Transistor "Peek"

Let's take a peek at: "Transistor"

Transistor is an action RPG made by the same guys who made the magnificent title: Bastion. It was just released yesterday and it's available now on PS4, Xbox One and Steam. And while it certainly resembles Bastion a lot, it is a very different masterpiece altogether.

As far as plot goes, the story is told in a fashion very reminiscent of its predecessor, only this time around, cut-scenes are more frequent and since they are comprised of amazing art and genius portrayal it becomes a delight to witness every single one of them. To put it bluntly and spoiler free, you assume the role of Red, a former high class member of the Cloudbank society who's now on the run after a tragic event. The only thing to keep you company is a very sci-fi looking great sword that can speak, and oh boy does it sound sexy as hell. (In the PS4 version you can have it speak through your controller)

cut-scenes riddled with this amount of detail, impressive artistic direction and totally rad script are really one of the highlights of the experience 

The game's visuals are stunning and its art style is outstandingly charming and colorful, it also does not sacrifice the slightest shred of complexity and seriousness where it is needed, and it is needed a lot, trust me. A soundtrack just as beautiful and varied as in Bastion accompanies you throughout your journey and often interacts with the way you traverse the city and battle your way through waves of evil technological monsters spawned by a phenomenon called "The Process".

It is often difficult to praise a game's design as well as its aesthetics and soundtrack when it looks and sounds as beautifully as Transistor does but it undoubtedly surpasses the latter. Transistor's strongest suit is it's refined gameplay, and here's why:

it's not only spectacular, it looks and feels frigging cool too.

Where as Bastion felt as if it was catered to a western audience, Transistor is heavily motivated to please the complicated strategist palette of the JRPG audience. Dozens if not hundreds of more numeric, priority focused and positioning tactics plague Transistor's combat system, and that's a good thing. Instead of being chained to an optimal dps model, you are given multiple choices when it's time to address your encounters. Be it through sheer fortitude, stealthy obliteration, multiple target barrages, ally recruitment subterfuge or even kiting methods. Virtually any wave can and should be addressed differently than the last and the amount of substantial change is chosen by you!

To better portray it all: You have 4 abilities that you can map to four buttons, but every ability can be turned into a passive for you, or an upgrade for another ability. The way you use these is just like you would in any action RPG game by pressing the button, duh. You also have a technique called "Turn" which stops time and allows you to program and deliver a sequence of abilities and movements in order to turn the tide of battle, dodge an obviously fatal blow or deliver the final one yourself.

this is just a sneak peek of the full ability roster but the amount of possible combinations and customizations is almost unfathomable, you'll most likely finish the game using a very different kit than any of your friends, seriously

Ultimately a story with an astonishing setting, compelling lore and characters, wonderful soundtrack and sound design, intricate strategic combat that doesn't sacrifice flow or immersion and rewards the player for learning its ropes all the while respecting his or her intelligence, cool boss battles and a nice amount of extra content. This is what makes Transistor a game very well worth it's price tag and a title you must have. Whether you're into action RPGs or not, give it a go. I promise you, you wont regret it.

come on man, what are you doing!? Red is waiting for you! hurry up!

Here`s some contact info you might like to know in case you wanna add me up and play or just have a chat with me, I must not seem like it now and I don`t think I`ll seem like it any time soon, but I`m not a company, I`m a kid who enjoys playing video games and is very excited to share them with you guys.

Steam: Bombermanganzon

Diablo III: kiwicupcake (yeah, dont ask about that one)

League of Legends: Skyward Svvord

Guild Wars 2: Vitesong

If you are looking to see If I`m available in any other game or platform such as Miiverse by example, email me at: fastpegasusboots@gmail.com

Animal Crossing: New Leaf Review

Animal crossing: New Leaf review: 

Hard work & commitment = serene relaxation.

Animal crossing: New Leaf is the latest entry to the animal crossing series, whether you're here to read about it because you've been a long time fan of the series or because thanks to the Villager's announcement as a playable character for the all new super smash bros. game caught your attention, look no further, here you'll find out everything you need to know about it.

