Bastion (video game)
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Developer(s) | Supergiant Games |
Publisher(s) | Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment |
Designer(s) | Amir Rao |
Programmer(s) | Gavin Simon, Andrew Wang |
Artist(s) | Jen Zee |
Writer(s) | Greg Kasavin |
Composer(s) | Darren Korb |
Engine | XNA,[1] MonoGame |
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Release | XBLA July 20, 2011 Steam August 16, 2011 Chrome Web Store December 9, 2011 Mac App Store April 26, 2012, iOS August 29, 2012 |
Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Bastion is an action role-playing video game produced by independent developer Supergiant Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. In the game, the player controls "the Kid" as he moves through floating, fantasy-themed environments and fights enemies of various types. It features a dynamic voiceover from a narrator, and is presented as a two-dimensional game with an isometric camera and a hand-painted, colorful art style. Bastion's story follows the Kid as he collects special shards of rock to power a structure, the Bastion, in the wake of an apocalyptic Calamity.
The game was built over the course of two years by a team of seven people split between San Jose and New York City. They debuted the game at the September 2010 Penny Arcade Expo, and it went on to be nominated for awards at the 2011 Independent Games Festival and win awards at the Electronic Entertainment Expo prior to release. Bastion was published in July 2011 for Xbox Live Arcade and in August 2011 through digital distribution for Windows on Steam. Supergiant Games made it available as a browser game for Google Chrome in December 2011. It was released for Mac OS X via the Mac App Store in April 2012 and directly followed by a SteamPlay update in early May 2012 which allows the version purchased via Steam to be playable on both Mac OS X and Windows.[2] A version for iPad was released in August 2012. Bastion's soundtrack was produced and composed by Darren Korb, and a soundtrack album was made available for sale in August 2011.
During 2011, the game sold more than 500,000 copies, 200,000 of which were for the Xbox Live Arcade. It sold over 1.7 million copies across all platforms by March 2013. The game was widely praised by reviewers, primarily for its story, art direction, narration, and music. Opinions were mixed on the depth of the gameplay, though the variety of options in the combat system was praised. Bastion has won many nominations and awards since its release, including several for best downloadable game and best music, from review outlets such as IGN and Game Informer as well as from the Spike Video Game Awards, the Game Developers Conference, and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
Gameplay
Bastion is an action role-playing game with a level structure. The player character, "the Kid", moves through floating, fantasy-themed environments that form paths as the player approaches the edge. Levels consist of a single plane, and are viewed isometrically. They are filled with enemies of various types, which attempt to harm the Kid.[3] The Kid carries two weapons, which may be selected from the choices available to the player at specific locations called arsenals.[4] The Kid also has the ability to perform a special attack. Weapons and special attacks must be acquired before they can be used.[3] There are a limited number of special attacks that the player can perform at any time, represented by "black tonics" that can be found in the levels or dropped from enemies. Special attacks may be used a total of three times. This maximum number of uses can be increased in the Distillery. The Kid's health is represented by a health bar, which can be replenished with "health tonics". Like black tonics, the Kid can only carry a certain number of health potions at a time, and can replenish them by finding more in the levels.[5]
Levels contain many different environment types, including cities, forests, and bogs.[6] At the end of most levels, the player collects an item called a core or a shard;[3] occasionally, the level begins to disintegrate once the Kid takes the item, forcing him to hastily retreat. As the player progresses through the levels, a voice narrates their actions. This narration gives scripted plot information as well as dynamic comments, such as on the player's skill with a weapon or performance while fighting enemies.[6]
Between levels, the Kid visits the Bastion, where the player can use fragments—the game's form of currency—that they have accrued to buy materials and upgrade weapons. With each core the player collects, they can add one of six structures to the Bastion, such as a shrine, an armory, or a distillery, and each shard allows the player to expand a structure. Each structure serves a different purpose; for example, the distillery lets the player select upgrades, and the shrine allows the player to choose idols of the gods to invoke, causing the enemies to become stronger and giving the player increased experience points and currency.[7] Experience points are used to determine the Kid's ability level; higher values give the player more health and increase the number of upgrades they can select.[6]
