#transistor

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hearty temple
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Hello there , i have a question regarding the Transistor's merchandises, i was trying to get my hands on the poster of Red holding Transistor
and it's nowhere to be found, will you make it available again?

cunning lantern
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Heavy doubt, pretty sure that was an exclusive

red spear
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it sucks bc there isnt enough transistor merch :/ sadSCREAM

misty creek
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USB drive with the yellow part being the actual contacts transistor

cunning lantern
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THEY HAD TGHAT AT A PENEL AND NEVER AGAIN

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I would kill to get that lil usb

keen karma
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Wait, with those yellow parts being the contacts or was it the regular rubber one with the detachable cap?

cunning lantern
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regular rubber

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it was really cool

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the contacts would be next level

cedar grove
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it used to be in the online store but it does not have a lot of storage and such so they are no longer selling it. its extremely cute though, i have one

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well, now especially with the store moving to fangamer and such

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but its been taken off the store a while ago

keen karma
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Oh yeah I have that one. Already thought I was missing out on that…..

umbral zealot
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i'm hoping so much that they do a merch revival for the tenth anniversary... i don't want to wait the two years but i will if i have to

coarse jewel
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Was so hoping for vinyl represses on today's fangamer drop, do any of yall know if there are represses planned?

dry elk
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Is there any place I can get Transistor merch?

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That game broke me, and I will dump some money on it.

cedar grove
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not currently, but in the future its going to be on fangamer i believe!

dry elk
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Now that is awesome.

red spear
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YIPPEE TRANSISTOR MERCH me

dry elk
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like hades is cool and all

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and y'know cool merch

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but uh, not good enough for me to really spend anything on it.

red spear
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transistor solos hades

misty creek
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the shirt is really soft

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actually, what's going to happen to the sheet music downloads and digital OSTs?

dry elk
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incinerator

final helm
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Yeah I'm also only looking for Pyre and Transistor merch, out of their games. Fingers crossed that Fangamer will deliver eventually

signal nymph
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True

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Some really cool transistor merch (that's unrealistic and would never happen) would be a record player in the shape of the transistor and the records go in the red circle

mild night
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I think I'd just want a physical transistor

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No need for it to be huge either

misty creek
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Transistor and Tile collab, the red part is the button

quaint spruce
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How did the Camerata take Red's voice?

cunning lantern
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Was it ever explained?

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Pretty sure it was her singing, hubby gets stabbed, and quite literally that's it

quaint spruce
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God I hate Jerk 3.0

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That tractor beam is such a troll

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Like how do I counter that when I’m already trying to dodge Haircuts, Younglady 3.0 and Fetch 3.0s

dry elk
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Turn. Get some high damaging moves, turn, then get rid of the things you have the most problem with.

subtle pagoda
quaint spruce
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Red wasn’t stabbed

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Also, do we ever get a hint to what the exact nature of Transistor’s world is?

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My guess is that it’s a simulation inside a computer

stone shoal
subtle pagoda
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the wiki said it turn her voice into the first function you get, so I guess they did cut her

quaint spruce
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I remember the Transistor flying straight towards her then Mr Nobody steps forward and in front of Red

lilac juniper
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i always assumed it was due to her very narrow escape. presumably the transistor flew close enough to her to absorb her voice and nothing else. not much of an explanation, though, more of a vague theory

quaint spruce
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That doesn’t make sense

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If it worked via proximity why weren’t the Camerata affected

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And I was 100% right

simple harness
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I always assumed it had smth to with sword bf being unrecognized by the transistor and all of that? Which just did some weird magic (making the camerata lose authorithy to the transistor, and Red's voice being taken too)

quaint spruce
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Yes but why would that affect Red? I know Mr Nobody is strongly implied to be the source of the Process glitching out but how do you connect that to Red losing her voice

stone shoal
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It seems to be left up to the interpretation of the player

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My interpretation is something along the lines the sheer stress, emotion and trauma of seeing the person you care about get impaled by the transistor to protect her from meeting that fate caused her to lose her voice

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I'd like to hear what your intepretation is Ukulele

junior lagoon
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It does get awfully close, so maybe part of it was that the Camerata had activated it in some way, and it began to process her just by getting close. However, Mr. Nobody intercepted it, interrupting it affecting her

quaint spruce
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Ambiguity and open plot threads can be interesting but not if they leave the most basic mundane information up in the air

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Like, “What is the nature of Transistor’s world” is an interesting question much better left open so Greg and co left it open, makes sense

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But: “How on earth did Red lose her voice?” isn’t interesting to mull over, it’s just like… uh, how?

quaint spruce
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Clearly, he believes that the Camerata took her voice and have the means to give it back, which wouldn’t be the case if she lost her voice out of psychological trauma

junior lagoon
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what if he's wrong?

quaint spruce
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Fair but I don’t see why Greg would want us to consider that given that there’s no contradictory information to Mr Nobody’s belief that the Camerata are responsible

junior lagoon
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just double-checked, and we do know the Camerata were trying to kill her and steal her voice.

With that in mind, I stand by my prior suggestion, that they activated the Transistor to steal her voice, then tried to kill her to hide the evidence.

quaint spruce
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But the Transistor didn’t contact her and in every other instance we see the Transistor used to absorb people it has to make actual contact with them

junior lagoon
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her Trace is also unique since it came from her voice instead of her body

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I think it has something to do with how they attempted to use the Transistor on her. They didn't want her entire trace, they wanted specifically her voice

quaint spruce
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Why is literally every other victim of the Camerata murdered then? They just wanted specific skills/abilities/personas yet they still murdered them

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One poetic explanation I can think of is that the loss of her muse (Mr Nobody) resulted in her losing her voice, but that doesn’t feel satisfying since that is a lot of speculation

junior lagoon
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the wiki has a good theory imo

In the process of integrating Unknown, a subject who had no records on file whatsoever, Red's voice was also integrated (as evidenced by her function, Crash() being a part of the Transistor.) It's likely that the Transistor malfunctioned due to not knowing how to properly integrate a subject that wasn't on record, instead partially integrating the person closest to him at the site of integration.

quaint spruce
cunning plaza
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It has been a hot while since I played Transistor but I could add in that watching something traumatic can make someone have selective mutism (like Garnet from Final Fantasy 9 for example). Whether that's the case or not, I can't say but it's worth considering too Peachplate

quaint spruce
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Which songs do you like most with Ashley's humming over the top?

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I'm checking out the Transistor OST (Extended) and I really like the version of Gateless with humming

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Darren's drum tracks are so good on this OST

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Love the groove on Old Friends

simple harness
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Impossible/blank canvas

red spear
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sandbox

lilac juniper
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Old Friends for sure. also Forecast

cunning lantern
neon pebble
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This game rly freaked me out lol

junior lagoon
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That's fair, it's got some wild moments xD

red spear
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taste

stone shoal
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tbh I like the entire extended ost a bunch

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incredibly hard for me to pick favourites out of the hummed tracks

white solar
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I would say Gateless too and Old Friends

keen karma
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Blank Canvas hummed for obvious reasons

quaint spruce
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Oh yeah, Blank Canvas is epic

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I've been learning a lot of the songs off the OST on piano

dry moon
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Impossible for me

mild night
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Coasting

indigo viper
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transistor was a fun game, it was what got me into hades

jagged zenith
hardy birch
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I wish this game and pyre were on Xbox:(

summer ledge
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Supergiants releases vary in platforms

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Hades was only pc and switch at launch

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Now its everywhere

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Not sure why tbh since they totally had the resources to do all platforms at once but i guess they wanted to focus on the game and not ports which is respectable

compact basin
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I want to play transistor again

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lemme go to epic

red spear
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transistor fandom revival when

orchid trellis
shadow hornet
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Transistor but as a Rogue-lite.

