I received Transistor for free through PS Plus for the PS4- and I remembered enjoying the music from it when it had only been but a trailer at E3 a year or two before. I decided to pick it up on a whim, but I could barely put it down. The game doesn't take long to complete, admittedly, but it offers stunning visuals, game-play, story, and music to compensate. The game-play is best described as turn based, with a hack and slash element. Using both to your advantage is the best strategy I could come up with, but the combat is incredibly rewarding. Having the option to plan things out a million times to find the best combination and then watching it unfold was terrific. And the story proves, without a shadow of a doubt, that independent studios have beautiful stories to tell as well, and that they too are making games into the forefront of narrative vehicles. Slight spoiler in that the ending of the game is painfully perfect, but it is more obvious than the rest of the story and helps add a finished tone to the game that would otherwise detract from it. Totally worth the time dedicated to it, and I would recommend it to anyone.
3 Reviews
A great and enjoyable game .
BiteMexD17 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Transistor
A Smart 2D, Cyberpunk, Action RPG by the DEVELOPER Supergiant Games.
Transistor cyberpunk storyline with mysteries to be uncovered. progression of the story leads players to combat experimentation. Transistor's main protagonist Red . Red Who is a lounge singer.
Story Transistor's Story starts when Red's voice gets Stolen. at the beginning of the game, red finds her partner crime. a talking sword with brilliant (voice acting by Logan Cunningham) in a dying city. motivated by her will and talking sword Red starts her search for her voice. during her, search Red faces barriers, enemies, and bosses. during early gameplay, you'll start to gather knowledge of many abilities which will, later on, help you throw the game and give you a chance to face your foes. I would leave it here and let you play throw the story.
Gameplay Movement - Simple movement targeted towards helping you lead Red out of harm's way and leading her up to giving Red a chance to give her foes a killing blow. Combat - Deep combat. one click strick with many abilities to choose from. freezing time or temporary stealth whichever you like to call it and pre-targeting initiate a planning mode called Turn() attacks. Leveling up - Leveling up generally allows you to choose between a pair of skills. Experimentation - Transistor encourages experimentation with some backstories. which might encourage you to use different combinations of abilities. HAM Songs - Pressing TAB lets Red HAM a Song. which is oddly soothing.
Disappointment - the lack of camera control. which is a big negative marking in a Brilliant game like this. Sometime buildings block vision in the middle of a tense fight, where you tended to lose sight of your character.
Environment
Music Transistor lets you enjoy 23 songs. Among them my personal favorites being. 1.Old Friends. 2.The Spine. 3.In Circles.
Transistor is an almost perfect game with some minor hiccups. which is meanly the camera control. Can Highly Recommend Transistor for its- 1. Deep Combat 2. Stunning World 3. Incredible music 4. Great Story
Transistor cyberpunk storyline with mysteries to be uncovered. progression of the story leads players to combat experimentation. Transistor's main protagonist Red . Red Who is a lounge singer.
Story Transistor's Story starts when Red's voice gets Stolen. at the beginning of the game, red finds her partner crime. a talking sword with brilliant (voice acting by Logan Cunningham) in a dying city. motivated by her will and talking sword Red starts her search for her voice. during her, search Red faces barriers, enemies, and bosses. during early gameplay, you'll start to gather knowledge of many abilities which will, later on, help you throw the game and give you a chance to face your foes. I would leave it here and let you play throw the story.
Gameplay Movement - Simple movement targeted towards helping you lead Red out of harm's way and leading her up to giving Red a chance to give her foes a killing blow. Combat - Deep combat. one click strick with many abilities to choose from. freezing time or temporary stealth whichever you like to call it and pre-targeting initiate a planning mode called Turn() attacks. Leveling up - Leveling up generally allows you to choose between a pair of skills. Experimentation - Transistor encourages experimentation with some backstories. which might encourage you to use different combinations of abilities. HAM Songs - Pressing TAB lets Red HAM a Song. which is oddly soothing.
