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In its current state this port is unplayable for me. There are constant stutters in both gameplay and cutscenes which can be cut down a bit by running using DX11 instead of DX12 and turning the settings on low. However this does not fix all problems and specific cutscenes tend to freeze on a single frame and stay frozen while the audio continues until the cutscene ends. Alongside this there is an obnoxious amount of audio cracking which happens once or twice in Chapter 1 but becomes constant in Chapter 2. The only fix for this seems to be turning ALL audio settings down to 1 and then blasting your windows volume.

Overall, the game is unplayable. Even with fixing the audio and trying multiple frame stutter fixes i can't seem to find a way to fix the cutscene issue which is a major part of the game for me. Until SE releases a patch to fix the problems with this game on high end machines i would probably recommend avoiding it.

Specs:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
i9-9900K CPU @3.60GHz
16GB RAM

Car ball soccer is good. Epic better have a workshop.

Simple yet entertaining game where you follow the Kid around trying to figure out what caused the Calamity to occur. You visit areas to collect cores which strengthen up The Bastion while gaining new weapons and skills a long the way. As you play the game, you hear a voice narrate everything that you do. Though the game is fairly linear and there doesn't seem to be much to do with your choice of two weapons at a time and a shield, the weapon combinations and upgrading system give the game a weird draw. Every time you think you have the game figured out it throws a twist by giving you a new weapon (just as you think you've mastered the last one) or sends you to a proving ground to do a challenge with your weapons. Bastion has an in game achievement style system where you earn rewards for completing tasks. In short Bastion has a decent amount of replay ability and is definitely worth the pick up, especially if you can grab it on sale for a couple of bucks.