Pyre Thread >How did you like it compared to Bastion/Transistor

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>How did you like it compared to Bastion/Transistor
I liked it more than Transistor, but (marginally) less than Bastion.

>Best Character
Sandra is my waifu

>Best Team
Rukey + Pamitha + Berthrude

>Who did you free first
Fae

>Who did you leave behind?
Ti'zo, Volfred, and Berthrude. They like each other, and seem content to stay.

>>387035884
>fae
>not shae

>>387035975
>shae
>not fae

What are you, bad at video games?

>>387035007
Replayed Transistor yesterday and I think Pyre is more enjoyable to play, despite Transistor's great variety in abilities. Also story and characters are definitely much better in Pyre.

>>387035007
>How did you like it compared to Bastion/Transistor
Bastion > Pyre > Transistor
>Best Character
Hedwyn, although I didn't get to see much of him since I set him free first chance I got.

Doing a second playthrough now with difficulty turned up to the max, I want to know is it possible for the Tempers to get a second shot at a liberation rite or not?

>>387036260
I don't think so. Poor Ignarius, he did nothing wrong

>>387036260
>although I didn't get to see much of him since I set him free first chance I got
Same way with Jodariel here.
I wish she would snap me like a twig

>>387036260
I don't think any team can get a second shot, because that would raise the possibility of them winning twice, and more often than not freeing a random mook that has no established character. Would be kinda shitty from a story perspective

Reminder that if you didn't free Hedwyn, Rukey and Jodariel first then you're doing it wrong.

>>387036490
I think he meant getting a second shot if they lost originally, not a second shot if they've already won once

>>387036490
Enemy teams disband permanently if they win a liberation rite

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>People who freed Hedwyn first
>People who freed Hedwyn first and didn't even fulfill his promise

>>387036557
>freeing Hedwyn first
He barely wants to be freed before you're freed you asshole

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Why is this bitch so awful at her job? Almost every other team that is in a liberation rite disrespect her and all she does is keep saying she'll kick them out but never does. Then almost every enemy team straight-up cheats.

>>387036837
I freed him third, actually.
My point is that nobody but the starting 3 actually desire their freedom particularly, except maybe pamitha and Gilman once his arc is complete.

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>>387036948
Maybe deep down she feels bad for the other teams for never getting a shot at freedom for all the years the Night Wings decided to retire.

>>387035007

>Best Character
Depressed demon greaser

>Best Team
my team

>Who did you free first
Hedwyn

>Who did you leave behind?
I left Dr. Demon because he was pathethic, keked when he an heroed

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>>387035007
I think all of Supergiant's games have been great for different reasons, but it's hard for me to pick a favorite.

Pyre's the most invested I've been in their characters, but I'm torn on whether or not I would have enjoyed it more if it was more standard action like Bastion, but with your whole party of characters involved.

Did end up enjoying the sports section far more than I expected to though. Being able to canonically lose the liberation rite was the first time in a long while that a game made my heart race.

Also Sandra's great.

>>387035007
I like it way way more than Bastion/Transistor

Bastion was kinda nice, but outside of aesthetics it was somewhat dull and repetitive, the narrative was superbly well performed but poorly written, like no dialogue was good, just random garbage pullet out of some hipster's ass. But I understand someone younger could see it as a very memorable game and treasure it dearly, and hate me for saying negative things about it, I'm probably just rotten and can't enjoy things in life anymore.

Transistor had so much wasted potential, setting was good, combat was good, but exploiting the system was waaaaay too easy, no bosses was challenging if you did that fast cheap combo like 3-5 times and then hide for a second, repeat something like that. It could be easily fixed if they had added some challenge mode restricting your skills or something.

Pyre is a fantastic improvement not only to supergiant games, but to all games altogether. The fact you can progress even when you fail is marvelous. I don't know if this had been done in other games before but and they just stole the idea, but even if they did I applaud their implementation. The setting is SSS in my book, the art is not as good but is pretty somewhat unique. The actual basketball matches are cool but start getting repetitive near the end, probably because the AI starts getting too cheesy and you have to spam whatever op combo you learned by then. The talent tree is soooo good, you don't need 30+ skills to have a good talent tree, this talents are so simplified and yet offer enough variety to make you think what to chose.

Sadly what ruined Pyre for me was the lame mini adventure, I don't give a rat's ass about some revolution, and all the choices besides who to send during ascencion feel so inconsequential, you want to grab herbs, or want to go to the poison lake? ok here's +1 stat next round for your team.... I would like more mini games, but I can only remember 2.

>>387039753
I have to agree with you on the revolution part. I just wasn't invested in Sandalwood's plan at all. I realise that they needed some overarching conflict to give the story a sense of direction, but they could've done something that the majority of people would actually care about.

Like, you barely know anything about the commonwealth and then start being told that it's shit. Would've been better to actually see it for ourselves somehow, in my opinion.

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>>387036837
>>387037283
Hedwyn was the first I freed as well.

He was the only one who had told me why he was exiled and that he had someone back home that he wanted to get back to.

