I’m glad Bastion was the first new game I played this year. I’m doubly glad that I went into it relatively ignorant of what it was actually about, because I suspect that if I’d actually listened to half of the gushing word-of-mouth opinions about it I wouldn’t have liked it half as much as I did. Bastion is a charming little game with some hefty flaws but also some great ideas, and it’s one that’s put me in a very good mood for the rest of 2012.