These range from heavy mallets and flame-spewing billows, to repeater pistols and muskets.
Throughout the course of the adventure, The Kid’s movements are narrated by an old man who delivers the story with dry grittiness and evokes memories of old cowboy films.Īs the game progresses, The Kid unlocks various melee and projectile weapons.
Each dungeon builds itself around his footsteps, and a variety of monsters - who themselves are just trying to cope with the Calamity - stand in his way. The Kid has to fight his way through a variety of dungeons that float freely in the sky. The silent hero becomes embroiled in a quest to repair The Bastion, a safe haven that might be able to restore a world that has become utterly shattered.
Players step into the shoes of “The Kid” in a world torn apart by an event known only as The Calamity. He wishes it was representative of what Bastion actually is.īastion instantly endears itself to those who grew up with such titles as Secret of Mana, taking the form of a traditional action role-playing game with plenty of hack n’ slash combat and cool weapons to discover. He looks at his witty little lampoon of Bastion‘s narration. The words flow from his fingertips like fine wine from a spilled jug at a party where everybody’s wearing something nice. He takes a pause to think of something devastatingly clever to say, but he’s a videogame reviewer, so he knows he’ll fail. Plus, there’s so much smoke and mirrors, it’s nice to dispel that a little bit and to really help each other out as artists.The Kid types the intro to his review, knowing what must be done. “I think it’s important, because there’s still this misconception of artists being these distraught, difficult people who sit in a room and write songs, and that can’t formulate a sentence otherwise. Running conferences and workshops –Roxanne started her own artist-led music conference, From Me To You (another nod to The Beatles) in 2015, which has been growing ever since and has included speakers such as Imogen Heap, Stewart Braithwaite, Anne Catherine Davies, Jeremy Pritchard (Everything Everything) and folk artist Sam Lee – to this day, Roxanne continues to take a suitably hands-on approach in the role, as she explains. Meanwhile, Roxanne’s remarkably self-sufficient approach was recognised by the FAC (Featured Artists Coalition) who invited her to join its Board Of Directors, advising alongside Imogen Heap, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, Fran Healy of Travis and Blur’s Dave Rowntree. Having built a loyal fanbase, her crowd-funded debut, Heirlooms & Hearsay, arrived in 2017, leading to support slots with Lambchop and the Wainwright Sisters and triumphant shows at Glastonbury and the Cambridge Folk Festival. To date, Roxanne has played over 600 gigs, including two USA tours in 20. To those ends, she left Berlin for London straight from high school and – with no financial support and no contacts in the city – got by balancing hospitality and admin work with the 90-odd solo gigs she played per year across the U.K and Europe. Brought up between Berlin and the West Midlands, she grew up obsessed with The Beatles and Alanis Morissette, and was soon determined to become a musician like her father. Smiling at the memory today, she recalls, “Being really frustrated with myself around the age of seven or eight and saying to my musician dad… ‘But when am I going to write a song?’ And he would just say, ‘You’ll write a song when you’ve got something to say.’ Take your time, it’s fine.” These words of reassurance are set to be proven prophetic with the release of Roxanne’s second album, You And Me, We Are The Same, a record that sees the now London-based singer-songwriter finding her authentic voice, while channeling the pain of her father’s death last year.įor Roxanne, it’s been an arduous journey to this point, and one that’s required her to keep courage in her convictions in order to succeed. Stage Times – 7:45pm – 8:15pm Zoe Konez, 8:30pm – 9:00pm Bar Pandora, 9:15pm – 10:15pm Roxanne De Bastionīy her own admission, Roxanne de Bastion was a “weird kid”.
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