#Hyper light drifter trophy guide full#

I prefer to take out individuals in a group one at a time rather than just attacking the group as a whole.

Groups of enemies demand more finesse, as a beginner, stay away from larger groups and try to divide and conquer. When you combine this with the character handling expect to die if you treat HLD like just another hack'n slash. When an enemy prepares to attack (visual cues will announce this), regardless of size nothing short of killing it will prevent it from attacking. While an enemy is in an active state it can be stunned momentarily, this only seems applicable for smaller enemies that are knocked back, bigger foes will still rek u m8. As a general rule the safest time to attack an enemy is right after it has just attacked All enemies I have seen so far telegraph their attacks for a long enough period of time to get out of the way. To avoid damage you must either dodge an enemy or be reasonably certain of the window in which an AI will not attack.Ī single enemy is easily dispatched by flanking it, assuming no area of effect attacks, or you can attack it until it prepares an attack and dodge. A starting character cannot block physical attacks. Your first priority in combat encounters should be to avoid taking damage. You may benefit from swapping the controls for Shoot and Dash, users have reported that this makes the game easier to play. Combat is more a puzzle with a set of rules than a Hotline Miami style twitch-fest.

#Hyper light drifter trophy guide full#

Take your time, you can neither heal easily in combat (taking damage cancels full healing), nor influence your characters recovery with key presses. The mouse cursor in normal play can be hard to see especially with the flash effects and screen shakes. Because your cursor, the two white diamonds radiating from the character (keyboard and mouse only), pulls double-duty as both attack director and dash direction, it takes a bit of practice to be comfortable with the idea of pointing the cursor at an enemy to attack, then pointing it in the direction you want to dodge.

Your starting character can neither dodge continuously nor attack continuously without some kind of pause. Fortunately, enemy attack patterns are extremely basic, bosses have fairly predictable attack patterns and canon fodder (basic enemies) only one or two. This fact was the cause of many deaths.ĭefault characters can only do a three hit combo before a pause so it often is necessary to dash between strikes. Unlike many games, enemies do not flinch when they are attacked, attacking an enemy will not cancel their attack animations, but being attacked will cancel your attack animations and you will have to recover, where you are prone to more damage after a tiny period of invulnerability. When this happens you will take time to recover (as shown in game with animation). However your attacks can be cancelled by damage from enemies. Make of that what you willĪttacks take a specific amount of time to execute and cannot be interrupted or cancelled (without advanced techniques) with controls, this is the same for you and the enemy. I think this issue may be exacerbated by playing a 16-bit game at larger screen resolutions, the sprite composition may offer the visual system poor reference for precise motion at high speeds.įinally, according to the developer, and in my own experience playing with a controller provides the best game feel. In the past the game had a engine bound 30 FPS cap, 60 FPS has since been patched in. Combat and actions feel less jerky than with keyboard (but no less challenging). Playing with the controller changes game feel. Fortunately the game has beautiful pixel art and a good soundtrack in addition to much lore (wow!), if you don't appreciate these, you might as well ask for a refund because these elements are intended to carry the game. Because you are immediately thrust into the game world, you must rely on experimentation and exploration to see this game through to the end. No amount of button mashing will allow you to be successful at this game.Īs I see it, the meat of this game is discovering the enemy attack patterns for yourself and experimenting with fighting styles. First and foremost, Hyper Light Drifter or HLD is a sprite based 2D with timing based game mechanics.