Disappointment - the lack of camera control. which is a big negative marking in a Brilliant game like this. Sometime buildings block vision in the middle of a tense fight, where you tended to lose sight of your character.
Environment
- Beautiful world design and artwork.
Music Transistor lets you enjoy 23 songs. Among them my personal favorites being. 1.Old Friends. 2.The Spine. 3.In Circles.
Transistor is an almost perfect game with some minor hiccups. which is meanly the camera control. Can Highly Recommend Transistor for its- 1. Deep Combat 2. Stunning World 3. Incredible music 4. Great Story
Style over substance
nacnud19783 February 2023
I've read quite a few discussions on video games as an art form in many online fora and **Transistor** is sometimes listed as an example given its stellar art direction and visual presentation, which players have learned to expect from Supergiant Games.
The game starts with little context but at the first scene a murder has occurred, and the key to understanding the events leading up to this mystery is spread across disparate pieces of lore revealed in checkpoints and character background information that you progressively unlock. Given the potential of this set-up, I thought there would be a greater sense of urgency in locating the killer but I felt that the character Red coasts through the empty cityscape dragging the weapon, the titular transistor, behind her. For me the story started to feel cohesive about midway though the game, after around 3 hours, and the ending somewhat anticlimactic.
The enemy are these robots (?) referred to as The Process which are taking over the city and you pick up abilities and boons called Functions as you level up. Also, there are limiters that can be applied for faster levelling up. And all this is wrapped up in a peculiar real-time and turn-based combat hybrid. I'm writing this as there is no tutorial (which I'm okay with) but I felt it detracted from the potential enjoyment of the gameplay in figuring this out. There could have been some high-level guidance provided in the menus considering its short gameplay of 6-8 hours to avoid having to resort to an online walkthrough guide. As a result it felt like randomised experimentation to discover what each Function does in their active, upgrade and passive roles. Once I found a build that seemed to despatch the enemies quickly I maintained it until the end of the game.
After falling in love with Hades I was curious in the studio's back catalogue. Transistor certainly has a lot of love, and I can appreciate why it has a high aggregated review score but I personally didn't connect with it and left me with a lukewarm opinion. I even considered abandoning it after defeating the first boss, but I pushed on knowing it has a short duration. Perhaps it would benefit from a second playthrough sometime to properly appreciate it. **6/10**
The game starts with little context but at the first scene a murder has occurred, and the key to understanding the events leading up to this mystery is spread across disparate pieces of lore revealed in checkpoints and character background information that you progressively unlock. Given the potential of this set-up, I thought there would be a greater sense of urgency in locating the killer but I felt that the character Red coasts through the empty cityscape dragging the weapon, the titular transistor, behind her. For me the story started to feel cohesive about midway though the game, after around 3 hours, and the ending somewhat anticlimactic.
The enemy are these robots (?) referred to as The Process which are taking over the city and you pick up abilities and boons called Functions as you level up. Also, there are limiters that can be applied for faster levelling up. And all this is wrapped up in a peculiar real-time and turn-based combat hybrid. I'm writing this as there is no tutorial (which I'm okay with) but I felt it detracted from the potential enjoyment of the gameplay in figuring this out. There could have been some high-level guidance provided in the menus considering its short gameplay of 6-8 hours to avoid having to resort to an online walkthrough guide. As a result it felt like randomised experimentation to discover what each Function does in their active, upgrade and passive roles. Once I found a build that seemed to despatch the enemies quickly I maintained it until the end of the game.
After falling in love with Hades I was curious in the studio's back catalogue. Transistor certainly has a lot of love, and I can appreciate why it has a high aggregated review score but I personally didn't connect with it and left me with a lukewarm opinion. I even considered abandoning it after defeating the first boss, but I pushed on knowing it has a short duration. Perhaps it would benefit from a second playthrough sometime to properly appreciate it. **6/10**
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