Hyper Light Breaker

Extremely generic. And I think the devs stopped supporting the game at some point. I'm bored and I received this for free in a Twitter giveaway. A more bare-bones Risk of Rain clone.

Abandoned

This hurts to write, as Hyper Light Drifter is my favorite indie game. This game had so much potential and it's abandonment makes my heart ache. Hyper Light Breaker feels like a soulless 3D recreation of the original and I honestly think making the game 3D was a major cause of it's failure. The project was too big for Heart Machine and they bit off more than they could chew. The art style also just doesn't feel like Hyper Light Drifter. It's like the art style change between Halo: Reach and Halo 4. It's kinda jarring. I really hope Heart Machine goes back to the GameMaker Engine (or an equivalent engine) and makes a Hyper Light Drifter 2 in the original pixelated art style. I love Alyx Preston, hopefully he learns from these mistakes and makes something better in the future.

You never should've chased the roguelike trend. Hyper Light Drifter was an all timer... This is just sad.

As of early access this game has a mountain to climb. I tried really hard to enjoy this game, and it's completely possible it's just not for me, but I have some notes. The art style, sound design and character design are all wonderful. That is where my positive notes end. The style of the game is nice, the cracked foundation has a really pretty coat of paint. On both controller and mouse + keyboard, the combat is clunky. Lock-on targeting does not benefit this game in a 3D space with how instant you need to react to attacks that deal 1/5 of your health from almost every enemy. Parrying is too little of reward for the risk, you might get 7 of your 90 hp back, but you're stuck in place and get no follow up. Staggering (poise break) gives you an animation locked attack that takes so long and does so little, you're better off attacking other enemies in the mean time as you'll get more damage. Ranged builds rely on RNG so heavily that attempting to play as a ranged character is pointless, despite the fact that 2 characters are built around their ranged weapons. The movement is atrocious, in a day and age where so many games are copying the stamina climbing systems of Breath of the Wild, HLB somehow does the impressive job of making a worse system. The glider lowers your altitude extremely fast so its not good for long distance gliding, but also you take so little fall damage that I'm surprised there's even a glider anyway. The hoverboard is fun until you want to turn at a decent rate and then collide with a pebble and can't move. There IS a "vaulting" mechanic, but it's only when you use your dodge at a wall or surface to run up it. The loot extraction is a fun mechanic, until you realize how little most materials matter because you only want weapon upgrades and the main items to unlock bosses, so everything else is pointless even though you're supposed to be upgrading the HUB area. I really hope they expand on all these features and make this combat even somewhat clean. This feels like a game I would be trying in 2012 on Steam Greenlight. I don't mean to be overly negative, but using the Hyperlight Drifter IP, yet doing almost nothing with it, begs the question of how this game will turn out. I really enjoy these types of game, but exploration and combat being the focus mean they have to feel buttery smooth, and I keep finding chunks and lumps and it's getting gross.

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