I am on the fence with Transistor to be honest. Loved Bastion on my old iPhone 5 but this one seems way different to that one... not much into futuristic RPGs, prefer magic and medieval stuff like dragons... Someone can say something nice about it? Or better yet, which one of these two, Transistor or Sproggiwood, plays better? On the fence with those two and can only buy 1...
Transistor was one of my favorite games of last year, and I bought it the instant I saw it had released on IOS.
Transistor has an incredible amount of depth. You have a large array of different functions, there are your attacks and abilities. A teleport dash, temporary cloaking, summoning allies, different energy blasts, etc. Now consider this: each ability has an active and passive function, and can be combined with each other in countless ways.
That teleport dash? Combine it with your long range attack, and now you damage anything along the length of the dash. Or combine it with your grenade ability and you leave explosives in your wake, and so on. Or vice versa. Use the dash as a passive upgrade to significantly decrease the cooldowns of your attacks
Your bounce attack can add a chaining effect to attacks or be imbued with the effects of other abilities.
Your mine attack can leave behind an explosion that you can activate later or can add an AOE effect to your attacks.
Now image all that but with 16 abilities and each one has two passive slots,
and you can also use them to enhance yourself, such as having a defensive shield or periodically leaving behind a distracting clone
That adds so much tactical depth. And the game is very tactical. Turn mode freezes enemies and lets you plan your attacks and movement as efficently as you can given your limited "action points" so to speak
Now mix all that with powerful and varied enemies, a new game plus, special challenge levels, a stylized cyberpunk setting brought to life with a wonderful aesthetic, and an awesome soundtrack, you can't go wrong with Transistor
Sproggiwood pales in comparison. It's not even close