Posted on: July 1, 2020
N0w3gg
Verified ownerGames: 594 Reviews: 26
Pretty trash
Hyper Light Drifter is pretty. The art is great, and so is the audio. Everything else about Hyper Light Drifter is awful. The timing of everything is so demanding you'll easily run out of health packs. You can't get more health from foes, so you're inveitably forced into situations where you have to die over and over until you can progress to the next health pack. You will get better, but then there's always something new for the jerk who designed this mess to try and smash your face into. It's exhausting. The main character of Hyper Light Drifter is already more exhausted than you. Every time you die you're forced to watch him pull himself back together through the same miserable respawn animation over and over again. Why would I want to keep playing this supid atrocity when even the main character doesn't appear to have any motivation beyond "my suffering ends if I make it to the end!!!!" It doesn't help that the controls feel terrible. There's so much nonsense in the environment to get caught on, to waste a shot accidentally shooting, to get stuck or thrown behind so you can't even see yourself. Pretty environments are no substitute for competent level design. What a waste.
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