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Daily runs of Transistor with random process, random boons functions and all bosses.

wicked blaze
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mod for Transistor that removes the feature where you lose a function every time you lose all your HP

red spear
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oh god

calm jackal
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So you can just play forever?

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When that happens I often just reload to last checkpoint tbh

red spear
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actually

red spear
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bad-transistor-ideas tumblr account

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inspired by one i saw for miitopia

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im gonna make it !!

mild night
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"remove the ability to use passive functions"

simple harness
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"remove luna"

shadow hornet
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"remove sound"

wicked blaze
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but like you say, it's better to just reload a save instead of continuing

quaint spruce
# mild night "remove the ability to use passive functions"

Epic Transistor mod package (the way the game was meant to be played):

  • Reverse keybindings (W with S, A with D, etc.)
  • No music
  • All in-game font is changed to comic sans 132 pt
  • Everything moves 300% faster
  • 70% chance newly acquired function will be Charm()
  • Half of all enemies are Fetch 3.0 and Jerk 3.0
red spear
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in game comic sans font

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that a great idea

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Thats*

granite vessel
mild night
keen karma
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Saw a Red cosplay at i69! Didn‘t take a pic but was so happy to see one!

cunning lantern
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That's so cool!!!

red spear
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THERES A COMIC CON IN INDY ???

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That ruffles my feathers. Closest one to me and I can't even go.

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Thats cool though!

keen karma
urban mesa
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Hello everybody, good evening! I've been facing a very weird and specific problem with Transistor. I think that at some point I played it offline and concluded all of the training challenges. But they didn't give me any achievement on Steam. Since I love Transistor so much, I really want to have 100% achievements. Has any of you faced something similar? How did you fix it? Thanks in advance

red spear
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I have not faced that

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But i play on switch so idk

inland vigil
red spear
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im replaying thru transistor on a separate switch profile (my main is on recursion and im scared to fight you know who lol) and uhmmm

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bc its been a while

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Im having a good time

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I wanna get the game on pc and stream it for my friends now

cedar grove
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its on sale rn!

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for 4 dollars

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also idk how it is on switch but the game should have multiple save files in the settings, no?

red spear
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Yeah it does im just really used to using alternative profiles to restart games

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hehr time to buy transistor on my pc

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ty alma for reminding me that i have adult money and can buy games for myself when i please

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hehehehe i have it now

vagrant cradle
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I love how nobody mentions the banger ost

junior lagoon
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I mean people do though? It's brought up pretty regularly

red spear
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THE OST IS SO GOOD

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i have so many songs from it in my spotify likes

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EVERY SONG PERFECTLY FITS RHE TONE OF WHEREVER YOU ARE ITS SO !@@!!@#+#!@!

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i love this game a lot

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Ok

quiet cape
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i like that transistors ost got me into a lot of triphop

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the ost is like a top 3 triphop album

red spear
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guess who beat royce in one try?

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this guy

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i did it all while streaming the game for a friend

simple harness
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Gaming

white solar
mild night
vernal igloo
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Guys, please, i already asked for help on Twitter. No one replies. Not from Steam Deck, from Supergiant, no one

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Guys, I am loving the game. But it's Impossible to play like this. 😥 help please

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What can I do here? The controllers scheme keeps changing everytime i start the game.

shy veldt
vernal igloo
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Hi. Thanks. I did write an e-mail now using that link. But i got this automatic answer: "Hi,
This is an automated message to confirm we received your email.
Please note we currently do not offer personalized technical support for older titles in our catalog. For self-service help, please take a look at the following resources if you haven't already done so:

Transistor - Technical Support Guide
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does this mean I will not get an answer by e-mail about Transistor? I know it's an "old" game but this is about the "new" version of the game for Steam Deck. Can someone please help?

junior lagoon
vernal igloo
# junior lagoon I did see a reply from Steam Deck HQ on Twitter, that was only a couple days ago...

https://steamcommunity.com/app/237930/discussions/0/3276941718977629567/ Sorry I meant this one, not reddit. This seams to work. But the problem is... everytime I start the game again, the problems with the controls return :/

Steam Deck - not detecting button presses? :: Transistor General Di...

Just got my Steam Deck today, logged in, and started downloading updates and games; I'm sharing the Steam Deck with another person; they log in, start downloading games, tells me I should try "Transistor" since I liked Hades. Steam Desk said there was a BIOS updated that needed to be done so I did that and let it reboot.

junior lagoon
vernal igloo
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Yes, gameplay progress is saved. But this problem persists. It's just so random. Sometimes you open the game and all is ok, sometimes you open and it let's you play only with touch controls. 🤷

orchid trellis
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Is transistor supported on the steam deck?

mild night
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Pretty sure it's supported on controller so I assume so

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Can't confirm tho

shrewd root
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The Steam store page says it's Steam Deck verified

orchid trellis
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nice

errant ginkgo
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Best soundtrack residentzag

mild night
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TRUE

red spear
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So true

fervent radish
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So what does the gameplay look like with transistor? Is it story based or puzzle?

red spear
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story based i think

simple harness
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Turn based (but not really) story focused

red isle
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I would say it is hack'n'slash, where you can plan actions (tbh. most of the actions will be planned)

mild night
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I would not call it hack n slash lol

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It rides the border between time based and turn based

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There's a mix of careful planning and on the fly decision making

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You can make a build for your moveset out of like millions of possibilities or whatever

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And yes it's story focused

keen karma
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get your red figurines in now!!!

simple harness
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Red figurine!!!!

deep tusk
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im considering playing this gane because i saw the red figurine and i looked at red and omg im so gay

simple harness
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She is so pretty

twilit dagger
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Ordered one. Go Red!

vital maple
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That Red figurine is super cute 🥺
||interesting that she is smiling considering the nature of the game shadegrief 💦 ||

keen karma
dry elk
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finally

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a place to spend my money

keen karma
rugged nimbus
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I want it so muuuuch

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Does that site ship internationally?

keen karma
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I think so

rugged nimbus
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Your cart has been updated and the items you added can’t be shipped to your address. Remove the items to complete your order.
awww sadly not to me

simple harness
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Was planning to get the fig till i saw the shippinh cost

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Pain

safe goblet
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i'm so sad, they didn't bring back the transistor usb

red spear
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REDS BACK YES !!!

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How much and where

signal nymph
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39 USD

red spear
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OKOK

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Ill order it wjeb i get home !!!!!!!!

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YAYATYA IVECBEEN WAITING SO LOBG !!!

keen karma
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quick!!!!!

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they said very limited quantities idk

red spear
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HGHRA i get home at 7:30 pm

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gotta have it 😭😞

white solar
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If I don't get to buy it I will put battery acid in my cereal

red spear
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Sam

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Same

vital maple
white solar
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Damn... Sold out... Cereal's gonna taste funny today..

keen karma
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special K

shut atlas
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hhhh...

dry elk
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god damn it, it already sold out

deep tusk
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is it worth buying transistor for no reason other than the fact that red is transition goals

keen karma
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yes

stone shoal
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Yes ofc

full peak
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definitely

mild night
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Yep do it

simple magnet
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does anyone know what the meaning is behind the "word" on the poster?

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ÌÕMPÆØË

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that is, if there is any meaning

red spear
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made up language? i dunno thats just what i assume it is could be wrong

signal nymph
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there was a project a long time ago trying to reverse engineer whatever it was that they were using, but i dont think it ever found anything

cunning lantern
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Yea from my understanding it’s just made up/ looks cool

signal nymph
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Would be cool one day to find a pattern but alas, probably is just truly random. Maybe if there's another ask supergiant that can be a question

cunning lantern
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I think they talked about it already

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let me find it for you

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https://youtu.be/SL2Pk2jP_6s

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@signal nymph ^

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Pretty damn sure it's in there

young drift
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i made a review about trnsistor in arabic not alot of ppl talk about it there its my fav supergaint game

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i hope the video get some views my next would be bastion and later hades / pyre

cunning lantern
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That’s so cool dude :))

visual thorn
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I find it strange that, despite its popularity, “Coasting” did not turn up in the official sheet music released some time ago. So, I whipped up an arrangement of my own for guitar and piano. Hope you enjoy.

white solar
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Fantastic

quiet cape
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check disboard

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i'm sure it exists somehwerwhere

red spear
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yeah yeah fair

orchid trellis
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or make one

red spear
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fair..

