With an upgraded shotgun, and some help from the charged melee attack, which gives a bunch more charge than normal strikes, you’ll be capable of dealing up to twenty-five damage in less than 3 seconds, that’s half the total health of any of the first three bosses! (Eat your heart out, railgun!) This is especially effective against bosses who don’t move much the boss that gives me the most trouble, the hierophant (north), can be dropped in under 20 seconds or less using this technique. This makes the shotgun, a gun with a long cooldown for the sake of keeping its damage output from being too high, one of the most, if not the most powerful damage dealer in the game. I give it 8/10.The cooldown time on certain guns can be skipped by quickly swapping between equipped guns.
That being said, what is here (fighting, exploring and a lot of secrets to find and collect) is rock solid. The default trailer on Steam is a bit misleading in that you might not realise how much of an action game this is. There are no words or dialogue in the game so the story is simply what you see. There isn't the level of sophistication here that there is in games like Fez or Transistor. The world is beautiful to look at and admire but you don't really interact with it in any way. I agree with DC in the sense that you'd be mad to recommend a Gen 1 Pokemon game it's pretty much a straight up brawler. One of those was for beating the game and the other four were combat related, so the game is pretty stingy with achievements. That's enough of Hyper Light Drifter for now but I will definitely go back sometime to track down those remaining crystals. The final boss fight is one of the easiest boss fights in the game luckily. Collected five crystals on the bottom section of the map, killing at least three bosses on the way (if memory serves), and then took on the final boss. But it's not a Zelda game It's a DMC-type with a quaint open world.įinished it, took me fourteen hours. I could go back to it and change my mind about it. It's a game that expects a lot of you without really giving anything back. It looks nice, the action can be fun but it's mostly pretty awkward about it, and the story and world seems to smugly enjoy you not getting it on a satisfying level.
It was brought up whenever the game was mentioned) but I tried to enjoy it on it's own merits but I just couldn't quite find a hook. I realise I'm dwelling on the Zelda comparison a lot (which isn't my fault, really. But with all due respect to The Legend of Zelda, those aspect were more than a bit too obtuse, so to bring that to a more sensible place for Hyper Light Drifter it did then make it an unrecogniosable influence.
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I guess I assumed Link to the Past was their reference but thinking about it now they could have meant the original, but then the problem there is they've tried to update that games exploration and discovery. It's like it wants to be a whimsy indie game with it's vague storytelling (which I think is gonna be about redemption? dilapidated world caused by ancient creatures? You're a dying outsider? Isn't a shadow-y dog a bad omen in some myths? (stretching there, I know)) but you also need l33t skillz of someone you can play DMC pretty well, 'cos this game has some kill rooms alright. But nothing obstructs you, there is no cunning use of items, at least outside of combat.Īnd that's the thing this is a game where the gameplay is solely about combat and it is pretty difficult, too.
It's a wonderful looking world, no doubt. Hyper Light Drifter is more of a brawler with a top down view but instead of levels you have an open world. I mostly think maze like dungeons and solving puzzles with items that have certain properties they're the main ingredients to me, but neither of those are really here. Zelda games were mentioned a lot from critics and even the devs themselves but I'm not quite sure what anyone means by that and it did leave me wondering what the game's hook was. I started off liking this but I never went back to it after beating two areas and making good progress through a third.
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