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hummed Blank Canvas
Blank canvas plays right at the end of the game and it's super memorable
We all become one is brilliant
3rd favorite song ever made
Only 2 better than it are both memorable because there amazing and from amazing anime lol
Cut apart cuts deep. Definitely captures the mood.
Yeah that one hurts
Old Friends also really captures the mood
But my favourite has to be Gateless
We all become was always my favorite
In terms of the ones with vocals i love The Spine the most
Just finished Transistor after 6 years of owning it
Love everything but the story is so confusing
You should watch that one superbunnyhop video discussing the story if you don't want to dig deep into it yourself
Not able to find the link right now, but it should be pretty easy to just google
Hey its fine
I also didnt get it the first time around
Took me a fair bit of ng+ and a lot of talks w friends who had played it to understand it
The transistor, what can it do, what can it really do
It can... build a bridge
That's it actually
a key
it's a key, and when you stick it in people, it unlocks their death
Achievement Get! Ur rekt.
im playing transistor right now
got to the part where red gets to her house and eats
does the game has varying art depending on what youve ordered?
Guys
Boxer is the type of a person who would make a 'i havent showered this decade yet' joke
@full peak I've heard that it doesn't
Boxer straight up dad jokes bad puns extraordinare
HE WOULD MAKE A GOOD DAD
Well it's always a pizza flatbread slice anyway, but the contents don't change either.
thats jan's secret
SGG could sell Junction Jan's pizza boxes
For When Youre Being Chased By Murderous Robots In The Crumbling Ruins Of What Used To Be Your Life!®
hmm, this man would make an excellent dad
it'd be a shame if something were to happen before that could occur [waves transistor ominously]
His dadship ended before it began
deep
(imagine red singing to a baby, though)
Kids cheering McDonalds! McDonalds! McDonalds!
We have food at home: Red, Grant, Asher
MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS!: Boxer, Sybil
Pulls into the drivethru as children cheer, buys one black coffee and leaves: Royce, Red on a bad day
(or don't, because who wants to make themselves sad on new year's 😭)
ok now im sad.
mission accomplished
Anyone else think it wouldve been funny if red had fallen off the process swarm thing she rides to go to the empty set after finding grant & asher
Like shes literally standing on flies or something
Or were these like little birds
Asher's trace: That's gotta be the best pirate I've ever seen.
Grant's trace: So it would seem.
pirates of the carribean music plays as Red tries to surf the process and falls facefirst into the water
d
Do you guys think
Someone in the camerata
Tried to surf on process before
Also i never got why was this Red's first thought. How she came up w this.
sees a tank full of the monsters that have been trying to kill her the entire game
LETS RELEASE THEM IM SURE THEY'LL UH, BE A BOAT
AND WONT KILL ME
this game reminds me of what the internet is becoming right no
every word getting moderated
the thought police acting strong
people avoiding certain conversation topics like the plague
gotta love the future
as everything gets automated and the masses stay dumb and innofensive
I imagined censorship to be a stronger theme in transistor, because of the trailer
But they don't really do much with the idea
Yeah, sometimes red doesn't say anything that would get her comment filtered, but the more pressing issue is killer robots
^
yup, just finished it, felt the whole thing with it died half way though and then the game just focused on the process
I'm not sure if it was even the point. I believe it was the Camerata who would be censoring her anti-Camerata messages, and the Camerata was a secret group. That doesn't have that much to do with censorship as much as the Camerata just removing traces.
They do kill a journalist at some point
Well, they kill all sorts of influential people. Killing a singer could be seen the same.
I think it's canon that they kill him for looking into the murders? I forget
It's likely. But the again - they're covering the tracks.
Idk, it doesn't sound completely like censorship to me because censorship is usually the government trying to hide information. And while Grant was an administrator, the Camerata were trying to overtake Cloudbank. Censorship would be more like them supressing information when they're already in charge of Cloudbank...
Well, it's playing with words really. Just my thoughts
Like criminals trying to cover the tracks vs government limiting the flow of information
Camerata actually meowdered multiple people for knowing too much
First of all, how dare you?
are you saying asher's cat did the kills
nah, it was royce in cat ears. next
asher's cat is a precious cinnamon roll, i won't stand for this slander
Nah. I bet Sibyl actually called the hits in.
No, wait, they did them as a group, apparently, which is terrifying in a very anime way.
there were people they killed for like, being on their tail, like Henter, Lilian and Bailey (i think?), Wave also maybe
then some that just....,,,, pulled a madlad move and walked right in
yes this is a Shomar and Preston callout
Has anyone tried to hold the mouse button while riding the process swarm...? You're not... surfing...
wh
Btw I feel like sometimes people take everything that is being said too seriously. For example Boxer saying that "process must like it here more than where it came from". I've read someone claim (or even wiki?) that the process comes from a different reality which it doesn't like. Like, nope. It's just a phrase. I can't see it having greater meaning than Boxer just making a commentary. Especially because the process has always been in the Cloudbank, just more behind the scenes.
isnt it also mentioned that they feel safer and more at home when everything is processed
Tbh I've always understood the process processing everything as just it resetting everything to default
Hmmm, it looks like they took inspiration from Transistor but went in their own direction with it. I just wonder why they had to make it so balantly obvious in the logo.
It doesn't really resemble Transistor past the computer terminology.
man, i tried to run this game again after a couple hundfred hours inside Hades and it just did not feel good XD
Is that a 2001 reference?
the soft "Hey." always crushes me
There was so little said but there was so much emotion
This voice is like a treat for the heart
i feel like i could melt every time i hear it
feeling the same with zagreus' voice tho
I need to get back and actually finish transistor
I'm convinced that SGG has it out for my old computer
because it died right before I finished Bastion, it died right before I finished Transistor and then the mobo died right before I finished Pyre and I had to get a new rig entirely
hades hasn't murdered this computer though
yet
I've played Transistor roughly three times, I think. I enjoy that the game gets harder a second time and that you have access to everything rather than "you gotta do ALL of that over again. But harder."