Whenever the player leaves the Bastion, they can choose between one or two regular levels to play. In addition to these levels, however, the Kid can engage in challenge courses designed to test the player's skills with the weapons the player has found.[6] They are called Proving Grounds. The challenges differ depending on the weapon, such as destroying a certain number of objects within a given time or breaking targets in the fewest shots possible. According to the player's score, different tiers of prizes are awarded. Additionally, the Kid can fight waves of enemies while the narrator tells a character's backstory by journeying to "Who Knows Where" from the Bastion. The back story battles occur during 'Memories.' The player earns fragments and experience for each completed wave.[8] After the game is completed, the player can choose to begin a "new game+" mode, where the player replays through the game while keeping the experience points, fragments, and weapons that they have gained. This mode also offers more options in the buildings, as well as two more journeys to "Who Knows Where".[9]
Plot
The game takes place in the aftermath of the Calamity, a catastrophic event that suddenly fractured the city of Caelondia /seɪˈlɒndiə/ as well as the surrounding areas of the game's world into many floating pieces, disrupting its ecology and reducing its people to ash. Players take control of the Kid, a silent protagonist who awakens on one of the few remaining pieces of the old world and sets off for the titular Bastion, where everyone was supposed to go in troubled times.[10] The only survivor he meets there is an elderly man named Rucks, the game's narrator, who instructs him to collect the Cores that once powered Caelondia. A device in the Bastion can use the power of the crystalline Cores to create landmasses and structures, as well as enable the Kid to travel farther afield via "skyways" that propel him through the air.[11]
During his quest, the Kid meets two more survivors: Zulf, an ambassador from the Ura people, a group with whom Caelondia was once at war, and Zia, an Ura girl who was raised in Caelondia. Both of them return to the Bastion, but upon reading a journal that the Kid discovers, Zulf intentionally damages parts of the Bastion's central device and returns to Ura territory.[12] The Kid learns that the journal belonged to Zia's father, Venn, who had worked for the Caelondians. He had helped build a weapon intended to destroy the Ura completely to prevent another war. Venn rigged the weapon to backfire, so that when he was finally forced to trigger it, the resulting Calamity destroyed most of Caelondia as well.[13][14]
To repair Zulf's damage to the Bastion, the Kid starts collecting Shards, a lesser form of Cores. As he obtains the penultimate shard needed, the Ura attack the Bastion, damaging it and abducting Zia.[15] The Kid then retrieves Zia, who tells him that she had left with the Ura voluntarily to find out their intentions;[16] Rucks had previously told Zia that the Bastion had the ability to somehow fix the Calamity.[17] The Kid then travels to the Ura homeland, which has also been destroyed by the Calamity, to retrieve the last shard.[18] There he discovers Zulf being attacked by his own people: the Kid's combat abilities have devastated the Ura forces, and they blame Zulf for bringing the Kid to their home.[19] The player has to choose to drop the Kid's only weapon and take Zulf back through the remaining lines of the Ura, or leave him behind and fight his way out.[20] Leaving him behind, the Kid destroys the remnants of the Ura army, and escapes through a skyway. Taking Zulf, the Kid is attacked by archers, and is heavily injured, with the attack being halted right before his death by the Ura commander, in respect for the Kid's decision, and allows the two to leave via a skyway.
Regardless of the player's choice, after he returns, Rucks tells the Kid that Bastion is theoretically capable of rewinding time to before the Calamity in the hopes of preventing it, or it can detonate the Cores and evacuate the remaining people from Caelondia to somewhere safer.[21] The narration had previously stated that Rucks is unsure if there is any way to prevent the Calamity from reoccurring, as there was no way to test the process.[22] The player can choose to restore the world to before the Calamity or leave Caelondia; the game ends either way, showing images of the characters (with the inclusion of Zulf if the player chose to rescue him beforehand) flying away or of their lives before the Calamity along with the credits.[23] In the New Game+ mode, which is unlocked after beating the game once, it is hinted that restoring the world didn't prevent the Calamity.[24][25]
Development
Bastion was created by a team of seven people, who composed the studio Supergiant Games. It is the only game so far by the company. The game was directed by Amir Rao and Greg Kasavin wrote the game's narration, which was spoken by Logan Cunningham. Jen Zee was the artist, Gavin Simon developed the gameplay, Andrew Wang helped develop the game, and Darren Korb handled the sound effects and music. The co-founders of Supergiant Games, Rao and Simon, previously worked for Electronic Arts, where they helped develop Command & Conquer 3 and Red Alert 3.[26] They left to form the studio because they wanted the development speed and the ability to try new ideas that would be possible with a smaller team. Development began on the game in September 2009.[27] The team created the game over almost two years, and funded the development themselves.[26] Most of the team built the game in a house in San Jose, though the music and voice acting were recorded in New York City.[27] Some of the San Jose designers—including the writer—did not meet Rucks' voice actor in person until near the release of the game.[28] The team spent the first nine months of development prototyping various ideas, before settling on the game's design.[27]
