hyperlight drifter crystal dash challenge

HYPERLIGHT DRIFTER CRYSTAL DASH CHALLENGE UPGRADE

Much like Dark Souls, the choice is yours and you’ll be given no direction, but you will likely find that some areas are too challenging early on. We can choose to travel North, East or West (South is locked to begin with).

HYPERLIGHT DRIFTER CRYSTAL DASH CHALLENGE UPGRADE

One of the first areas we find is a town that acts as a hub for the main areas, as well as having shops to upgrade your items and abilities. Defeating the boss will raise a tower and once all towers are raised, the path to the final boss will be opened. The world is split into 4 regions in which a number of nodes need to be found and activated to unlock the path to the area’s boss. The results of a successful battle…after my 4th attempt. At any rate, the Drifter waking up on a mountain top and the adventure begins. I have no idea what’s going on, but it looked damn cool! It was like watching an anime with the sound turned off. Then there’s an explosion and the robots melt and the Drifter is wrapped up in some sort of black slime. We have a cut-scene with a door and some Egyptian style dog statues (Anubis!) followed by the Drifter standing on a mountain with some giant killer robots. Pretty sure I didn’t visit that city in the game, but I’m not sure.

How happy I was to find out that Hyper Light Drifter, a game that I feel fuses these two series, was on offer for £8! Cheap and very, very cheerful. Happy days! Some of you will also know that I really enjoy the Souls/Borne series for their challenging gameplay and detailed world. In fact, I still own it and the memory on the cartridge is still in tact with my childhood saves on it. It remains one of my favourite games to this day. One of the first console games I ever owned (read: probably pestered my dad into buying) was Legend of Zelda on NES.

Hyperlight drifter crystal dash challenge