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>>387039753
>>387040019
I was invested enough that I hoped that it would turn out well for the characters' sakes, but I kind of wish that we had gotten a chance to see what the Commonwealth was like firsthand, or had a an epilogue section where we got to see and/or play as everyone we freed during the actual revolution.

>>387035007
To me Pyre ils the worst Supergiant game, although it's still good. Gameplay is too repetitive, AI is too predictable, music isn't as great as Bastion's or Transistor's, visuals aren't as pretty, story and world aren't as engaging. Still, kudos for trying something different.

My favorite team is Hedwyn, Xae and Ruskey.

I freed Hedwyn first.

I left Xae, Ti'zo and myself behind. Xae and Ti'zo seem to have bonded well, Xae doesn't have anything to go back to but she can stay with that guy whose father is a cur and I can just live the rest of my life with my life with my lovely Sandra.

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>>387040585

Its either Pyre or Transistor. Need to play the multiplayer with my friend to determine which pulls ahead.
Bastion is a cut below their independant work.

Big Bertrude

The chastity

Ti'Zo

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>>387035007
Probably the best for me in all respects except gameplay. Which was still good. Just samey by the end.

I'm surprised, I expected way more people to fall in love with Jodariel

Is it because of the size? you're afraid of dating a woman larger than you?

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>>387042463
I thought Jodie was great, but she just wanted to be bros.

I was too naive at first to notice that love was right in front of me. Decorating my desk and holding down my papers.

>>387042463
Jodariel would be my lesbian best friend. I'd wrestle and drink with her but anything romantic would feel out of place.

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>>387042463
She deserves someone stronger than I.

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>>387035007
Already eager to see what supergiant does next.

>>387043689
Three years ;_;

>>387043227
where did you get her full portait?

do you have them for all the characters?

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>>387044178
Sorry, I just saw it posted here.

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>>387042875
Good ending.

>>387035007

>How did you like it compared to Bastion/Transistor

Bastion > Pyre > Transistor
All 3 were pretty good tho.

>Best Character
Tariq is a pimp.

>Best Team
The Fates, only ones outside of my party I gave a shit about.

>Who did you free first
Jodariel, bitch has been down there the longest and my playstyle couldn't really exploit her.

>Who did you leave behind?
Ti'zo: cause he/she/it is a fucking bird.
Volfred: cause he had already given up, was Ti'zo's BFF and was the idealistic kind of treeman who would be better remembered if he didn't do anything after the revolution.
Myself: fuck civilized living I want to keep playing magical basketball.
Last person I liberated was Fae/Moontouched Girl, felt she kinda deserved it.

>>387044916
>Liberating the stoaway
>Not keeping her in the downside so that she can be with the boy from The Fate
Bad choice mate.

Can you tell me what happens to her if you free her?

>>387045574
>Can you tell me what happens to her if you free her?

She walks around in the revolution praising the scribes and becomes the leader of the new religion that worships the Scribes as gods.

>>387045574
i actually let the fate win their liberation rite thinking that dalbert would see the commonwealth again, but he anoints his son at the last second

naturally i then had to let _ae go topside, and then >>387045683
happens, but she and almer meet at some point and restore the oldheart name by having some slew of kids

>tfw ywn fug the pope

Did nobody else leave Bertrude in Downside? I thought it was a pretty easy choice, considering she's there by choice, and already has a livelihood set up as a talisman/potion seller in the swamp.

Especially if you also leave Volfred, as most seem to, cause they're old pals.

>>387047505
I don't think she's really there by choice, from what I understood she just followed Volfred because she loved him.
I sent her back but that's because I also sent Volfred. Separating them didn't make sense to me.

>>387047505
Yeah, she seemed to be pretty comfortable setting up her own business.

>>387045574
>Not allowing the Fate to win a liberation rite, letting Almer live with _ae in the topside where they fall in love

>>387047505
I don't think anyone would liberate bertrude.

>>387048583
>Willingly losing
>Willingly lessening the probability that your revolution will succeed

>>387048859
Almer actually helps the revolution.
He helps mend old cur/human divides.

>>387048859
Who gives a flying fuck about some queer-ass revolution in a place you know barely anything about? And the old guy from the Fates wants/deserves his freedom more than like half the guys on your team.

The art is really the only thing keeping me going right now. The gameplay is fine, but it really isn't what I want from a single player game. I don't like how I am supposed to be this character "The Reader".

It was fun playing against my bro in the local versus mode, and it is a shame there isn't online play.

Also it would be cool if you could coop with your bros, though I guess having only one person move at a time kinda goes against that.

>All these idiotic thread about Pyre

I can't get over the combat guys. It looks like garbage.

>>387049594
>upset that there are threads about a new game

But yeah, the magic basketball isn't for everyone, that's fair.

>>387049594
Actually the combat is fine. It just gets very repetitive after the first 12 fights.

>>387049867
It is more like reverse ultimate frisbee. Instead of having to stop when you have the frisbee while everyone else can move, you can only move when you have the frisbee and everyone else has to stop.

Plus it is all zone defense which is illegal in basketball.

>>387050131
Thematically, I refuse. It's too dumb


>>387049867
I just got excited to see it was a new Supergiant game and then triggered on multiple levels afterwards. Tried to watch trailers and they did fucking NOTHING to explain the combat or gameplay flow, read reviews and found out it's supernatural hoopz.