The original idea was based around the premise of creating a town like those found in a role-playing game.[27] The team chose the design elements of a fractured, floating world due to their wish to portray a sky in the game, which is usually not possible with an isometric camera, as it always points down. They also wanted to forgo a map system, and felt that having the ground come up to the Kid allowed the player to easily see without a map where they had already been in a level. The story of the Calamity was created as a way to explain this game mechanic.[28] Jen Zee developed the art style of the game to express beauty in a post-apocalyptic landscape. The hand-painted style was intended to soften the sharpness she saw as typical in isometric games and the colorless, harsh depictions of most devastated landscapes. Zee was inspired by the pixel art landscapes of earlier Japanese isometric games.[27]
The narrator was added early in the game's development as a way to provide background details and depth to the world without requiring the player to read long strings of text or wait through cutscenes. To avoid slowing the pace of the action-oriented gameplay, the team had the narrator mainly speak in short, evocative phrases, with long pauses between speaking parts.[28] The narrator is intended to feel like an "old acquaintance" to the player, a connection built by his commentary on the player's actions as they happen, both major and minor. Kasavin sought to make the game feel as if it were the player's story, rather than just a story being watched.[27] The development of Bastion was chronicled in the monthly Building the Bastion video series from October 2010 to May 2011 in which Supergiant Games collaborated with Kasavin's former GameSpot co-workers at Giant Bomb. The videos showed early game concepts in addition to the process of building the final game, as well as interviews with the team.[29]
Supergiant Games showed an early, unplayable version of the game at the March 2010 Game Developers Conference, to little acclaim. They debuted a playable version of the game at the September 2010 Penny Arcade Expo, where it was well received. After a strong showing at the March 2011 Game Developers Conference, Warner Bros. signed on to publish and distribute the game.[30] Bastion was released on July 20, 2011 for Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA), and on August 16, 2011 for digital distribution on Windows through Steam.[31][32] It was released as a browser game for Google Chrome on December 9, 2011.[33] A version for Mac OS X was made available via the Mac App Store on April 26, 2012 along with a SteamPlay update for Mac OS X and Windows.[2]
Music
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Bastion's soundtrack was produced and composed by Darren Korb, a songwriter and composer. He was selected to pen the soundtrack by Rao, who was a childhood friend of Korb.[28] Bastion was the first video game that Korb had scored; prior to it he had worked on a few smaller television shows and movies.[34] He was brought onto the team in the beginning stages of the project, and several of the pieces he developed were created prior to the final design of the levels with which they were associated. The musical style of the soundtrack has been described by Korb as "acoustic frontier trip hop". It was intended to evoke both the American frontier and an exotic fantasy world.[28] The songs combine "heavily sampled beats in layers, along with acoustic elements", and he determined that he wanted to create the soundtrack in that style as it was different than video game soundtracks that he had heard before.[34] The music was recorded in Korb's closet at his New York City apartment, as were the sound effects and more than three thousand lines of narration by Cunningham.[35]
In addition to composing the music, Korb wrote all the lyrics for the soundtrack. The soundtrack features four vocal themes: "Build That Wall", "What's Left Undone" (played looped in the game), "Mother, I'm Here", and "Setting Sail, Coming Home". "Build That Wall" features the voice of Ashley Barrett, "What's Left Undone" features that of Cunningham and "Mother, I'm Here" features Korb, and both Korb and Barrett perform in "Setting Sail, Coming Home". Supergiant Games originally had not planned to release a full soundtrack album for the game, but due to fan demand they released one in digital format on August 5, 2011, with two songs not heard in the game. These songs are "Get Used to It", which has a voiceover written by Greg Kasavin and spoken by Logan Cunningham, and "The Pantheon (Ain't Gonna Catch You)", with lyrics written by Korb and sung by Cunningham. A physical limited edition CD signed by Korb was released on September 2.[36] The soundtrack sold 30,000 copies by November 2011.[30] On March 15, 2012, Supergiant Games released sheet music for piano and guitar arrangements by Korb of "Build That Wall", "Mother, I'm Here", "Setting Sail, Coming Home", and "The Pantheon (Ain't Gonna Catch You)" for free in their online store.[37]
No. | Title | Vocals | Length |
