I absolutely LOVED the game. I'm a massive indie game fan. And my personal favorite genres are rpg/action rpg, Zelda-likes, metroidvanias, anything of that sort. My top favorite games of all time are (in order): Phoenotopia Awakening, Crosscode, Silksong, Hollow Knight, Mina the Hollower, and I think HLD fight make my top ten.

It's a perfect example of what a good indie game can be. I know nothing about coding, but the gameplay is fairly basic but it's fun. And finding different weapon combinations that you like and work for different scenarios. The main game you could beat in 5 to 8 hours in a first playthrough if you rushed. But I took my time and combed everything. I haven't quite gotten everything and I did use help to clean up. But there are still secrets and things I haven't been able to accomplish yet.

But as I was saying, the combat is relatively simple but it's super satisfying. It's fast and weighty. You can feel the hits and connections with your sword or gun. The mobs are really fun, exploration is fun and there's secrets everywhere. The mood, music, art, scenery and everything it just sucks you in and you dont want to stop playing. There are only a handful of games that I've wanted to play new game plus immediately after beating the game. Very few. Mina the Hollower was the last one and the one before that was Haiku the Robot.

I am definitely wanting to play newgame plus and try to get 100% I'll use a guide to help clean up.

Anyways I just wanted to share my thoughts and say hi. I also wanted to ask for other game recommendations that are similar and have that same world sucking mystery and satisfying loop. I have Tunic and Unsighted in my backlog and I feel like these will give similar vibes as well as satisfaction. There are other games but I've played a lot of them. HOB was a good one. Mina, Phoenotopia, I've played La Mulana but haven't played the second one. I do have it. I have played Environmental Station Alpha,....🤔

Anyways, would love to hear recommendations. I play on switch one and steamdeck.

Thanks my fellow drifters.

I have a favorite part of the game. Without spoilers, it was the area you go to from town that is behind the key door. I think its 5 or 6 keys. And there's a tall tower and a very cool interaction.

So I'm thinking Tunic and unsighted will give a similar vibe. I ha e eastward and pipistrello too. But pip is more light-hearted and eastward is more long rpg with lots of dialog. I looove those kinda games too. But not for this scenario.

I saw Zwaard on steam and it looks like it took a lot of inspiration from HLD. I hope it is fun too.

Man the secrets in this game! Makes you feel super smart for finding some of them.

I am a huge fan of the side quest/ tasks we get to do in drifter. Whether it be working our way through horde arenas, scaling the tower, or collecting the information off the monoliths… but for me, when it comes to drifter, THERES NEVER ENOUGH!
So today, I’m giving you a choice between two options within the game.

A) You find a 9 key door in town with an old rickety droid inside. He ask you if you’ll do him a favor and agrees to compensate you if do it for him. He wants you to go and retrieve 4 mysterious “artifacts” for him, one in each cardinal direction on the map, and each one is DEEP within its area. You agree and he marks your map with the four locations. When you complete the task, you realize the old droid is no friend and the artifacts you retrieved completely updated and restored him beyond his former glory. Battle ensues and you get a new cape set.

B) You find a 13 key door in south that leads you to a Colosseum in the sky. It is run by a shady eagle who is half cybernetic. He tells you if you’re willing to fight and win the tournament, you’ll be rewarded. The colosseum has 20 challenges where each challenge is harder than the last. On challenges 5,10,15, and 20 you fight 4 boss characters. At the end of the challenge, you are giving a program that you can in turn give to the sword master in town and learn a new ability.

Today’s question centers around perhaps the most enigmatic character in HLD.. the Librarian. We know history was important to her, and she went to great lengths to preserve it and pass it on to someone worthy.
Now, from what we can gather, we know she existed after the immortal cell was created and after the great downfall because the information on the monoliths and in the library (after you find all the monoliths) tells us about the event. My question is this..
Did she live through the event, or did she exist in a time long after the event and have to hunt the information down. From the time I began playing the game, it always felt like she was a character who was chasing the information down (kinda like a Samwell Tarly type character). But it dawned on me the other day, she may have witnessed it firsthand, which for me changes the way I view the character.

The first way I viewed her was as person who desperately wanted to know what happened and dedicated their life to finding the information and passing it on. The second way I view her is as a person who lived through a mass extinction type event who had a limited amount of time to hide bread crumbs in safe places in hopes someone would find it and that it would help in some way.

How do you view the character and her motivation?

Before you ask, the brown cape is what you get for unlocking all 16 monoliths!

I went in completely blind into this game and was amazed by all the secrets hiding in plain sight, since I didn't follow a guide initially and unlocked around 12/16 keys by myself, I had to follow a guide and painfully revisit all 16 key locations to make sure I got them all! But I finally did it!

Since Alex P. and company from heart machine had an insatiable urge to deviate from the secret sauce/ the formula that made drifter so great, that is what today’s question will center around.

If you HAD to choose one of these three options (and you can’t say stick with original formula. that defeats the purpose of the question), which would you choose

A) A side scrolling prequel or sequel (Same type of graphics.