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sorry

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it was a stupid question ill further from burdening you all

orchid trellis
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Nah it wasnt

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I think there should be one if there isnt

orchid trellis
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Is there a transistor vinly

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Vinyl

quiet cape
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yes

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not in stock though :(

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i think they said in some faq that they plan on repressing

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unless you're talking about a vinyl figurine bersus

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but you could prolly get a used copy on discogs

orchid trellis
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:(

orchid trellis
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also good idea

quiet cape
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if you want

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i'm gonna wait for the repress

keen karma
red spear
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no way

white solar
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No way

keen karma
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Yeah might be just wrong, unless they somehow decide to start an entire new production run

shut atlas
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I hope they restock the Empty Set poster

full peak
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I love red

orchid trellis
white solar
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I love red (2)

simple harness
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red our beloved

inland mirage
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guess it happens if you both lose a life at the same time

worn leaf
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I wondered for years if in any ways I can control the dog generated by the function Help() on a mobile phone?

weak spindle
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Is anyone having the issue on the steam deck where the camera moves all the way to left so you can't see what you are doing?

keen karma
strange arrow
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bro she spends the entire game dragging the sword around how tf is she doing that

white solar
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Repeated sets of lateral raises

languid trail
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but where is Transistor 2, i ask you

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smh

signal nymph
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transistor 2 -> red dual wields

red spear
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YEA

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Or a prequel to transistor

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oh well for now i can just work on my before the story hcs

simple harness
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Prequel woth royce as mc thanthink

red spear
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YES

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And it all leads to the events that cause the main story

lilac juniper
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that sounds cool. might be a different sort of gameplay, since this is pre-process

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i’d love to see cloudbank populated, though

simple harness
lilac juniper
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that’s where the story would end, i imagine. at that fateful concert

simple harness
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Could also be the concert where Red notices how much her music affects people (and i love that comment on youtube that mentions the possbility of signals being the song that caused it)

red spear
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I have never been more pumped to doodle concept sketches of a pre game / casual camerata members

simple harness
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(we can also suffer and watch sybil becoming obsessed with Red)

red spear
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i already have so many hcs surrounding her its insane

edgy saddle
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I am once again crying listening to Paper Boats

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That is all

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Farewell

white solar
north nexus
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when everything changes, nothing changes

red spear
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hello all

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Uhhh

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transistor pokemon au, i think its, been talked about before but scarvio was released sooo

simple harness
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Use the process as pokemons

halcyon swan
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It’s a pokeball: yikes

honest cove
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just started my playthrough for Transistor

simple harness
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have fun ||and prepare tissues||

honest cove
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make sure to bring tissues some in my room

delicate arrow
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I adore the Transistor soundtrack but I have to be careful when I choose to listen to it

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Are my emotions feeling robust enough to handle this today? 😂

trail forge
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How come there aren't any mods for this game at all

cedar grove
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well, there actually are, but they probably dont work anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnAVesicISs

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ZoneLeft
Hyperthread() Public Alpha (Transistor Mod)

SPOILER WARNING. Don't watch this video or download the mod if you haven't already completed the vanilla version of Transistor.

Happy birthday, Transistor! I got you a mod.

Transition() is a collection of mods, each of which skins Transistor's gameplay to create a fresh experience with familiar mechanics. As of today, the first of Transition...

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orchid trellis
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transistor is looking at every single scene and being sad about it

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shes literally eating a slice of pizza

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and i am sad

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its the fact that the jacket is over the sword oh my god

keen karma
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being sad and thinking she‘s cool

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man she‘s eating pizza and being cool about it holy hell

orchid trellis
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yeah man

keen karma
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I want some empty city flatbread dinner

simple harness
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That still makes me sad about this part

dark solstice
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So I just finished transistor

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Did not expect that AT ALL

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Christ that was rough

simple harness
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welcome to the gang

orchid trellis
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welcome to ow! we have empty city flatbread pizza

wicked robin
dark solstice
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Really? I did think it was a bit short, is it worth going into all those details? I recon I could probably just find them on here

wicked robin
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But what got me hooked on it, was the Traces where I could read all the connections between characters knowing the plotline, story overall

dark solstice
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It’s so sad that you never get to hear them because your connections aren’t strong enough to any of them

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To think you’ve trapped them in there- alone

dark solstice
wicked robin
dark solstice
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Two peas in a pod

wicked robin
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I don't know, I always got a little obsessed playing Supergiant games

dark solstice
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I have over 350 hours on hades

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I absolutely love supergiant, I got bastion but I haven’t finished it yet

wicked robin
wicked robin
dark solstice
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Let me guess that’s in the weak league

dark solstice
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Like why is outside the world okay, but all the city dismantled

simple harness
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Royce just needs a break

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...like a really long one

wicked robin
dark solstice
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Royce is a numpty

simple harness
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I like how Royce is really interested in the process, as by his notes at leasts

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Then you meet him and dude just tired 24/7

dark solstice
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The ones littered in that lab are his?

simple harness
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If you use the limiters it reveals descriptions of each process made by Royce

dark solstice
dark solstice
wicked robin
simple harness
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He also has one of the best unused dialogues

dark solstice
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Limiters just remind me of high heat from hades

simple harness
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"something something Transistor such a amazing thing and you are here, draggin it around"

dark solstice
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Honestly didn’t want to make the game harder, the men that you fight are such a pain

simple harness
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Just Cull() + void your way through the game

dark solstice
wicked robin
wicked robin
dark solstice
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Before you put it in?

wicked robin
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yeah

dark solstice
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When he’s sitting in that chair

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I may have walked past him while I was talking

simple harness
# simple harness "something something Transistor such a amazing thing and you are here, draggin i...

https://youtu.be/0DviyuGNeWc 5:14 for the actual quote

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Friday Ivy
TRANSISTOR: Royce Bracket (All Dialogue/Quotes)

DON'T LISTEN UNLESS YOU WANT TO GET SPOILED FOR TRANSISTOR

Someone was really nice to rip all the audio files from the game Transistor, and I set to put together all of the lines of the very last Camerata member, Royce Bracket. A lot of these were never heard in the original game, so if you're wondering "hey, where does one hear this line in th...

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dark solstice
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Thanks man

simple harness
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Royce's voice is also just really great tbh

dark solstice
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Honestly the voice acting is so top tier

wicked robin
dark solstice
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Ominously threatening

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Why she couldn’t make her own reality at that point idk, you get hints about its amazing ability and even get to make stuff beforehand

simple harness
simple harness
dark solstice
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Honestly it’s so much more rewarding

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I’m doing high heat 32 and the furthest I’ve gotten is Elysium

dark solstice
simple harness
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Thats just sad even if you can recover the city

simple harness
dark solstice
wicked robin
dark solstice
simple harness
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I didnt expect it

wicked robin
dark solstice
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Do you think anyone escaped the city?