Summary: the Animal Crossing series are simple, delicate, but very rewarding life simulators. In this specific entry, you begin your journey into a new fulfilling life aboard a bus, in which a friendly cat named Rover starts helping you sketch out the details about yourself, the name of the town you're off to making your life in and even helps you pick out the landscape it`ll have. Once you arrive you are ambushed by friendly folks that reveal to you, you're bound to be the town's new mayor and that there are lots of things to do.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a real time life sim, filled with a staggering amount of things to do and discover but an even gargantuanly larger amount of things to collect. it's an amazing experience, but it is far more relaxing than it is exciting or challenging, it acts as a sort of analogy for real life itself. There are tons of fun to be had catching bugs, fishing, digging up fossils, buying works of art, planting and re-arranging trees and foliage, decorating and expanding your house, among many other things, but there is also an intricate time consuming way to keep it all in check.

Just LOOK at the decoration in that room, isn`t it beautiful? Don't get distracted by the mario-mustache rabbit, look at the room decor! Gosh!

To lay it out simple and clean, you first need to thoroughly understand what playing a real-time life simulator really means. Animal Crossing has never been a series where the hardships of life are portrayed and you need to worry sick about what's going on when you're not around. But it is your duty as a mayor and the only working townsfolk to chat and interact with the people around your town or they'll move out. You need to water the plants, chop down the undesired trees, collect a huge amount of items to donate to the town's museum (to help with your town`s cultural education), among several other activities. these are just the main chores and responsibilities of a mayor. And they need to be done daily. You are encouraged to strive for making your town beautiful, well developed, its citizen happy and its businesses prosper.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf sees many welcome additions to the series, it is quite impressive how much the game developers managed to pack into the 3DS cartridge, specially considering this is a game that simulates the passing of years thoroughly. The cloth designing and sharing feature is tons of fun and easy to use, whether it appeals to you or not I can almost guarantee you'll be eager to give it a spin and you won't resist picking up some of the other user created content. There are tons of cool things the fabulous Animal Crossing community shares. Along with more customization options for your character than we've ever seen before and some other cool things to unlock which I wont spoil for discovery-reward's sake, this game is well worth its price and its release as a new, full fledged sequel to this long lived franchise.

You`ve got to admit it... that girl looks FABULOUS!

There are 2 ways of going around animal crossing, time traveling or just plain old jolly living, the first may sound very cheat-like but its actually very well acknowledged by the game's developers and how most hardcore fans of the series go about the game. Like I said, this game really delivers when it comes to simulation, seasons pass, day and night come by just as they would in real life, holidays get celebrated and for goodness sake even astronomical events are well depicted! So you are given the choice of going about the birth, development and blossoming of your town at the pace you choose via time traveling or at the slow, breezy, pace of life itself.

No matter which road you take, don't be afraid, everything is explained through some of the quirkiest, cutest, easy to read and understand dialogue you've ever seen. The game does an amazing job of making you feel both qualified for the task and excited to do so. Mix the daily easy to do but repetitive tasks, the exploration and collection of a wide variety of items that come with their own educational facts and cheerful puns, a high reward for you that expresses itself in the form of a sincere gratitude from the cute animals you live with and a continuous but slow paced barrage of new things to do to personalize your house, town and persona. And there you have it, Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

EVIDENCE: Overly cute hedgehog fashion designer having a quirky conversation with you.

Visuals: the game looks pretty but not outstandingly so, the art style allows for a very pretty but also simple looking characters and settings. Yes, they are very colorful and pleasant to look at and you'll be doing a lot of looking, so its just like it needs to be. It is also important to note the 3D feature is very eye friendly, it doesn't feel overloaded, it didn't make me feel sick at all like in other games and it doesn't drop the frame-rate. 8.5/10

Gameplay: the controls are easy to learn, everything is well explained and your inventory which is opened and closed a lot is easy to manage. Like I said: there are lots of things to do, some easier to get a hold of than others but nothing difficult. You'll find yourself auto-piloting through most of the tasks in a little while and eager to make use of the many customization options for your character, town and house. 7.75/10

