Replaying Bastion after a very long time. Just kind of knocking off a lot of my indies and other smaller games, and replaying the old ones. Things that can be knocked out in a few days. This one was leaving me unimpressed at first, wondering why I had liked it so much, but it's clicking now. Something that never occurred to me at the time, or perhaps I hadn't come to this desire yet, is that the game is a perfect example of something I've thought about, American fantasy. Fantasy drawn from American aesthetics and themes. Caelondia is a settler colony who was brought into conflict with tribal savages by the railroad they built through a vast wilderness. The aesthetics tend to be Middle Eastern, but the names, soundtrack, weapons, a lot of things are very Western-influenced. It's interesting. It gets a grip on you after a while.