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1. | "Get Used to It" | Logan Cunningham | 0:54 |
2. | "A Proper Story" | 1:09 | |
3. | "In Case of Trouble" | 2:56 | |
4. | "Bynn the Breaker" | 4:09 | |
5. | "The Sole Regret" | 2:27 | |
6. | "Twisted Streets" | 3:29 | |
7. | "Terminal March" | 2:06 | |
8. | "Percy's Escape" | 1:41 | |
9. | "Faith of Jevel" | 2:37 | |
10. | "Mine, Windbag, Mine" | 3:06 | |
11. | "Slinger's Song" | 4:06 | |
12. | "Build That Wall (Zia's Theme)" | Ashley Barrett | 2:45 |
13. | "Spike in a Rail" | 2:54 | |
14. | "What's Left Undone" | Logan Cunningham | 0:22 |
15. | "Brusher Patrol" | 4:32 | |
16. | "The Mancer's Dilemma" | 2:01 | |
17. | "Mother, I'm Here (Zulf's Theme)" | Darren Korb | 2:16 |
18. | "Pale Watchers" | 4:28 | |
19. | "The Bottom Feeders" | 4:44 | |
20. | "From Wharf to Wilds" | 1:21 | |
21. | "Setting Sail, Coming Home (End Theme)" | Ashley Barrett and Darren Korb | 2:54 |
22. | "The Pantheon (Ain't Gonna Catch You)" | Logan Cunningham | 2:27 |
Reception
Aggregator | Score |
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GameRankings | (PC) 90.15%[40] (X360) 87.08%[41] |
Metacritic | 86/100[38][39] |
Publication | Score |
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1Up.com | A−[43] |
Edge | 9/10[42] |
Eurogamer | 8/10[3] |
Game Informer | 9.25/10[6] |
GamePro | |
GameSpot | 8.5/10[7] |
GameSpy | 4/5[4] |
IGN | 9/10[9] |
Bastion was released to strong sales and critical reception. The game sold more than 500,000 copies during 2011, 200,000 of which were for the Xbox Live Arcade.[45][46] In March 2013 at the PAX East gaming convention, Bastion's creative director Greg Kasavin stated that the game had sold more than 1.7 million copies combined across all platforms.[47] Bob Mackey of 1UP.com called it "the perfect mesh of game and story", and McKinley Noble of GamePro said that it "raises the visual and narrative bar for downloadable titles".[43][44] Maxwell McGee of GameSpot called it "wonderfully crafted" and "an amazingly good time", and Greg Miller of IGN concluded that Bastion "is amazing and you owe it to yourself to download it".[7][9]
The presentation of the game was widely praised, especially the narration. Mackey said that the game "could be sold on its presentation alone", focusing on the graphics, music, and story.[43] Edge said that the narration added "emotional resonance" to the game, and Tom Bramwell of Eurogamer praised the "dazzling visuals" and "artful commentary".[3][42] Game Informer's Matt Miller highlighted "the well-written narration, excellent music, and bright visuals" as factors that made the game feel "like a storybook in which you control the outcome."[6] Of the presentation elements, the story was the least praised, though several reviewers such as Noble enjoyed it, saying that it "just gets better the further you delve into it."[44] Ryan Scott of GameSpy, however, termed it a "just-sorta-there plot", and Greg Miller said that it "could have been better" and never "hooked" him.[4][9]
Reviewers had a more mixed opinion of the gameplay. Mackey praised the variety of gameplay elements and said that combat has "a deceptive amount of depth", but Bramwell felt that the combat did not "invite experimentation" and was somewhat disappointing.[3][43] Edge said that the gameplay was "more interested in variety than challenge", for which he praised it, and Matt Miller said that combat was "a lot of fun", though he felt it lacked "the depth, speed, or complexity of a true action game."[6][42] Greg Miller highlighted the variety of the gameplay as the best part of the game, and Scott called it "enjoyable", though not "challenging".[4][9]
Awards
The game has won several awards, both before and after publication. It was nominated for the 2011 Independent Games Festival awards at the Game Developers Conference in the Excellence In Visual Art and Excellence In Audio categories.[48] It went on to win the Game Critics Award for Best Downloadable Game of E3 2011, and received a nomination for Best Original Game.[49][50] The game continued to be nominated for awards after release. It was nominated for the Best Independent Game award at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards, and won the Best Original Score and Best Downloadable Game awards, "Build That Wall (Zia's Theme)" won the Best Song in a Game award, and "Setting Sail, Coming Home (End Theme)" was nominated for the same award.[51][52] It was named the Downloadable Title of the Year by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences and was nominated for their Outstanding Innovation in Gaming award.[53][54]
1UP.com gave Bastion their Best Narrative in a Game award,[55] and Game Informer gave it the Best RPG Innovation award for the narration in the game.[56] In GameSpot's Game of the Year awards, Bastion won the Song of the Year award for "Build That Wall" as well as the Readers' Choice award for Best Download-only Console Game, and IGN termed it the "Best XBLA Game of 2011" and RPGamer gave the game their Role-Playing Game of the Year award.[57][58][59] Official Xbox Magazine awarded it their Best Music award and nominated it for Best Art Direction, Role-Playing Game of the Year, and XBLA Game of the Year.[60][61][62] The music has been nominated for the Game Audio Network Guild's Best Audio in a Casual/Indie/Social Game.[63] The game was nominated for the 2012 Game Developers Conference awards in the Innovation, Best Audio, and Best Narrative categories, and won the Best Downloadable Game award. Supergiant Games won the Best Debut award.[64][65] It won the Best Audio in a Casual/Indie/Social Game award from the Game Audio Network Guild at the same conference, and Darren Korb was named the Rookie of the Year.[66]
