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A fun little indie platformer. To beat each stage, you'll need to take snapshots of objects, manipulating them so you can reach the end.

Taking snapshots makes items disappear, and pasting them back into the world causes them to reappear for you to use. Momentum is preserved in the snapshot, so items flying by will continue flying by when pasted back into the world. You are limited 3 snapshots at any one time.

The game rates your performance on four criteria: finding and taking a snapshot of the hidden item (and taking them to the end of the stage, which means taking up one of your three snapshot slots), whether you beat the stage under par time (you've gotta be FAST), whether you collected all the stars in the stage (which are slightly attracted to you, making collection a touch easier), and whether you found all the stars in the chapter (each chapter consists of three stages).

This rating system makes the game addicting and very replayable. Each completed level's progress is saved upon completion, allowing you to immediately retry a particular stage to perfect it.

The artwork is beautiful and colorful. The game is highly polished quality. I highly recommend this fun little game.

Fun, fast, and frantic! This game is a tower defense (perhaps "trap defense" is more accurate) mixed with a third-person shooter. Incredibly addicting, and it gets hard fast. You can unlock new traps, weapons, items, and upgrade each of them, too. Perform better in each level to gain more skulls, which let you unlock more.

A beautiful adventure game with real personality. Every level appears hand-drawn, with gritty texture (and I don't mean that in the 3D rendering way) that makes the world stand out as a tarnished and dirty place. Despite not having any lines, the game is quite good at articulating not just what characters are talking about, but how they're saying it. Even the backstory, doled out piece by piece, is touching.

Gameplay, storyline, music and art are the four cornerstones of video games, and Bastion gets all of them right. You'll form a bond with the Narrator almost immediately as he narrates your actions as you progress.

You'll have a variety of unique weapons to choose from, discovered as the game progresses. Unlike many other games, the weapons don't simply get better, they get different. In fact, there's nothing wrong with sticking with your original weapon throughout the entire game, although you're limiting yourself by not trying the different fighting styles the other weapons encourage.

Bastion is a game that you'll remember for a long time, one of those unique experiences you'll fondly remember for years to come after you've mastered it. In a time where downloadable games often mean low prices and low quality, Bastion is a shining example of great things really can come in "small" packages.

The art is fantastic, the music is great, the puzzles are time-warping and tough to get your brain around. The writing isn't very good, but there isn't much of it so it matters little. It's a small game, and I highly recommend it.

Boring by yourself, really. You must have friends to share the fun.