With a brilliant soundtrack and beautiful art style Bastion is an immediately charming game. The unique and detailed voice over narration helps to draw the player into the story further.

It has a varied selection of weapons as well as a item upgrade system which never feels like it requires too much repetition to complete. In addition, the arena challenges, shrine handicaps, character buffs, and New Game+ mode aid completion of all items and overall replayability.

The gameplay reminds me of 2D Legend of Zelda, although Bastion feels faster paced and can require faster reactions for dodging or blocking attacks.

With a brilliant soundtrack and beautiful art style Bastion is an immediately charming game. The unique and detailed voice over narration helps to draw the player into the story further. It has a varied selection of weapons as well as a item upgrade system which never feels like it requires too much repetition to complete. In addition, the arena challenges, shrine handicaps, character buffs, and New Game+ mode aid completion of all items and overall replayability. The gameplay reminds me of 2D Legend of Zelda, although Bastion feels faster paced and can require faster reactions for dodging or blocking attacks.