I enjoy Red.
and I wouldn't be surprised if it's because she has red hair.
Something's been bugging me since I played the game
The Country
is that symbolism of the afterlife outside of the city?
Whenever they mentioned the country, everyone spoke about it in this strange, hushed tone like it was an afterlife they have a vague understanding of. They know what it is and how to get there, but everyone's tone suggested that if they went, they can never come back to the city because it was impossible to
I went through the whole game just accepting that it was where the people went after death, but I never really looked deeper than that
I'm not sure SGG ever put out anything concrete, but that's the popular interpretation.
Another interpretation is that Cloudbank is The Matrix, and The Country is in fact Real Life™️
Everything in Cloudbank looks kinda digital, and the city can apparently be altered at will (“sky looks blue ‘cause we want it to”)
There's also the possibility that there is not Real Life™️ in the world of Cloudbank
For me, the design of the Country makes me think about Portal 2 ending... More than afterlife, it's a sensation of relief and freedom atfer a long and hard journey, a conclusion that typically says "there's always light at the end of the tunnel"
The Country is where people of Cloudbank go when they retire, they see it as a real place. Whether it's the same as the place in Transistor or the one with the trace banks is unknown.
It seems like a lot of stuff is referred to as "the country", all of it has something to do with someone leaving Cloudbank. For good.
There is also Boxer wanting to get out of the city at the start
and Red singing aout wanting to move to the country
But then you also hear about the people at the edge of the city being stuck.
Red sings about a lot of... deep lore. I think one has to headcanon one's way around it one way or another, but her singing about the country strikes me as less weird than her singing about the spine of the world, for one...?
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@mild locust ask and ye shall receive
awesome!
omg brb imma install transistor again
Transistor on my Xbox, PC and Switch
Bastion on PC and Switch
how many copies , I dont care haha
Transistor on my PC and iPad
Bastion on my PC and iPad
so I can play while sitting and play while on bed

I wonder why Transistor and Bastion are not Apple Arcade games
or Im wrong? dont have Apple Products at all but never heard about it
Well i can play in bad too, on Switch ::)
only downside being im not good at touch screen control with bastion
my poor tiny hands
doesnt new OS update support gamepads?
yeah, but not all of the gamepads
xbox one S, PS4 so far so good
Xbox elite 1st and 2nd gen NOPE
dunno bout switch controller
2nd gen works without adapter so ive heard. i'm waiting for my new controller to be delivered.
1st gen needs a adapter and the 1st adapter is horrifyingly large.

Here's a link to an image of how to visually tell the difference
(Oh good I wasn't sure if it would preview)
wow thx
I never knew Transistor had such troubled development initially
Very interesting video I must say. And a lot of stuff that has been hinted about the evolution of the game has finally clicked.
The part about wanting to do Cyberpunk without the "low life" aspect of it was quite interesting
'we need to do love story in sci-fi with demonic sword- it will fail'
Jen : hold my beer haha
oh my god guys boxer has eyes
Because it is true that Cyberpunks most striking visual elements, the big bright neon light are quite the stark contrast to the most striking narrative elements, which are darker and grimier
I guess there is no real term for that kinda cyberpunk
Maybe "Neon Punk" is fitting
I know what I’m doing tonight. I’m going to replay Transistor. Man, it’s been years since I played it. Going to enjoy every minute of it.
Man that part about fearing how Transistor would go, and wishing it would be some peoples favourite hit me hard
Think the neon stuff is classic cyberpunk
Turns out it wasnt just some peoples favourite game of yours, it was a lot of peoples favourite game period
And for some it still is
Cough cough
I didn’t figure out the point of forum terminals until the Spine section. And man did it HIT hard
But yeah, the noclip doc was quite interesting
To think that such a perfect game had such troubles being made at the start
“I’m going to find whatever is doing this to you and rip out its heart”
Or something along those lines
the whole story hits me hard...
The ending though... T__T
altho kinda tragical. but also a fitting end
I didn’t like the ending but it fit
yeah exactly that
I appreciated it more when I stepped back from the game and started thinking in hindsight
It was a happy ending though... in a roundabout way
was just focusing on gameplay but slowly the story kinda drains me.
Bittersweet as it was
Now I know everything I wonder if I’ll be able to appreciate the subtle stuff more
haven't watched the video yet but transistor's aesthetics remind me of mirror's edge which is also kinda cyberpunk-y
Maybe Visually, the story is no near to be even similar hah
Mirror's edge is a lot more white though. I get very different vibes from both.
Transistor takes more focus on the bluey cozy night with eventually almost perfectly shaped things with color of white more tbh, but even at the end it feels more different to say. It had much modern feeling than Transistor, while as in video it was said it took more style of 20s century.
There's an interesting contrast from that point of view IMO.
Trna has a lot of hitech stuff but feels like 20th century.
