Last updated on September 5th, 2023 at 02:21 pm
Transistor doesn’t stray too far from the roots laid down by Supergiant Games’ excellent debut title Bastion.
It’s an action role playing game full of vivid colors, a gravelly-voiced narrator, and very satisfying combat. All of these things were apparent during the all-too-brief demo I played at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week. But there are differences, and in some ways they make the game slicker and more appealing.
There’s the cyberpunk-esque setting, for one, which replaces the fantasy-meets-Western world of Bastion.
Perhaps more important are the changes to the combat, which let you attack enemies in both real time and turn-based battles — or a combination of the two. It’s flexible and strategic, and even in its early pre-alpha state, it’s a game that I wanted to keep playing long after the demo was over.
