Hyper Light Drifter

Hyper fun, hyper fast and hyper beautiful <3 buy it.

I f-ing love this game. Everything about it is so good, the art, the gameplay, the music, it's just muack! Chef's kiss! From a noobie's (me) standpoint, this game relatively on the hard side of gameplays and if you're not trying to catch every secret like a maniac (also me) it's also on the shorter side of runtimes (I think I cleared it in between 10 and 15 hours? All that while being a*s at the game mind you). But it's a great game, even more so for it's price. The story is a tad bit confusing, you can understand most of it but some of the details are more obscure. It's great if you're lore crazy though, pretty sure the game is full of little details that I'm just not smart enough to get. Overall a great and massively underrated game, beautiful art and a fun time. Fully recommend other works by heart machine too!

Overall the game mechanics are beautiful. Simple but effective. The game still feels like it´s still in a kind of a Beta-Phase. Game freezes or it´s sometimes too bugged. It needs a polished version to "really" enjoy this game.

A somewhat odd preface to a positive review: if you enjoy 100% completing games, as I do, you will be extremely frustrated with this game. At (many) times even hating it. I have given up on ever finishing Hyper Light's achievements. Also, I definitely have a problem with run-on sentences. Sorry! With that being said, I loved my time with the main game and challenges of Hyper Light Drifter immensely. The game hooked me completely from the very first cutscene. I was curious, excited, and somewhat unnerved due to how well it established it's strange and quiet world. The game's art style is incredible. The colors are absolutely gorgeous, and the environments of the game are so stunning that dozens of times I had to just stop and absorb the scenery. Similarly, the soundtrack of Hyper Light Drifter is incredible. It has an incredible balance between eerie and peaceful. The artistic aspects of the game blend together incredibly well into a holistic masterpiece of game design. Personally, I also found myself very much enjoying the game's mechanics. I don't recall having many problems with the game's default keyboard configuration and was able to comfortably swap guns and heal and dash during combat. Dashing itself is very well implemented. It feels powerful but not broken due to the distance of the dash being very close to unreasonable. I enjoy that it will definitely allow you to avoid an enemy or projectile, but spam could lead you straight into a pit. Chain dashing is super fun and satisfying (when you aren't being forced to do it repeatedly in a tight area.) and really makes exploration not feel too overwhelming most of the time. The boss design is very fun, especially I think for the mini-bosses with repetitive and exploitable but difficult attack patterns that have to be learned to a level of consistency to be beaten. And I enjoy how the game's toolkit allows the flow of a challenging boss fight to change into a 10 second slaughter once you've learned some things about weapon damage and their different use cases. There's pretty much a single aspect of the game that I have major complaints about. and that would be... ...the achievements. They are far and above the worst part of this game. Some of the achievements are so far from the definition of fun that its genuinely unbelievable. Being challenged by a game can be an enjoyable experience or add to the message its trying to convey. Sometimes I just have to accept that I am not at a level of skill or dedication that I will do certain things in games and I can still recognize that it would be cool and awesome if I was. But there is simply no justification for like. 80% of these things. The amount of actual time that I would have to waste to get the die thousands of times achievement is like 7 hours or something and I genuinely felt like Heart Machine personally flipped me off and told me to go die in a ditch when I finished the game for the first time and went to look at the achievements that I would be trying to complete. Busywork is not fun. Also, multiple achievements rely on the stupid frame perfect chain dash combo over a progress resetting pit or in a stupid room a 100 times and its genuinely unfair to make this a thing that everyone would have to do if they wanted to enjoy all a game has to offer. I assume there is like secret endings or something behind all the pac man dots. That's cool. I'm not gonna bother. And this might be especially unstructured and an uncomfortably dense wall of text but it truly drives me nuts. I am a intermediate skill casual gamer who only does challenges if I'm made to want to or if its fun. Play Hyper Light Drifter. It is incredible. But once you beat the game, and beat it again faster, or beat it with minimal weapons, or whatever FUN self/game imposed challenge is done, I strongly recommend putting it down until the next time you want to experience the art and the story and the world.

Все время в детстве рассказывали, что если начать колоться будет ухудшаеться здоровье, но поиграв в данный шедевр я понял, что меня наглым образом наебали.

Absolutely amazing game. I keep coming back to it, trying to beat New Game +. The atmosphere is great, the gameplay is very unique and enjoyable, I really like the way the story is told with no words.

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Hyper Light Drifter frequently chooses to be pretty at the expense of being playable. I badly want to like this game. I expect that I will keep trying to play this game. But every time I re-enter Hyper Light Drifter, I know that it will end the same: 20-30 minutes of quality exploration and gameplay that ends frustrated after repeatedly scouring the same routes for any new path forward with no success. Sadly, frustration is inevitable when roadblocks are poorly explained and the map is nearly useless. So I'll put it down and return in a few days to give it another try. Hopefully I didn't forget exactly which areas I explored before, or I'll just keep retreading the same futile routes over and over again. Sometimes I wonder if this game even wants to be played. Pros: + Beautiful visuals and sound design + Fun movement and combat (when working) + Exploration and discovery is rewarding (when it happens) Cons: - Communication is minimalist to a fault (on every level) - Woefully unhelpful map (in an exploration-centered game) - Movement and combat behaves inconsistently (especially chain dashing)