![]() ![]() It hints at a basic narrative - you play a stranger in a ruined land, searching through the rubble of a long-gone civilisation for some kind of cure to a blight that has afflicted you - but it doesn't fill in the blanks particularly willingly. One of the strengths of this game is that it explains almost nothing. A moment to simply enjoy the beauty of Hyper Light Drifter without the attendant carnage. But for now - only for a minute or two - it was me and the wind and the ancient bookshelves. ![]() Up ahead there was more of what I'd left behind. ![]() I knew the nods towards secret areas by now, and I sounded them all out: health packs in a shuttered reading room where a skeleton sat at a desk, money out on a spar of rock overlooking an endless drop and a rosy horizon. Sunlight angled in through shattered rafters. And then I found my way here: to row after row of documents, scattered papers on the floor, shelves creaking and broken-backed. Crows attacked - huge things in robes, capable of violent magic. The journey up the mountain had been hard, past frosted willows and over ancient tumbledown staircases. In a library at the top of the world, I found a few moments of peace. To mark the occasion we're republishing our original review, which first went live in May. Heart Machine's slash-'em-up is punishing and precise - and incredibly beautiful.Įditor's note: Hyper Light Drifter comes to Xbox One and PS4 today, complete with the two-player co-op mode added since the game's release on PC. ![]()
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