HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER ONLINE COOP SERIES
For the firmer, though.īetween dungeons, you go through a series of empty interconnected areas. This is in part due to boring design and in part due to other design flaws I'll mention later. The world itself has problems being interesting. I played Hyper Light Drifter for hours and I still don't understand what my goal is. Link is getting the Master Sword to fight Ganon and save Zelda/Hyrule, Gomez is getting cubes to keep the universe from falling apart, even games like Minecraft immediately establish that you are building to survive. This is the exact opposite of what exploration games need to establish in order to motivate the player to continue playing. This was an incorrect assumption for many reasons.įirst of all, the game starts with a character you don't learn anything useful about who is doing things you don't at all understand the importance of. This has been my experience with other Indie games I've played and this one even seemed more suited for it than most. Some indie developer's passion project with charm and mystery and tons of interesting, unique things to discover. I thought this game was going to be a world-first exploration game. It's not a great game - it's actually quite badly designed - and I'm really disappointed.
Well, frankly put, Hyper Light Drifter wasn't the game I thought it was and I honestly don't think it deserves the reception it got. After finally beating Fez recently (amazing game btw), I decided it was time and bought it on Switch. I'd been saving this game, since I'd always really liked the look and music, for when I got in the mood to sink my teeth into a new Indie game. Players can look forward to examining those themes (while killing monsters with their friends) when Hyper Light Breaker hits Steam Early Access in Spring 2023.I started Hyper Light Drifter recently for the first time. We still have a world that we've built, and we still have themes to tap into.” Sure, Breaker is online multiplayer, but we still have a story to tell there. But I think our stories are still going to be dark and about subjects that are really tough to deal with, regardless of the format of the game. We started to do that with Solar Ash a bit. “There's humour that I think we want to tap into a little bit more. For me personally, it's my own health struggles that I've tried to put out there in some fashion or another, and with Solar Ash being a bigger team of people feeding into the story, it became a broader context for those vicious circles that you can go into.” “I think we tend towards these elements of past experiences that have really shaped or formed us in some ways. It’s too soon to discuss the story or themes, we’re told, but Preston suggests that Breaker will likely follow in Drifter’s footsteps, while reflecting ongoing changes within the team as a whole. Because I think on Drifter, after the Kickstarter, we ended up doing something similar on a smaller scale, where we can engage on a regular basis with that particular community.” We want to start talking openly about development, about the process, doing live streams and all sorts of fun stuff like that. The plan to announce Breaker roughly a year before its intended launch on Steam Early Access is a big part of this desire for transparency, and marks a natural progression from Drifter’s early success on Kickstarter. It's important for us to make sure that we're releasing content on a more regular basis, and we aren't locked into a very focused mentality without being super public about it for multiple years on end.” I mean, that is definitely part of it, now that we've made that transition into Unreal and built up the technology. We asked Preston if having already made this transition might result in a smoother development cycle for its new 3D game.
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