![]() ![]() Approaching each fight for the first time is exciting, but is best treated as more of a recon than a serious attempt to emerge victorious. If you become tired of the flooded lands to the east and its ninja star throwing, giant frog occupiers, then you can always head north to a more mountainous land for some battles with vulture creatures. Maybe it’s my poor navigational skills, but finding the last elusive module was often just a case of wandering around in the hope I would eventually stumble upon it.īeing able tackle the lands in any order you wish helps keep things from growing stale or repetitive, however. The vague map isn’t much help, and as a result it’s easy to end up going in circles, which can quickly get frustrating. Some modules require convoluted journeys in order to locate them, leading you through dungeon-like underground sections made of multiple levels. Fittingly for a title that brings up memories of early Zelda games, all the action takes place from a top down perspective. ![]() Visually, the game manages to feel paradoxically both futuristic and old-timey at once, with the architecture, weapons and clothing a bit of a mash-up between Destiny, Princess Mononoke and Star Wars.Įxploring the game’s open world is also evocative of A link to the Past the landscapes, map layout and central town all reminiscent of Nintendo’s classic adventure. There’s even couch co-op for up to two players. That’s not to say the game is lacking in content – far from it – there’s a hidden horde mode to unlock, alternate outfits to find, and the New Game+ mode offered up after completion doubles down on the difficulty by halving your max health, meaning there’s plenty of replay value to be had. There’s no mountains of loot to clog up your inventory, or pages of lore to read up on, there’s not even any dialogue, let alone branching conversation options - and quite frankly, it’s a little refreshing. Hyper Light Drifter is an action-RPG unburdened by tropes of the genre present in many of its AAA brethren. ![]()
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