Transistor Review | IGN

Transistor’s the kind of game that made me immediately jump back in to take on New Game Plus. I wanted to continue exploring the excellent combat in new, more challenging scenarios. I wanted to double back on the areas that I’d missed the first time through, and try to fill in the gaps of the fantastic story. But most of all, I wasn’t ready to leave Red or her world behind.

[Nine_Thousaaandd]

I'm loving these reviews so far...excellent score!

Transistor and Child of Light both, have surprised me. I'm really excited for this one. Sony may have a gem on their hands.

[Eonjay]

Yeah have you noticed that the smaller scale games are destroying the AAA games in ratings. People just enjoy them more. I think because these games focus more on mechanics and art instead of polygon crunching.

[MightyNoX]

It's because these games go back to the basics. Back to when things used to be fun. It's also because they're made to cater to genres that died in the previous gen.

I'm loving that indies are bringing back survival horror, RPGs, SRPGs, point'n'click and the occasional oddball experiments.

[medman]

Maybe so, but I think you'll be hard pressed to find games more beautiful than Child of Light and Transistor. The art style of both games is phenomenal.

[user5669510]

this is a ps exclusive i never knew sony made this and bastion.

let give all the credit to sony and not the devs that make the game even if its a multiplat game. gotta love sony fanbase base. it only matters when it on PS.

[pedrof93]

You try to hard.

You're pathetic.

Does he mention any of what you've said ?

Are you jealous ? Get it on Pc.

[ZodTheRipper]

Your comments make my head hurt.

[user5669510]

@pedrof93
"I'm really excited for this one. Sony may have a gem on their hands."

@ZodTheRipper
your mom makes my head hurt. ;-)

[kenshiro100]

You're not the sharpest tool in the shed, are you?

[3-4-5]

I like when games with Art Style > realism get good reviews.

Might make some of these Dev's wake up.

[JoGam]

How much is this game?

[Conzul]

$20

[bryam1982]

But...but....but ps4 only have indie games and they suck/s

[GodlyPanda117]

Can anyone give me a brief description of the combat? Planning to pick it up when I get home!

Edit: Also, how long is the game?

[Wingsfan24]

Mix between Real-time action and strategy. Basically, you play it as you would a normal action game or play it as a turn based game.

[MidnytRain]

Reviewer says it's about 6 hours. I think that's as long as Bastion was.

[Mektige]

Now if they'd just hurry up and update PSN...

[rodiabloalmeida]

PSN US? Check again in 3 hours from now. Meanwhile, I'm downloading my steam copy + soundtrack *_*

[higgins78]

I'm sorry, yes this looks the part (although not exactly original) and yes, judging by early reviews it plays good, but I don't know, something about 'indie' titles of late have the habit of being very throwaway. The price needs to be right on these games, more an impulse purchase rather than a considered purchase price tag.

[Blacklash93]

Not original? Can you name something else that stars a singer celebrity wielding a giant, talking USB drive as a sword to in order to fight robotic assassins in a Sci-Fi city to get her voice back? That involves isometric real-time/turn-based gameplay?

[Why o why]

lol

[Sevir]

Lol. Blacklash, don't mind him, he owns that other platform that's starving for quality games. It's funny, The indie games have out performed the Big AAA games on both platforms critically and the vast majority of them are on PS4.

People just don't get it. Most Every dev team starts off as indie. And they bring the balance and break up the monotony of the over saturated annualized run of the mill FPS, Racing, sports Crap that chokes this industry so much

[uth11]

yeah, I think I had a game like that that on a Commodore 64.. :)

[higgins78]

I was talking purely aesthetics, not the game being quirky, although if you want to go there, many, many games have previously done quirky to death. Also, Ive just seen the price of admission...£15! I'm sorry, you could pick up (second hand admittedly) a far more worthy retail game which probably has passed you by simply down to the fact its marketing didn't ram it down your neck.

[GribbleGrunger]

So, you are taking the huge breadth of possibility the word 'quirky' can define and boiling it down to the word itself? Quirky isn't a singular identifier, it's indefinably vast.

[Blacklash93]

1. Don't presume you know what games are more worthy of my time and money.
2. Second-hand games at a used discount don't compare to brand new games in terms of price value.
3. Transistor has had little marketing and publicity other than its quiet little recycled demo. I've had to actively search for news about it these past several months.

[MetaReapre]

I don't understand your complaint about the whole "quirky" thing and the price being 15 dollars for being an Indie game doesn't seem all that bad considering the garbage you can find out there for the same amount if not more in the indie section. Also, this game has barely any spotlight. A few reviews here and there and aside from it's first announcement I haven't seen anything about it until now. On top of everything you say it doesn't look original, that on it's own is completely subjective as its hard to be "origional" now in the game industry as so many things have been done before. To me this game doesn't make me immediately think of another game that it copies or bases itself on and in that regard I do find it original.

[MONOLITHICIDE]

All I can think of is tron.

[SoulSercher620]

So you're basically judging a game you know next to nothing about.

Another typical ignorant gamer here.

[Inception]

If you didn't like it than take your rants elsewhere. Funny though that you didn't like the game but your not even play it first.

[torchic]

wow this game is getting some really great reviews that's reaaly good on the devs who made it! :)

I honestly didn't understand why Sony were pushing indies soooooo much but it's really starting to show, with more still coming on.

[memots]

Indies don't count as games

[incendy35]

That's it, I am getting this tonight. Wolfenstein will have to wait. And hopefully the price will drop while it is waiting :D

[Sevir]

I preordered it and I'm having it preloaded on my PS4 from work right now. :)

[Chuk5]

described the style and story as blade runner meets cowboy bebop? Damn, I was sold before, but hell yeah.

[SmielmaN]

Cowboy bebop is great!

[SmielmaN]

I might have to check this one out. I'm enjoying most of the new indie games. They are usually good and fun and bite size in terms of length. This suits me better at this point because we have a 6 month old at home and I've been battling cumulative PTSD so sometimes epic stuff is just too much for me to handle.

Off topic: anyone see the new Robocop and was it any good? I love Robocop 1,2 and he was a hero of mine but I couldn't bring myself to the theatre to see the new one because of the above mentioned condition (I'm a police officer). Wondering if it's worth grabbing on Blu ray.

[Inception]

The new Robocop isn't that bad and i'm a huge fans of classic Robocop. Yes it lacks some gore and memorable scene unlike the old ones. They also changed a bit of how Murphy 'died'. But overall the action still good to watch. Personally i gave the movie 7.5/10.

[LightDiego]

Looks awesome, i will try today and i still need to play Child of Light.

[SoulSercher620]

All these great scores. I was getting this game anyway but now I know I'm gonna get an experience with this game.