Bastion Review

Bastion is an action game set in a lush imaginative world, in which players must create and fight for civilization's last refuge as a mysterious narrator marks their every move.

Gameplay is very simple, you can carry two different weapons at any moment and one choice of a special skill. While moving around the terrain you will fight the remains of what used to be your civilization, acquiring Stray Fragments and leveling up.

Distillery.

As you progress through the story obliterating anything on your way and accumulating those experience points, you will level up, opening a new slot for distilled drinks. Think of them as special modifiers to your character. You will also find different choices of weapons, skills and deity modifiers that can dramatically change the way you play. That also means you have a wide array of play styles to choose from. Each weapon can be upgraded up to five times by collecting upgrade materials scattered in the remains of the world.

Stray Fragment market.

To wrap everything together we have those Stray Fragments. As you defeat foes and destroy structures alike you will gather enough to pay for weapon upgrades. There isn't much more to it than that, plain and simple.

With well paced content, great soundtrack, a mysterious story and responsive controls, Bastion is definitely a great game that you should play. It is quite short in length, but it is not the length that makes great games. And this one placed Supergiant Games in the spotlight of indie developers.

PS: You can read about their second release in one of our early reviews: Transistor.