#i think my first playthrough- just beaing the final boss and reavhing the end- took me 8 to 12 hours

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Hi may I ask what hyper light drifter is about? I could obviously just search it up but it's more fun to ask the mutual who's obsessed with it

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Hyper Light Drifter is a visually STUNNING top down pixel art game, I like to joke about it being a bullet hell, I've seen some people call it a hack and slash? I'm not sure what categories it falls into but it has fun, pretty fast, but challenging combat

The story is told through the environment, and characters only ever speak to you through images, meaning the only two "readable" texts there really are happen to be monoliths you can find, but have to translate using a cypher thing, or the instructions in the beginning

Essentially you play as a drifter, a type of person in this world who tends to wander and therefore be subjected to the dangers that live in this seemingly post apocalyptic but regrowing landscape, most people call the protagonist The Drifter, but there are other drifters too

The Drifter is plagued by a chronic illness, causing them to cough up blood, which seems to be caused by this looming shadow figured called judgement that appears in either visions or hallucinations

Your goal as the drifter is to explore this land and eventually find the thing that has been tormenting you, and face judgement

Along the way you find remnants of the people that used to live in the north, south, east, and west, and learn what happened to those people. The tragedies that befell them