Bastion Preview

Scrawl FX has conjured up a hands-on preview of the upcoming XBLA action RPG Bastion, and it sounds like they came away from the title somewhat impressed.

Other than it’s Diablo-esque gameplay, one of the game’s star features is its never-off narrator. Without him, you wouldn’t know what the hell you were doing. As you awake on a floating bed at the start of the game, he guides you, and from that point, he’ll never stop. It’s constant narration. Find a new item? The narrator will probably say something along the lines of, ‘˜The kid found something with a shiny glow. Didn’t know what it was.’

There was one point during my session where I fell off the floating land and the narrator said something similar to, ‘˜the kid fell off and died,’ and, after a short pause, added ‘˜just kidding!’ The player then came back from the dead. I laughed (or lol’d, if you’re a gangster). He really brings life to the torn-apart world of Bastion.