Transistor

🗃️ Specifications

📰 Title:	Transistor	🕹️ / 🛠️ Type:	Game
🗃️ Genre:	Adventure & Action	👁️ Visual:	2.5D
🏷️ Category:	Adventure & Action ➤ Role-playing game ➤ Action RPG ➤ Misc.	🏝️ Perspective:	Third person
🔖 Tags:	Action RPG; Adventure; Hack and Slash; Strategy; Tactical; FNA; Sci-fi; Cyberpunk; Story Rich; Narrative; Atmospheric; Female Protagonist; Colorful; Short	⏱️ Pacing:	Turn-Based
🐣️ Approx. start:		👫️ Played:	Single
🐓️ Latest:		🚦 Status:	04. Released (status)
📍️ Version:	Latest: -	❤️ Like it:	9. ⏳️
🏛️ License type:	💰 Commercial	🎀️ Quality:	7. ⏳️
🏛️ License:	Commercial	✨️ (temporary):
🐛️ Created:	2015-03-18	🐜️ Updated:	2024-06-22

🚦 Entry status

📰 What's new?:		👔️ Already shown:
💡 Lights on:		💭️ New version published (to be updated):
🎨️ Significant improvement:		🦺️ Work in progress:
🎖️ This work:		🚧️ Some work remains to be done:
👫️ Contrib.:	goupildb & Louis	👻️ Temporary:
🎰️ ID:	14670

📖️ Summary

📜️[en]:	A sci-fi themed action RPG that invites you to wield an extraordinary weapon of unknown origin as you fight through a stunning futuristic city. The game seamlessly integrates thoughtful strategic planning into a fast-paced action experience, melding responsive gameplay and rich atmospheric storytelling	📜️[fr]:	Un RPG d'action sur un thème de science-fiction qui vous invite à manier une arme extraordinaire d'origine inconnue en combattant dans une superbe ville futuriste. Le jeu intègre de manière transparente une planification stratégique sérieuse dans une expérience d'action rapide, mêlant un gameplay réactif avec une narration riche et atmosphérique.

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📕 Description [en]

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Transistor is a sci-fi themed action RPG that invites you to wield an extraordinary weapon of unknown origin as you fight through a stunning futuristic city.
The game seamlessly integrates thoughtful strategic planning into a fast-paced action experience, melding responsive gameplay and rich atmospheric storytelling. During the course of the adventure, players will piece together the Transistor's mysteries as they pursue its former owners.

🌍️ Wikipedia:

Transistor is an action role-playing video game developed and published by Supergiant Games. The game was released in May 2014 for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4, and for OS X and Linux in October 2014, and iOS devices in June 2015. Transistor sold over one million copies across all platforms by December 2015.

Gameplay

Transistor utilizes an isometric point of view. The player controls the character Red as she travels through a series of locations, battling enemies known collectively as the Process in both real-time combat and a frozen planning mode referred to as "Turn()". Using Turn() drains the action bar, which refills after a short delay. Until it is full again, Red cannot use Turn(), or any other power (without a specific upgrade). Red earns experience points after each battle, and may collect new powers (called Functions) from fallen victims of the Process. Functions may be equipped as one of four unique techniques, as an enhancement on another, equipped technique, or as a passive, persistent effect during battle. For example, the Function Spark() may be used to fire a wide area attack, equipped on another Function to increase its area of effect, or used as a passive effect to spawn decoys of Red. Red can also collect and activate Limiters, which serve as optional debuffs during combat, but in turn increase experience gained. Both Functions and Limiters reveal minor parts of the story if used for a long enough time.

For the PlayStation 4 version, the DualShock 4 light bar flashes in sync with the Transistor's speech.

In June 2015, the game was released on the iOS App Store with default tap controls configured for the iPhone and iPad touchscreens. In addition, the iOS version of the game includes optional gamepad support.

In November 2015, the game was released for the Apple TV and is compatible with the Siri Remote.

Story

Red, a famous singer in a city called Cloudbank, is attacked by the Process, a robotic force commanded by a group called the Camerata. She manages to escape and comes into possession of the mysterious Transistor—the great sword-like weapon she was to be assassinated with. The Transistor is buried into the chest of a man, now slumped over and dead; though his consciousness and voice seem to have been absorbed into the Transistor itself along with Red's voice. The Camerata continue to track Red and the Transistor down with the Process, wanting the weapon for some yet-unknown cause.

