But the familiarity comes from a certain pleasant chunkiness that I loved from Hyper Light Drifter, where hits connect hard with satisfying sounds and reactions. There’s a wider array of weapons than before for stringing together combos, with customizable loadouts of melee and ranged weaponry alongside special abilities such as grenades and (my favorite) a giant cube that Preston dropped on enemies’ heads repeatedly. I'm optimistic that the transition from top-down to 3D combat won't be too tough to make for those who loved Drifter.įortunately for Drifter fans, combat in Breaker (at least visually) seems familiar. Preston starts out in a lovingly pink biome deeply reminiscent of the first area of Drifter, and begins zipping around in search of beacons as a number of small enemies pop up to waylay him. To do so, players have to take down multiple bosses across different procedurally generated biomes, each of which is gated behind multiple “beacons” that must be activated for each boss to appear. But it doesn’t seem easy to get to said Abyss King. There will be different character classes, he says, with different abilities as well as some degree of customizability.Īs a “Breaker,” players are sent out into the Overgrowth to take down minions of the Abyss King, the mysterious big bad at the heart of Hyper Light Breaker. He’s playing single-player, but tells me Hyper Light Breaker will include online cooperative multiplayer that’s flexible to wherever different players might be in the game’s story. I watch Preston putter briefly around a bustling hub city full of NPCs before he heads out into the world for a run. It’s a multiplayer 3D roguelike action game centered around players heading out from a hub into a procedurally generated world, defeating bosses, and returning to do it all again. Where Hyper Light Drifter was a single-player (at launch), top-down, action-adventure game, Hyper Light Breaker is a different genre entirely. Lacking explicit storytelling context and full of colorful mystery, it’s easy to recognize Breaker as a Hyper Light game on sheer force of aesthetic alone.īut aesthetic is where most of the at-a-glance similarities end. Everything I see is vaguely futuristic, but also ruinous, and somewhat overgrown, with characters and enemies alike fusing technology with vaguely shade-like presences and monstrous forms. But Breaker is a total gameplay departure from Drifter, so experiencing it through cryptic hints from Preston about what’s going on as he pummels his way through piles of enemies in rainbow-tinted biomes gives it even more of an aura of mystery.Īs with Drifter, Hyper Light Breaker’s world is awash in brilliant colors, littered with strange runes and ruins, and is completely devoid of actual language explaining what’s going on in it, with characters using pictograms to express their thoughts instead. Hyper Light Breaker was already a game told in strong imagery rather than language, with a story to be slowly puzzled out over time and significant effort. Help the settlement flourish over the course of your journey.Watching developer Alx Preston walk me through some early Hyper Light Breaker gameplay at this year’s Game Developers Conference makes the already inscrutable world of Hyper Light feel even more esoteric. Learn more about the Overgrowth and the deep storylines hidden within with each death and subsequent attempt Play single player or lead your team of Breakers through the Overgrowth in online co-operative playįace hordes of enemies and gigantic bosses in frenetic third-person combatĭiscover and unlock a wide arsenal of weapons and items to create the perfect build for every run Use your wall-dashing, hoverboard, glider and more for incredible freedom across landscapes Play alone or with friends to explore massive biomes, defeat brutal monsters, create new builds, survive the mysterious Crowns and overthrow the almighty Abyss King in this action rogue-lite adventure from the creators of Hyper Light Drifter.Ī world in disarray, with mysteries to solve, vicious enemies to fight, and fully 3D environments to exploreĪ vast, ever-changing world awaits with massive, open biomes and deep labyrinths Enter the Overgrowth, a new land in the world of Hyper Light.
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