Hyper Light Breaker

give me back my money

:(

Cant recommend. World feels empty, combats OK but getting ganged up on without a way to parry attacks from behind sucks. No I frames for dashing, lack of direction when starting, just feels too bare bone. It could be fun with another person but i hate rolling the dice with randoms.

Nope.

I bought this because I heard great things about its predecessor and was able to get it in a bundle pack. The graphics were appealing, I was especially drawn to the cell shaded style used. The movement feels pretty good, its fluid, you get a skateboard, and I like the different weapon selections. However, the monsters (less so now but especially at the beginning of EA) do so much damage you can only take a few hits before needing to extract or accept your fate. Extracting is fairly difficult as well since you need to locate the extraction point and survive through some spawns. The bosses are kind of neat, but overall I feel the core gameplay loop is just unfun. I don't see them having a way of addressing that, especially with the team's layoffs. I know they're trying a few things different now but they need to overhaul a large mount of the gameplay loop IMHO. I feel they're planning to just wrap up a few odds and ends and call it a finished product. Hopefully one day modders get their hands on it and could do something proper and unique with it. I think if the developers took less inspiration from extraction shooters and RoR2 this would've been way more enjoyable. As of now its one of those games maybe I'll check back in on in a year but I don't have high hopes for it. Edit: I checked back in a little early, for Christmas we get all development on this title halted. All you had to do was be willing to make changes and listen to your EA audience to implement such changes. Its super silly this is currently being sold as EA on sale when its development will not progress further, it should be delisted. Very disappointed with all involved.

Idk what to think anymore. Somehow they took what was a difficult, grindy, but oddly satisfying rogue-like and turned it into something incredibly boring and..easy? I used to struggle to get one boss down, making the grind feel satisfying. Now, you can solo queue, hit all 3 bosses without 1 single extraction. While I know there's a difficulty modifier, they removed what actually *made* it interesting. Every time you load in being an incredible challenge. Extracting feeling like a goal and a risk just to get a breath of health, do some upgrades, buy new weapons, and relaunch. Upgrades coming few and far between. Incredibly customized (and careful) builds. But now? simple and boring. Stuck in "classes" with little customization. All upgrades being cheesy little "press X to upgrade" without any real need for extraction. So many freebies. Free health. Free medkits. Free items. And, it just lacks content right now. No reason to come back after you complete 1 cycle. Maybe the finished game will surprise me, but it's going the opposite direction of fun right now.

so much mpotential here. RoR2 for HLD. buy if you want to help them reach a finished product. Needs bug fixes and quality of life changes. Combat and camera are too clunky. Parrying is clunky. Locking on is also terrible. it puts the camera right behind your character and you can't see anything going on. Solving these issues will make the combat and gameplay much smoother.