Fallen below into a seemingly infinite void with only bits and pieces of floating ground, rock and construction to move about upon. One is immediately presented with the complication The Calamity has caused: The world is gone. Ain’t so simple with this one.” Such are the words of the narrator, an elderly gentleman who sets the tone as he recounts the tale of The Calamity and The Kid who singlehandedly journeyed in the effort to restore the world as it was known. Voiced by Logan Cunningham in his debut voice work performance, the first thing one experiences upon beginning the game is the statement, “Proper Story’s supposed to start at the beginning.
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it earned them some good will towards PC gamers for the first and last time. Released initially in July 2011 on the XBox Live Marketplace and ported to many platforms thereafter including but not limited to functionally all PC operating systems, PlayStation 4 and iOS, Bastion was the first published release by developer Supergiant Games and has won over 100 industry awards.
From here we have the luxury of combining oratory, the oldest form of storytelling with the newest form, video games in Bastion. Over the years storytelling has adopted many forms, shaped many cultures and fueled many artistic endeavors.
Storytelling is a medium that has existed in human culture since we began as a species.