Hyper Light Drifter |OT| We On A HyperLight Beam
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Hispanic! At the Disco
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I cant do the chain dash past 200 :/ not due to the rythm but because i keep hitting the walls 
YOU SHOULDA JUST HEARD ME! Practically threw my controller out of my hands!!!
Am now one of the few. What a rush lol. Played with no sound but the clicking of my thumb.
Before this I actually made it to 733 before I slid and then I stared at my screen for a bit. Felt so down and stopped playing. Got right back in after an hour though.
Whew, that took a while
But it was worth it! It's actually false though, you don't need the black cape for it, the reward for completing horde mode, the only thing I haven't done yet. I doubt I will, always die in the later waves.
Black Cape is NG+. Not hoard mode.
Am now one of the few. What a rush lol. Played with no sound but the clicking of my thumb.
Before this I actually made it to 733 before I slid and then I stared at my screen for a bit. Felt so down and stopped playing. Got right back in after an hour though.
HELL YEAH!!!!
Did you get any 700's? I got a 780 and my heart near shattered.
FEZ with it's mysteries and collecting gold cubes... and of course, Disasterpeace soundtrack.
2D Zelda with it's weapons and options and upgrades.
Art Style is it's own. Pixel-Perfect Pixel Art in every frame.
Game is everything I wanted it to be and more. GOTY for me, without question.
Edit: Whoops, double post.
YOU SHOULDA JUST HEARD ME! Practically threw my controller out of my hands!!!
Nice! Now I have to beat my 475.
SmoothBrain
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Was playing for a bit, I really enjoy the small stories, simply told by a few pictures. Started in the west, couldn't progress as I wasn't able to retrieve a single shard (the crystals on the ground are fucking stupid btw), east was pretty straight forward, though.
Question: has anyone got the second key via backerkit? I'm still waiting for mine after contacting Alex.
Question: has anyone got the second key via backerkit? I'm still waiting for mine after contacting Alex.
Why not?
Just wow.
Writing my post I was thinking about Fez too but I forgot to mention,
You pumped my hype so much! Thanks.
I really would like to play it on Vita.
Each zone has more than 4 pieces.
Bought the game in the Steam Summer Sale and I am currently playing and enjoying it. Beat the North and I'm slowly playing through the West. I didn't bother me as much in the North but in the forest the 30FPS are really hurting the game for me. Is there any way to bring it to 60?
show me your skeleton
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just started this today and i'm loving it despite having almost no idea what's going on.
Just wow.
Writing my post I was thinking about Fez too but I forgot to mention,
You pumped my hype so much! Thanks.
I really would like to play it on Vita.
Vita port in the fall!!
Bro, the music is so good. It sets the atmosphere so well. Certain tones queued in at specific moments. The sound effects top notch as well. God, i didn't think any game could top FEZ as my favorite indie... But this might do it by the end!!
The slabs have a double purpose:
if you find every one of them they unlock a new outfit. You can find them gathered somewhere in the north area. They also have info on the world in a coded language, much like FEZ. You can find translations online.
The keys are found in secret locations throughout the world, you'll stumble on some if you explore.
New Game + you usually start over with all your unlocks/equipment etc... in Hyper Light Drifter you start over with nothing... and two HP. It's hard mode, but they call it NG+.
All of the Drifter's abilities are unlocked though.
Sorry to keep asking questions, but I'm still stuck exploring in the West area, currently trying to find/activate a triangle piece.
According to the map I'm stood in the darn room where it is! My little Drifter is stood on the purple diamond on the map. I can't see it anywhere. Do I need to do something to activate it, or make it appear? I hope this rings a bell to somebody, or else I'll sound like a crazy person.
According to the map I'm stood in the darn room where it is! My little Drifter is stood on the purple diamond on the map. I can't see it anywhere. Do I need to do something to activate it, or make it appear? I hope this rings a bell to somebody, or else I'll sound like a crazy person.