No thanks. Fuck. I wish Supergiant wasn't Nintendo tier with their need to change things up significantly with each release.

>>387035007

>How did it compare to Bastion/Transistor

I actually did not like Bastion at all. Thought it was overrated. Transistor I have not played because of my opinion on Bastion. When this game came out, I had a feeling it'd be good, and it was. Now I want to give Transistor a shot. Still think Bastion is overrated.

>Best Character

Ti'zo.

>Best Team

Nightwings of course. Fate is also good.

>Who did you free first

Jodariel. Liked her and wanted her to have her freedom first.

>Spoilers

Pamitha and Bertrude. Both seemed to got on well enough.

>>387050276
I thought the same thing until I actually played the game. I always hated sports game and thought it would be painful to play but it's not. Try it for an hour and refund it if you really hate it.

As for Supergiant changing things with each release, I'd rather see them do that than rehash the same formula every three years.

>>387049594
space jam has a lot of depth to it though

there's no single strat to win, races are reasonably balanced, and talismans/masteries add new strategies (explode a guy to create a portal on the other side of the map then roll in with a big dude that stuns the enemy team on jump)

>>387050276
there was a 25minute stream explaining the whole thing posted two months before release

>>387035007
>How did you like it compared to Bastion/Transistor
I haven't played Bastion in years, but I'd say it's probably on par. Haven't played Transistor.

>Best Character
Sandra best waifu, but I generally liked everyone.

>Best Team
Pamitha/Bertrude/Fae or Ti'zo are the best player team. Fate is the best opposing team. Legit wanted to let them win a liberation but I never got the chance.

>Who did you free first
Hedwyn. He made the most sense as he felt like the best choice to kick things off aside from Volfred (who didn't want to go anyway), and he's the only one who's crime I knew.

>Who did you leave behind?
Not entirely intentional, but Volfred, Bertrude and Pamitha. Volfred and Bertrude didn't care about leaving, and Bertrude just wants to be where Volfred was.

Pamitha I kept around partially because she was my MVP for the game, and because I let Oralech go. But she also got to sort of reconcile with Tamitha even though she's a bitch and hang out with Bertrude.

Overall I was pretty satisfied with the ending. Commonwealth went down peaceful, all of the Nightwings got some kind of good resolution and someone to hang out with, and I got to wander the world with Sandra. Did feel bad for the Fate and Ignarius though, so I may try to let them go in another playthrough.

>>387051115
Fucking hell, aside from your decision to let Oralech go, you did exactly the same as me. It's uncanny.

for those who haven't heard it, some anon found a prototype version of never to return in the sound files that korb later spun into the 9 different versions that you hear ingame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32qBcf7SotU

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>>387042875
>>387044585
>ywn inadvertently tickle Sandra while polishing her surface

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I wanted to free Oralech, but was afraid that the revolution wouldn't have succeeded if I did.

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>All these plebs rating Bastion the highest of the 3

>>387054531
Name a Zulf Moment in Pyre.

>>387042875
>>387044585
>>387053337
So since spirits can essentially be summoned inside of the orb, does that mean that you can send yours inside of it and have some kind of spirit sex with Sandra?

>>387054668
Zulf is all Bastion still has going for it over the other games and it's hardly enough to carry a game on it's own.

Artstyle, music, gameplay, narration. Bastion isn't the best on a single front besides the ending anymore

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>post yfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQhbktFT7HI

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>>387054682
Considering that the reader jokes about the true story of their relationship with Sandra being too lascivious to write about, I think it's up the the player to decide how their relationship works out.

>>387054774
Music is still better in Bastion and Transistor than in Pyre, except maybe the fact that there's a lute version of everything in the wagon.

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>>387054668
Different anon, but everyone arguing over who should go free during the last rite probably matches that moment for me.

>How did you like it compared to Bastion/Transistor
Easily my favorite overall, but I'm a sucker for anything with religious undertones like what Pyre touched on.

>Best Character
Jodi

>Best Team
Rhae/Pamatha/Jodi

>Who did you leave behind?

Gilman, Volfried, Bertrude

I also sent that shit Oralech back

His story wraps up nice if you send Ti'zo back too

>>387055116
>Lute versions of the vast majority of the soundtrack
>Ending song changes based on your choices
>Never to Return has a different version for every team and a different version depending on who is currently winning
>Incredible range Snake Soul, Grand Ceremony, and Trash Pack sound nothing alike, but songs like Path to Glory, Will of the Scribes, and In the Flame, and others still under a more unified aesthetic like Bastion or Transistor
>In the Flame has two different versions
>Vagrant Song
>Kirkhope tech: Aka songs flowing seamlessly into each other (Talking to Sandra demonstrates this perfectly.)

It's nostalgia talking anon. Bastion has been utterly surpassed.

>>387054668
Oralech and choosing who to free were Zulf moment that actually succeeded in being divisive and were scattered throughout the game instead of only the final 20 minutes. .
>Pick the wrong thing at Zulf (happened to a friend of mine, not me)
>Game goes from a 9/10 to like a 7.5/10
This shouldn't happen but it's more than regular in Bastion discussion for people who abandoned Zulf to be told they need to go play the entire fucking game again so they can pick the good ending.

