But when that happens, hopefully in the far, far future, it’ll be me taking it down with me, rather than the other way around.The dog is a psychopomp, really, guidng you, me, and the Drifter on a journey that can only end in death.
I just had to get the execution down.The scale firmly tipping towards the challenge side of things versus the frustration side was probably helped by the fast pace of the game. There are themes of rot and decay all around them. Preferred topics: horror, emergent narrative and cooperative storytelling, gender, folklore. It wasn’t the kind of game that I could start playing with full confidence that I’d reach the end.
Sometimes it gets the upper hand, spreading its dark tendrils through me until it’s difficult to tell where it ends and I begin. Library Bard (a gaming blog) Hyper Light Drifter: On Illness. The West is literally crawling with parasitic crystals. And the ancient laboratories of the south have become rusted over, the robots inside slaughtering anyone who comes to the region in an attempt to resettle it and bring back some form of life to the region.And at the center, invisible from the surface, lurks Judgement. I just had to get things right. On his way there, he fights through a small gauntlet of enemies, where he picks up a pistol and immediately puts it to use. I felt somehow that it had earned my monetary support simply by existing despite all odds, and since I’d missed the Kickstarter, there was only one logical course of action.The second reason was curiosity. And the determination I’d picked up along the way to see the Drifter’s story to its conclusion.You see, it’s a story that I relate to very deeply.I’m writing this just a few hours after MunchaKoopas’ incredibly entertaining Hyper Light Drifter run at AGDQ, where Alx Preston mentioned that despite all the speculation, no one’s quite managed to figure out exactly what he was going for with the game’s story, though some have come close. When I bought and downloaded Hyper Light Drifter on launch day, it was for two reasons. But I continue fighting, slowly digging out its hooks until I’ve reclaimed myself. What matters is that HLD spoke to me not only through its aesthetic beauty, but also in its silent story and the struggles — in terms of both story and gameplay — of a wordless protagonist we know next to nothing about.It felt like a moment of shared understanding, and that’s very precious to me.Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:A place for me to put my gaming-related thoughts and ramblings. But in the end, the Drifter sees not the terrible visions of the manifestation of their illness skewering them, as they have so many times before, but a beautiful, clear world. As he exits the dungeon and approaches the Library, he falls into a coughing fit, and is confronted by an entity referred to as "The drifter is well versed in multiple combat abilities. He is more than capable with a sword, and with any form of energy-based firearm.
It is a fight to reclaim yourself from your sickness, to find empowerment however you can. Surely, they seem to think, once the source of the world’s sickness is destroyed and things can begin to heal, the same will happen for them. Hyper Light Drifter Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community.Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. To start off, KingKrew's playing one of TridentFool's favorites, Hyper Light Drifter. I’d be pleased if you think so, too.No matter what you think is happening in the game, an undeniable fact is that the Drifter is dying. If you examine the mirror, the Drifter sees their own reflection and smashes it.My own Judgement, the illness that pervades me that I nonetheless struggle against, is depression. The opening cinematic seems to show him waking amidst a pile of corpses, possibly a result of the invasion mentioned elsewhere in game. Hyper Light Drifter: On Illness. KingKrew and TridentFool both share a love for indie games, so in this series, they're playing some! You could put me on an AV cart and wheel me into a classroom. In one, the Drifter is clearing the world of Judgement’s contamination, perhaps at the behest of the mysterious dog, in their quest to find a cure for their own illness. They cannot save themselves from the inevitability of their own death, but perhaps they’ve done some good in the world on their journey.On another level, if we take a moment to zoom out into a broader view, it’s simply a story about fighting an illness. It can be inferred that he was suffering from his infection prior to the start of the game, and can be further inferred that he came to the land in search for a cure for it.
When the Drifter wakes up in the Guardian’s house, there’s only one thing you can interact with other than the the documents that explain the modules. The drifter has the ability to drift, a titular dash-like burst which renders him invincible for a brief period and can be used for movement or to position around enemies. KingKrew and TridentFool both share a love for indie games, so in this series, they're playing some!
Who knows, though. Of course, in the end, there is no cure for the Drifter. It happens very early on. January 12, 2017 by robonten Leave a comment.
It is a cancer in the truest sense: the power of growth and creation gone unchecked, harming its vessel (in this case, the world) instead of sustaining it.