Transistor, new game by the creators of Bastion

Finished it yeah, it's fairly short, says 7hours on steam, however unlike Bastion, there's some good replay value since you cannot unlock everything in one playthrough and mobs keep increasing in power when you replay it apparently. While short though, definitely great, much stronger ambience than even Bastion, while Bastion had a great musical and audio track in general, the rest was fairly average, this has also great graphical design and a really cool setting/story.

On charm, you can see the duration above the mob head, or at least it shows when there's not much time left. It's nice for playing control however mobs do shit for damage so they mostly act as a distraction and since the ability costs a lot of points in Turn() or has a shitty cast time in real time, it's like meh. Can link it to stuff but not a big fan since it means you can't use that ability offensively(charmed mobs take no damage).

The dog function is pretty much OP. It's annoying to have to resummon it at the start of every fight and you can't summon it in Turn(), but once it's summoned it does good damage if you use a damage upgrade, my favorite being the aoe one since it makes bark a fairly large aoe, and he can attack 3times a turn while moving a large distance(moving doesn't consume progress much). Near the end it was barking for 200dmg as backstabs and offtanking stuff, so I could send him to kill shit somewhere while I was doing my own stuff somewhere else.

Also on combat, you can eventually fight without using Turn(). It's actually not bad, however you need a certain amount of functions and slots+memory to actually run it efficiently. Dog is a great help there too, you can get a function that heals you as a passive as long as you're not recharging from Turn() and another that generates an absorb shield every 5seconds, so random damage is fine, then you just pick some combo damage or play it ranged(there's a really good ranged dot that slows and seeks targets automatically for example). Might need a different setup for the last type of mobs in the games though, as the exploding mobs are pretty problematic in real time.

Yeah Jaunt Charm is good, but in Turn(), Jaunt costs less than moving so I always use it to position for other skills, if it's upgraded with charm, you can't use it because Jaunting in melee range of a mob charms it, which makes it immune to damage. It's a minor annoyance but eh. The main issue I have with charming is mobs do really shit damage to themselves, so it's fairly pointless other than CC but I haven't found it much of an issue with the dog function and just jaunting around until timer is back up.

I used my pad for it, wasn't so bad. At some point I stopped using the line skill anyway so I didn't really have to line up anything. Definitely not necessary though unlike say Bastion where it was a big plus to have a pad since it was a lot more action oriented.