The ultimate screen reference Tool for game interface designers. 'Hyper Light Drifter' Review - The Legend of Sworcery. It is a true exercise in nuanced, contextual storytelling in which the setting itself, rather than direct dialogue or monologue, conveys the resounding cataclysm the Drifter fights to avert. Its difficulty may scare away some, but for all who can cope, the experience is a truly rewarding one.Hyper Light Drifter is an excellent video game by Heart Machine. Add in great combat and controls as well as an amazing soundtrack, and the end result is easily one of this year’s must-plays. An intriguing, abstract narrative set in one of the most beautifully vivid world’s we’ve ever seen helps provide a near flawless experience. Lovingly wrapped in a distinctly retro shell, the title fires on all cylinders. To put it simply, Hyper Light Drifter is incredible. This, along with a truly magnificent score – courtesy of Disasterpiece, of Fez and It Follows fame – heightens the game even further.
The game has no dialogue – not in a traditional sense at least – and virtually no text outside of a couple of hints here and there, everything is dictated with visual cues, heavily leaning into a reliance on symbology. Sure there’s a basic plot in play, but many of the finer details are left up to you. It’s also up to you to discover – or determine – the secret of the narrative. This game adopts this methodology, where passages are hidden, but oftentimes not completely invisible. Much like older games, if one random panel of a wall was a slightly different texture, it’s an indicator that there might be something there. Across our eight hours with the game, we managed to find quite a few of them, but we feel as though we barely scratched the surface. In the grand tradition of older or retro-inspired titles, Hyper Light Drifter has a rather excessive amount of easy to miss secret passages and other hidden little goodies. Most of the boss fights have nice little touches like this that help bring an interesting tactical dimension to the combat. One in particular allows you to trick the boss into destroying his own minions before they can enter the fight, leaving him wide open to gun and grenade attacks. A couple of them are incredibly challenging, but there is a ton of fun to be had here.
This is particularly apparent with the boss fights. The usefulness of every system helps to make proceedings quite a bit more fun, too being able to juggle between all sorts of different moves brings a new sense of fun to the combat. Without this, it would be borderline impossible to successfully juggle all of the game’s systems, from dashing to stabbing to shooting and more. Movement as The Drifter is smooth and is exactly as precise as it needs to be. This may scare some players off, but much like the Souls series, it’s a rewarding type of challenging. The thing about this game is that it’s hard. Just make sure you don’t spend too long in any one place. This is a world brimming with life that has begun anew, but also living in the shadow of a long dead civilisation that was much grander and more luxurious than the current one could possibly hope to be. The trees, buildings that lay decayed and decrepit, corpses of hundreds unnamed behemoths: just about everything in this game begs to be stared at. The title’s use of colour is extraordinary various shades of red and blue are employed so well that you can’t help but just want to sit around and look at what’s around you. Almost immediately, the game shows off its striking appearance, and it’s absolutely gorgeous. The game’s quizzical nature isn’t all that is instantly apparent, however.
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