Rucks' little story tidbits start off innocently enough in a 'Hey, this guy always wanted his ashes scattered here' kinda way, but when you enter the Hanging Gardens and Rucks decides to keep his mouth shut as you plough through every last soul frozen in time there, you realise that, 'Hey, you aren't actually filling in any more story here, you're just destroying the last remaining memory of all these people for the hell of it because you like smashing stuff to see what the old man's gonna say.'Īctually obtaining a Bastion core is similarly destructive - the moment you touch it, the world you've just brought back into being is plunged into chaos, all hell breaking loose as you make for the exit on the skyway. It encourages you to smash everything in sight - and that includes telling you about the lives of the people you once knew, the people who have now been turned to stone because they didn't make it out of the Calamity alive. This is the thing I love most about Bastion - you're not only physically re-creating the world as you move through it, but you're also filling in bits of the story by engaging with it through your actions. Smash something, and there's a 99% chance he's got a little quip or comment to go with it. He reacts to almost everything you do onscreen. Your journey is narrated by an old fella named Rucks, who mans the titular Bastion and is one of the only other Calamity survivors you encounter during the game. It's also a game where every step you take conjures that broken world into being, each tile magically springing forth from the unknown as you move forward, mostly so you've actually got something to stand on while you're doing all that smashing. Smashing enemies, street lamps, bits of furniture - anything, so long as you find the all-important Bastion cores to help save your broken world from the destruction wrought upon it by something called 'The Calamity'. What madness! But, for the sake of finally putting all that effort to good use - because, let's be honest, what else am I going to use it for now except as supporter post fuel to prove a point to Matt and Ollie? - here's a massively abridged version that shows ONCE AND FOR ALL why Bastion is still Supergiant's bestest best game of all time.Īs you may already know, Bastion is primarily a game about smashing stuff. On Bastion! Not to mention all that time spent playing and transcribing the darn thing. Either way, Greg Kasavin hasn't come knocking on my door offering me Supergiant's next big writing job, and it also hasn't been plastered it all over the internet with someone else's name on it, so I can only assume it was either a load of pseudo-intellectual codswallop (which is highly likely given how young and naive I was at the time), or it's still gathering virtual dust in an old inbox somewhere.Įven now, there's a part of me that still can't quite believe I actually did such a thing.
A former colleague of mine at the time asked me if I'd like to write one with the promise of showing it to Supergiant narrative man Greg Kasavin himself (who they did actually know, I might add), but I don't really know whatever happened to it. Indeed, fellow Supergiant admirers Matt and Ollie were, and I quote, "aghast" when I said I wasn't much of a fan of Transistor's soundtrack earlier in the week (which are fighting words coming from the self-proclaimed soundtrack queen herself), but our chat reminded me just why I love Bastion as much as I do - and part of that is because back in 2012, I decided a fun thing to do would be to record every line of dialogue in the game, not once, but twice (because the New Game+ dialogue is different, I'll have you know), and then type it all up and write a 6000 word essay about the real story of Bastion for no reason in particular.Īll right, it wasn't for no reason whatsoever. I loved Bastion, didn't really get on with Transistor, and have never summoned the strength to try another one since.
I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Supergiant Games.
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