Tell me that doesn’t scream ‘explore the literal four corners of the world’. Coyote-style suspended gravity before they fall down, behind the cliff and out of sight. My character dashes straight off a cliff. I dash to the left! My character moves a set distance and then stops dead of their own accord. #Hyper light drifter intro fullI dash to the right! My character comes to a full stop at a wall. causes my character to dash! That’s nice, I like dashing. I apparently have TWO out ofįIVE green boxes filled in if that’s health, it would definitely explain why my character sometimes stops to cough more blood on the floor. On the face-button side, pops a small UI into the screen edges. Let’s see what this remnant of a ruined world can do for me. Whatever this place is, it’s seen better days, I’m sure.Īlright. The lion-looking building in the foreground provides the most visual evidence, but I can make out what look like toppled-over skyscrapers in the distance. Like nature overgrowing the ruins of a civilization that once was. This landscape looks… dilapidated it too kind a word for it. I particularly like the solitary pink cloud streaking across the sky - or is the blue the clouds? I can’t tell. The colour palette is mostly blue, with the red-yellow of the campfire a much-needed contrast. I called Hyper Light Drifter ‘disco-style pixel art’ in the opening paragraphs. ( Spoiler levels: Narrative, medium-to-high. And, hell, even that ‘worst case’ scenario has been done before to pretty good effect.īut which of the two is Hyper Light Drifter? Worst case scenario, it has a bunch of unfair enemies that kill you a whole damn lot. Best case scenario, it present a grand and interesting world that evokes the decay of past grandeur and encourages both topographical and narrative exploration. I mean, a disco-looking 2D pixel art game that’s ‘like Dark Souls‘? That can mean two things. Several times! And I know that phrase is mostly a joke at this point in time, but it’s testament to the good parts of Dark Souls‘ game design that this still caught my interest. Heart Machine‘s Hyper Light Drifter coolly slid into my social media mentions the week before last week, with several people whose opinions I varying-degrees-of-respect talking about how cool and fancy it was.
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