Hyper Light Drifter

has to have one of the best sound tracks in a game that I've played other than Doom.

Wow. At first i didn't really understand the finale. It's a game with contents so deep that it made me think. We should never be afraid of death, it's inevitable.

I learned about the game from Indie Cross episode 2. Drifter there looked sick as hell, and were introduced as something on par with Shovel Knight, Undertale, Cuphead, Dead Cells, Hollow Knight and Celeste. I expected a hardcore gem with deep gameplay and an awesome story.. And I was disappointed. This game is easy, there are very few challenges, few gameplay tools, and there's no story to tell - just an overall background with few indications that don't really go anywhere interesting. The level design takes getting used to - at first it's very unintuitive, and difficult to tell the walls apart from the walkable ground. Majority of the enemies can be killed by button mashing, weapons and special attacks are poorly balanced, with few of them having little to no use, and others - being able to kill everything in one hit. When you die, you immediately start from the previous room with no penalties, so basically you're immortal. Closer to the end of the game, searching for all the hidden keys is getting tedious and tiresome, all the puzzles are generally pixel-hunting tasks, where you need to find a mark comprised of 9 pixels that's hinting that the wall can be walked through or the chasm can be stepped over. It's not a bad game, but I don't see anything that would put it above the average in my eyes.

ta bueno

The exploration and world-building are compelling, the combat is challenging, the pixel graphics and the soundtrack are gorgeous. If you like those things, you'll love this game.

vaguepost-king the videogame

Este juego es como esas películas a las que volvés después de unos años y te vuelve a mover el piso desde otro ángulo, ya con otro punto de vista y cosas vividas. Me voy a saltear toda la explicación de por qué es un producto pulido en todas sus aristas (jugabilidad, diseño de encuentros, narrativa, visuales, sonido e integración) para resaltar lo que lo hace distinto: que tiene una mirada autoral clara, consistente y sincera sobre la vida, como las obras de arte más ambiciosas. Casi obligatorio jugar con joystick btw