Plot

The game opens with the player character, Red, kneeling by the body of an unknown man who has been killed with a glowing great sword—the titular Transistor. Red is a singer, and the attack which killed the man has also stolen her voice, sealing it inside the Transistor. The dead man's consciousness has also been absorbed into the sword, and through it, he is able to speak to Red and act as the game's narrator. As Red makes her way out of the district in which the game starts, she comes into conflict with an army of robotic intelligence known as the Process.

Red makes her way to her former performance stage, in Cloudbank's Goldwalk district, where it is revealed that the Process is being controlled by the Camerata, a sinister group of high-ranking officials. They were the ones who attacked Red, though the attack was thwarted when the man in the Transistor stepped in front of the blow. As Red travels, she discovers several Cloudbank citizens who have been "integrated" by the Process and absorbs their trace data into the Transistor, expanding the weapon's functionality. Upon reaching the stage where she performed that night, Red encounters Sybil Reisz, the Camerata member who had befriended her before the assassination attempt, in a corrupted Process-like form. It is revealed that Sybil was in love with Red, and that she arranged for the attack in an attempt to cause the man's death and have Red to herself. After defeating Sybil and absorbing her consciousness into the Transistor, Red uses Sybil's knowledge of the Camerata to locate their leader—one of the administrators of Cloudbank, Grant Kendrell.

As Red enters the Highrise district, the Process becomes more aggressive in their actions, attacking the entire city; this leads to the Process becoming public knowledge. Asher Kendrell, another member of the Camerata, publicly apologizes for the Camerata's actions and reveals their involvement in the Process invasion, going so far as to contact and apologize to Red for all that the Camerata has done to her, the mysterious man in the Transistor, and the dozens of other influential figures who have been Processed and destroyed. It becomes apparent that the Camerata are no longer in control of the Process, and that the current situation is very different from their intended vision. After fighting past numerous Process enemies, including a massive creature referred to as the "Spine" whose mere presence severely affects the man in the Transistor, Red reaches the hideout of the Camerata in Bracket Towers only to find that Grant and Asher have committed suicide.

After resolving to hunt down the final member of the Camerata, Royce Bracket, and then escape the city, Red and her companion find themselves traveling back through the starting portion of the game which has now been "Processed" into a blocky, white facsimile of its original form. Upon reaching the starting point of the game, Royce approaches Red through a robotic proxy and offers a truce in order for them to work together to stop the Process. Royce reveals that the Transistor is a "remote-control" to manipulate the changing landscape and environment of Cloudbank. It is the central part of the apparatus used by the city's administrators, including the late Grant, to change the city to fit the whims of the people. After fighting through the completely Processed district of Fairview, in which the Process has evolved a humanoid form and the laws of physics only loosely apply, Red arrives at the Cradle, the system that the Transistor powers in order to manipulate the Process—which is suggested to be an integral part of the system to rearrange and change Cloudbank—and stop the invasion. After Red places the Transistor in the Cradle, she and Royce are absorbed into it. In the Transistor's virtual realm, now armed with a Transistor of his own, Royce informs Red that only one of them can escape back to Cloudbank and repair the city. He apologizes to Red for this and the two clash.

After defeating Royce, leaving him trapped inside the Transistor-world, Red is transported back into Cloudbank, where she begins the task of rebuilding Cloudbank's Processed areas. Upon un-processing the mysterious man's body and learning he cannot be restored from inside the Transistor, she sits down beside him and—despite his protests and pleadings otherwise—impales herself with the Transistor, committing suicide. In the closing credits sequence, it is shown that the man is reunited with Red within the virtual world of the Transistor. At this moment, a heartfelt embrace reveals that her voice has also been restored.

Music

Transistor's soundtrack was written and produced by Darren Korb. It was released simultaneously with the game on May 20, 2014. Ashley Lynn Barrett, who was the female vocalist in Bastion's soundtrack, returned to provide vocals for "The Spine", "In Circles", "We All Become", "Signals", and "Paper Boats". The musical style of the soundtrack has been described by Korb as "old-world electronic post-rock". To fit that genre of music, the instruments used includes electric guitars, harps, accordions, mandolins, electric piano, and synth pads. Additionally, an EQ filter is overlaid over the music during the pause and "TURN()" menus to have a distant, blurred sound.

