For example, if you kill one enemy and a wall that was hiding from a sniper on the other side of the room will suddenly disappear. The war, but Hyper Light Drifter is all about the war. While there are some moments of quiet discovery, Hyper Light Drifter is mainly a punishing, fast-paced action game. Hyper Light Drifter's intentionally inscrutable nature can be, at times, a bit disapointing. It's rare for screenshots to do a game justice, but any given still image from the game takes out of context, it's astonishing.

Every single screen of every location in Hyper Light Drifter has a function and a history, from the ancient libraries of the Northern avian scholars to the crystalline weaponry of the Western Forest's bear warriors. It absolutely works as a plot development tactic, thanks in large part to the tremendous amount of environmental storytelling developer Heart Machine's investment into the game.

The game's stunning opening cutscene shows Hyper Light Drifter's caped protagonist surviving some apocalyptic attack on their home world but is confronted with mighty, dying titans, and a mysterious monster that threatens them throughout the entire game. In Hyper Light Drifter, there are no written words other than a few tooltips describing what buttons do what. Hyper Light Drifter is a game in which few games are even willing to order.

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