This week only for Gold members, the hit indie game Bastion is now 600 Moon Bucks on Xbox Live (soon to be $7.50 people money?). If you don't have a 360 you'll be missing out on this deal, but Bastion is also available on Steam, and in Google Chrome.
If you haven't picked it up already, I'd highly recommend doing so. It's a fun 4-5 hour romp through an incredibly colorful world, and it really brought back flashes of Secret of Mana for me personally.
While it isn't the most challenging game, it has enough content to justify the price, and it has friendly leaderboards for all you competitive types out there. For those of you who have played Bastion, I have a question for you: did you also get tired of the narrator after five minutes?
Bastion down to $7.50 on Xbox Live this week [Joystiq]
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8:40 AM on 02.01.2012 | 
Not even a little. I thought the Narrator was maybe the most charming design choice in the game, among many. Loved it.
I was disappointed, though, that it wasn't more open-world like Zelda. It was too linear and short for me. Felt like a missed opportunity somehow, to introduce all these neat weapons and play mechanics and not have a longer and bigger game within which to enjoy them for a while.
Also, very little replay value imo.
HAHAHA NO.
Personally I just didn't like the mechanic of menial dynamic narration within actual levels - I think it could have been a bit more interesting and maybe expanded a bit more in regards to the actual universe - like the arena bits.
Luckily though, Bastion had one of the most compelling narratives I'd seen in any game released in 2011 thanks to its glorious narrator and I implore you to check this game out if you haven't already.
Yeah, Marvel is pretty much in a state of event overdosed decline. The only books I still read in trades are Uncanny X-Force and the occasional Deadpool, and even Deadpool is suffering from poor writing lately IMO.
Is the game really that short? I know its only an arcade thing, and that its a great game, but I was hoping due to the genre it'd be a little longer. Eh, still an awesome deal I'll get in on!