Why are you going around killing these enemies? What is the village hub you go back to for upgrades? What are these skeletal titanic remains doing in the world? A little bit of mystique is great in getting the imagination going, but you canвЂ™t just stop there. Dark SoulsвЂ™ environmental design and even its inventory descriptions give you some idea of whatвЂ™s going on and your place in its world. Obfuscation doesnвЂ™t equal a compelling world to explore in. The problem is that even SotC has an easy to understand goal. Shadow of the Colossus has so little dialogue, it probably all fits on a double-sided 8.5 by 11 sheet. LetвЂ™s get back to that part about HLD having next to zero plot. The music is also fantastic, with brooding synths that sound like they came straight out of a Blade Runner film but without all the Asian fetishization. Every setting is distinct in its aesthetic and carried a different variation of the overall melancholic tone that the game provides. The fluidity of the animation as the Drifter cuts through enemies never stopped being engaging as I played through the game. Every pixel is lovingly crafted and purposeful. ItвЂ™s one of the best looking 2D games IвЂ™ve ever played. Sure, you can speculate, but unlike Dark Souls, which has a plot you can piece together with some digging and a Vaati video or two, thatвЂ™s pretty much impossible with HLD, because thereвЂ™s not a single line of dialogue in the game outside of tutorials. It feels like it takes bits of everything from traditonal SNES JRPGs to Zelda to - and IвЂ™m sorry to say it - Dark Souls. BUT HLD (or Hyper Lightmension Driftunia if ya nasty) has a lot of design decisions that I think are very interesting but that I found myself not agreeing with, enough that IвЂ™m making a whole blog-post about it.ДЇor the unitiated HLD is a succesfully kickstarted top-down action-exploration game that is pretty hard to define in terms of its inspirations. Honestly, my standards are so low at this point that as long itвЂ™s not filled with gross loli shit or racist under/overtones, then your game is probably fine in my book. I wanna preface the below with the understanding that I donвЂ™t think Hyper Light Drifter is a bad game.

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