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>>387054191
condensed version

>>387055539
I still find the narration (come on, he's voicing the whole story) and music itself, style and aesthetic present in every song, much better - sure it doesn't change and has a lot less variety but Build That Wall, Mother I'm Here and Setting Sail, Coming Home are all probably above most of the Pyre songs. The ending song of Pyre was actually meh, the weakest of all, probably because they had to make it so variable.

>>387056192
>Even caring about the separate versions of the vocals for Setting Sail, Coming Home

wew fucking lad, there's no way Bastion wins in vocal tracks. Transistor is still unmatched but Pyre has more than 1 song 3 times and rucks drunkenly singing to himself

>>387056035
Concentrated hopelessness.

>>387036476
I like Jodariel's little "Why... me?" when you anoint her prior to the Liberation Rite.
You can tell with that she still really hasn't believed you'd ever set her free, and in that moment you blow it all away.
Pure kino.
>gets offered a leadership position in a shadow group, big name shit - immediately turns it down and tromps off to do the right thing instead

>>387056701
>let Oralech win
>convince him that this is all bullshit and he should let go of his hate
>he offers his position to me
>ask if he could consider Jodariel
>says she had her chance already
>fuck, well, um, sorry about that Jod'.

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>How did you like it compared to Bastion/Transistor
I honestly can't choose, I love all of them so much

>Best Character
Bae definitely

>Best Team
Bae, Bertrude, Ti'zo

>Who did you free first
Rukey cause he honestly made the game too easy for me

>Who did you leave behind?
Bae, Berty, Ligeratus and Snekworm

I actually wanna replay the game just so I can hear Logan Cunningham sneering at me again, he was so fucking good as the Announcer
>YOU ARE NOTHING READER

>>387056192
Ruck's narration in Bastion regularly inhibits your ability to go fast because he'll go on for a paragraph at a time and the lines will queue up.It was cool at the time but feels heavy handed and laid on too thick now that I've played their later stuff. Rucks gets credit for being the first time anyone had done that but they did a pretty weak job of making you feel like the narrator was a part of the plot. They did an amazing job of learning from their first game for Transistor but kept the voice too similar and made him a budget Rucks in that game basically, but The Voice is the culmination of all the experience they've had in the past two games with a completely fresh character for Logan and it blows anything else they've done away.
Bastion has a unified aesthetic but it falls into the trap of making the songs sound too similar, there's a few slower tracks I can't tell apart.
And as for combat: Every Supergiant has some mechanic that you can potentially cheese or abuse that you need to ignore. In transistor it was a program or maybe combination of a program and certain modifiers I forget the name of, in Pyre it's abusing the AI with saps. Both of those are pretty easily avoidable.

But in Bastion? It's literally the block and dodge. It's inescapable and an integral part of the core gameplay.
>Dodge is hugely generous with I-Framtes
>Block can be imprecisely held down to block pretty much fucking anything
>On top of this you can reflect attacks back with the fucking shield
Most action games would be on a lot of peoples shitlist for having an over forgiving dodge or block mechanic, Bastion has both

Also there's the fact that the hitbox for falling off the world is consistently terrible throughout the game.

Extended OST of tracks not in the official one:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/n9b17lc6ub6cpyr/Noxalas.7z

If you picked any resolution to your speech besides 'the stars have joined us', you played the game wrong.

>>387057698
Is this flac or mp3?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkxXifynPmA

I didn't like the first hour of the game. But SuperGiant has a way of drawing me into their game worlds like nobody else. Somehow every single character was likable. Later I was tearing up at certain points.

>>387058026
mp3

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The only dev that has earned unquestioning pre-orders from me.

>>387058396
I loved the art and music of Bastion and Transistor but found them boring as all shit.

Not sure I care about Pyre. I hear it's way too easy to exploit the AI's stupidity.

>>387035007
>How did you like it compared to Bastion/Transistor
I'd honestly rate it higher than both. Bastion was a surprise and still rates high, but I think it's a bit overvalued. It had great music and atmosphere, but the gameplay was really generic. Pyre's atmosphere is less good, but the story, characters, music and most importantly the gameplay are all a step up.

>Best Character
Sandra for NPCs. Sir Gilman for player characters. Barker for enemies.

>Best Team
Volfred/Bertrude/Pamitha

>Who did you free first
Rukey Greentail. I didn't care much for his character, I rarely used him in battle and the only reason he was even eligible for release is because I was artificially boosting the Enlightenment level of my "useless" team members by spamming personal training at every opportunity.

>Who did you leave behind?
Myself, Ti'zo and Bertrude. Ti'zo literally belonged in Downside and Bertrude never showed any interest in getting free anyway, she was just in it do get the Volfred D (but he wasn't interested so whatever).

>>387057768
That doesn't even make sense, you are joining the stars.

>>387057768
>not enlightenment avails itself through struggle
i ain't moon-touched senpai

>>387058535
Not really, but you won't get a proper AI until you get the Titan Star that improves it proper and the character that breaks AI joins at the very end only.

