Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2021 - Challenge #5

[deemoyza]

Challenge #5: In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love.  

It likely comes as no surprise to anyone who's seen me blather on about it, but I really love the video game Transistor.  The worldbuilding is sparse, but effective, showing the player a city in its final hours, but providing enough hints to imagine what it must have been like, and how it affected the lives and decisions of the other characters, most of whom the player only knows through three paragraphs of text devoted to each.  The narrative can be opaque, especially on a first playthrough, where the player knows only what the protagonist does (seriously, the very first screen of the game made me reset simply to see if I'd somehow missed something prior to that moment.  I hadn't.), but the game provides enough details and implications to not only piece together the immediate narrative, but also a plausible backstory.  It is superb fanfic material, and unapologetically so, and it's been years since I've been this deeply invested in a fictional work.

Also, the heroine is a badass, and her sword-bound boyfriend's voice is ohhh, so nice! ;)

Comments

[gillo]

I don't know this at all, but you make it sound really interesting. Thanks for participating.

[mekare]

That sounds like some excellent game story telling. I very rarely play (and so am pretty bad) but what do you play this on? Is it for the PC/PS/XBox etc.?

[deemoyza]

I first played it on PC, but it's also available on the Switch and PS4. If you do decide to give it a whirl, I hope you like it! :)

[spikedluv]

I'm not a gamer, but thank you for sharing your love of this fandom.