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I did like the changing the weather to snow at one point

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I’m in a festive mood sue me

simple harness
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I remember one of the "newspapers" mentione all of them staying out for the end but i dont know if that was only like their group our outright everyone

wicked robin
dark solstice
dark solstice
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What keeps the robots going when there’s no longer a leader

wicked robin
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i don't know, it's pretty confusing

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still thinking on that

simple harness
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I just take them all as humans cuz if i just think them as data the story doesnt hit as hard

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Kinds like "all was a dream" tropes

dark solstice
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I mean you love your Nintendo dogs right

wicked robin
dark solstice
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When they vanish it would be really sad, just because it’s data doesn’t mean you can’t get attached

wicked robin
simple harness
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Oh i was thinking more on the side of people who think cloudbank is just like some vr/thing like that

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I know i've cried to things that are "just data" a lot

orchid trellis
dark solstice
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Same I’m a sucker for my wobbledogs right now

dark solstice
orchid trellis
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she had no voice

dark solstice
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I wonder what they’d do with no people

dark solstice
orchid trellis
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point stands

simple harness
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Assuming she evens wants to command them back to whats left of cloudbank

dark solstice
dark solstice
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And yet everything

simple harness
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on random topic, i think my fav dialogue in general is when you are getting the flashback of the attack to Red

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when you are walking toward the transistor and sword bf just worrying so much

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it hurts but i love it

wicked robin
wicked robin
orchid trellis
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my favorite scene is the ending

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red no dont wait :(

simple harness
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Red if you do it...

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cant do anything

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pain

wicked robin
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That hurts

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A lot

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like, a lot

simple harness
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i dont even need to reach that to start crying

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just Red humming paper boats

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and i just gilmanangst

orchid trellis
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YEAH

wicked robin
#

One thing I love about Transistor is the debate about changing witch Superginat introduce as a paradox. Change is inevitable, but in a context where the people chooses how things changes creates a scenario that a natural cycle turns to a schedule that wears out the population. "When everything changes, nothing changes. --Kendrell, Asher"

simple harness
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2nd random coming, forgot the other part i love
||We arent getting away with this arent we? - Royce at the start of ng+||

orchid trellis
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I literally cant believe transistor exists and im supposed to be happy

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lots of people describe it as bittersweet but to me its just so so sad

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i mean it is bittersweet

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but so much bitter the more i think about it

wicked robin
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That's just Supergiant being Supergiant

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And we love it

drifting harbor
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do you ever realize you forgot literally everything about a game's story expect for the actual literal ending

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,,,,,, looks like im replaying transistor tomorrow.......

hexed oak
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i just finished the game

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beautiful, truly brilliant.

keen karma
simple harness
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Welcome to the gang

safe aurora
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anyone still play

keen karma
#

i wish

safe aurora
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i hardly play

junior lagoon
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I keep thinking about it but haven't gotten around to booting it up

keen karma
#

i sometimes dont wanna feel sad too!!

safe aurora
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i wanna try again but the story doesn't pull me in like hades did

keen karma
#

understandable, can only encourage you to just try it out some time, that's what I did with Pyre too :)

safe aurora
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And like i dont understand it that well

inland mirage
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tbf the story is less straightforward than the other games are

keen ivy
quiet cape
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omg

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i was made for this moment

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massive attack - mezzanine, portishead - dummy, boards of canada - music has the right to children, cibo matto - viva la woman!/ stereotype a, (any albums after here i'm less sure about but do have some trip hop/downtempo/shoegaze influence and are still very good) knifeplay - animal drowning, parannoul - to see the next part of the dream, my bloody valentine - loveless, and maybe five pebbles - forgetmenot

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keep in mind that transistor is very unique and eclectic and imo there is no album that is an exact match to it so yeah berbop

keen ivy
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It’s alright. Thanks very much

quiet cape
keen ivy
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Got any songs like old friends?

quiet cape
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this maybe morphynator

violet lake
white solar
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Thanks for the recommendations

wicked robin
#

pretty good by the way

wicked robin
violet lake
wicked robin
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Recognized from it

violet lake
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Oooh, neat

violet lake
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One of my closest friend comes from Brazil, I hope someday I might go visit it with her. It's a long shot considering she lives in Denmark now, but maybe...

wicked robin
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Good luck dude, hope you will

keen ivy
#

Decode by Paramore sounds like it could fit in the ost

honest lily
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Just finished Transistor, only have Pyre to go now.

I will say I enjoyed the gameplay a lot, it's very distinct with the turn-based planning, the visuals step up massively from Bastion and music continues to be flawless.
While I enjoyed the story for what it gave, I do find some frustrations in its vagueness. It probably walked the line slightly better than Bastion for me, mostly because of the more nuanced narration, but it was still iffy at times.

wicked robin
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I'm not a huge fan of Transistor's campaign itself, as the thing that most got me into the game, was the traces, really loved that

honest lily
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I wouldn't say I ever felt bored from Transistor's loneliness, again, the more personal narration helped with that, plus the slightly more expansive soundtrack and also constantly going from one spot to another, the Backdoor being only an occasional visit compared to a place you spend a fair chunk of the total game time in with the Bastion.

wicked robin
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Transistor till now for me has the best soundtrack (stiil finishing Pyre), principally The Spine, in which plays at Red's banners in the start of the game

honest lily
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I would agree that Transistor is the best overall, although in terms of what I consider the best tracks of the three SGG titles I've played, In The Blood and Setting Sail, Coming Home are better, although Transistor still has plenty of great individual tracks.

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Bastion mostly feels more one note and Hades does have a little less meat considering the completion time is at minimum more than double of any of its predecessors.

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Might change once I get around to Pyre, but yeah

wicked robin
wicked robin
keen karma
#

You'll probably love it even more later ❤️

honest lily
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Out of it, Bastion and Transistor, Hades by far has the most replay value for me. I put in 108 hours while I couldn't ever imagining myself putting more than 25 in the other two, and that would be really pushing it. Would attribute a more fleshed out story, more challenges to undertake as well as not being constrained by the story either during or once it's done so you can just continue running the game for fun.

wicked robin
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and i'm 13/51 trophies

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won't be easy as the other two

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Of course I'm a slow player and had been playing writting down every concept of the game

keen karma
#

Yeah, unsurprisingly the replay value is much higher on Hades, also just because replaying is baked into the gameplay, where bastion/transistor just have the SP + NG+ (technically also Pyre but it's much more branched out)

honest lily
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I look at the achievements for all three I've played and groan at the idea of getting them all, I'm only at 43/49 with Hades because that's how many I can get by simply playing through all the story elements. There's 3 I can probably do with no trouble, but the other 3 are absolute grinds. The Limiter/Idols achievements in particular for Transistor and Bastion don't look very appealing.

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It's the only thing I can really complain about any of the games is that at a certain point there really is zero motivation to actually challenge yourself after a certain point. Hades gets the closest to finding a good balance but still eventually falls over.

wicked robin
honest lily
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Might just be because I'm not much of an achievements hound. I only have a single game I've ever done 100% completion with and it's a game I've put close to 5000 hours into, it would be a bit embarrassing if I didn't have all achievements with that.

keen karma
#

Transistor limiter achievement is easy if you just activate them as soon as you can on NG+

wicked robin
#

And what game would that be by the way?

honest lily
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Rocket League

wicked robin
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lol

keen karma
#

Hades achievements are alright if you don't focus on them really, just keep doing runs and you'll eventually level up keepsakes (doesn't take that long anyway). I only needed to explicitly go for Bad Call because I usually finished the trial before I filled up the bar... I had to explicitly try for Transistor achievements, because I found its difficulty enough on its own, not even thinking about applying limiters lol

wicked robin
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Talking about limiters...

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The Risk trophy was the most challenging and annoying to get

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all 10 limiters activated, 5 encounters

keen karma
#

yeah that's the one i cheesed with ng+

wicked robin
#

me too

flat quest
#

will there ever be a restock of the ost on vinyl

quiet cape
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according to their faq it will happen sometime in the future

modern olive
#

Anyone unable to get the game to start in Steam?

