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Weaponry includes traditional console role-playing game archetypes, including long-range guns and area attacks.

These often require power from rare batteries scattered around the world. The Drifter is equipped with an energy sword but can gain access to other modules that expand their weapon and ability arsenal. The story concept was inspired by lead developer Alx Preston's heart disease, and has been likened by others to Studio Ghibli's Castle in the Sky, while Preston cites the studio's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind as inspiration for the game's world. The player controls the Drifter, a character that has access to technology that has long been forgotten by the inhabitants of the game's world and is suffering from an unspecified illness.

Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D action role-playing game fashioned after The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, rendered in a pixel art style comparable to Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. A Special Edition port of the game, featuring additional content, was released by Abylight Studios for the Nintendo Switch in September 2018 and for iOS devices in July 2019. The Microsoft Windows, Linux and OS X versions were released in March 2016, and the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions in July 2016. Though originally scoped for release in 2014, various improvements in the game and issues with Preston's health set the release back.

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Preston originally launched Kickstarter funding for the title for approximately US$27,000 to develop the title for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux computers, but ended up with more than US$600,000, allowing him to hire more programmers and artists, and expanding the title for console and portable platforms through stretch goals. The game pays homage to 8-bit and 16-bit games, and is considered by its lead developer Alx Preston as a combination of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Diablo. I guess my hope is that others will feel similarly passionate about this gem of a game and follow suit with further praise and discussion.Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D action role-playing game developed by Heart Machine. There isn't much to this thread other than be wanting to vomit my appreciation for HLD all over the screen as fast as my fingers can stroke the keys. That's increasingly important to me as I enter my mid-30's with more limited gaming time.

And as a bonus, it feels like the perfect length for the kind of game that it is. The game's overarching themes of decay and creeping mortality aligning with the lifelong health struggles of its creator only adds to the emotional heft of this beautifully minimalist game. Hearing this through earphones transported me to another world. And all of this is married together with such polish and attention to detail, at least all these years later in its current state (I remember some glitches at launch back in 2016). The story/lore is conveyed wordlessly and through cryptic hidden messages that need to be decoded with a cipher, which could maybe be compared to the world-building approach of a FromSoftware game. The gameplay is a perfect fusion of Zelda-esque open exploration and responsive, satisfying combat. Its soundtrack by Disasterpeace is just incredible and perfectly suited to HLD's decaying, futuristic world. To this day I don't think any game released since HLD has matched it on a pure pixel-art artistry level. The high-density pixel art of HLD is of a caliber we rarely see and arguably hasn't been surpassed since 2016.

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