All he has to guide him in his remaining days are nightmares about a glowing artefact, and an inhumanly amorphous enemy that seeks to smother him. He (his gender has been established) is stricken from a disease that has him coughing up vital fluids. The titular “Drifter” appears to be a martially skilled vagrant. Even so, the details are sparse, and the creators of the game are content to just let speculation run rife. What is there that is established is from “Word of God”, i.e. Most of the game’s story is speculation, and this review will not be doing much to establish any further theories, much less canon. What legible text is there is placed behind a substitution cipher (and even then most of it is cryptic) and there are no understandable voice-overs. The story is told mainly through imageries and animated visuals. Hindsight would give anyone who is willing to have it the ability to look underneath the game’s impressive exterior, and notice its problems. Yet, it has been a few years past the giddy days of the renaissance of the indie scene. One such example is Hyper Light Drifter, a Kickstarted project that took many years to come to fruition. Nevertheless, there are people who will undertake such a project, and there are people who would support them. Pixel artwork is a labour of love that can be difficult for others to appreciate if they do not realize how much effort has to go into it.
By Gelugon_baat | Review Date: June 22, 2018
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