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It will say it's playing, and then nothing pops up and it just remains on Steam

simple harness
orchid trellis
#

omg red

keen karma
#

omg red

wheat bobcat
#

omg red

drifting harbor
#

omg red

violet lake
#

omg red

sand crow
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omg red

next tundra
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omg red

inland mirage
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omg red

rich void
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Wondering if I should do a replay as a present to myself today

keen karma
#

present of feels

white solar
mild night
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omg red

leaden idol
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I just bought two Supergiant games this and hades and the first five minutes of playing this one I fell in love. Supergiant doesn’t know how to make a bad game do they? Can’t wait to try the other

wicked robin
#

just keep going, you'll find yourself deep down when you last expect

winter coral
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Just finished Transistor for the third time
First 2 times on pc and now on switch
Still one of my favorite games ever

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Someday I'm gonna cosplay the Dude

orchid trellis
#

do you think my english teacher will take an essay on the significance of paper boats as a valid creative essay option

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i think she will

violet lake
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She can run but she can't hide

signal nymph
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No harm in trying, it's not Impossible but I hope you don't go In Circles

dark umbra
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So I am listening to She Shines, one of the soundtracks. Suddenly this hits me.

When she shines for me at night
And her skies show green and white
She will keep us in her sight
We all lie beneath her light
She here refers to the city of Cloudbank. The lyrics have two meanings.
One is that the city is taking care of them (keep us in her sight) and they all lie beneath her warmth.
The other is that city is a surveillance state (again, keep us in her sight) and they all lie (not telling truth) under her light to keep on living, since they are just part of a digital database, not real.
Holy heck. I am not sure if this is what Darren really meant but idc, it's cool as hell, accidentally or not.

winter coral
winter coral
spring dagger
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got to playing Transistor again, saved mid NG+, worried i forgor all the things, just like riding a bike eventually

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Still my most beloved Supergiant game I think

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I forget how enjoyable the tactical nature of Turn() is and i miss it in their newer games

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Not to mention the narrative design in it is so good

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Anyway I'll stop gushing

white solar
#

Me too

keen karma
#

Never stop gushing

drifting harbor
#

NEVER STOP GUSHING

spring dagger
#

heyred ❤️

desert field
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I'm having trouble getting into this game. The asmr whisper narrator and weird pacing of the story is kind of tripping me out. What the hell is the actual story line, why are people's souls being absorbed by my "transistor" sword? Are all the enemies these weird robot looking things? I'm just not sure I'm vibing.

desert field
spring dagger
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you'll find out more pieces to the puzzle as you progress

desert field
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i liked bastion and hades

spring dagger
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that's part of what i like about the game, is that you piece the picture together slowly too and find out more about it

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i think the restraint in the narrative design can be a little divisive perhaps, either you vibe with that sort of almost impressionistic storytelling, or you don't, idk

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think about what you're reading and interacting, like, you can vote on the weather... why is that? what does that imply?

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references to computer and electronics... people's traces... what does that suggest?

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etc etc

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part of the fun is piecing that together

desert field
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I dunno, I guess I have to stick with it... just not sure I like the cyber punk asthetic, not the look or the theme, but just the mood. Like who cares about a late night crooner, and why is the whole world against her. Why did I have to fight "sybil" and the building of the skills feels clunky to me, like if I don't do it right, I can feel really weak.

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like, if I look up the story and spoil it, would it be more interesting to me or not?

keen karma
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I wouldn't. As with every game, you only get one single blind playthrough. You can always read up and replay the game later!

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Could you tell us where you are in the game at the moment? You already had to fight sybil :)

desert field
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yeah, but i'm having trouble wanting to have my first play through

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I've restarted it like 3 times... my current play through is right afer sybil. I don't think I've gotten past some weird room where you play with a beach ball and hammoc and have some sort of fight simulator thing.

keen karma
#

I think reading the story beforehand wouldn't make the game necessarily better, so if you don't like it atm, you can just let it sit and return later - that's what I did with Pyre at least hehe

desert field
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Pyre didn't hook you either?

keen karma
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Oh that room is the sandbox, kinda comfy! You don't really progress through that I think, you can just go there and return to the 'real' game whenever

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At first not, I wasn't a fan of the sports gameplay. Returned later to finish it - I still didn't feel the gameplay but got a strategy down and liked the rest of it

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But yes, after Sybil the story is still quite foggy

drifting harbor
#

is transistor's story ever not foggy

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lets be honest you could get three people whove beaten it multiple times and i feel like some things would still wind up vague

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i say this with the utmost love for it in my heart

keen karma
# desert field Help me like the game, I want to find another game I like.

That's how/why I finished Pyre and any game really - especially indie games that aren't RPGs aren't too long, so you can just try them and get through and make up your own mind, even bad games! Find the games through your own exploration, not just because a bunch of people tell you it's good haha

keen karma
drifting harbor
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transistor really is just sort of a mystery, and thats also the point

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if you arent motivated to figure out "what is happenING" then... it kind of loses a lot of its story appeal

keen karma
#

like while I think that the theory that ||everything is in a computer|| has a lot of merit, I really enjoy the more direct interpretation that ||it's just a scifi city|| much more

spring dagger
#

both are reasonable interpretations!

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that's what i kind of love about it, that it's not a narrative that beats you over the head trying to assert itself like that

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themes like ||the impossibility of control and slipping out of your grasp|| and ||power and order and responsibility|| are sketched more deeply

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i definitely need to do another playthrough to really refresh my mental caches about the narrative again though before i speak too authoritatively about it

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but i mean, a big part of the joy of transistor is scratching the tactical itch and building up effective combos in Turn()

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bastion et al are great and all but games that prioritize action like them can often seem less cerebral and more hectic

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i don't really know if Transistor supports a Turn()less playstyle so much, i've never much tried

keen karma
spring dagger
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there's maybe even a ||metanarrative -- i read an article recently about how the dev "process" being a little rocky with this game and i think some of the themes reflect that somewhat, but i think i need a replay to really think about that reading||

ember geode
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Transistor is SO GOOD
I just wish the game had more content

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I know that sounds like a dumb criticism

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I suppose it's better for a game to leave you wanting more, than to leave you feeling worn out

ember geode
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Not enough bosses
That's what the game is missing
The game's demo at E3 2013 mentioned "five assassins", hinting at five boss fights
Which would've been the perfect number

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Even just four boss fights, with the new one being a duo fight against ||Grant and Asher||

lilac juniper
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it works for transistor, i think, because the game is so cerebral. it’s gameplay is good, but the story is given much more weight. it’s less about winning fights and more about pondering the nature of things

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oddly enough, that’s one thing transistor has in common with planescape: torment

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though they’re otherwise quite different from each other

ember geode
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I don't know what it is
But it sorta feels like Transistor had a direction it was going in, but then it took a different direction over the course of the game's development

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Sorta like how "break points" show up throughout the Empty Set, but then they stop showing up entirely later on

violet lake
ember geode
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"Break points" are very interesting

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They're represented by a white hand with a red eye, like the Process have

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Maybe this represents how the Camerata still had some control over the Process at first

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Using them like some kind of security force, IDK

stiff finch
#

Just finished Transistor. What a ride.

inland mirage
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doubt they were ever intended to be more than that single room

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my only complaint about enemies/bosses is that the Man fights get pretty stale fast

but its thematic and pretty short so I breeze through it on replays

full peak
#

Ive started Transistor it feels more unique similarly to Pyre :unique gameplay that us oddly Addictive and fun

spring dagger
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Finally done all the tests and achievements😌😌😌

plush flower
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Just wondering but

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Is it complete coincidence that Cloudbank's colors reminisce of the Emerald City in the Wizard of Oz?

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Including the Goldwalk District looking like the yellow-bricked road?

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As well as the Country, and everything?