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- ^ Rucks: Did anybody else survive? Sure enough, he finds another. He finds me. ... All I tell him is to set that Core on the Monument there. Then watch. ... And just like that, the Bastion comes alive. Starts growing again...Growing stronger. Kid's got to put its power to good use. Now the Bastion can send him even farther, into the Wild Unknown. ... The Skyway. Now the Kid can ride the wind to distant lands. Supergiant Games (2011-07-20). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Rucks: When Zulf got through reading that journal, he just snapped. Started smashing up the Monument until I tried to stop him. Zulf banged up the Monument pretty bad. But there's a way to put her back together: the Shards. We're going to need all of them to nurse the Bastion back to health. Supergiant Games (2011-07-20). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Rucks: To get us back... for the Calamity. It was Caelondia's master plan to wipe the Ura out. But part of the plan backfired, didn't it. Supergiant Games (2011-07-20). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Rucks: It came from an Ura. A brilliant young scientist named Venn. ... But Venn didn't like being manipulated. He had plans of his own. He sabotaged the Mancers' little science project. Set it to blow up in their faces. Imagine how Venn felt when they finally made him pull that trigger. Supergiant Games (2011-07-20). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Rucks: Zulf showed them the way in. And here they came... to take revenge. They got inside the Bastion and shut the door. [...] They must have got her. Taken her back to her rightful home. Supergiant Games (2011-07-20). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Rucks: Zia... you weren't kidnapped. No ma'am. You just had to see what happened to the Ura. To your own people. You had to see if everything Zulf wrote to you was true. They lost everything, didn't they. But they just keep on fighting like that's going to bring it all back. Supergiant Games (2011-07-20). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Rucks: Caelondia will be whole again. Everything will be back to normal. Everyone will be alright. The problem is... We'll all be gone. Oh, we're not going to die, it's more like... All of this will just... stop. Things will go back to the way they used to be. This whole place... is a living record of the times before the Calamity. The way things were... before this story. You'd be your old self again. [...] Everything you've ever done... you could do it over. Supergiant Games (2011-07-20). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Rucks: The Calamity hit the Tazil Terminals hardest of all. Supergiant Games (2011-07-20). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Rucks: The Ura can't be happy that the Kid followed Zulf all the way home. Supergiant Games (2011-07-20). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Choose: Move On—Abandon Zulf's body and press forward with the Battering Ram. / Take Zulf—Abandon the Battering Ram and pick up Zulf's body instead. Supergiant Games (2011-07-20). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Rucks: The Bastion does have another function, strictly speaking. If ever the Monument blew out and we couldn't repair it, we could still... evacuate. First we'd round up as many folks as we could carry. Next we'd detonate the Cores... and we'd take off. Away from here. Supergiant Games (2011-07-20). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Rucks: There's one problem with a place that sets things back to a bygone time... you can't test it. So you're probably wondering, if the Calamity happened already... What's to stop it from happening again, after the Bastion does its thing? The answer is... I don't know. Supergiant Games (2011-07-20). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Rucks: I ain't one for long goodbyes, so here's the deal. [...] You can undo the Calamity here and now. [...] Zia So let's see... you can either prevent the Calamity, or stick around with me and Rucks. Supergiant Games (2011-07-20). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Rucks: Proper story's supposed to start at the beginning. Ain't so simple with this one. (First words of the game) [...] So long, Kid... Maybe I'll see you in the next one. Caelondia! We're coming home. (Final words of the Restoration ending) [...] ...I'll see you in the next one. Proper story's supposed to start at the beginning. Ain't so simple with this one. (First words of New Game Plus)Supergiant Games (2012-04-27). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
- ^ Rucks: He sets foot inside one of Caelondia's famous watering holes. Inside's old Rondy the bartender. The Calamity got him before his drinking did. [...] He sets foot inside one of Caelondia's famous watering holes. Wait, haven't I...? Anyway, Rondy's place just brings back memories.Supergiant Games (2012-04-27). Bastion (Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows). Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
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