I want someone I can talk spoiler-y stuff about Bastion with.
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There's two moments in Bastion that have really lodged in my head as game design I'm not gonna forget.
The first was the in-game achievement/reward for killing n "beasts of the wild"... which (I think for most players) was completed upon first meeting and then killing an adversarial human.
It took a goal you'd been working towards and then subverted it to show the racist, imperialist nature of your society -- without any words spoken.
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The second was at the very end of the game: finding Zulf injured and trying to carry him out. Gave up the last dungeon superpower and can't fight, and there's dozens of Ura trying to shoot you down. Chugged health pots but only had so many.
This was right after it had been revealed that The Calamity was indeed a weapon of genocide.
Right then, I thought I was gonna die, for realsies and not come back. And, in that moment, I thought that was a fitting outcome.