Mirror's Edge on the other hand looks like a 21th century supercity but at the same time doesn't really have sci-fi vibes? Very modern, yes, but not sci-fi. At least from what I've seen, I haven't played the game.
i am deeply Upset at every pixel of this image
like is that. is that a height comparison between him and red
down there
in the corner
he's Big
im distressed
abslutely LOVE how his coat design reflects the process with the eye on the back
i like how we got concepts of his big funky tv too
are the concept drawings shown in the video available anywhere for download? 
royce is a tall skinny kid, legend
I for one appreciate the height difference
so, how tall is he exactly
About hella tall'
does other people feel his height a bit unfair
how can you be a nerd and tall
made me jealous, excellent design choice
Cower before the talls, potentially short one!
ok but like...transistor concept artbook when?
tall nerds are the cutest greatest
he's tall AND he's kind of got muscle on him
in the scene where boxer gets stabbed by the transistor, royce is standing with the rest and he's amazingly broad-shouldered
haven't finished watching the noclip doc but that spine art at 6:26 looks so cool
Really interesting that the boxer was going to be the main character for a bit. Would have been a totally different feeling game
especially with those "spirits"
One of them looked kinda like royce
https://i.gyazo.com/a05d33e2491b1771008ff82451977d10.png https://i.gyazo.com/ff49b325779079cbce142fed3aaa17fc.png yeah, several of those spirits definitely have lab coat-esque designs
especially no.16 with the cigarette HAS to be a very very very early proto-royce before royce was even a concept
For a hot second i thought that TV-royce concept under the numbered ones had guns
Imagine red killing the process left and right with the power of love and that sword she found and a floating television showing some random guy decides thats enough and starts blasting
Thanks, now I can't get out of my head Royce going "so anyway I started blasting"
I havent watched the video yet, didnt have the time, what are those spirits meant to be?
Idk
That would be my guess
More as original protagonist
the boxer was the og protag, the spirits arent
He was going to be a boxer who has a ghost buddy friend tag along with him to find out more about his missing girlfriend singer.
oh my god. Royce’s shoes. Finally the proof they have red tips and I’m not imagining
he’s so fashionable
WHY DOES HE LOOK SO ANGRY ON ALL OF THOSE
his face is just like that.... intense
Nobody:
Royce Bracket: >:///
Maybe if you stanned his architecture...
Is it me or is his left hand wrong in the last pose? 👀 . It looks like the thumb is turned up and yet it is in the front and not in the back (that is, if it is his thumb)
@echo sedge if you mean the one where he's littering flicking a cigarette away, then i don't think so?
Royce, a villain for littering
Ah right! Now that you've outlined the fingers I can see how the hand is rotated.
i love how in the sassy pose the transistor eye overlays his head...........its so neat
supergiant said i'm gonna make every single one of my protags short kings & queens
the kid: small compared to the majority of humans in the game
red: see above
the reader: if the group shot at the end of the game is a good indicator of the characters' height then they seem to be pretty small
zagreus: mocked for his small height by the majority of the cast
smols
five foot somethin but my bounties all paid gfghfghh
JFHJSF
The majority? I can only remember Asterius... 
ok yeah majority is a bit too much and mocked is a bit of a strong word in some cases but still
like two people comment on it
but i'll allow the general statement about short sgg protags because mood
Oh darn, I found this yesterday in my feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2Pk2jP_6s
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I thought it would be like, 2,3 years old :P
saw the date now that Im 25m into it ;D
I never got into Bastion, but Transistor really resonated with me.
I find it so much better to use bookmarked https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
rather than the home feed (assuming this was the source of confusion)
subscriptions dont bring in related things from outside your subscriptions though
home screen lists things based on your often viewed videos or interests.
its worth checking out at times, which I found out =)
uh oh
i just killed royce's proxy with Void( purge() )
i don't think that's supposed to be possible
Now I know we said its ugly but isnt that a little extreme
it's gone but royce can still talk
and the first enemy to spawn has the invincibility armor graphic the proxy has but isn't actually invincible
im so in hades mode i was about to say 'sounds like an 
lmao yeah..
I think the invincibility armor graphic is just automatically placed on the enemy in slot 1 or whatever
because it moves to a different enemy after the one it's on dies
That is so strange, I’ve tried so much but I think I never actually succeeded to kill him?
which sounds like I hate Royce lol, but no I just played this game a lot
I like doing all kinds of funky stuff
If you had void and purge..... I will try that
the full function was Void calling Purge and Crash, if that ends up mattering
i think i was running switch(purge, crash) back in the day
didnt run into this
there are some weird combinations you can make to break things
I know I broke things with Switch but I don't remember what else i had on it, breach maybe?
Turned the whole attack into a graphicless black line.
XD
I GOT HADES FOR MY BRITHDAY
Ayyyy 👏
happy birthday!!!
such Transistor
Now you can experience the Hades part of this server to the fullest. 
for your birthday you get to go to hell 
Just like I've always wanted!
Old transistor guide I saved from my purged tumblr:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/537326031665889280/667140470278979605/Damage-2.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/537326031665889280/667139999979929651/Damage-3.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/537326031665889280/667140367015084032/Damage-4.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/537326031665889280/667140919061119006/Damage-5.jpg
ah yes the void get crash stunlock
i dont remember my full loadout
but i think i used void+spark? so 1 void gets everything to the lowest possible defense
i also enjoyed jaunt just as an active
im p sure all she rebuilt was that one bridge before she realized theres no point when shes alone
Aight makes sense. Another game over for humanity
game over is pretty apt because if red and her man didnt quite die then others might not have either. if not all, then perhaps some, depending on how they died
True
God, seeing the documentary made me replay this game. Just finished it for the 3rd? 4th? time alltogether. Still such a masterpiece.
Ya
Any tips how I can swap targets for ranged abilities in combat on a controller?
It seems to auto target the closest enemy always, even if it's an overkill.
The Transistor devs role-reversing the game's narrative from "Boxer man avenges dead singer girlfriend" to "Singer loses voice going apeshit on gang who killed her boxer boyfriend" is so iconic and...
