Testing out the new sword in the arena has me approaching combat in ways I never did before. Throwing the sword costs ammunition like the standard gun in the game, but using the technique in tandem with the slash-and-dash attacks I utilize to survive this often crushing adventure opens the combat up for some pretty creative bouts. I can quickly slash my enemies as I roll dodge their attacks, or I can throw the sword and have it boomerang back to me. Inspired by a scrapped idea from the original game’s development, the dual-sword are used for both close and distant combat. There will be new areas and weapons, but the only Nintendo-exclusive inclusion detailed during my session with the game is the new dual-sword weapon. As I start playing Gaspar informs me the port will run at 60 frames per second in both docked and handheld mode and will include Switch exclusive features. It’s fucking gorgeous on the Switch screen. Right away, the smoothness of the game draws me in. In a small office in San Francisco, I was joined by Eva Gaspar and Miguel Corchero of Abylight Studios to talk about the process of not only bringing Hyper Light Drifter to Switch, but making it the definitive version of the game. Thanks to recent moves by YoYo Games to get GameMaker working on Switch, any Nintendo fans who missed out on this indie classic will get a second chance later this summer when it launches in the eShop.Įarlier this week, I got a chance to try out the game for myself. Vita fans were out of luck, but any Wii U owners who migrated to Switch were thrown a bone earlier this year when Heart Machine and Abylight Studios announced they were porting the game to the system. Because the game was developed using GameMaker, it couldn’t port natively to either system. Unfortunately, those versions were canceled in Fall of 2016.

It was quickly ported to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One with Wii U and Vita version scheduled for sometime after. Critics loved it, fans adored it and everyone was clamoring to get it every device they could. From developer Heart Machine, the passion project was long in the making and upon release it did not disappoint.

It’s been more than two years since the pixelated masterpiece Hyper Light Drifter first graced PC. Like Rob Thomas and Santana, it is so smooth

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