Let's talk Hyper Light Drifter

[Felix-0]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/257850


Hyper Light Drifter is a beautiful and challenging town down action adventure game. Very pixel, very retro with a beautiful soundtrack.
Made by Heart Machine as their first game as a studio, it was crowdfunded and received an insane amount of backers, meeting all the stretch goals.
Who here has it, who here wants it? What are you impressions of it so far either way?

[Archem]

I know nothing about it, but damn, it looks beautiful.

[Prpl_Mage]

Looks great but I couldn't quite grasp the controllers from looking at the video, or rather, the combat

[Felix-0]

Looks great but I couldn't quite grasp the controllers from looking at the video, or rather, the combat

Alright. Mouse and Keyboard controls. You have a cursor on the screen. Left click attacks, right click shoots, space bar dashes. All these actions go towards your cursor. It's between with a controller cause your dashes aren't based on your mouse movement, but I feel like keyboard and mouse has tighter control when dealing with guns.

There's a few special attacks. Hold attack and charge for a 180 angle slash, kinda like links spin slash.
Slash then press dash, to attack as your moving.
Dash, then slash. You do a stab at the end of your dash, hitting enemies and knocking them away. Can knock them into other enemies and do collateral damage.

that's about it for combat. 6 guns.
a grenade that recharges over time, can upgrade to have 2 charges.

Pretty fun game, pretty steep difficulty spike.