Reminds me of a discussion I had about the game
has anybody written a royce brackett x occupy white walls fanfic yet? because I sense some potential there
Hm?
occupy white walls is this weird art mmo and I feel like Royce could hate-love it
ohhh i looked it up and i think he would enjoy it
joined the transistor rank ! ❤️
Welcome!
Welcome
Red: Toss me the keys!
CRASH
Red: I said my keys.
Boxer: I THOUGHT YOU SAID PRINTER!
Red: Why the heck would I say printer?!
(man in the sword)
Hell its me im back on my pokemon au mess
Royce with a gigantamax Duraludon
It's... A building. That's all the reasoning I have
80% off on Transistor on steam? Hell yeah!
I came here just to spread a warning of something I've come across
Depending on which functions you choose, once you reach the second backdoor, if you do the Stability Test last, you will softlock the game
guess the stability test isnt so stable, eh
As in, there will be no access point in cloudbank, there will be an encounter with 4 enemies, and all you'll have is Charm, Mask and Jaunt
In addition, because you will have left a backdoor, it will have saved
This is over 1 hour of progress lost
That is my warning
fyi only solution is to start from the beginning of the game again
I was replaying Transistor recently (haven't played in several years) and oh man it still upholds very nicely
I love it so much, frankly.
On my 2nd recursion, thinking about getting a bit further tomorrow. The ps4 version if anyone needs to know-- also one of my favourite parts is that it seems to be the only game that really really uses the PS4 controller speaker and lightbar in a way that's entertaining
The light bar has like varying degrees of "lighting up" when the Transistor talks to you
And it isn't just a lazy "Turn brighter for the entire duration of Transistor speaking" it seems like it actually... like... it lights up/down according to the volume. Like it flashes how it does in-game. When you're looking at the Transistor and he speaks, the model seems also have varying degrees of light. It mimic the model getting brighter/darker that pretty much perfectly.
I like that. Feels a bit more immersive. Andddd look at me ramble to no-one-in-particular.
well that was interesting to read
i dont have a ps4 so its really interesting that they did that, maybe i could fix some speakers with light to do the same :) i so love transistor, is the first game from supergiant i saw but i decided to start with bastion
its a bit too short and lack a bit of story, it always seemed like just a portion of all the story that it could have been deeper, but love all the arts so i was happy to read that was coming back in hades
I do agree. it was pretty short
plus the soundtraks, all of them, all the games, the music is amazing
Oh man yeah the soundtrack gives me damn shivers
It's encouraged me to go outta my way to buy a bluetooth headset or something so I can listen on my walks outside
Absolutely stunning voice, to be honest. Really powerful.
i like the idea of what they did, main character that lost her voice and it was the sword that talked
pretty unic
im so fangirling now XDDDDDD
I loved that honestly. I love the absolute concept of the Transistor (the blade)
I do tend to make the odd one-or-two OCs, so I think I'll make something like that. I got someone into playing Transistor recently.
i gifted bastion to my best friend a wile back and he still hasnt played it -.-'' im losing hope :C
If there's one thing I've learned is that you can never get someone to play by constant pestering. I'm sure they'll get around to it eventually.
If they ever get to a point where they're bored out of their mind and announce it to other peeps, encourage them to play a game they haven't played before that they have.
probably, i dont, he just told me yesterday that he hasnt started it XD
well i gonna try hades, wish me luck :P
good luck! I'm in the middle of waiting for my patch to install 
I recommended Transistor to a friend, and luckily he had started it, but I'm not sure he is into it? I gush about all of the games, so I'm probably annoying him hahaha >__>;
Maybe its just because I came there to destress but can i just say that the Agency arena is beautiful as hell
Thought the red tint was sinister at first and i mean it kinda is but it like, gives off vibes of a setting sun somewhere far away like
Like its almost set? Theres not the oranges and yellows anymore, just the reds and purples and grays
And i never noticed that the sand like, literally sparkles
game design, man
https://twitter.com/katribou/status/1221630535333752833 katribou does it again
royce bracket flossing
the best post
heya i havent played this game in probably over 5 years but
i never understood what the ending bit was in recursion
why was royce's voice in the transistor at the start?
Not sure if Recursion is really canon. In case it isn't it's more of an easter-egg, it's shocking and very fitting at the same time.
Thinking about it, canon recursion would fit the "it's Transistors all the way down" idea, that Cloudbank is inside a Transistor and that a new Cloudbank is built in the country. Because why recursion and not "new loop cycle"? It isn't really the same. Recursion implies that the new "loop" is started inside of the old one hmmm.
Also I'm pretty sure Roy's voice at the start of Recursion was like, to indocate that it's a loop. That things are not over, that they are not getting away with it, are they-
Transistors all the way down you just keep digging and theres more swords
In this case it's more like you keep stabbing yourself x)
NO
No stabbing
Also i now approve of Spark because last night my Agency clone absolutely wrecked me w it
Supergiant really do love their loops don't they
yup
reminds me of that cat meme like
Brother, may i have some lööps?
and greg's like "oh you're gonna get so many lööps"
Me, on my fifth recursion: MAKE IT STOP
Greg: lööps
[Royce's voice] you know how this goes by now Red, I'm just gonna take a nap
Oh i have a bit of a crush on boxer its all good
recursion begins and ends with a bracket
True terror: you have 1 second to finish a speedtest and its a clucker with 1 hp
With purge
SUDDEN DEATH
SUDDEN DEATH
I MADE IT ITBWAS SO CLOSE AHDHFU
Boxer even said the defeat quote
And then it got me a victory screen
XDD
AND it gave me my favourite song as a reward.
what a mess
dude i kinda wish recursion was more indepth tho
the "hey red" comment from royce made me think hed be like
a consistent part of incursion and bits of the campaign would actually change from the original
was kinda sad when nothing new wqs happening
i'll go to my death wishing recursion had royce snarking at you the whole time from inside the sword
Every recursion adds a new royce
where's the kickstarter
guys please stop making me ugly hyena laugh
and youve been dragging it
like
that
on the ground
And the royces finish each others sentences and stuff?
no, they talk over each other and then get mad
No they talk in perfect unison by the end of a thought
So then the sober boxer is incredibly embarrassed?
