The Innovative Indie Goodness That Is 'Bastion'

Sat, 07/14/2012 - 23:49 EDT - Forbes.com - Top Stories

Video There's a lot to love about Bastion, a top-down action-RPG game that takes a lot of the old Diablo mechanisms and does something entirely new with them. Like Diablo III, Bastion hews to a painterly style, though the game is one of the more colorful I've played. The world builds itself as [...]

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