#1 Hyper Light Drifter ¿Cómo superar una enfermedad?/ #1 Hyper Light Drifter. How to overcome an illness?

Towards those years of 2013 a ground funding was opened which was very successful for the time, raising a good sum of money, in this way began the development of Hyper Light Drifter being finally finished in 2016.

Hyper Light Drifter is a hack and slash action adventure game developed by Heart Machine studio with a zenithal view and a beautiful 16-bit pixel art described by the creator himself as a mix between Zelda and diablo. Alex Preston (Developer) has a heart disease since he was born having many health problems that forced him to be constantly in hospitals and on the verge of death, all these feelings have motivated him to approach the artistic expression and somehow metaphorically managed to capture his life in this game, leaving us a great teaching.

I always like to investigate the background of the development of a video game, and a little of the history of the creator because it is impossible to separate the life of one, of his creations, there are always clues left in the gestation of any kind of art.

This game has a story, but it depends on the player, each player can have a totally different interpretation of the other and that is what makes this game so special, the theories and what each individual understands from the experience of playing it. I would dare to say that its story is told as in the SOULSLIKE, it is diffuse and not told linearly, but you have to take the time to think, find the little clues and pieces of history distributed throughout this universe.

Many may not like this type of narrative, but I like that we have to tie up ends at the end, personally the first thing I did was to share with other people that happened to me and I wanted to know the experience of others. Its difficulty is not comparable to a Dark Souls but there are areas where enemies accumulate and you have to repeat these confrontations several times, although I see them more as a learning and personal improvement to complete them.

I had played this game several years ago, back in my days when I was looking for games with a retro pixel art style and I couldn't have found something better to appease my cravings.

We start seeing several cinematics. A planet with a strange formation in the sky, symbols and lights that converge in a kind of animal and later a world desolated by titans. A clear reference to gospel and the first impact in my opinion.

Y allí lo vemos a él, a nuestro héroe ¿Y porque no decir? A Alex, el creador del juego, en unos párrafos retomo esta idea. Lo vemos surgir entre los cadáveres de una civilización al borde de la extinción, vemos como cae de rodillas el suelo tomándose el pecho y escupiendo sangre. Al instante una figura negra aprovecha su debilidad y lo ataca, pero nuestro héroe recobra fuerzas e intenta eliminarlo. Al igual que nuestro Héroe Alex posee una enfermedad con la que constantemente lucha, pero de todas formas continua con su objetivo.

We see a black dog, in my opinion Anubis, the God of life (not death) according to Egyptian mythology, the one in charge of leading the dead to the court to be judged by the God Osiris who decided who was worthy of living eternally in paradise. The dog leads our hero to some doors that emerge from the ground and what we do is to cross this threshold to appear in a strange world full of life.

I understand that our hero's world was devastated by these creatures and the animal led him to a new world to try to save the next one. I stress that all this is what I understand after long hours of gameplay and I would love to know if you played Hyper Light Drifter and what you understood from its story.

This world is in no better condition than the one we left, it looks like another world on the brink of ruin, abandoned environments, in some cases futuristic, but with a cyberpunk style of abandonment and neglect making us think at all times Who inhabited that place? Or what was their level of technological development? We reach the surface, we see that there is life and vegetation, but as we continue advancing towards the city we saw previously we collapse on the ground, being assisted by another subject, another Drifter... a drifter.

What is the origin of the word vagabond? This word comes from the Latin "vagabundus" someone who travels the world and... Why not? Who travels WORLDS, an endless number of worlds that are destroyed one after another with the only possibility of moving on to the next one and trying to continue surviving, without a home and without a point of return to which to return.

The game never explains anything with text, only with images and vignettes that we will have to interpret. The center of the map is our nexus, the place where we can return to rest, buy upgrades and get skills that will help us overcome the obstacles of this strange planet.

Our mission is to destroy a power cell hidden in the center of the kingdom and for this we must unlock nodes in different parts of the map. The game tells us a story of overcoming; in spite of everything the Drifter continues forward to accomplish his goals, but... Is it worth fighting for this world? I started with the eastern region and from the events that occur there I would say that there was a conquest of one race against another and throughout the different areas we will notice that there were always struggles for technology, resources, facts as close as human life. Throughout the kingdom catastrophes occurred for reasons of the living beings of this world since at no time we are given to understand that they are human beings.

¿Si tanta maldad y avaricia puede surgir de un lugar así vale la pena ser salvado?

If so much evil and greed can come from such a place is it worth saving?

A small error or rather detail that I would like to mention is about the environments, sometimes by the perspectives we think we can reach an area but we end up falling into the void, this will cause us to lose some hearts but our curiosity will sometimes give us fruit to discover CHIPS of improvements for our character.

The enemies are very varied, each with its own characteristic pattern of attacks. The bosses have a lot of charisma and personality that makes us think how they got to the ruin in which they are. The soundtrack is beautiful, you can notice the affection that the developer had, the melodies allow to reinforce the narrative concepts transmitting emotions such as serenity, tension and especially sadness. They always manage to hit the exact moment for them to start, calming us down after an arduous fight or turning on all our senses to face the next battle.

Hyper Light Drifter is not a long game and it is impossible to get bored with its scenarios since we will always be changing biomes, fighting in dungeons or in beautiful environments full of vegetation, all of which tell us a story of a world forgotten in time.

I hope you liked my review, I was planning to tell you more about my hours of gameplay but when researching I felt very necessary to share this information, I will be bringing the following areas of this game because I want to share the beautiful scenery that hides the forgotten world of Hyper Light Drifter.

Soy Nitsu y espero que puedan encontrar un tiempo para jugar este fin de semana.

I'm Nitsu and I hope you can find some time to play this weekend.