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Linus Tech tips coverage of PS 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel

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and steel series hey guys we're here at the super giant games Booth to check out

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their new game transistor if you guys have watched the live stream much you guys probably know that I'm a huge fan

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of Bastion as I've recommended it multiple times uh especially during the

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Steam summer sale when it was super cheap so no problem no

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problem um so transistor is not basan 2

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it is its own game entirely what else can you tell me about transistor the transistor is the new science fiction

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themed action PG from uh super giant games the creators of Bastion uh we have

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the whole team back together again to to work on this next project with a handful

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uh new people um and it sort of features

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uh you know Rich hand painted world it's like a beautiful uh sort of city uh and

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it has a new protagonist red our main character uh we also have uh the voice

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of Logan Cunningham who was the narrator uh uh of character of ruxs in Bastion

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back as a as a different character as the voice coming from the transistor uh

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interacting with red throughout our journey the game is a little bit more

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tactical a little bit more strategic you can pause the game at any time and sort

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of issue a bunch of commands and you know undo them and figure out what you

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want to do and then execute them and see how they all turn out so it's a sort of

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you know strategic game but within a more immediate and real-time feel that's

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cool he mentioned RX or the narrator from basian and that's a really big

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point because they're bringing back stuff like uh audio that the the the

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music that they had in the previous game was so good and very very well known I

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have I bought the soundtrack and listened to it actively even though I beat the game a long time ago and their

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narrator people like him so much they're buying audio packs for Dota 2 so they

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can listen to him while they play Dota 2 so bringing these elements back it's a

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really good idea because it makes such a complete game and while this isn't basan

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2 you can definitely see influences so if you're a fan of Bastion I'd highly

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recommend playing it is there any like what's your favorite part about the game

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uh my favorite part about the game is probably music so like Darren uh Darren

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is my longtime friend I've known him since I was like 8 years old or something like that uh and he's a

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composer for for the game he did all the music for Bastion uh and you know the

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first work he did was stunning it like won BGA and stuff and it was super cool

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for me as his friend that that happened uh and then to see him sort of like

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outdo himself on the subsequent game has been really really awesome so uh

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definitely a big fan of of of the music of the game among the many things that

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that I enjoy about it yeah yeah now I don't want any spoilers but what can you

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tell me about the storyline in transistor I mean so I can sort of tell

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you a little bit of what we're showing here it's just you know uh you come into

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the uh into the into the game Into The Experience uh uh the character red is

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there and uh she's got the transistor uh and she hears a voice coming from it uh

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basically urging her to get away from uh this sort of mysterious Force that's

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pursuing her at every turn uh through the city and I don't want to give away

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too much but uh but basically what we have here is the introduction of that of

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the of the sort of forces of antagonism that are that are trying to uh lock red

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down and and uh and you know the introduction to the game game play

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mechanics the transistor itself uh all its secrets and Mysteries and powers

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that we sort of let you uh unlock and wield over the course of the game cool

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cool and I know basan was on quite a few platforms so what platforms are people

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going to be able to buy transistor on so transistor will launch uh on the PS4 and

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PC via Steam and our website cool cool

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uh do you have a release date for it uh it's early next year yeah we we don't

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have a date yet I wish I knew but uh we're still working on it um it's got a

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little bit way a little bit ways to go so so yeah but it'll be there next year

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early next year yeah I'm actually happy to hear that because very locked down

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release dates are often not a good thing I'd rather it was released when it was ready yeah no for us that's a big deal

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it's very important so yeah yeah yeah uh

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thank you for watching our super giant games Booth thank you for watching transistor if you want to see all of our

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