OK but, drunk royce
does that mean...
keeps going ???? at the spine but never actually sees it properly because he gets sick every time its near
if i order a pizza from jan's
and trigger a recursion before it arrives...
do i get two
?
What if you recurse after it arrives?
then i have cold pizza
what if you save a few slices and give them to royce because he hasnt eaten for the whole day most likely
If you start eating it while waiting for the next one it should be warm enough
Does royce eat nothing but meal replacement bars?
he eats || processed food ||
Nice

is there fanart of what boxer looks like uncovered?
im actually curious how people see him
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theres lots of fanart too
tbh i cant decide if i like the thought od him having brown or blue eyes more
such a great doc
i like brown eyes pre-transistor, blue/teal (same colour as the blade) when they're in the country
can't wait to see what they do with pyre
he's got red eye
well theyre gonna be disco balls with the function spammage im about to do
Red, Jaunting behind Royce: OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU.
does anyone have the link for that youtube video in which someone crashes the game by using some crazy void() combo on a whole bunch of weeds?
nope
but now i feel like messing the game up through some dumb combos
THATS A LOT OF WEEDS
THAT IS
A WHOLE LAWN
21 photos taken seconds before a disaster
that sound tho
and look at all those overlapping effects
looks like hyperspace travel
red uses Crash()
it crashes your game
the only true way to end recursion
i love dumb stuff like this
i once kinda glitched visuals
by using switch and ping i think
oh tap actually
its not much but its honest work
it looks like a black shoelace
or rather || a string ||

i'm on a roll with those transistor puns today
also - since i'm new here and i didn't get to talk about transistor all that much
shoutout to one of the best bossfights... ever made
"how about... me"
by using shielded cells and double cells, you could probably duplicate an infinite number of process
nah
i'm actually talking about the Sybil fight
Royce was cool - don't get me wrong
great even
but it was more of a
moment
while Sybil was more of a
and
moment, if you get what i mean
it had a bit more emotional oomph to it
and the fact that it comes so early in the game after that great cutscene with "we all become" makes it even more powerful
and the music in that bossfight just... UMF
😗👌
an umbrella has never dealt that much damage in a video game before
its funny how much easier sybil is in recursion because of all the options you have
it did, actually
there's this HL1 mod called "they hunger" and in it you get an umbrella instead of a crowbar
and we all know how hyper-fast that thing can go when glitched
i know, || Rite || ?
song in the background: "I won't save you"
that bossfight was the exact moment where i went "I gotta write a letter to the devs about this"
which i did right after finishing the game ||and crying for a bit
||
it made such an impact on me - i've never seen, never felt anything like this before
sybil had it coming though
she didn't save red, she destroyed red
if she had truly loved red, she'd just let them be happy
did she now?
it's been a while since i played it, but afaik her role was to get the camerata closer to red
but i always thought she always had second thoughts about it and that's why she didn't tell the rest of camerata that the boxer is going to be there
i might be wrong tho - it's been a while
her role in the camerata was indeed to lure targets, yet she still did that hoping that boxer would die so she could have red, or we can assume
but she died before more could be said and dead people aren't known to be loquacious
wow that's a fancy word and a half
help me, google translate 
oh
it's not as fancy as i thought
anyway - i always imagined this whole kerfuffle being more grounded and mature
as in - yes, Sybil had some feelings to Red, but i always thought that Red was really polite about this whole thing like "sorry but i'm spoken for" sort of thing
and that Sybil wasn't throwing a childish temper tantrum about it, there's just...
you know - there's always a lot of conflicting emotions in moments like this - that's what might've led to misinformation about Red being - presumably - alone there
which she obviously wasn't and we all know the rest
but then again - the game is kinda vague about most of this (good) and it's been a while since i played it so all of this might just be my weird headcanon
love hurts
basically, yeah
serious talk now
knowing how... troublesome the development of this game was (thanks to that great noclip doc) i can't even begin to describe how glad i am this game turned out to be as good as it is
it's been 6 years and it's still in my top 3 - along with mirror's edge and... ||either silent hill 2 or bastion or undertale - all depending on my mood||


Hello here to say that even though i was confused through my first playthrough and didnt even know who sybil was at that point, I still felt the full emotional weight of that damn bossfight
here's the thing
few years ago on i went back and stayed at my mom's place for few days during christmas
one evening i was kinda bored so i hooked up my laptop to her 55inch tv in the living room and fired up transistor || i kinda wanted to hear how it would sound like on a 5.1 surround system and it was just 😙 👌 || - it's such a comfy game for moments like that
and even though she doesn't speak english at all
and she absolutely despises video games
she still joined me and watched almost the whole thing
just enjoying the music and pretty pictures and stuff
and i bet she still would have something interesting to say about that one bit just from the tone of the entire scene
Yess
My mom is the same but I sent her some of the songs and she loved them
I bet she would like the scenery as well
yo like
there were so many times i had to stop
and appreciate what i was looking at
like there was a moment in fairview where i just went woah. okay. woah thats beautiful
and just spent a solid few minutes not progressing and staring at the scenery
(with apologies to proxy royce who had to wait through that entire sparkling eyes moment)
thank god for that hum button 
dude i wish there were more games that had transistor's vibe :((
i love it so much
the whole fancy futuristic gist of it
also can i just say that all the bossfights were a+
like, Spine wasnt as good as the other two in terms of the actual fight (the fight was kinda underwhelming imo) but what lead up to it and the sequence after make up for that
sybil was godtier and royce was a lot of fun
and that fight was what made me start liking him as a character
Transistor will probably remain one of my top rated games forever. The soundtrack, the story, the characters and game design...Everything was loveable. Everything to die for. I have trouble finding bad things about Transistor. I think there's one view you can get of Red's face that looks a tiny bit funny? That's it? But that's a thing in every game so uhhh.. Welp. Guess that means it's only a fantastic game. I wish I could relate in the way you guys did, and cry, and truly get sucked in like that... I envy how personally you could feel the game, and I suppose that's my own form of relation.
