Transistor
Transistor is a game about desire.
Every character in Transistor has a wish. The side characters, the bosses, all of them have something they truly love and want. As the story progresses, one discovers how the Camerata (the bad guys) used people's desires to kill them. Yet as the story unfolds, this love / this desire also ends up the Camerata's undoing.
Transistor seems to draw a thread through the canvas of society; that we may be so different, and our differences may cause us to become cold and perhaps fight each other, but really if we simply examined what we love and desire, we are all the same.
But what about Red? What is her desire, if she even desires anything - and if she does have desire, will it kill her too?
Bastion
A nation destroyed. Naught but four survivors, trying to survive with the help of a great machine, known as the Bastion. Yet the Bastion has a special function - the ability to turn back time, to resurrect the dead, to go back to the past before the pain.
Bastion is about coping. There are few things like life more traumatic than seeing your entire town, your entire nation, wiped out. Your family, your lover, everything you knew and care about.
Would you turn back the clock? Make things how they once were?
Bastion has two possible endings, depending on the choices you make in the final level. (Actually it has three, but two of them are almost identical to each other.) I recommend playing one and then watching the other on Youtube.
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