old cleverthink. I decided to have a chat with Greg Kasavin, creative director and writer on the project, to find out a bit more about how Bastion came to be, and what the future holds.
Feature: A Stranger, in a strange land
Supergiant's sombre action-RPG Bastion was released on PC a few weeks back; John has already told you what he thinks of it, but in the last few days I've been exploring its shattered world for myself. It's put me in a funny place. Spoilers of a sort await, so don't read this unless you've played the game, don't intend to, or don't give a toss…
Released today is Supergiant Games' gorgeous looking action-RPG, Bastion. It's available to purchase from Steam at a price of £11.49/€13.99/$14.99, and you can take a poke at the launch trailer here. Despite being temporarily wrapped up in a web of Xbox exclusivity, Bastion has always been PC bound. As you can see if you compare PC screenshots to Xbox screenshots, the PC version has access…
If the Steam page is to be believed then SuperGiant's esoteric dungeon-crawler is set to arrive on 16th of August (SuperGiant just confirmed this to us over email.) I am honestly expecting this to be one of the games of the year: it's a beautiful blend of compelling, click hack 'n' slash action with artful indie sensibility. What the screens and talk of whacking monsters…
Awesome-looking (and even better sounding) esoteric action-RPG Bastion has arrived on the console boxes this week, but should also making its way to PC soon. Supergiant told us that the PC version has no set release date yet and explained: "We're still sorting out the controls and making a few other changes to make sure the PC version feels like a proper PC game." You…
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One of many pleasant experiences at GDC this year was sitting down to play SuperGiant Games' awesome IGF-nominated fantasy action game, Bastion. I've just gone back and played the same build this afternoon, and remembered why I was quite so delighted by seeing this game in motion. Today has also seen the announcement that the game will be distributed by Warner Bros, which is great…