Remember that the map isn't that accurate: if you see the Drifter on a particular location, it just means he's in that general area, not on that location exactly. For instance in the underground areas you'll always see him in the center of that area, not exactly where he is at that point. So you'll need to move in that area (without entering another one) to find the piece.
I've managed to find what I was looking for, it's on a little platform of its own down in the bottom right of the screen. Only problem is it's too far away to drift across to. Is there an upgrade I'm supposed to get which increases the length of my drift? Otherwise I have no idea how else to get there.
Yeah it's most definitely recommended you use the shops to get upgrades, makes the game a lot more tolerable.
I've just beaten the west boss. He wasn't too bad. To the south I go! I'm determined to finish this game. I always shy away from challenging games, this is a personal challenge for myself.
I've just beaten the west boss. He wasn't too bad. To the south I go! I'm determined to finish this game. I always shy away from challenging games, this is a personal challenge for myself.
Good luck man just remember to activate at least 4 modules in each section to get to the last boss if you don't already know. I just beat the game in today logging a little over 7 hours and I love the game. Probably jump back into another playthrough later this year.
I've activated 4 in west, east and north so I'll be making sure to do that in the south, or else I'd be feeling like I haven't really finished it.
NG+:
Only 2 HP.
All of the drifter's dash and sword abilities.
Only start with the Pistol. Have to re-obtain weapons again.
No weapon upgrades unlocked.
No Grenades unlocked.
No bonus HP packs unlocked.
Yeah I'm not doing NG+ anytime soon. To make matters slightly easier though: you can equip a different color sword and spirit, so you can up your hp to 3 and pick another outfit upgrade. You can't switch the cape though, that has to stay black. But the unlocked outfits aren't there at the start, so you have to get them again.
Oh for those that don't know, in general: the outfit effects stack, so you can pick 3 different outfit colors and get all their effects, like quicker sword slashes, faster ammo/stamina regen, etc.
Oh for those that don't know, in general: the outfit effects stack, so you can pick 3 different outfit colors and get all their effects, like quicker sword slashes, faster ammo/stamina regen, etc.
Defeated the north boss. Took about 20 minutes and some frustrations but I got him. Didn't realize I was walking into a boss till I was there.
Game is a ton of fun and scratches that Dark Souls style of exploration and challenging gameplay for me. I'm going to try and play the whole thing blind without any guides.
Game is a ton of fun and scratches that Dark Souls style of exploration and challenging gameplay for me. I'm going to try and play the whole thing blind without any guides.
Pretty tight. There are some challenging ones. The dash challenge that myself and a handful of others here have done got a gold trophy for it. Love that they put effort into them.
Okay so I've been playing for maybe 2-3 hours and im stuck, I tried going east and met some weird dude who showed me some stuff on my map but I couldn't "activate" any of them so i said forget it and went north and I got to the "end" I activated 2 of the switches but I dunno how im supposed to activate the other 2 doors since they require 3 and 4 switches to open I guess.
You can go any direction other than south first. There's definitely something you're missing. East is objectively the easiest and west is the hardest. Maybe try North. People have said that is the most straight forward in terms of directions and navigation.
Also, obvious but should be said: explore as much as you can!
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Can you unlock/collect everything once you beat the game? Not talking about NG+, just talking about 100%'ing it to completion without starting over.
Nope. There's a couple unlocks that are NG+ exclusive, I believe.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Interesting, so are there missable unlocks that can never be achieved if you beat the game? Can you return to the game after you beat it without having to NG+?
I don't think anything is missable... But I haven't beaten the game. The stuff in NG+ is exclsuive to NG+. Granted, this is all based off what I've read on here! Haven't beaten it yet.
Thanks, I went north and killed the boss, is it just me or does those skinny bird wizards look like MC's, I mean they have hoods and chains and look like they're about to drop phat rhymes.
Anyway went back East and now I'm making some progress thanks for the input
You can go back to your old save after beating the game, so you can collect everything on your old save. To 100% (needed for the hoarder achievement), you have to collect everything in the vanilla game.
NG+ only gives you the black cape, which isn't needed for 100%. Just don't save over your other file if you start NG+.