>>387055252
Hey we both did the same thing

except I didn't free oralech, he said he wasn't gonna help so I just assumed he was a cunt

>>387058764
My nigga.

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Did they ever explain why Volfred suddenly spoke English in that one scene?

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>>387036612
>I freed Hedwyn, Jodariel and Rukey
>figured they'd be happy to be free and together again
>sacrifice myself in the end to set one more person free
>Hedwyn is sad because he didn't get to keep his promise to me
Fug.

>>387058930
>no Royce in the back with the Book of Rites
picture's amazing but I gotta take points off for it

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>>387058930
I believe he was Reading your mind like you are able to do to others, due to being a Reader and sufficiently enlightened

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>>387059024
Okay what about this one then?

>>387038372
I heard that if the Fate win, the dog guy pushes his "son" into the stream even though he was supposed to go free himself.

Is that true? If so, what the fuck? Oralech's backstory proves that if the wrong person enters the stream they fucking die.

>>387059168
As I understand it the Doggo gives it up willingly but Oralech has it stolen from him

>>387059168
I didn't try that but I heard it as well, the hell? Even if he didn't push him but decided to give his son his spot instead, still, what the fuck? - you appoint the liberated as the leader at the very start, why are they allowed to change them and you can't?

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>>387059168
When Fate win. the dad immediately annoints the son and then makes him go through - not the same thing. Anyone who is annointed and wins can go through the escape stream.

With Oralech the woman was not annointed so she died.

>>387059426
Whenever I see that cap the first thing I think is NOXALAS

>>387059032
>bright green lipstick
>used to have a special bond with Oralech
>shoots down Bertrude's advances
>in his speech about freedom, he talks about being persecuted for who you love

He's gay, isn't he?

>>387059567
>tfw you start to notice that they're not just spouting gibberish, but some sort of mangled Latin

>>387059594
All saps are.

>>387059168
>>387059373
ol' dalbert actually properly anoints his son after the rite is ended, like you can do after the final liberation rite, unlike erisa who pushes oralech over the edge and tries to jump into the shimmer pool

i was biting my nails because volfred had given me that anecdote immediately before i threw the match, but the old dog's adherence to the traditions of the scribes finally pulled through for him

Loved Bastion, found Transistor while "not bad" it didnt gel with me.

Whats Pyre? How does it compare?

>>387059594
Gay people don't smoke pipes like that

Evidence: Hugh Hefner, Bilbo smoked a pipe like that and his gay nephew Frodo did not

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>>387059760
>Bilbo smoked a pipe like that and his gay nephew Frodo did not

All hobbits smoke.

beat and loved bastion
sword spoke like a creep in transistor so i couldnt play it
skipping this

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>>387059706
>Go into multiplayer
>All the playable teams have a unique cheer
>All the playable characters have a gibberish recording of them doing each one of the teams cheers

>>387059872
Yeah but Frodo does a bit in the shire because of peer pressure, meanwhile Bilbo lives and dies by the pipe

>>387059958
I bet Bilbo smoked plenty of cocks while living with the elves.

Not to mention a dozen dwarves pounding his soft, tender boipucci during those cold nights on the road.

>>387060373
CEASE

>>387036118
>shae
>not mae

Its like you don't understand video games

>>387060893
Mae seems to be the most fitting name, because of the whole "Mae the Moon-touched" thing.

I prefer Fae as an actual name, but Fae the Fair doesn't work as well when they still call the Moon-touched at ever opportunity.

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>Barker Ashpaws' ending

>>387059706
it's actually some derivative of old world tongues mixed with some eastern stuff, english in-game is actually used to represent an old archaic language no longer used in the commonwealth

>>387059749
pyre is more like bastion than transistor in some regards - music is more acoustic strings, artstyle is more colorful, but stages are more psychedelic than the earthier tone of bastion

honestly gameplay is not really comparable, if what you disliked about transistor were the periodic breaks in gameplay from turn(), those are definitely gone but otherwise the 3v3 space jam is totally different from the isometric arpgs that were bastion and transistor

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>yfw Thrash Pack played for the first time

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>>387061407
>Think im starting to get a feel for what the game was gonna be like
>Thrash Pack starts playing
>Mfw

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>>387061407
That caught me off-guard.

Most of the music sounds like it would fit in seamlessly with Bastion, and then Thrash Pack comes along.

>>387061407
I wanna bully the Dissidents because their song is so good.
It's great that Barker keeps his word with basically no malice off of Rukey's bet, too. A Cur's Promise is serious shit, yo.

>>387061696
Barker is a cool dude. He just wants to have a good time without anyone telling him to turn down. He comes across like a brash asshole sometimes but he doesn't mean any harm.

>>387061248
Which one, the free ending or the downside ending?

I liked his downside ending. He's more upset that the Rites have ended than that his only shot at freedom is gone, so his just starts his own fake Rites.

>>387062062
Downside
based NBA dog

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>>387062062
>>387062215

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>>387062338
How did I not realise this?

