hyper light drifter walkthrough boss battle part 5

The UI, map and menus feature arcane symbols and characters of a fictional language. Seriously, none: Dialogue with the NPCs you meet in the game is presented exclusively in pictographs. Here's a fact to set the scene: Other than a handful of tooltips explaining what buttons do what, there are no written words in Hyper Light Drifter.

I'm hesitant to break down the backdrop of Hyper Light Drifter, because its plot, setting, characters, history and world-building are so ethereal. Hyper Light Drifter's specifics are entirely up to interpretation Learning how to swing a sword and dodge fatal attacks is easy enough - finding your place in a world that tells you virtually nothing about itself is a far more involving challenge. Its larger, more imposing request is how you have to interpret literally everything else that happens in the game. Progress isn't promised in Hyper Light Drifter it can't be earned by grinding or executing cheap strategies and exploits, only practice, practice, practice.īut the mechanical difficulty, the tense, balletic, close-quarters battles that punctuate your exploration of the game's gorgeous setting, is a relatively small component of what Hyper Light Drifter demands. It tosses roadblock after roadblock at its protagonist with no easy way out.

Hyper Light Drifter demands things from its players that few games are even willing to request.

Hyper light drifter walkthrough boss battle part 5