Bastion

Programmers like Cliffy B have announced that the mid-tier in gaming is dead. People are interested in blockbuster titles, and there's a market for Xbox Live titles. But those smaller titles are getting increasingly accomplished & ambitious, and filling the place of that mid-tier: titles such as Braid, Super Meat Boy and Limbo have featured heavily in end of year polls.

Bastion is the latest high profile indie title; it's unique selling point is a narator who describes all that's happening in the game - even to the extent of when you fall off the edge of the playing area and when you break random things. It's art style is lovely, quite similar to Braid, and the soundtrack is as good as it's narration.



If there's one drawback, it's that it's a pretty basic RPG based hack & slash - it almost reminded me of Gauntlet at times. Great fun, beautifully executed but repetitive in long doses.

7.5/10