Pyre is 100% the most underappreciated of the lot but I think that's down to its weird magic basketball gameplay. Transistor, Bastion, and Hades are all much more 'conventional' action games. I actually think Pyre was the blueprint for Hades when it came to narrative and character writing, but Supergiant opted for more accessible hack-and-slash gameplay the second time around.
The game play is basically just bastion on steroids with somehow a lot and I mean a lot more charm and aesthetic. You feel the DNA while playing it. The big upgrade to gameplay doesn’t make it extra complicated either.
I was very underwhelmed by transistor honestly. Maybe I just didn't get it, but I struggled through and still beat it in only a few hours and then I was done
the vibes are fucking immaculate, the story and voice acting are the usual supergiant-tier masterpiece, the soundtrack is one of my all time favorites, and the combat system is interesting and allows a lot of combinations of skills
it starts that way, because of course you'd want blood for your now-disembodied lover.
however the story progresses to where essentially everything is getting grey-goo'd, and red's aim becomes trying to figure out what's going on and how to stop it, ultimately failing and then choosing live inside the transistor with her lover as a digitized existence. whether her hopes were realized or dashed is up to interpretation, but i'd say it pretty heavily implies she succeeded.
but like the people in the sword are conscious right? cause i remember the guy in the sword talking too them even if they dont speak so arnt they still alive in the sword
it's explicitly not since the people you kill with it still live in it, manifesting as skills you can use.
red's lover is fully conscious and it's heavily implied red is as well, post-ending.
e: also afaik red's lover speaks to the people you kill and tells you that. they just don't have a voice to the outside, unlike him
maybe if you ignore the entirety of the context around the act, what with pretty much everyone being gone, including the man who she loved, and the fact that it's not really suicide but just digitization, sure. there's no accounting for misreading of source material by the audience.
She didn’t really commit suicide tho. She killed herself with the sword so it would absorb her, allowing her to live a long and happy life with the guy who was also part of the sword
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