Vice’s existing coverage of the gaming sector lives at /gaming. Walker said he isn’t sure how many people he’ll be hiring at Vice but said one of the goals is to have a “diverse collection of voices.” “More than having a lot of people, we want the right people,” he said. Walker, 30, in June 2015 joined Giant Bomb, an influential gaming news site CBSi acquired in 2012. Previously, he had written for sites including CBSi’s GameSpot and had an academic career as a researcher for Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. Those will join the existing 11 owned-and-operated online channels, which include Vice News, Noisey (music), Motherboard (tech) and Munchies (food). I don't want to play a game that frustrates me, and Hyper Light Drifter nails difficult without getting too close to unfair.The yet-to-be-named gaming destination is one of six new vertical sites Vice plans to roll out this year the other categories are health, travel, LGBTQ, finance and sustainability. But the challenge will get you through it, if you're hooked by the combat loop, and it's well worth playing for that reason. It's a beautiful, dark game with some fantastic gameplay, but there's not much to the mystery. This is a bummer because it feels like all of this sorrow should have something to say and it just doesn't. There's more in this world, and they're not saying anything about it. Hyper Light Drifter is a lonely game by design, but it suffers from having so many NPCs around that do basically nothing. You'll find them amid a pile of enemy bodies, and they'll mark where the boss is on your map. As far as characters go, there's one other character with any sort of agency. Between those, if you find enough puzzle pieces in each of the four regions of the world, you'll get another short cutscene. There's a short cutscene at the start, and a short one at the ending. It's not always clear what the message is. The rest is conveyed through images when you talk to anyone that has something to say, you hear sounds but see pictures of what they're describing. The only written dialog is in a cypher scrawled on monoliths hidden throughout the world. Where it doesn't really work is in the story and characters. Combined with an amazing Disasterpeace soundtrack, it sets a perfect mood to explore the world, kill monsters, and die slowly. It's style is more Saturday morning cartoon than Warhammer 40K, but still evokes grim imagery. The landscapes are littered with skeletons and remains and the color palette is muted. The drifter regularly goes into (scripted) coughing fits between fights, leaving behind pools of blood. It's a game where I had to be prepared for almost anything because it'd suddenly trap me behind a wall and drop a dozen enemies in the room.Ī sorrowful tone permeates the game. It requires taking a hit-and-run approach more often than not, and the game loves ambushes and overwhelming numbers.
The action is much more varied and nuanced than classic Zelda. The good news is that it is more than Hard Zelda. However, when it got a lot of love during the Giant Bomb game of the year deliberations, I finally took it as a hint that it might be more than Hard Zelda.
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Zelda's not a series I have a lot of love for, and I'm not attracted to games that get a lot of buzz just for being difficult. Then it came out and it still looked cool, but I'd read a lot of comparisons to Zelda and notes on high difficulty, so I passed. Hyper Light Drifter is a game that looked cool on Kickstarter, but I passed on backing it.
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