![]() If this is a tale of atonement or martyrdom, then suffering is sort of the point. But if you want something that more similar to Zelda. but its so satisfying when you can climb it further one by one step and unlock everything news almost all run. Its actually very hard IMO when compare to other rouge-like. In that sense, the game is a lot like Fez, in that a player doesn’t have to understand the layered secrets held by the mysterious monoliths and keys in order to appreciate the challenge that goes into finding them. its such a beautiful game great art style and challenging. If anything, they help to make each new discovery shine that much brighter. 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. Loot River doesn’t have a release date as of yet, but will be available on PC (via Steam) and XBox when it does finally ship.Giant corpses litter the overgrown ruins of a post-apocalyptic civilization. Loot River is supported in part by SUPERHOT PRESENTS, and it’s really cool to see one successful indie dev support another in the quest to make great, unique games. In addition to fast-paced, challenging combat and upgradeable items and stats, we also spotted spells, a dodge roll, and what looks like hub world in the trailer and screenshots those of you expecting all the standard Souls-like trappings should find them here. That being said, Loot River is unquestionably being made by and for Dark Souls fans. Clever utilization of tile movement seems key to success in Loot River Sound familiar yet? Loot River’s creators aren’t shy about wearing their influences on their sleeves, but the block-sliding element of the gameplay is unique among Souls-like games, and serves to set Loot River apart as fresh, rather than derivative. It’s an RPG alrightĪs you fight your way down the river, you’ll encounter the usual monsters and bosses, and you’ll also run into fellow travelers who are losing their mind as they die and are reborn over and over. The studio’s previous games - Euclidean Skies and Euclidean Lands - both played with geometry as a core gameplay mechanic, and in creating Loot River, they’re looking to take those concepts and apply them to an action-RPG. Although the small Slovakian studio compares their game to Dark Souls, it’s really FromSoft’s Bloodborne that the game’s art style evokes. This game is a game that I wish I could like more than I do, but because of clear and present design choices-not faulty programming or bugs-but design choices, I cant help but state the obvious: Hyper Light Drifter sucks. Heart Machine has revealed Hyper Light Breaker, a 3D, co-op focused game set in the same world as the cult classic Hyper Light Drifter, coming to Steam Early Access in Spring 2023. ![]() But after watching the announcement trailer, I’m sold. The title has been initially released for PCs, after half a year it has been ported to the consoles and in 2018 the Switch version ame to life. ![]() ![]() It is the only game of its sort no Hyper Light Drifter series exists. Yet that’s exactly what developer straka.studio has done with Loot River, a game that combines the speed and style of Hyperlight Drifter with FromSoftware’s patented Dark Fantasy aesthetic, and then bafflingly tosses puzzle-style block movement into the mix.Īt first glance, Loot River’s feature list reads sounds like it was written by an algorithm that generates popular indie game mechanics: procedurally generated levels, action-roguelike gameplay, puzzles, and dungeon crawling. Hyper Light Drifter is a Kickstarter-funded 2D game with a high focus on resource-management and nostalgic vibes. Standing out amongst all the other pixel-art games and roguelikes on Steam isn’t easy nowadays, and if you were going to distinguish yourself from the crowd, you generally wouldn’t do it by lifting core concepts from already popular games. Developer Heart Machine has unveiled its first official gameplay trailer for Hyper Light Breaker, a follow-up to 2016s beloved indie Zelda-like Hyper Light Drifter.
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