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[My Name is Immaterial]

Almost certain. I mean, I can run every single other game in my library, which includes KSP, Civ 5, Portal 2, XCOM: EU and Torchlight 2 to throw out some random examples.

Edit 1: I decided to blow the dust out of the fans, so that might make some difference. Putting it back together.

[alway]

Jaunt+purge+spark is awesome. Jaunt to your target, then jaunt over them repeatedly until well done cooked. Forget to leave adequate distance between you and it at the end? Oh well, you can keep doing the move while waiting for everything else to cool down too! Quite pleasantly surprised by the tactical variety this game gives.

Completed my first playthrough (I think) and am currently going through a second time in hopes of finding more stuff I missed.

[Vector]

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[Skyrunner]

Jaunt+purge+spark is awesome. Jaunt to your target, then jaunt over them repeatedly until well done cooked. Forget to leave adequate distance between you and it at the end? Oh well, you can keep doing the move while waiting for everything else to cool down too! Quite pleasantly surprised by the tactical variety this game gives.

Completed my first playthrough (I think) and am currently going through a second time in hopes of finding more stuff I missed.

I prefer comboing void void void (with crash/purge) hide move to back then bounce (with some damage upgrade). It deals like 1400 damage in one hit

I also like Help with Ping/Spark for the aoe spamming backstabs.

I didn't expect this, but I actually like it quite a bit less in some respects than Bastion o_O I think that the core elements that they kept were certainly good, but the story is failing to grab me at all thus far and I'm finding the challenge much, much less overall than I did for the other game (despite having my limiters all on).

Bleh. Well, we'll see.

It feels like the opposite of bastion to me. Fun combat but overall eh story. :<

[Vector]

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[Mindmaker]

Combat is the part of the game that I can't get warm with.
None of the function combinations seem to suit me. I always seem to be lacking points and time() to combine/chain up anything meaningful.
It's just not satisfying at all and makes me play the game in short sessions.

[Nightscar982]

I find triple void less efficient than a double on terms of damage to turn time, so I used void+ the damage over time one, and hit them with bounce and flood after that. This was only for one fight though, because... well.. You'll find out.

[Vector]

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[Skyrunner]

Transistor managed to crash my AMD drivers three times so far, and I think the last time it crashed it also corrupted its save files. :/

[NobodyPro]

Spoiler: END OF GAME SPOILERS (click to show/hide)

And then she kills herself in order to be with her lover. Of course.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't everyone in the city dead following the death of the end boss? I thought she stabbed herself with the transistor because everyone and everything she ever knew is gone and the only survivors (including her lover) resided within.

My take: The voice acting and music is fantastic. The combat is enjoyable but not outstanding. The story is fine but, while I enjoyed it, it's very easy to see why others wouldn't.

Both Bastion and Transistor would be ideal on the Vita or 3DS. There's something a bit unbalanced about playing a fairly light budget game on a massive gaming PC. Makes me feel weird... :-|

Apparently the game is very vram intensive, so it would be able to run on a portable system as is.

[Vector]

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[My Name is Immaterial]

Transistor managed to crash my AMD drivers three times so far, and I think the last time it crashed it also corrupted its save files. :/

Good to know I'm not crazy.

[miljan]

It looks like a lot of people that liked Bastion dont like this game that much, and as I think that bastion was not that good game (only good thing about that game was voice over and interesting art for the first 1h), I may actually like this one, as from looking around it has much better game mechanics and gameplay. Dont like the art style that much, looks too pale and monoton. Will probably wait for price drop, especially as the game is short

[alway]

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't everyone in the city dead following the death of the end boss? I thought she stabbed herself with the transistor because everyone and everything she ever knew is gone and the only survivors (including her lover) resided within.

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You know, the thing is, I guess so. I swear to you, though, that I had an absolute terrible time trying to understand the action of that game overall. I didn't even realize that the city was disappearing for a really long time. What, Royce et all were bored of the city changing all the time, so they took over the Process and killed a bunch of people, taking the voice of one of them (somehow) (for some reason) who then takes the magic soul-sucking (why?) sword (who even decided that the Transistor should exist in the first place?) they were going to use to control the Process (somehow). Then in absence of the magic sword the Process goes nuts and makes everything matte white. Ok.

But then Royce has to try and kill Red for some reason... ?

I don't know. I realize that it makes a certain amount of sense, but I still felt disempowered in the end. I realize that it may make sense to have only that one ending available, but I still felt like it could have been handled more like That One Part of MGS3. It wouldn't really have any drawbacks--it'd just give the player enough time to come to terms with what was happening.

I'm not so sure any of that is the actual story.

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From what I can tell, it's all left open to interpretation, with hints at a deeper story than simply that.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/05/transistor-review-the-coolest-game-at-the-party-embargo-noon-eastern-520/
There are even some hints that the entire city never existed to begin with, and the entire thing may be taking place inside the Transistor to begin with.

[Vector]

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