The vibrant colors, intricate anarcho-future design of the settings, and super-detailed character spites grab the eyeballs and never let go. Honestly, you can’t take a bad screenshot of this game. The visual presentation of Hyper Light Drifter is second to none. The backtracking never feels like a burden because this is a game to take your time with - to explore and really soak in the splendor and beauty of its design.
There is no penalty for backtracking, and getting around the world is easy with centrally located fast-travel points in every area. Like some cheap Robert Frost knock-off, you’ll often be presented with two, three, four paths (and an invisible bridge) at once, and sorry, but you could not travel them all. Hidden paths, tricky routes, and invisible platforms abound, and it’s best to embrace the wandering mentality early. You’re not expected to know where to go the game delights in that uncertainty.įrom the macro-level of not really understanding the critical path, or even your overall goal, to the micro-level of discreet portions of stage design, exploration is key. After waking up in a quaint hamlet set square in the center of the map, a tool-tip may nudge you towards the north, but there isn’t any reason you can’t go west, or east, or south, or just hang out in the village and marvel at the character and design of its shopkeeps. Hyper Light Drifter sets the player off to explore a dying world without much direction. Released: Ma/ TBA (PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One) Hyper Light Drifter (PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One) The end of Hyper Light Drifter‘s world is more than interesting, it’s downright captivating. A kind of heartbreaking sting that is at once nostalgic and completely new.
A longing vision of the end times through the lens of idealized 8- and 16-bit games. Set on just the wrong side of an apocalyptic event, it brings beauty, style, and mood to the end of the world. It’s hard to make the end of the world interesting again. But, Hyper Light Drifter manages to find a way. We’ve seen it all: zombies, mutants, raiders, and hell, even dinosaurs. The post-apocalypse is the new WWII - the overused, thoroughly played-out, exhausted setting that too many games and movies muck around in.
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