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>>387062338

>>387062846
strongest character by far

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>>387063150
>wasn't a fan of her initially
>immediately became a fan when i dunked on the other team from almost literally half court

>>387063150
That's not Pamitha.

>>387063405
You start off thinking she's just another slow defensive character but that jump is something else.

Also her aura projection with the left-side masteries and her unique talisman is fucking insane.

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>>387063420
>Pamitha
lol lmao

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>>387063150
>>387062846
>>387063405
>Great at scoring and does amazing damage to the Pyre compared to a little fucker like Rukey or Gilman, even more with her talents
>One of the strongest fucking trinkets in the game
>Doesn't care about going home
>If you send her home anyway, she arguably makes the most use of her freedom and absolutely cleans up in the commonwealth revolution
>Isn't a bitch about Volfred not having feels for her
>Adapted to life in the downside almost instantaneously
>Top tier theme (Snake Soul)
Bertrude is unquestionably the best girl.

>>387063640
>dash forward, probably nuking at least one guy automatically
>pick up the orb
>fly over everyone
>score
>don't get banished so you can do it again immediately

Maxed out Pamitha is broken as fuck.

>>387063640
Pamitha isn't strong, but if you max her speed she can cheese the AI rather easily and dunk the pyre and come back next turn with her unique item.

The strongest for kills are probably gertrude with the piercing unique, and the worm if you build him for kills.

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>>387063764
>Bertrude is unquestionably the second best girl.

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>>387064021
She was so tsun tsun

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>>387063990
Yall sleep on Gilman i'm telling you
>Spec all into the right side tree
>Draw a tripwire of aura behind you
>Actually works with the increased attack radius
>Can snap back to your original position
>Can restore all your stamina from an attack on top of all that

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>>387064127
>slowly warms up to you
>suddenly starts to get bitchy again towards the end
>she's actually just pushing you away so it'll hurt less when you dump her
>you can take her orb with you in the end
>she gets mad because history gets her ending wrong
>you get to answer that the real ending is too lwed to be written down in history

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Why is there no pyre slam jam remix?

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>>387064209
The only bad part is he's such a bro I couldn't resist freeing him.

>>387064209
he becomes broken if you can grab a nomad with the revive mastery, bonus points for supporting oralech with his 1 hope

literally nobody ever dies

Best team best theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcjr7AUIXZw

>>387066268
I love how they did so many alternate version of songs so they can change depending on who you're facing and how well you're doing.

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>play through to the end, tear up at end credits
>want to play again
>but can't because it would cheapen the experience and choices I made the first time

>>387067494
I won every Rite in my first run, so now I kinda want to do a run where I lose every single Rite on purpose.

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>ramming into the Dissidents multiple times

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>>387067494
>a run where I lose every single Rite on purpose.

I thought about that but I don't think I could put the characters through it. Damn Supergiant making me care about a bunch of sprites.

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Is there anyone more satisfying to BTFO then this smug stick

>>387068228
Him and Lendel are the biggest cunts.

I've begun to appreciate the gameplay more now that I've completed the game. While playing I was too overly stressed about losing even a single match to enjoy it.

>>387068393
If you're getting your ass beat you can just pause the game and instantly restart the rite when you're about to lose.

Kinda cheapens the experience though.

>>387068550
I heard about that after beating the game too. Kind of a good thing as I know I would have abused it if I knew about it just to make myself be more at ease.

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>>387069453
>This is even worse than jerking off to ghosts in orbs.
That's not fair.

Sandra's a wraith, not a ghost.

>>387036837
The problem is that what he wants can't ever happen. He wants all four of you to go free, and he doesn't want to go free before you but he can't have both

>Hate Ser Gilman when he's introduced
>Slowly really grows on me
>Find out all his backstory and start loving to use him in the rites
>Suddenly have that anguish decision of freeing him or keeping him to play with.

The decisions were really hard in this game.
>Choice between freeing ~ae, myself or Oralech.

>>387069913
Fuck Oralech.

I mean I get why he's mad, I'd be mad as fuck as well if some whore cheated me out of my freedom. But taking it out on the Nightwings and needlessly antagonizing them with his True Nightwings bullshit was just petty. If he stopped acting like an edgy dick and asked to join the team I'd not only let him on board but set him free myself. But he just had to go and make an ass of himself. I didn't feel bad at all about wrecking him in the final Rite and setting free Volfred instead of him. Go jump off a cliff, you dumb faggot. Oh wait.

>>387035007
>How did you like it compared to Bastion/Transistor
Bastion will always hold a special place in my heart that I'm not sure it entirely deserves but I think Pyre's my favourite overall

>Best Character
Sir Gilman

>Best Team
Dissidents. Love those dogs

>Who did you free first
Hedwyn in the first playthrough, _ae in the second

>>387057279
I can't believe how fucking sick the Voice was. I always loved Logan as Rucks and honestly I recall being disappointed that it wasn't more of the same with Transistor, even though it was very close. But Brighton couldn't be any further from either of those roles yet he knocked it out of the park. Most enjoyable one yet

>>387071450
I love how throughout most of the game you could hear him talking about the reader with such thinly veiled contempt, and just being a sarcastic shit the whole time.
I loved when he stormed off when the New Nightwings showed up and he just rage quit that whole game.
>>387071590
Would you really die for Big Berty tho

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>>387071450
The Voice was so based he made me really question whether the Plan was going to end up being one of 'those' rebellions. The Commonwealth was busted, sure, but he did an excellent job of making me question whether the cure would be worse than the sickness.

