Character in Video Games

Name: Bastion
Genre: Action RPG
Rating: E 10+
Developed By: Supergiant Games

Published by: Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment

Bastion is a two dimensional RPG where the player controls the kid and their every move is narrated by the stranger, better known as Rucks. The player navigates through the environment which is made up of square shaped tiles that fall from the sky as the player navigates through the level. There are also many different enemies that the player will encounter over the course of the game, but the player also has access to a wide variety of weapons to deal with them. One of the most interesting aspects of the game that though there is a main character he never once speaks for the entirety of the game instead the whole story is narrated by Rucks.

Rucks, the Stranger

Rucks is one of the more interesting characters in the game because you never learn much about him other than what he tells you. In fact all the player learns throughout the course of the game about Rucks is that he was in the Celondian military and that he was one of the Mancers responsible for the construction of Celondia's rippling walls and the construction of the Bastion. Rucks also was a mason according to his comment when he says to the kid, "there are only two of us left" when the kid finishes the mason memorial. The Bastion he created was a last resort should the Ura who were the enemies of the Celondians breach their walls or some other catastrophe should take place. The game opens with one of the few survivors of the Calamity waking up on the rippling walls. Soon though you find that the entire story has already taken place and the narrated events are being told to his companion Zia, while the kid goes to his final confrontation. Rucks also gives all of the backstory of everything around you. When you find a new enemy he manages to make you feel bad for it, take this quote for example, "The windbags once kept the Workmen Ward humming along. Now they’re not so friendly." Rucks also has encyclopedic knowledge of the entire world and continually gives the kid advice.