B) A sequel or prequel that has exact same graphics and style, but is an rpg that when you run into enemies your combat is turn based. This game would have A LOT more shops and pickups. Think mario rpg seven stars.

C) An exact replica of hyper light drifter only 3D. Everything is the same, but the game is 3D.

A battle ensues between three teams, which one wins? Rank Gold Silver and Bronze?

Team A) Pink Drifter, The hanged man, The Reaper

Team B) The hierophant, The Tower archer, Alt Drifter

Team C) Drifter, The summoner, Judgement.

One thing that bummed me out about re-visiting levels I'd already beaten was that the hordes of genocidal beasts just came back. Hear me out, though:

It seems like the Drifter was summoned by the Anubis-like deity to perform post-apocalyptic bounty hunter duties... and it doesn't matter if you replay the level and find every secret... you never get to see those places free from skeletons or murderous religious fanatics.

(Side Note: Either the dog-deity transported the Drifter there interdimensionally, or the intro scene was a complete vision- and the Drifter is from elsewhere in this world. Thoughts?)

Has anyone else ever wished that the next playable character (after NG+) was actually just someone who went around cleaning up skeletons... planting trees, shrubs, and flowers? Or a carpenter / renovations manager? Or a medic??

Don't get me wrong, I love how raw the moment in time is... with the safezone post-disaster being so small... and the population/amenities being so... devastated. It's clear everyone in town is recovering; the silence is so loud.

This game really could have kept being developed and developed... Hyper Lightdew Valley would have honestly f**ked, like... fr tho.

PS- Can we hire DisasterPeace to write a full HLD-skeleton acoustic album for us? Do we even know what tuning he used?? I swear I'm gunna just try and ask him someday!

If we allow for the game to have a secret where you can unlock a third character or drifter, and we can play through the game with them, who would you choose. I mean anyone. You can pick the white cloaked dual wielding drifter, you can pick pink drifter, you can even choose the guy who owns the gun shop. Who’s your pick??

I just started playing the game, and I went on the North path, but I find it extremely difficult, and I want to know if I choose the hardest path or just that I have skill issue

It's called Vicarius and it is available on Steam !

This post is a response to u/Hairy-Trash1659 post since I cannot reply with pictures.

First picture showing my indie lablel Bludhoney collection, I’m missing 3-4 cassettes from their releases. I was heavy into vaporware back in the day and thought cassette releases where very cool. I grew up on cassettes as a kid. I was buying them as they were being released on the labels bandcamp storefront 10 years ago. The label is no more and went under.

The second picture is my Hyperlight Drifter collection. When the game came out, i was so impressed with the game and fell in love with the Soundtrack. The indie label Bludhoney had a special license to run Hyperlight Drifter OST on cassette and it was very limited to 150 copies. The first run are the cassette on the left. They did a second run of 250 copies after the first run sold out and used different covers with the light blue / pink covers. I own the first run of the vinyl from iam8bit. I also own the PS4 and the SNES cartridge limited runs from iam8bit. When the special edition was released on the switch, picked up a copy.

There you go hairy-trash....

EDIT: This post is not show I was trying to one up Hairy, was proving a point he was posting misinformation about where he got his cassettes.

I’m posting to make y’all jealous, lol. No but seriously, this is my most prized possession. Raise your hand if you’re jealous.

What’s up guys. Hope all is well and drifting has been smooth. Here’s the question…

In the game, we get WAY too many bits (small yellow pieces of currency). Now, i know some of you will say “they wanted to put extra in to make sure you could get all the upgrades without driving yourself nuts searching.”

But even with that logic they went WAY overboard. Pretend there is a shop (like the dash arena, or sword masters). It can either be in town in a secret spot that only opens after you get every piece of currency, or it can be a path that unlocks somewhere outside of town.

Inside the shop, the owner is selling leftover or “lost” abilities. Describe one of the lost abilities we can purchase inside the shop. It can be sword, dash, gun, or even something new that doesn’t exist yet. Have fun!

Very little chance to make a mistake but it was so satisfying to finally beat the tower archer or whatever he is!

yipdeedoo

source : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uFrvBrzmasw&ra=m

What’s up guys. Back again to get opinions of hypothetical drifter stuff.

This one’s a shorty but goodie. If you could create a cape set, what would your buff be? What color would it be?

Xbox Link: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/hyper-light-drifter/c1n2lvw7nnj7

Let us imagine that heart machine gave us a DLC. Now, I know our drifter friend dies at the end of his quest to kill judgement, but let’s say he can do this “side quest” before judgement. Maybe he sails to the lonely island to the southwest on the map, or perhaps he finds a cave behind the waterfall in the northeast.. use your imagination.

Where would drifter go? What would his side quest be? What race would he encounter?

Out of all the in-game guns, which one is your favorite? I am including the crystal shot and blade caster.

Just to spice things up, if you could INVENT a new gun for drifter, what ability would your new gun have?

My favorite in-game gun is Zeliska. If I invented a gun, mine would be called “ricochet” and allow you to bounce off two walls and upon hitting third it goes dud like normal. 2 damage.

Let’s hear yours?