There's no doubt though, that despite feeling this envy for my lack of true connection, that it's left an impression. After all, you don't play through the game 3 or 4 times when you dislike it. And I totally second that Crail, the boss fights were phenomenal. Admittedly, I managed to find some pretty cheaty combinations so they were a bit easy (and I almost one shot The Spine 😅 ) but they were wonderful story telling experiences
Anyway I'm done ranting
Headcanon that royce is capable of a perfect villain laugh
*actual canon, thank you very much 😤 His voice actor just didn't wanna ruin it so didn't attempt it
we can connect the dots
you know what i feel like actually
every single main character except grant can do a full villain laugh
i think i saw like, a tumblr post of Royce's VA laughing but I don't think I could find it again
also hey
i was feeling like i wasnt immersed at the game, too
or like
that i didnt have as strong of a connection as i should have
but it arrived
it took a while
but it arrived and it arrived like a bag of bricks
Hahaha, maybe it'll happen for me someday, but it probably has a lto to do with that I feel things on a superficial level, not a proper emotional level. But that's okay. I still loved the ride it took me on
That's valid ^^
Also in terms of combinations i never figured out how good void is until recursion so lets just say the bosses were p intense for me xD
I took an umbrella and then a Flood directly to the face
Oooo yikesu desu. I believe I also suffered similar things but Jaunt with Spark usually let me avoid most of the attacks that Royce had for me
fun fact
Royce softlocked my game on my first recursion 
Yeeeooouch. Rip you boo 😢
I also had an observation. Supergiant, you truly lover your boss patterns huh. In Hades, we have person, serpent, person. In Bastion, person, serpent, person (If I remember right. The bosses in Bastion are a bit fuzzy for me). In Transistor, Person, serpent, person. It's a good pattern that I have enjoyed, and I can't comment on Pyre yet, but still
don't forget about lööps
they sure love their lööps
but hey - i'm not complaining
I'm not either! Just funny little commonalities
Can I just say, Royce using Breach and Crash is such a sassy move like
LET ME USE THE POWERS MY WEAPON CREATED OUT OF YOUR MISSING VOICE AND DEAD BOYFRIEND
AGAINST YOU
@gritty hull which combo u referring to?
i found one too that instakills all processes + most bosses in a single turn but that was 5 years ago
Yeah it was to do with Void. I think it was Crash, then Mask, and then Breach, but the Breach was modified with another mask for that cripsy backstab damage. All I know is I got the achievement for 2048 damage in a hit/turn (whatever the achievement specifically is) and that fight was where it happened. It's been at least 2 or 3 years for me so I can't remember that well
@full peak
yea it had to do w backstab and void haha
i remember doing triplevoids
the game got boring because i just ended up waiting for turns then triplevoiding men then waiting for turns
Meanwhile im like
Imagine the distracted boyfriend meme but im the distracted boyfriend looking at making my ping look like shotgun shots instead of a broken void combo
I just love ping its just ATATATATTATATATATATATATTAA
... Is that Roy behind Red in the server picture
I didn't have cull() on my first playthrough, so the Spine and Royce were intense. 
Oh big mood
I remember Spine was o k a y but i honestly just had my dog bark a LOT while i was hiding behind the barriers
BUT ROYCE WAS INTENSE ALRIGHT
and then on the second go, cull()+void() just destroyed everything
The difference in intensity of the bossfights:
Royce: COME HERE YOU LITTLE-
Sybil: NO! NO! NO! NO! GET AWAY FROM ME! NO! NO!
most unbalanced couple of functions in the entire game tbh
mmyyep
Im trying to avoid using them
But Void just makes everything so mich easier
- OP
- you won't have fun
seems balanced 😛
can someone remind me what those functions do again?
its been 5 years hahaha
cull void breach and crash
Cull hits really hard
Void: lowers enemy's defense and attack
Cull: THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE
Cull does a ton of damage single target
Void can triple taken damage
Crash is stun+damage and breach is ranged piercing damage
Breach is a long ranged projectile that knocks things back
it takes up such littlr turn space tho
Cull also knocks things up
Not really, its just a blue projectile
Nah, you don't move
Also @pulsar lily i saw that-
oh
Imo the most op thing is tap with load. Pair that with void and you clear half of the field in one turn
Sybil's attack is it's own thing
Load is so strong
Breach is just a beam yeah
Its. thank you autocorrect
Load is kaboom
is therr a wiki
Load is a bomb
Equip Luna with load for nuclear W O O F
How many can I remember off the top of my head
Crash is stun. Double crash is pretty strong too imo. 4 second stun
new challenge: explain your favourite function but in the most stupid way
Mine is pewpewpew
crash, breach
Spark is little bouncy bombs
Jaunt is zoom
Mask hides you and increases your backstab damage
bork bork bork bork
zOOOM PEWPEWPEWPEW
u know i always found it funny how red has to be like 100 pounds but can smash that giant sword onto robot's faces
Red: Zoom!
