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#36: Bastion -- The Last Voyage of Weeping Nellie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwQ43yOyAN0

If you haven't played Bastion yet, what are you doing with your life? Your parents are disappointed in you. So am I. Get it now.

As with most cases in Supergiant games, what would be a 7.5/10 game with cool ideas becomes phenomenal because of the music and voice acting. That's how it is with Weeping Nellie, the famous ferry barge of the now-obliterated river in the Calamity-torn world. Autoscrollers are usually something I hate, but with Weeping Nellie, I'm just immersed in everything around me. Rucks's narration -- especially the way he manages to point out what the Kid does -- sells me on the epic nature of what should be a normal voyage.

It's among the more difficult levels in Bastion too (though Bastion isn't a particularly hard game). There's little room to dodge and reposition, attacks are coming from all sides and ranges, big gasfellas are constantly trying to knock you in the air, and then the little Pecker bastards come in. Windbags here are out for blood more than usual, considering how many I decimated in previous levels. The music pours into me as the boat keeps trucking along -- the level features two of my favorite three tracks and convinced me to buy the OST. I make my way to the Core, and Rucks has me sympathizing with the old wooden thing.

They try to cut her off. They try to slow her down. They try to knock her out.

But Nellie tries harder.

Eventually, the old girl can't take much more as the windbags stop focusing on me and instead try to shatter her. But before she gives out, she kicks into afterburn, her final act carrying me to the end of my route, Prosper Bluff. After fending off more Peckers, I realized why captains personify their ships and mourned for her a bit. She gave me everything she had.

You know how many times I fell off that barge back there?

...Not even once.
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