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Perhaps I'm just seeing things though.

coral rose
#

So I just played Transistor in a single setting after spending about 130 hours on Hades

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All I can say is

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Wow

ember geode
#

I had an idea for a game mode
But someone would have to make a mod for it because this game is basically dead
(Not that there's anything wrong with that)

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Essentially, multi-player versus

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We already have ||the battle against Royce||

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Why not go all the way?

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Here's my idea for how it would work

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Each player chooses 2 functions to veto
Neither player may use a veto'd function anywhere in their build
So, locking out 4 functions
Then each player prepares their build
And then they fight to the death

past skiff
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this would require for someone to basically rewrite half the game

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turning a singleplayer game into multiplayer might be nigh impossible (as a mod)

quiet cape
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its been done (smo, undertale, etc)

signal nymph
#

it would be theoretically possible for transistor, but a massive undertaking

summer verge
#

I just got Transistor for my Birthday!
I havent played it yet, it was the game my stream chatters chose as a goal for my subathon, so i'll be doing it for the first time on a stream, but i like everything i've seen of it so far.

cosmic current
#

If you like what you're seeing just wait until what you HEAR

crude valley
#

The thing that made me want to play transistor was this little video about the We All Become cutscene in game, which was just so gorgeous and the music was breath taking

wild spear
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i'm right now fighting ||royce|| and goddаmn it, this is the most respectable boss i've ever had. the step-by-stepness of ai accompanied with the smart slightly humbling comments make it feel like you're fighting a real human. and i feel like it was supposed to irritate me, but on the opposite; it makes me smile every time i loose so this son if a lewd woman and go for the next attempt with a joy. it's not in the way of some typical сoсky boss who's hackneying all the possible tropes
so in all games from supergiants, as i noticed. it must be their thing. you never feel even slightly negative about losing.
i don't think i would like this guy if he was from any other game

nocturne bay
stiff finch
rugged fable
orchid trellis
wild spear
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still all games for me

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don't know how it is with bastion, gotta check next

vast karma
#

Hi there, I can’t buy transistor on eshop, ‘cause “this content is unavailable at this moment”. Wtf?

mild night
#

Switch eShop?

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That's weird

vast karma
dense gull
#

The final combat in this game could be an amazing gameplay for an online game :(, mixing that with some features of Pyre and hades would be awesome 😦

cosmic current
#

I just watched a documentary by Noclip about the development of Transistor and Ashley Barrett said that someone used Paper Boats as their wedding song and

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MAN ME AND WHO

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Only Supergiant games can get this reaction out of me

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I would sell my soul to have either of the vocalists' singing voices

winter coral
#

Imagine having Ashley and Darren singing at your weddingzagluv

cosmic current
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If I don't propose or get proposed to with "Paper boats", I am simply staying single

cosmic current
#

I just re-listened to "The Spine" and... can anyone tell what the lyrics could mean? Aside from them being an allusion to the actuall enemy of the same name of course

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I just realized that I have no idea what the lyrics mean

cosmic current
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...Relistened to it for a bit and from what I'm gleaning I think it's about the tense state of the city and how close it was to folding in on itself??

orchid trellis
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okay i know everyone is so obsessed with paper boats and the spine but CAN WE GET SOME COMMOTION FOR SIGNALS

red spear
#

i dont like signals 😔

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idk why its never been my fav

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in circles tho..... 👀

orchid trellis
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signals is so melancholy and i love it

misty creek
#

I like singing it

cosmic current
#

Signals is the calmest song I think

past skiff
#

Old Friends is so sad, i adore it

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Old Friends, The Spine and Coasting are my absolute favourites from that ost

rich void
#

She Shines is literally s-tear

cosmic current
#

Paper boats has a violent grip on my being

crude valley
#

We All Become will always be my favourite I think, that climatic moment hits so hard

orchid trellis
orchid trellis
past skiff
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starts low and easy, you're just waiting for the wave

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and then the perfect one comes and the exhilaration of gliding on the blue mountain of liquid speed hits

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just right

lilac juniper
orchid trellis
#

blank canvas is probably my second favorite instrumental track

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maybe third

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its so anxiety inducing and the ending is so sad

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i can feel her humming on the spotify version

mild night
#

Spotify does also have a hummed version 👀

misty creek
#

Plugging my meme old friends cover squirtdevious

orchid trellis
simple harness
#

Signals just hits right

misty creek
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might take a bit longer than old friends since no pre-packaged backing track

orchid trellis
#

old friends hummed hits so much harder

orchid trellis
misty creek
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I actually picked Old Friends just bc I threw the idea on twitter and someone mentioned they imagined Old Friends to it

orchid trellis
white solar
exotic plinth
past skiff
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grimes is too quirky

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red is more of a classical singer

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and elegance is part of her image

cosmic current
#

When I played Transistor when I was younger I understood the conflict as "Four shady government people start stabbing people with an oversized USB stick"

orchid trellis
#

transistor ost makes great dnd background noise

orchid trellis
#

bought my friend transistor today

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man its so good

orchid trellis
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i just watched her fall in love with the game at the poster + spine moment this is awesome to watch

orchid trellis
#

she is humming paper boats when the sword is sick i am so sad

simple harness
#

Drunk sword bf sections are my fav

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Specially if you manage to hear him sing we all become

orchid trellis
#

f riendmissed junctions jans before it got processed 😔

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no flatbread pizza for her

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she found royce!

orchid trellis
#

she raged quit at the royce fight lmfao

near violet
#

any tips for combat

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I'm just doing turn based big damage attacks spam rn

simple harness
#

Crash()into whatever big atk you have always works

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Then if you dont kill the enemy on one turn() use a bit of turn() to run away with jaunt() or just walk

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Can also kill some small enemies without turn and use turn to pick up the cells

small briar
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^ Crash() and backstabbing make everything way better

simple harness
#

If you wanna be fancy

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Crash()>mask()>whatever big atk

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Most of the time is uh, what is sword bf function called again

small briar
#

And if I'm using something like Cull() that can push enemies I like to finish with breach() to get them just in case they move

simple harness
#

Cull() my beloved

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Just slap get() on it so you dont launch them

small briar
#

oh that works too!

simple harness
#

Once you get void() you can replace crashstart with voidx2 (or 1 if you pair it with the function that makes it proc twice)

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Tho you still may wanna check other functions cuz what i listed will basically 1 shot most enemies at the cost of all your turn

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Or just dodge with jaunt()

small briar
#

Doesn't breach() as a passive double your turn length? That could help with those big functions

simple harness
#

Yeah that works

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If you use mask() as an active thats an ez way to escape too

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Also worth to remember jaunt() is more turn() efficient that walking long distances

cosmic current
#

Me rewatching the Transistor launch trailer and seeing them use Void+Cull

rigid drift
#

whats transitor about

cosmic current
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Future city being ran by shady government officials who absorb influential people by stabbing them with a cyber-sword and absorbing their consciousness

nocturne bay
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alternatively: well-known singer goes on a vengeance quest against her city's shady government after they kill her lover

cosmic current
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"Being chased by Adelle with a baseball bat"

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Oh and also there's the legion of robots

nocturne bay
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yeah we didn't even get into the process.. it's hard to work into a one-line summary lmao

cosmic current
#

been a while since I last played Transistor so idk how much I know is spoilers

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planning on replaying it soon

nocturne bay
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i think spoilers are fair game in this channel as long as they're not specifically about the ending

cosmic current
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yeah but I was assuming that our new member here has never played the game

simple harness
cosmic current
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VERY banger music

keen karma
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sword bf

simple harness
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Also the hum and that fun trick buttons

cosmic current
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it's funny, Transistor was my first Supergiant game

my brother ran into it on the app store and it was a passing interest at first... for him

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he told me about it and was NOT aware of how much he would alter my brain chemistry by introducing me to Supergiant games

simple harness
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Nobody expects the sgg inquisition

cosmic current
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I once sang "Paper boats" so much that it appeared in my brother's dreams

simple harness
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Transistor is prob one of the only games that got me actually scresming at the ending