The soundtrack sold 48,000 copies within the first ten days of release.

On November 2, 2015 to commemorate Transistor's release on Apple TV, a new bonus track written and produced by Darren Korb, "She Shines" was added to the soundtrack. Ashley Barrett returned to provide the vocals.

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📕 Description [fr]

Un RPG d'action sur un thème de science-fiction, par le studio Supergiant Games, portage Linux par Ethan Lee (flibitijibibo).
Il utilise le framework FNA.

Transistor est un RPG d'action sur un thème de science-fiction qui vous invite à manier une arme extraordinaire d'origine inconnue en combattant dans une superbe ville futuriste.
Le jeu intègre de manière transparente une planification stratégique sérieuse dans une expérience d'action rapide, mêlant un gameplay réactif avec une narration riche et atmosphérique.
Au cours de l'aventure, les joueurs pourront reconstituer les mystères du transistor alors qu'ils poursuivrons ses anciens propriétaires.

Particularité du jeu :
On peut attaquer les ennemis en temps réel, néanmoins l'héroïne peut arrêter le temps, permettant ainsi de programmer les combats.

Transistor est un RPG d'action sur un thème de science-fiction qui vous invite à manier une arme extraordinaire d'origine inconnue en combattant dans une ville futuriste époustouflante.
Le jeu intègre de manière transparente une planification stratégique sérieuse dans une expérience d'action rapide, alliant un gameplay réactif avec une narration riche et atmosphérique.
Au cours de l'aventure, les joueurs pourront reconstituer les mystères du transistor à la recherche de leurs anciens propriétaires.

🌍️ Wikipedia:

Transistor est un jeu vidéo de type action-RPG de science-fiction développé par Supergiant Games. Le jeu est sorti le 20 mai 2014 pour Windows et la PlayStation 4. C’est le premier titre du studio depuis la sortie de Bastion.

Synopsis

Red, une célèbre chanteuse dans la cité de Cloudbank, est attaquée par la Camerata. La Camerata est une organisation qui, avec une force robotique appelée le Process, essaye de fonder une ville idéale. Red ayant perdu sa voix, elle s'empare d'une lame plongée dans le corps de l'inconnu, qui paraît être très proche de Red, et décide de se venger de la Camerata. Il s'avère que le Transistor (qui vient du Transistor) parle avec la voix du jeune homme tué. La lame va donc être le narrateur durant toute l'histoire. Le but de Red va être de découvrir le but de la Camerata et d'arrêter le Process, qui commence à détruire la ville et ses habitants.

Histoire

Le jeu commence avec le personnage de Red, agenouillée près du corps de l'Inconnu qui a été tué par le Transistor. Red est une chanteuse et l'attaque qui a tué le jeune homme lui a aussi volé sa voix. La conscience de l'homme ainsi que la voix de Red résident maintenant dans le Transistor. Ainsi la voix de l'homme va guider le joueur à travers la ville de Cloudbank, dans ses différents districts. Le joueur va se trouver confronté à une entité robotique intelligente appelée Process.

En étant dans le district de Goldwalk, Red découvre que le Process est contrôlé par la Camerata, un groupe de personnes haut placées. Ce sont elles qui ont essayé de tuer Red. Au fur et à mesure de l'aventure, Red découvre des citoyens ayant été tués et presque transformés par le Process, et absorbe leur conscience dans le Transistor. Retournant sur la scène où Red avait chanté la veille, elle rencontre Sybil Reisz, une membre de la Camerata qui fut amie de Red avant son assassinat. Red affronte donc Sybil qui a été « Processisée » et absorbe sa conscience dans le Transistor. Red l'utilise pour localiser le leader de la Camerata et l'un des administrateurs de Cloudbank, Grant Kendrell.

Musique

La bande-son de Transistor a été composée par Darren Korb, qui est également le compositeur de Bastion, le précédent jeu du studio Supergiant Games, avec la participation à la voix par Ashley Barrett sur les titre The Spine, In Circles, We All Become, Signals et Paper Boats.

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