The creators of this game did SUCH a great job with the pixels, and the fluidity of every motion makes my animator's heart sing. When you come upon beautiful scenery, the music will swell and leave you feeling like you're living a fantasy. Let me just say, the soundtrack is gorgeous and so is the art. Frequent also are 'episodes' of Drifter collapsing and coughing up blood do occur. I believe the final boss is named Judgement, and you will see Judgement frequently in cutscenes, usually after you kill a boss. It can be considered quite difficult, but the accomplishment of finishing it is probably better than the stress of dying over and over again - it's an automatic save, so you can't choose when to, and sometimes that's quite a killer.

Anyway, your goal essentially is to clear all 4 directions (and find secrets along the way) of North, East, South, and West. My personal headcanon is that they're gender neutral, but everyone's different. They appear to be genderless or gender neutral, but most take on the assumption that the Drifter uses male pronouns. In HLD, you play as a character known as the Drifter. The fan community is small, and by small it's like, the majority of the fandom is 26 (and growing) people in a skype chat talking, drawing, & writing - while this is an exaggeration, I think you get the idea. I would tell you it rivals Undertale, but that's a matter of opinion, and I've never actually played (or been interested in) Undertale. It's really fun, and is available on Steam for $19.99 (USD). Hyper light drifter is a game styled after older arcade type 8-bit games. I don't make topics often, but when I do, it's probably because I have something interesting to talk about.

Size of hyper light drifter sprite