I'm only about an hour into Transistor so far, and I'm really failing to see what all the fuss is about. I mean, yeah, it looks nice, but the combat is just so clunky. The main character's slow walking speed combined with every attack's overly-long wind-up time means there's just a ton of attacks that essentially end up unavoidable. Of course, since I have yet to die, I guess I'm doing something right, it just doesn't feel like it. I just picked the attack that's the bouncing projectile (which seems to have the least annoyingly-long wind-up and the best damage) and have just spammed that until everything's dead. So far, it's worked just fine, even through what I'm assuming was the first boss. I was sort of lukewarm on Bastion, but at least the combat had a good feel to it. The weapons all felt useful in their own way, and you could at least roll to avoid attacks. The closest thing in Transistor that I've found so far is the dash move, but since it's lumped in with the various attacks, and there doesn't seem to be any way to bind them to a key, it's not really feasible to use that in the heat of battle.
That, and there's that mode that pauses time, that I have yet to figure out the use for. Yeah, you get to let off a few attacks in a row, but it seems that most of the time the enemy isn't where it was when you were setting things up, meaning that you're attacking air most of the time. Even worse is the cooldown after you use it, so it seems to end up working out the same in the end, you just get all your attacks in up-front, with a long cooldown at the end.
Am I missing something, or was everybody just enamored by the artstyle (which I will admit is nice)?