Story: there is not much of a story to tell, and that`s fine. The focus of these type of games and this series in particular is not the departure or the destination. Its the journey itself, which sometimes may come out a bit simple and vague and sometimes relaxing and joyful, the only minor concern here is that if you don't time-travel, you will have many empty, repetitive, chore feeling days in between exciting or interesting holidays and events and that can be frustrating. 7/10

Music: this time around many many old good tunes make an appearance, some of them even sound better than what I recall. The new tunes are up to the standard and good to hear included into an already great soundtrack. You need to remember that in a game not filled with combo sound effects, announcers, and voice acting that doesn't sound like a really sped up squirrel voice, pleasant music is a must and Animal Crossing: New Leaf is full of it. 9.5/10

Final verdict:

Animal Crossing: New Leaf, is worth every penny, In its core, all the single player experience is very time consuming but very fun in its own way, this game is not for everybody, but that's just because of its genre, If I have something to confess its: these are not my type of games, yet I thoroughly enjoyed playing it. I spent at least 50 hours going at it daily over the course of 3 weeks and strongly recommend this amazing piece of work. It`s lots of fun to play either alone or with pals, with constant StreetPass feedback, online connectivity with friends and strangers alike, mini-games that are fun, competitive and rewarding. This Animal Crossing entry gets a:

8.6/10

Last, but not least, this an image courtesy of Kotaku.com that shows how some well known video game magazines and sites rated the game:

Here`s some contact info you might like to know in case you wanna add me up and play or just have a chat with me, I must not seem like it now and I don`t think I`ll seem like it any time soon, but I`m not a company, I`m a kid who enjoys playing video games and is very excited to share them with you guys.

Steam: Bombermanganzon

Diablo III: kiwicupcake (yeah, dont ask about that one)

League of Legends: Skyward Svvord

Guild Wars 2: Vitesong

If you are looking to see If I`m available in any other game or platform such as Miiverse by example, email me at: fastpegasusboots@gmail.com

Welcoming Article

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog!

Here, you can read about upcoming video games, reviews, and opinions. I plan to expand on what I already have, as of November 20th, 2013 I only have a Twitter account with only 12 followers by the name of @Pegasus_Boots and 1 published article in Spanish on 2 local newspapers. So I`m still very early in development. If I may address you guys in a "vidya" related fashion.

But you guys will help me survive in this strange planet just like pikmin do, right guys? ...right?

But! there is plenty more I plan on doing, now if life has taught me anything as a wise and powerful 20 year old baby, its: "Don`t get ahead of yourself"

Now I will share with you what vision I have but I will ask for your patience, I want to eventually start a whole video game news, reviews and opinions network, complete with a YouTube channel, before release reviews, special gaming segments with in-depth analysis, maybe "let`s plays" and all that sort of stuff.

Yes, I will eventually start and micro manage all the mumbo jumbo that comes with a network service such as its own Facebook page, Instagram Account, Vine video distribution, possibly Twitch streams, and all that. But this is so far down the road I`m not even considering it in my calculations, so don`t worry about it too much.

Come on... don`t look at me that way...

Like I said before, I don`t want to go around promising things that are not even within my imagination`s grasp right now, you should probably know that I am currently studying journalism, I live on my own, and have to take long periods of my time to play games! because I review them of course, not because I am lazy *ahem*.

So with no other details to explain for now and with hopes you guys stayed together with me until this point, I`d like to welcome you to Pegasus Boots Gaming!

Here`s some contact info you might like to know in case you wanna add me up and play or just have a chat with me, I must not seem like it now and I don`t think I`ll seem like it any time soon, but I`m not a company, I`m a kid who enjoys playing video games and is very excited to share them with you guys.

Steam: Bombermanganzon

Diablo III: kiwicupcake (yeah, dont ask about that one)

League of Legends: Skyward Svvord

Guild Wars 2: Vitesong

If you are looking to see If I`m available in any other game or platform such as Miiverse by example, email me at: fastpegasusboots@gmail.com