![]() Using the Functions in combinations with others allow for different outcomes and tell a little bit more about the person they originally came from. Each time she uses the Transistor to collect their life force, their genetic information is broken down and processed by the sword and converted into a new powerful move or ability called a “Function”. She does the same after fighting the Camerata. While there isn’t much interaction with other people, since they’ve all been wiped out, Red does on occasion find someone recently deceased and uses the Transistor to absorb their essence, if you will. The rest of the game is focused around her and the Transistor trying to discover their motives for the desolation of Cloudbank, a seemingly once thriving utopia. She soon discovers that a secret group of high profile people and officials called the “Camerata” are the ones controlling the Process. It seems the entire population of Cloudbank has been wiped out by the Process. Red is uncertain of why the Process is hunting down her and the Transistor, but she finds snippets of information as to what has happened in short news articles found in terminals scattered all over the city of Cloubank. Transistor starts the game off without explaining much of what is going on. From there, Red and her companion, the Transistor, are on the run from an army of intelligent robots called the “Process”. She removes the sword to discover that while the man is dead, his consciousness has been absorbed and remains alive with the weapon, the “Transistor”. You start the game as a singer named “Red” who awakens after an attack to find she no longer has a voice and sees a man slumped over next to her with a giant glowing sword sticking out of his chest. Everything from the combat, to the art style, and even the world in general is refreshingly unique. Transistor is a game unlike any other I’ve ever played. I cannot express enough how happy I am that I did. So now that it has gotten released on the Switch, I felt this was the perfect time to finally get around to it. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was intrigued by what I had seen in gameplay trailers for Transistor when it first released in 2014, but it was simply one of those titles that I never got around to playing. I’ll admit that until recently I had never played any titles by Supergiant Games, although I had heard of the wildly popular Bastion. ![]()
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