>>387061838
>Bump into the Dissident's Blackwagon enough times
>Barker ain't even mad, likes the cut of your jib and would do the same

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>>387071762
>Would you really die for Big Berty tho
At first? No. But after she joined the team she grew on me.

>>387070221
did you have ti'zo in your final team? he becomes a bit more sympathetic if so

but yeah i liberated volfred over him, only pity is that volfred didn't prove to oralech that he dindu nuffin

Do you always get the rite where no-one turns up as the last non liberation rite?

>>387070221
Losing to Orelech is objectively the best course of action

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>Rite to free Pamitha against the harp team
>read her mind
>she ask you to let her sister win instead of her
What do?

>>387073106
Don't, it doesn't really bring Pamitha any real satisfaction. It doesn't make Tamitha happy either so it's a waste of a liberation

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>>387073106
>let them end up in the same place together
>Tamitha cripples Pamitha just for trying to speak to her
Even if they kind of make up afterwards, fuck that bitch. Pamitha deserves better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoqomwy5lhg
Friendly reminder that you will NEVER EVER hear this variation of the ending credits in-game

>Lendel goes mad waiting for new rites to free himeself

>THIS IS THE LIST OF CHARACTERS WHO HAVE DONE LITERALLY NOTHING WRONG
Oralech
Barker
Dalbert
Almer

Thank you for your time. This list is objectively correct beyond a reasonable doubt.

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>>387074135
>Barker

>>387074135
What about Ignarius?

>>387074135
Nigga Sir Gilman LITERALLY didn't do anything wrong. Dalbert knew exactly what celebrating Dog Kwanza was going to get him and he should have been more careful for his sons sake.

Also I just realized I have no idea what Oralech was exiled for.

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>>387074135
Gilman and Moon-touched girl were pretty cool. And Bertrude and Volfred were just making books. And Jodie didn't want to kill fledgling prisoners.

I guess most of our group was pretty moral outside of Rukey smuggling a bit.

HOW DO PEOPLE COMMUNICATE BY MESSENGER IMP IF MOST PEOPLE CAN'T READ?

>>387074561
>what Oralech was exiled for
Wasn't it because he was a doctor for both sides of the conflict and objected participating in the war?

>>387074598
Also Hedwyn lets several people die on his watch for feathery puss

>>387074707
The imps are super good at charades and pictionary.

>>387074712
That sounds familiar. I must have just forgotten

>>387074536
>>387074598
>>387074561
>THIS IS THE AMENDED LIST OF (NON-NIGHTWING) CHARACTERS WHO HAVE DONE LITERALLY NOTHING WRONG
Oralech
Barker
Dalbert
Almer
Iggy

Thank you for your time. This list is objectively correct beyond a reasonable doubt.

>>387074815
I still say remove Dalbert.

The thing I found the most weird about this game is that for as organized and special the Rites are, with it literally being magic sports, there's no real "fans" of the game. You have all these teams going around, challenging each other, making enemies, but there's not really enough civilization in the Downside for anyone outside of the handful of teams to really care.

>>387074897
there is anon

did you not go to the isle of khaylmer?

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>>387074536
>tfw you didn't let him win for the first liberation rite
>have to heard his self-hating thought each time you beat him
I never wanted these feels

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>Think that the cast I'm meeting in the game are going to be genuine criminals
>Closest things to anybody on the nightwings is to that is Hedwyn who was more stupid anything else, Pamitha who was more stupid than anything else, and Rukey, who engaged in the most benign form of smuggling in existence, literally smuggling in relief aid to the downside
>Even most of the enemies are non-criminals
My only major complaint with the game and really it ended up more being that the writing just took a different direction than I expected

>>387075168
That's just a few imps on an island. Everywhere else is barren except for maybe like, one harpy town.

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>>387074707
The free rebel can read obviously. It's pretty much the whole reason they started rebelling.

>>387074890
Dalbert's the nicest character in the game whatchu talking about?

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>>387074890
no
pic related: (you)

>>387074815
t. Deluge

>>387074897
Weren't Howlers fans or am I misremembering things?

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>>387075437
>>387075457
>Hey Dalbert celebrating Cur Kwanza is probably guaranteed to get you sent to the downside since it's banned and all
>Dalbert does it anyway
>Can't even parent his son enough to get the kid to fuck off and avoid him getting exiled too
Dalbert's a sweet old man but "nothing wrong" doesn't describe him.

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>>387074897
I guess it'd be kind of hard to have a following, considering that you can't even reach the rites without a wagon that's capable of flight.

Though I kind of like that your only audience is the Voice and the bards watching over you.

