Hyper Light Drifter makes no compromises with it’s port to the Nintendo Switch. I never experienced a frame rate drop or freeze in my time with the game, and loading times seemed as regular but short and unintrusive as they are on other platforms. Whether you’re playing the game docked or handheld, you’ll have a buttery smooth experience the entire time. A lot of the charm of Hyper Light Drifter comes from discovering these, but the outfit is a nice accessibility option for players who can’t quite deal with searching for those items completely blind. There’s also a new outfit for The Drifter that makes environmental secrets and hidden upgrades more noticeable.
The Blade Caster gives you a pair of spinning blades to launch at enemies, while the Crystal Shot can freeze them in place to give you a chance to line up a meaty combo or get out of a hairy situation. You can go to the Tower Climb zone and challenge increasingly difficult waves of enemies in an attempt to unlock new weapons like the Blade Caster and Crystal Shot. The Special Edition of Hyper Light Drifter sees some additions that help add an extra layer to the already satisfying and varied combat. Blade attacks feed into giving your gun ammo, and adept players will learn to flow between the blade and the bullet seamlessly to maximise their performance. These simple tools form the basis for challenging, twitch-momentum combat that will quickly defeat you if you don’t keep your mind moving as fast as your character is. You dash, slash your sword, and later gain access to a gun with a limited number of rounds. Some are humanoid, some are dog-shaped, and others are hard to draw any sort of natural comparison to. Just like that, you’ve become a part of the world.īeing involved in this world requires you to do battle with an enormous array of enemies. The language is alien and confusing, but as you continue to traverse the world, you’ll attach meaning to repeated images and behaviours. The game leaves it up to the player to decipher what they need to do, and it ends up feeling a lot like navigating a foreign country you’ve never heard of. You need to collect yellow blocks to afford upgrades, and you currently have none. Inside, you’ll talk to an NPC who shows you potential upgrades, a number of weird yellow blocks, and a deck of filled or empty slots below it. You’ll wander the central hub and find a building with a vaguely sword-shaped illustration on its front. Hyper Light Drifter has upgrades, medkits and items needed to further your progression, but you won’t be told any of that plainly. That vague presentation of info carries over into your gameplay experience and serves to create one of the more naturally immersive game worlds I’ve experienced. Breeze through and avoid critical thinking, and you’ll be left confused and unsatisfied when the credits roll without a clear indication as to what happened. Hidden treasures and trinkets in the game world will give you further insight into the intriguing lore, but you’ll only get as much out of the story as you put in. It’s up to you, the player, to decipher this and piece things together to come to a conclusion as to what’s really going on. Instead, characters interact through actions and pictures describing past events.
The narrative of Hyper Light Drifter is intentionally vague, with not a piece of dialogue or recorded voice-over in sight. You play as a nameless drifter suffering a terminal illness, who finds themselves embroiled in an adventure across harsh lands and foreign environments to make good use of what little time they have left. As a person living with a heart defect, he transformed his daily struggles and path through life into a fantastical, Lovecraftian adventure about all-powerful beasts and mysterious relics. Hyper Light Drifter is a neon-dipped reflection of the real-life struggles of its creator, Alex Preston.
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