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||was basically shoutbing"no no no" at the same time as sword bf||

cosmic current
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OH speaking of soundtrack

Don't listen to it in advance! Lyrics could be spoilers

nocturne bay
simple harness
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||same lol, i understand but gilmanangst||

cosmic current
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istg every Supergiant game has that one moment that leaves you breathless

nocturne bay
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i think hades was the only game of theirs that i played without crying at some point, and even that had some intense moments. i'm not done with pyre yet, but that one seems to be the worst/most intense so far

simple harness
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Hades is certainly pretty but not the "...woah, that just happened" for me

cosmic current
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The Spine was my first Sgg ost earworm

simple harness
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The spine is so catchy

cosmic current
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played that on loop the first time I heard it

simple harness
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Time i stay afk in the backroom listening to it are a lot

cosmic current
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Me using the sunset in the backroom as mood lighting while my lights are off and I play the spine on loop

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😎

simple harness
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I enjoy signals a lot too

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Specially with that yt comment in mind, where they suggest that was the song where Red relizes how much her music affects people

cosmic current
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GOD I love Supergiant games' vocalists so much

I would sell my soul to have either of their voices

simple harness
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Moooood

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Suddenly hearing Ashley or Darren is gilmanlove

cosmic current
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either Ashley's or Darren's it does not matter I JUST WANT EITHER OF THEM gilmanrage

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I still think about that one Transistor documentary and Ashley Barrett mentioned that someone used Paper Boats as their wedding song and that destroyed me

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ᴹᴱ ᴬᴺᴰ ᵂᴴᴼ

nocturne bay
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# cosmic current istg every Supergiant game has that one moment that leaves you breathless

||I remember the first time I played transistor, I had a terrible set of abilities I chose to use. And so when I got to the final fight, I was so freaking hyped when it turned out to be a mirror match. I wish I could have recorded it, but essentially it was neck and neck. I had kept crash throughout the entire game as my secondary attack(I loved the status effect but never thought to put it in the upgrade slot??) but basically, I traded deaths with the boss each time, so function stopped working until I was just left with crash. I remember saying something along the lines of “back to basics” as I was freaking out, and I managed to kill him last second, and I mean LAST. SECOND. It was one of the best boss fights I’ve ever played, and it’s absolutely on par with something like [REDACTED]. What can I say, I love my mirror matches as much as Supergiant does 🤭||

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Guys the wiki says you can hold crash() for a charge attack, please don’t tell me I played the entire game using it as a main without knowing it could charge fkmfmgkg

simple harness
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That only works out of turn iirc

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Works like power shots in any other sgg game

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Breach() also has that

full peak
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WHAT

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i mean fair

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but WHAT

simple harness
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Is a neat thing they have lol

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I dont remember if it adds dmg or just speed tho

upbeat sky
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...today I learned, Breach has power-casting

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insanity

orchid trellis
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Wait what

crude valley
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pfft I remember reading a comment that said every SGG game had the power shot mechanic

limpid viper
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i was lookin at the wiki article for the Puccini opera "Tosca" and i wonder

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lookin at the poster, and knowin the plot (but not quite the music, lol), could Tosca be seen as an influence on this game?

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i'll post the original poster to Tosca over in #art

inland mirage
cosmic current
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Just started my Transistor replay

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||Was the Sybil fight always this early||

past skiff
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tosca was within that time too

cosmic current
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I always got Gustav Klimt vibes from Transistor

past skiff
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oh, definitely that too

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the time period overlaps with art nouveau

upbeat sky
cosmic current
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OOOOH

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that's exciting to know

orchid trellis
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does reds dress have a full back or is it also a v shape because of the sleeves thanthink

crude valley
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found this piece of credits art but it's in bw

orchid trellis
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okay yeah i know how this dress works then

past skiff
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simple yet so elegant. love it

cosmic current
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Happy Valentines day to Red and Sword boyf

orchid trellis
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and then a corset/belt/sash

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doesnt lace up in that image so ill go with the belt option

cosmic current
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It is now Valentines on both sides of the planet

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what better day than to listen to Paper Boats on loop 🥹

languid trail
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Broyce Racket

red spear
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rice cracker

coral rose
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Was replaying Transistor and realised you get a nice little surprise if you press the hum button in the Sandbox

timber summit
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what tis da suprise?

coral rose
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She hums ||Paper Boats||

keen karma
cosmic current
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what's this video about? :0

keen karma
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There’s already an interpretation that the world of Transistor is just inside a computer, so this video proposes the interpretation of it being an online community

crude valley
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came across this painting

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reminds me a lot of the spine

cosmic current
signal nymph
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The most notable Klimt inspiration is definitly the heart of the spine

simple harness
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In circles came in my yt playlist at random and i had an itch to watch the ending again

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Less than 30 seconds in and the crying got me

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I cant escape the feelings even after so long

split tartan
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Fifth playthrough in total, second playthrough on PS4/PS5. Finally got the platinum. Love this story, the soundtrack is very nostalgic for me too.

swift dock
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finished transistor

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mad confused about the story but had a lot of fun it's amazing

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also got almost 1k damage on jaunt

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3.6k damage in single turn, amazing

simple harness
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Jaunt dps build!?

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amazing dusa

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also favourite song?

swift dock
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# simple harness Jaunt dps build!?

jaunt is brokendusa load + breach in upgrade slot is 100 damage and with the shortest cooldown of all functions it's already higher dps than any other combination I could find even without stealth and crash and void like even the superuser thing when you put help function in passive slot it does only 500 damage per turn max and jaunt with load and breach and nothing else can do 1000 damage per turn and with void with crash and with stealth activated before starting turn and swapping one jaunt with a check max damage possible in one turn is around 4k which is 8 times higher than super user transformation which is supposed to look overpowered

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also the messages that appear when you overkill a lot are one of my favorite things here

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I only got 2.8k score on the practice door though cuz the dummies have so little health

swift dock
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I guess some additional damage is possible with adding some things to mask() in secondary slot but very little

swift dock
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the bad cell had 21 hp

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because shield

swift dock
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the spine has the most hp in the game iirc, 3600

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that's way less

simple harness
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Cull() is so dumb tho (which makes sense for how turn() expensive it is)

paper heron
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Yo hades player here should i start playing transistor

tranquil swift
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i think everyone who is in the transistor channel would tell you to play transistor

paper heron
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Fair

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Ok lemme rephrase

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What do y'all like about transistor

coral rose
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The plot, modular gameplay mechanics, the small but incredibly well developed cast, Logan Cunningham

keen karma
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different and similar at the same time, like any of sgg's games. though transistor is the best game ever made (unbiased opinion)

paper heron
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Completely unbiased i'm sure

keen karma
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so true! what puts transistor on top for me personally are its themes, as i'm both interested in scifi and cities and this is exactly what it's about (and more)

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it also has the prettiest soundtrack. it also has the prettiest visuals. it also has the prettiest characters. it also has

paper heron
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Prettiest characters?