Red: PEWPEWPEWPEWPEW
Red: BOINK!
Royce: can you stop im begging
lowkey shes actually insane
Help summons a good girl
Switch charms
Ping goes pewpewpew
Get pulls stuff to you
I mean, Transistor is lighter than it looks like
Cull
Tap does AOE damage and lifesteal
Flood is a slow murder ball
Purge does damage over time
Royce said that I believe, probs a deleted line but it explains things
Is that all of them
Spark and uhhhh
Get which is a YOINK
can't remember the other one
GET OVER HERE!
yea the best onr i heard was how he was saying the transistor was crazy wicked powerful
Oh, load
jshdhd
I love Royce but at the same time I wouldn't hesitate to dunk him into a trashcan
And bounce which is basically breach but instead of piercing it ricochets
Yeah
okay who else here has played nier automata
Fairview and the Tower are 100% same aesthetic
Oh it only previews one
cause you made the other one a spoiler
Call me a pokemon madman but fairview? Distortion world from pokemon platinum
It's an endgame spoiler so
imagine moving in royce's mansion and he puts you into the upside-down quarters
dude
just to mess with you
imagine a transistor multiplayer match
where u both have transistors like royce vs red
It's a race who presses spacebar faster
void void void then a huge dmg attack
Alternatively a race whoever stunlocks the other one first
Actually I don't know if Turn() works when stunned or not
I don't think royce uses crash() on you 🤔
He can use crash i think
But also multiplayer could get messy due to the nature of Turn()
Me, who didnt press spacebar fast enough: waiting for the other player to make up their mind and stop cancelling their functions before finally killing me
Because idk about yall but i always go through like 2735 moves, then backtrack, then cancel them altogether and use turn a few secs later
lmaoo
Very much relatable because I also am afraid of men
im afraid of chickens
I'm afraid of being turned into a white cube
love how transistor is a wonderful love story but its also an eldritch cyberpunk horror story where humanity gets punished for its hubris
If you don't break through at least two genre barriers, are you even trying? /s
firm agree
so here i am about to play transistor for the first time in years instead of studying working out or generally being productive
lets do this
Qhshd
holy shrimp my progress has been saved this whole time
according to steam my last game was january 2016
4 years
this is amazing
would someone mind jogging my memory a bit?
which functions can we use while waiting for a turn()
jaunt and things upgraded with jaunt
Yea
Dog as aspect gives you a random chance to get KILL() and it basically does 400 damage flat in a small area. But it takes an entire turn and you can't do anything else, not even move Red.
huh?
u can move her tho
i just did it haha
and what about the basic functions?
im assuming cull does the most damage but idk if my memory serves me right
Oh really? Then I remember it wrong then lol.
Dog as an ability basically spawns dog that does Bite() which has it's own hp pool of 300 and does 20-30 per bite, but it goes away after some time. If I recall right.
Mask can be also used when Turn is recharging
2 dogs with spark 😮
so im in an ovc terminal and while referring to the spine red for real just typed out
"im going to find the thing thats doing this and break its heart"
holy shrimp shes actually a monster
it's hurting sword boyfriend >:o
oh hey
apparently if u keep using the same launchpad repeatedly boxer will start complaining
i never knew that
Jszdzff
I vaguely remember that
Red: wheeee
Boxer: screaming and holding on to the wheat in the country
im trying to do a playthru
where u cant use functions during a turn()
so u can only use it to move
along with maximum limiters of course
ngl this is loads of fun + challenge and it feels like an entirely new game
the problem is getting there
what builds are those?
i wanna see
i don’t remember
but! im sure it’s somewhere in the steam guides, that’s where i first learned you can make op builds
Depends on whether you use the limiter that blocks memory or not
If not then I suppose it shouldn't be that hard to build a loadout that works well without Turn();
Makes me think, has anyone tried jaunt + get to bring everyone to one place, then probably crash + crash + load for long aoe stun and then whatever does the most damage. Though it's probably terrible against Men
Beat the creeps by yoinking them before they yoink you
Assert dominance
heya
anyone know what "ÌÕMPÆØĖ" means?
i just saw now that thats whats on red's poster
^^^^^^ omg I need to know too
Nothing really
As far as I know
It's only meant to vaguely look like words but not to be readable
It's the name of her album
stream ÌÕMPÆØĖ
for clear skin
headcanon accepted
"stream ÌÕMPÆØĖ" god i love that
do y'all think people post fancams of red's concerts in the OVC terminal comments
if they dont its a lost opportunity
omg i hope they do
community polls that are like "should royce fortnite dance for 3 hours straight" where he complains in the comments and everyone replies with "maybe if you streamed ÌÕMPÆØĖ" with red fancams
this is canon now
sybil runs a red stan twitter
sybil gets a tweet fav'd by red once and she frames it
stans so hard she plans murder
if you dont plan murder are you a real stan 😤
oh stanning is sort of a word for being a superfan but with more of an emphasis on actively promoting them wherever possible! so like stanning a band is like putting videos of them under everyone's random tweets etc
to me anyway the distinction feels like being a fan means enjoying and being a stan means being a walking ad for it? thats what ive noticed anyway, might be incorrect 😅
so i guess it stands to reason we're all a bit like that
process running wild? this must be the work of an enemy stan
Here's a question for everyone. Has there been a skill with upgrades that crashed the game? Cuz...I have experienced that. It was too powerful...too dangerous
I didnt get the pun at first so i thought yall are making jojo references with boxer being red's stand
AHAHAHAHAHA OH MY GOD
MY EYES
I was gonna say that Load, with Bounce, and (i THINK) Spark as upgrades, in a heavy Process area caused my PS4 to lag so hard. Didn't help that I had limiters on. There was a youtuber that had the same exact problem. It was wild.
