![]() ![]() Thankfully, these bleak omens never diminish the ample joy of discovery that’s derived from wandering through Hyper Light Drifter’s world. The reward for stepping off the beaten path to collect the extra crystals hidden in each zone is an increasingly graphic glimpse of the protagonist being skewered by grotesque shadow monsters. This isn’t a forgiving game, for the plot’s cryptic pictographs suggest no end to the darkness that haunts the few remaining peaceful inhabitants of this world and physically plagues the hero, causing him to cough up blood and hallucinate an acidic black rain. Instead, it sticks close to the minimalism of Titan Souls, leaving the combat to speak for the story and trusting this murderer’s row of cool ideas to, well, murder players. If there’s an explanation behind them and the mutated avian magicians hiding out in a mountain’s hollowed and hallowed temples, or some connection between the samurai in the western forest and the shuriken-slinging toads in the eastern swamp, Hyper Light Drifter isn’t saying. Giant corpses litter the overgrown ruins of a post-apocalyptic civilization. ![]()
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