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Prettier than meg and zag?

keen karma
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Hard to believe, i know!!

paper heron
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Oh damn

tranquil swift
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is this the one that had the branching narrative that sgg said people didn’t do because most people just beat the game once?

paper heron
keen karma
tranquil swift
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cool

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god i have so many games to play

keen karma
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Also Red humming brings the songs to another level. Oh god

cedar grove
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the soundtracks are very different

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transistors soundtrack has a very different vibe

tranquil swift
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my major thing for is soundtrack good is just "does it have good drum soundz"

inland mirage
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i listen to transistor's soundtrack on its own the most out of all the games

tranquil swift
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does the soundtrack have good drum soundz

coral rose
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on the contrary, it's 100% necessary period: not only does it sound amazing, it really allows you to hear Red's voice in a very unique way

orchid trellis
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Yeah the sound design and music

violet lake
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I'm not saying it's the best soundtrack to a game I've ever listened

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But I don't know any better

red spear
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100%

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its sggs best game

orchid trellis
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also the art is wonderful as always

red spear
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ya

orchid trellis
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and it's very emotional

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game makes me sad (in a good way)

red spear
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its supergiants best game because its their only game that has sybil reisz

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/hj

orchid trellis
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and red

red spear
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Ya

keen karma
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they had to create mel to stand up to the red+sybil power duo

orchid trellis
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so true

swift dock
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and can't eliminate whole room at once

small briar
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I'll chime in on the beautiful art/design! It also plays a pretty striking narrative role and gives some surprising emotional weight to the city

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The singing and humming are gorgeous, and the action tracks have grown on me too! (The action tracks also have some good drums- Gateless, my beloved)

coral rose
orchid trellis
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There's a boyfriend in that sword

blissful blaze
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perhaps even..... both

orchid trellis
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we keep alternating it is very funny

silent mirage
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I'm still in love with this game

tranquil swift
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so

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is it just me

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or is this game as hard to tab into and out of as a source game

cedar grove
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I find that if you tab in and out it sometime changes resolution

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Since I found this cover it has become one of my fav songs to listen to so I needed to share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Z5nCxfo24

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Jimmy McGinger
IN CIRCLES - Transistor - Rock/Metal Cover

A rock/metal cover of "In Circles" from the Transistor OST (written by Darren Korb). This was made live on twitch @ https://www.twitch.tv/jimmymcginger

The drums were made by the wonderful soundBEARier.
Check him out @ twitch.tv/soundbearier & https://www.youtube.com/user/viceroyproductions1/
He also mix and mastered this track!

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round barn
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Hi guys, I just finished this game but I didn't vibe with it as much as I did with Hades or Bastion. Will a second playthrough still be worth it?

cedar grove
round barn
coral rose
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If you're confused about the exact setting, it's meant to be intentionally vague and have a few different possible explanations.
The story itself seems pretty simple though.

lilac juniper
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it is the kind of story that's worth going through again: noticing details you may have missed the first time might allow you to form a more solid interpretation of the story and world.

small briar
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I just started my second playthrough this weekend! I'm enjoying it a lot 💙 If you liked the combat I'd say it's worth another shot on that alone, since you get to play around with it more this time around. My favorite spots for picking up more of the story are at the terminals- not just the main post/activity, but responding and reading the scrolling headlines too

inland mirage
upbeat sky
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Double-stacked functions too

limber hull
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Anyone manage to get Transistor working on Steam Deck for controllers? I'm docked and don't have the ability to actually even select controller as a control scheme in the options menu...

limber hull
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Oh, okay. Seems like it fails to reconnect. I had to restart the game. (and my steam deck)

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I have an odd question that might sound rude but is genuinely curious

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For people who like transistor, what do you like about it? I played an hour or so and there was something about the combat that really didn’t grip me

mint nebula
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I really loved the art nouveau/cyberpunk atmosphere and art plus red/the transistor’s relationship pretty much immediately, so I didn’t mind that the combat wasn’t as interesting at first because I was willing to play to unlock more of red’s story. By ~2.5hrs I also started really enjoying the combat too, I liked the problem-solving aspect and the wide variety of possible strategies. I think I really started changing my mind about the combat when I unlocked the ||backdoor and challenge levels that force you to use a different build than you’re used to||, it made me enjoy optimizing builds for different things (survivability, high damage, etc)

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similarly to alcyoneusgalaxy, i loved the art, story and the unique setting. 20s art deco + cyberpunk, all possibly happening within a computer, is not the most common mix. it's been years since i've played it so i don't remember the gameplay well but ithe aforementioned art and setting are still with me

violet lake
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The setting and the way it is conveyed is also quite unique, a big chunk of the appeal to me

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In addition to what have been said

halcyon swan
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Also it has maybe the best soundtrack of any video game imo

vague flame
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Huh. Okay, so the gameplay isn’t really the draw for anyone then lol

simple harness
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I loved the combat from the start but is def something that gets way better later

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Specially once in ng+ once the dupe functions start appearing

mint nebula
vague flame
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I found it very strange and… lurch-y, iirc

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Like lots of pausing and huge very fast moments

simple harness
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You can call it turn based tbh

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The recovery of your turn() skill is the enemy turn while you try avoiding any dmg

vague flame
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Hmm I’ll try it again, thanks

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It’s only 6 hours so worst case is not so bad

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Ugh there are too many amazing games. I never even beat Bastion!

echo urchin
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I wasn't the biggest fan of the combat until I did ||the backdoors and limiters|| and they made me really appreciate the complexity of combat, except towards the end when enemy variety becomes an issue

timid cliff
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For me, the draw of the game was definitely the art style and music direction. It is, without a doubt, the best of any game I've played in the last decade or so, with the only other contender being Persona 5. The gameplay really should almost be viewed as turned based rather than real time, imo. Like other people have said, it does pick up mid-late game. One thing I truly loved while playing was seeing how utilizing functions differently unlocked more story/characters. So unique and I wish more games were as creative

white solar
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I may often feel like im taking crazy pills on this regard but really what is not to like about it?

Immediately you get introduced to a mechanic where you can stop time and plan various ways on tackling a situation. And you can choose to do this any time (when it's not on cool down) so it's not like a static turn-based game.

And on top of that you get abilities which you can mix and match in tons of different ways depending on your creativity. In what other games before transistor could you do that? Where you could combine an ability with another ability and it would create special effects and it would be different if you combined them via vice-versa.

Combine those aspects with Turn and each battle is an opportunity to test your creativity and try out a multitude of different approaches.

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Forgive my lack of brevity, but I always just thought that it was weird that Transistors gameplay is always given a lot of flak and people only seem to ever praise the artistic merit of the game surrounding the gameplay when I think the aforementioned deserves its praise in equal parts too for it's creativity. The oddly unique gameplay is a major part of what makes Transistor what it is as an artistic whole.

So I'm more interested in understanding - for those who don't like the gameplay, why? Is it because it's too slow paced?

keen karma
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For me it‘s just good, especially that you can combine everything, but I wouldn‘t like it just on its own. But I like very few gameplay loops and most of them are first-person too. So everything else takes the spotlight

inland mirage
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for the record I love transistor's combat but it really takes until near the end/second playthrough before it starts to really open up your choices

lilac juniper
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at first i didn't appreciate how lore was hidden behind using every function in every possible position, but i did grow to appreciate it as the hunt for lore led to better builds than i'd been sticking with initially

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the combat system does allow for a lot of creativity

marble merlin
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It was fun to find all the broken stuff in this game

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I liked void(get,crash) and spark. Never even needed turn

cedar grove
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void is very powerful

simple harness
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Void is so dumb

languid trail
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Best character has most powerful function

solid arch
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I've noticed a trend in supergiant games

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in that the gameplay is always quite mediocre

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but the art, music and themes are generally amazing

orchid trellis
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i wouldn’t say so

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hades has really fun gameplay

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and there’s a ton to do with transistor, but most people don’t end up doing it

solid arch
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the game came out in 2014

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it was pretty decent combat back then

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but that was 9 years ago

orchid trellis
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yeah

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thats not the games fault

solid arch
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i think hades has better combat than transistor in most ways

orchid trellis
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well yeah

orchid trellis
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Shes helping me play :)

keen karma
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They’re doing great

solid arch
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its a story based game

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You dont really get to experience anything new with a subsequent replay

keen karma
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Besides enjoying the gameplay, replaying offers you new insight into parts you might have missed or want to experience again. Just like people rewatch movies :)

orchid trellis
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Also its fun lol

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And i like experiencing the emotions again

keen karma
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emotions = big cry

solid arch
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Who is the narrator just wondering?