The looped attack felt kinda like a noob trap because I could in general only attack an enemy/boss once before they retaliated.

The player is the Drifter, a warrior exploring the ruins of Buried Time. I wasn't sure how I felt about how it played, since combat was a little tricky to do effectively. Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D action RPG inspired by games like Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda and Blizzard's Diablo series. Explore A Broken World Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Judgement is seemingly a form of artificial intelligence but is also somehow related to the disease that affects several of the drifters in the. It is the main antagonist of the Drifter and the final boss of Hyper Light Drifter, residing deep beneath the Central Town. It was pretty interesting in a 'stranger in a strange land' kind of way. The Crystal, the Immortal Cell, Judgement or Hal 1 is a malevolent entity. There was actual npc dialogue, which seems steeped in mysterious, cyberpunk technobabble and abstract existential concepts. Melee attacks are an animation loop that only needs you to hold down the attack button, rather than a 3-press combo. Tier: At least 9-A, likely 7-A Name: The Drifter, The Magician Origin: Hyper Light Drifter Gender: Male Age: Unknown Classification: Drifter Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Attack Reflection (Can deflect projectiles. After being inflicted with a mysterious disease, he roams the world in search of a cure. Its dashing is stamina based, and so was the gun as in shooting used up your stamina.ĭashing also allowed much more directional control and wasn't at all the same as HLD. The Drifter is a collector of ancient knowledge and technology. I tried the demo yesterday before it disappeared and it didn't really play all that similar to HLD.

Hyper light drifter sprite sheets