Xbox 360
Bastion
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8.42
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125th of 1218
Trailer, Gameplay, & Screenshots
About this game
Developer: Supergiant Games
Content Rating: Everyone10+
Summary
The game takes place in the aftermath of the Calamity, a catastrophic event that suddenly fractured the city of Caelondia as well as the surrounding areas of the game's world into many floating pieces, disrupting its ecology and reducing most of its people to ash. Players take control of the Kid, a silent protagonist who awakens on one of the few remaining pieces of the old world and sets off for the titular Bastion, where everyone was supposed to go in troubled times. The only survivor he meets there is an elderly man named Rucks, the game's narrator, who instructs him to collect the Cores that once powered Caelondia.
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Gamer Reviews
30305 Reviews8.50
Aggregate Gamer Reviews
Xbox 360 open_in_new
29782 Ratings
8.50
Game Faqs open_in_new
472 Ratings
8.42
Jeuxvideo.com open_in_new
42 Ratings
8.00
XGN open_in_new
7 Ratings
5.40
3D Juegos open_in_new
2 Ratings
8.80
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Critic Reviews
24 Reviews8.34
Bastion is the perfect game to kick off Microsoft's Summer of Arcade, capturing that certain something that Limbo and Braid had in previous years. For 1200 Microsoft Points you'll be rewarded with an experience just as memorable as any retail release this year.
Though the game feels well conceived as a whole, there are a few shortcomings and limitations underneath its thoughtful and hardy design. The narrator is a good gimmick, but his constant commentary soon grows intrusive and doesn't quite match the game's visual tone. The beauty of the detailed environments sometimes obscures problems or pitfalls, and a few late-game revelations aren't quite what they're cracked up to be.
Is the game worth playing? Certainly. It's a decent little adventure that will provide enough solid gameplay to be worth the money. Just make sure one expects no more than that, and it'll be a most worthy purchase. Bastion is fun enough for what it is, but it does not transcend to the levels that it would like you to believe it does.
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