Holy- OH GOD
That's amazing
I know that on the laptop I used to play on it would struggle a bit if I spammed Jaunt, because the Jaunt I had also had Sparks, or Impact depending on my mood, so it would get a little rough
Mine lags a little when a lot of shielded cells spawn
Yeah true
Just got Risk by spamming Tap over and over because for some reason the game only spawned cheerleaders with no one for them to support
i forgot but how do u implement a new save file?
i wanna make an easy save file for when i wanna replay the royce and sybil fights
In the main menu (Resume, restart, etc) there is Profile. That has save files. I mean, I never replayed the game from scratch, but I think that is how it works
cant :((
clicking that creates a new profile in a new game
no othrr option but to do that too
Hmm well, that's a shame
ayyt im done
the whole thing
damn that was a journey
feels so fresh considering i havent touched the game in so long
Yayyy!
oh man
i'm gonna play the heck out of this game this weekend
i wonder how many lööps i can hit in just two days
what do you mean he's also calming
....until he's chasing after you with a sword and all you hear is a bassline
Oh my god i
but then he says "how about... me?"
and it's like... 
And the ambient sounds the acess points make
Synchronized perfectly with Heightmap playing in the background
And it sounds dope
'it sounds dope' but with a swear word

So I booted up the game and Heightmap's percussion synchronized perfectly with the checkpoint's ambient music and I couldn't help but sit there. Had to record it.

Headcanon thats i've talked about to Prem but y'all deserve it because it's cute: if Royce could use Help(), his doggo would be called Apollo to go with Luna
First thought was Solaris but I really like Apollo it's cuter
the mystery of crail... is mystery no more
i never thought i would see the day
also strongly supportive of the description of royce as aloof weirdo
it's nice to get a little sneak peek on what's going on behind the scenes of our fave games
and i think i figured out what's his favourite car brand too
?
it's || Royce Rolls ||

🥁 

Its been an hour what is it
ohmy god I didn't see the spoiler

I use amoled discord it blended in 🤡
it amoblended in
I still can't believe we got Crail lore
Crail is the best husbando 
i bet that in just a few years he's gonna show up in smash
royce is terribly endearing and sunkrish's va work really makes him so powerful as a character
the fact that like. 30 minutes of character time in game and using that to make him into a fully-fleshed and intriguing character is just masterful
truth
i would die to hear sunkrish bala in another supergiant role ngl. his performance in transistor was absolute fire
I would sell my soul for Sunkrish to read a few lines like Royce would
sunkrish has REAL TALENT it's so amazing
Cave Johnson talk but with Royce instead of Rucks
royce would actively support his methods but not his reasons
I made the Camerata into a group of antagonists (but not villains, which created tension) in an old RPG game. The Royce analogue was the one that most consistently pissed the party off haha
so
mission accomplished?
Starting my 3rd recursion! Any limiters you guys suggest?
All of them
I think Sibyl is a villain, full-stop.
all of em, so you can say youve done it
afterwards, I'd say all except the one where you overload when changing functions, and maybe the mem limit
those are really the least fun
yeah those two are deeply unfun
shielded cells are a pain but if you run jaunt(purge) that really helps
passive damage over time outside of turn
jaunt(purge, help) is my favorite
really high mem though so don't overload
You get an achievement if you use all limiters for 5 fights. It was scary, but if you have the right skills, it is....not as scary lol
i use ping(jaunt) or tap(jaunt) for shieled cells
Transistor is 3.99$ on GOG
I had fun with jaunt(spark)
Best part of recursion is that you don't have to choose between sparkjaunt and jauntspark
You can run both!
What's the max number of each Function you can get?
how is it disappointing it's already plenty of fun
okay but
Royce: Let's just get this over wi- what are you doing.
Red, with a total of 16 floods: SQUARE UP ITS STOP HITTING YOURSELF TIME
yaa dude
honestly i think void is overtuned
it does way too much for such a low cost
Yes. And it is beautiful
whats the highest maximum damage u can do to a single unit in a single turn again?
im imaigning its gotta involve crash mask void and cull
hmm
- crash()
- mask(void,mask)
- void(crash)
- cull(cull,void)
crash + void + void + void + mask + cull
i cant think of anything that would deal more damage than that
- make it Cull (void, load)
Oh the joy of having two voids
I swear to god Asher did so much for us
load would be better than another cull?
I dont have two culls yet so i dont really know
fudge dude i wish there were more speed/defense related functions
stuff like jaunt and mask
like idk
imagine a function that created a couple of fake copies of red that would distract people
whats bounce in passive?
Gives you a shield
There are some combinations that do make copies of you
yeah but its very very limited
I don't remember which ones
its umm
Naruto clone thing shdhduf
like jaunt or mask
heck even a function that makes u like
invulnerable for 1 second
super niche
Get on this Camerata, kill more people so we can have more functions
i wish we could mod the game
id do it myself if i could
with the art and hte lore and all
by do it myself i mean pay someone to do it for me then take all the credit
You know what i wish we could do even if it would be stupid
Be able to upgrade a function with 2 of the same function
hahahahaha
the ultimate moon moon of an ability
It bounces off walls
does it just make a shotgun that shoots shotguns
huh?
breach is the tripleping attack right
Breach is the long range attack










