Bastion: an indie game

Indie games tend to get passed up because they're that: indie games. They're not done by big name publishers, so they tend to get ignored. Thankfully, Steam has a wide selection of indie games, and I grab a few when they go on sale and look interesting.

One of the best indie games I bought on sale for $7 was Bastion. If you have not played this game, you should play it, it only costs $15 on Steam, and is also available to download on Xbox. It is definitely not a waste of money.

This game is a type of action-adventure game. You run around and smash/shoot stuff most of the time. The controls take a bit to get used to, and I still have the problem of walking off the edge of the "world" and lose some health. The game does offer plenty of areas to just let off some steam and smash everything. Smashing is highly encouraged in this game, and you get currency for everything that gets smashed.

The game has an awesome storyline. You start off as the main character and wake up to the world collapsing, called The Calamity. You must reach the end of the first area before it all collapses. This brings you to the Bastion, where you discover you're not the only survivor of the collapse. Your purpose in the game is to collect fragments from other areas and bring them back to the Bastion, and this will stop the Calamity from continuing to destroy the world. You will find various weapons along your journey, but you can only have one melee and one ranged weapon equipped at a time, and you can only change your equipped weapons at an armory.

In addition to the amazing story, there's an epic soundtrack and voice acting. I find the best part of the game to be the narration. The narration isn't always the same every time you play. The narrator follows what you are actually doing, so if you're using a weapon and smashing everything in a small area, he will say "and the Kid let off a bunch of steam".

All in all, I highly recommend this game to anyone who likes action-adventure type games, but wants something new and different.