>>387075281
yeah, there just aren't that many settlements in the downside

everyone's struggling to make ends meet, minus some of the curs and crones - they certainly don't have time to go watch some chumps toss a shiny ball around in areas that may be totally inaccessible to those without a flying wagon

and the imps cheer whenever you pull off an achievement, so we can surmise that they're pretty universal in the downside

>>387075534
They are, but they're only seen in one arena and then are just regulated to giving you extra money if you complete challenges.

>>387075680
Guy just wanted to celebrate his culture. Doesn't mean that he wasn't the victim in that situation.

>>387076009
>>387075534
Howlers are just the wild animals of the downside.

Drive/Messenger imps were the fans on the island and that's when they start offering you the challenges too.

>>387071762
Hey, Big Bertha is a good war asset. Assuming you're full rebel, you may be up for dying for her.

Spoiler talk

I don't like how at the end of the game, if you do really poorly in the Rites and the plan goes to shit, the Commenwealth is still easily overthrown by the harpies. Sure, you want an ending with the least amount of casualties, and the game's big theme is that you should keep going no matter what happens because things can still work out, but a big failure of a plan should have more direct consequences. Maybe the Commenwealth stands but it's obvious it may fall one day, or the harpy government is better than the previous government, but still brutal and reform needs to come in time.

>>387076923
it's the telltale formula, your actions didn't really matter in the end, it was all about the characters!

I hate that bullshit but it's a trend people keep accepting, and it's not like reviewers play the game multiple times to experience different endings.

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>>387035129
One of the best songs by far

>>387079347
More like the make you care enough about the characters and their goal that getting a violent harp fueled revolution is a genuine punishment for most of the players.

>>387079964
Hello new wallpaper

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It was a nice touch how the wagon interior changes as you progress, with each new character or area.

>>387076923
Are there not very many variations for the end result of the revolution itself? I've only seen two.

Peaceful success, and semi-peaceful with some death from Harpy intervention.

I assumed that 0% chance of success was basically a massacre.

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>>387080594
>drinking it up with Pamitha and her magic bottle of endless booze

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>>387053337
Why live?

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>final rite
>If you lose but just barely to Oralech you can reach out to him and cause him to come to terms with what happened to him, in turn he offers to give up his rightfully earned freedom to you and gets a better ending.


best bro

>>387082812
What if his team absolutely wrecks you?.

>>387082812
>>387082916
I tested this earlier, his pyre had over 100 health when I lost and got the same thing.

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>>387082812
Makes me feel bad that I basically drove him to suicide with Bertrude's mad skills.

>>387083967
Don't feel sorry that he couldn't handle the DUNKS

>>387083967
>>387084064
You killed a man with 1 Hope.

>>387084231
not my fault he's such a faggot

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>>387084231
If you cant handle the heat stay outta the kitchen

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>>387074707
>Get in contact with Volfred's people.
>One of them can read and write.
>Tell them what to write
It's not that hard.

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I must say that i really like the idea demons just being a "mutation" that affect humans in the downside, and not being a different kind of creature.

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>>387085769
I wonder if she shaved them off after liberation.

>>387080594
>you can create a localized storm with the proper flasks and play a little ditty on the xylobones
was kind of hoping that would trigger a response like the bell/absinthe but i guess they can't get everything

>>387080594
I like how unassuming the bard's appearance is asleep in contrast to when he's woken up.

>>387085984
The demon features naturally regress after some time out of downside.

>>387086349
Did they confirm that? I just remember Jodie saying that she wondered if the horns would go away.

>>387086632
If you let oralech out his epilogue says they went away over time

>>387085769
>_ae or hedwyn eventually become ripped demon(ess)es if left in the downside
kinda hot desu

>>387080795
Yeah, if you mess up and get no one/hardly anyone out of the Downside, it's a massacre, but the harpies still wind up defeating the Commonwealth.

Obviously playing badly effects a bunch of characters on a personal level but I wish it had a larger impact on the ending outcome. It's just text, come on now.

>>387087703
Same goes for the reader

So, any idea if the harp prince is a myth?

How the crap are they not extinct?

>>387089862
Presumably their males have only recently died out. As for how they will survive, well in a good ending Hedwyn and his harp waifu will probably set a precedent where we'd see a lot of harp/human male couples.

The alternative is rape.

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>>387089862
I think the Harp Prince is real. You gotta remember that this is a fantasy setting where the only thing that determines if you can leave the Downside is if you're a weird imp or if you play sportsball and a waterfall says you can go up. I can believe that there's just one male harpy who fucks all the other harpies to keep the species alive. It's kinda like the gerudo from Zelda.

That also means harpies probably fuck normal dudes like >>387090163 says.

>jod will never sit on your face
why live

>>387093138

>rukey will never forgive you for abusing the nautical bell

why live

>>387093375
I half expected -99 Hope.

>>387091174
you can't even leave if you're an imp, they can just get closer to the barrier than most

>>387093375
"SO BE IT" as a response got me good, reader's got some sass

Only thing I dislike is the demon people have tiny legs, I want Jodariel to squeeze my head with fat juicy thunder thighs, rest awesome.

>>387095023
Demons skip leg day.

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>>387095023
the ingame models probably aren't totally representative of what they would actually look like, given that ignarius and oralech's horns don't fit inside their masks

conclude what you will from the full sprite