Bastion Review
So there’s this awesome game on Steam you should all go get… no… right now… I’ll wait. Doo do dee doo doo doo dee doo… oh, back so soon? Ok, lets get to it then…
Bastion is like an actiony rpg-y slash n hack kinda game. All the good stuff! Very colorful with a fun painted style. Even though all the characters have no necks… but that’s ok, we’ll call them dwarves or something. But all things aside, that’s not what this game is going to be known for. It’s the narrator, Logan Cunningham, and his hypnotic voice! See, the narrator is a CONSTANT presence in this game! He’s got something to say about everything you do and more often than not, a little spicy sass to boot! It’s like having your own personal sports commentator covering your every move… but with a sweet sultry voice… mmmmhmmmm… XD
As for the game itself, well, it’s pretty good. Very beautiful visually (I love games that look or are hand drawn/painted)! Combat was alright, think I found not being able to adjust the camera to be a bit off putting for me, but I doubt that’ll be much problem for anyone else. But it’s just a minor complaint, don’t take it as anything major.
It’s a pretty fun game and even if you don’t want to buy it, you can head on over to Steam and download the demo. Well worth your time!
(oh, btw, that guy in the final panel is Zulf… he’s kinda the badguyish? sorta? something like that.)
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I do love games with a good dialogue and awesome voice actors; but it depends on the game type whether it’s fitting/needed or not. If the game have a story that is best told by a narrator, it’s generally those well drawn pieces of art where a huge part of the gaming experience comes from it (Bastion seems to be one of them; I’m downloading demo in the background as I type, which is why I was back so quick ~_^). In other cases it’s an enhancement, but not required for the game itself (such as the dialogues in WoW - it makes the game prettier and more fun, but sometimes I mute it as the text is more than enough and the gaming experience is not entirely lost without it). In a few cases it’s just simply awful, but that’s generally because the dialogue is poorly written and/or the voice actors doesn’t speak with feeling (like when you can hear that they make no effort other than just plain reading text aloud).
well, while I do play with mute on for a good bit, what bothers me more than anything in the universe is when they voice act certain parts, then have the rest in speech bubbles!!!! what the hell kind of laziness is that?
lol… I think most would include Metroid the Other M in that “poorly written/voiced” category, Winter.
I’m one of those people who are easily distracted by. . . well anything. So if there was a random voice popping out phrases for everything I did, I doubt i would get much done, or I would die a lot ^_^;
hahaha! yeah, I’d be the one trying to run around and see what I could make him say! in Bastion, when you first start out and start breaking stuff instead of doing the main quest, the narrator will say something like “then the kid just raged out for a bit”! I loved it! lol! didn’t say too much else about my destructive ways, but I certainly tried!
XD I’d probably try to do an action that the narator can’t describe. Do a few quests on the side to keep it interesting.