85%Nintendo Switch

Bastion gives you little context, kicks you in the balls, brings you to beutitiful hand-painted world literally crumbling around you, starts playing "acoustic frontier trip-hop," and then introduces an old man with a kick-ass southern accent who starts narrating all you're shit the whole rest of the game. You meet this man in a little while and you wont learn his name until two-thirds of the way in. Like the platforms you're bashing hostiles on, the narrative slowly comes up on you. You learn there's been a callamity and, pretty much, everyone in the city you lived in is dead. You meet only three survivors in the whole game, but the only way you can interact with them is through the narrators afterwords of your inquiries. You'd do well to keep that disconnect in mind as you progress through the games story. If you got Hades gameplay and combat, you'll get this game's. Unlike Hades it's not a rogue-like, but has levels and challenges with a base you spend mcguffins to rebuild. The base repairs allow you to swap and upgrade weapons, skills, and Spirits that give you certain abilities. A lot of the combat variety, other than enimies, comes from the builds you can make with the weapons and secret skills. As you hop across floating islands it's gonna throw a lot of these new weapons at you. They're all really unique and reward experimenting. The only flaws I can think of is some button mashing and some things the plot didn't adress much. You get a lot in this package and, in my opinion, the experience works best on an OLED Nintendo Switch. It's on sale a lot on the eShop. It looks gorgeous here and the HD rumble has just the right amount presence.