>Game Hypes these massive spooky titan creatures up to no end.
>You never get to fight or see any of them.
In a game with no dialogue and an emphasis on telling its story through sound, colour and imagery, a scene this emphasized gives the impression this is an important aspect of the story.
So why then, are we not allowed to do anything with them?
>>333503489
Let me preemptively fix my poor phrasing.
Yes you do them dead, I meant you never witness them alive.
Something like 80% of the game's content was cut.
>>333503489
In the opening cutscene they show up, but then suddenly die or something
There's a dead titan in each area
One of the characters talks about one of the titans when it was alive
From what I can tell, they were a byproduct of the huge explosion that happened in the opening cutscene, caused a bunch of shit to go down, then died off or were killed. You play in the aftermath of all the crazy bullshit to hunt down diamond keys that unlock the chamber that houses the source of the crazy bullshit or something.
Story's not too clear, but it's obvious that the titans themselves were never really meant to be something that you fight. Pay attention a bit more.
>>333504168
That has to be my only assumption, it can't be intentional because its such a fucking flub in the story if so much of the story is about these things being the catalyst for what happened in some way.
And all that happens is you get to climb around on their dead bodies or hear some old fucker talk about fighting him.
Not firing a chekhov's gun this major is the kind of mistake a fucking 14 year old fanfiction author would make.
I'll give the devs the benefit of the doubt and say they had to cut it, but still, big fuck up.
>titans
they're clearly rip offs of unit 02 anon
>>333504240
The issue then is, why establish them at all, why show these things, why make them out as some major thing if they're not important to the story.
Developing and placing emphasis on something and doing nothing with it is a massive waste of time, imagine if you never fight the Old Lords in Dark Souls, but they kept the opening cutscene explaining who Nito, Seath and Gwyn are.
Evangelion thread? Rei a shit
>>333503489
Whenever I see the name Hyper Light Drifter, I immediately think of Black Rock Shooter.
Anita Sarkeesian found them problematic so they were cut.
>>333504882
I thought they were the God Soldier from Nausicaa.
Pretty much same diff, though, because several of the Nausicaa God Soldier scenes were directed/animated by Anno.
>>333504168
source? fucked up if true
bunnyhop summed up the game pretty well in his review. The game pretty obviously was put out as soon as they could reach some form of completion, no polish or extra thought put in
If any game has ever needed a definitive edition it is this one
>>333505186
Isn't it weird she supported this?
This is a dark as fuck game with living sacrifices, scenes where you see children mounted on pikes, people flayed on frames and with the first few seconds of the game the character witnesses a holocaust.
But she hates doom...for being violent?
>>333503489
I was pretty bummed, I was left with the impression that they're mostly there to be a zinger for the trailerit worked on me, to see them immediately fade away was hugely disappointing, as was the fact that they just rise up rather than rotate in like in the first trailer
>In a game with no dialogue
This was such an "try to be hip and cool and fuckup hugely",no dialogues even in shops or whatever, and it was often hard to tell where the fuck i was in the shop menu because of the pixel "art".
Dashing direction based on mouse is fucking stupid aswell.
Seems like a decent combat wrapped in shit and some pixel art wich was either worked on a lot or worked on very little.
>>333505637
From what I heard the game is based on the creators illness. I don't know whats wrong with him, but I think its heart related, considering the main character has a wound in his chest that periodically bleeds and hinders him, his company is called Heart Machine and everything the final boss does to you when you pass out after collecting 4 modules is supposed to represent the devs pain.
>shots through the heart
>body slammed and knocked to the floor
>being impaled through the chest
are all supposed to be metaphors for what its like to have the devs condition.
Again, I haven't done any research on this, but thats what I heard, and it wouldn't surprise me if anita or whoever else pitied the dev and supported him as a result.if true, thats honestly one of the coolest implementations of "2deep4u" symbolism I've seen in games in a long time
>>333503489
from my theory some shit trying to open some gate to unleash do-g-od, the do-g-od escape but also something else. The city then destroyed and apoclypse happened. Dogod then try to direct our bigender fluid hero to open some kind of seal shit to destroy the evil that latch to some crystal shit. After the shit ded, the dog return back behind the gate and the shitty city went down killing all people. congrats douchebag, are you hero yet?
>>333505637
Its ok because its all males being killed
Has anyone be the little kid in the soccer/football minigame?
>>333506512
yup, nothing happens as far as I could tell.
>>333506692
Why did they make it so dang hard to beat that kid?
>>333506512
Nothing happens, it's just good practice
>>333506902
honestly its really good practice for combat. Being able to dash in such a small area around a moving target whilst also attacking it
>>333505363
Look at the stretch goals and look how everything is missing and the excuse is literally "We didn't like the goals so we cut them", I'm not joking, its a post on their own fucking site
>>333506020
You should really play the game with a controller.
I was pretty bummed out by the total lack of giants in the actual game. They're reduced to set pieces and you never get to do anything with them. You don't even get to explore their body, they're just sorta in the background.
>>333503489
Sounds a lot like the god warriors from Naussica. If you're gonna rip from Eva imagery, good that he rips from what Eva riffed from as well.
>>333505190
Didn't that thing just melt after firing once? I know it wasn't complete yet but I thought it would be around for a bit longer considering how much they were talking about its terrible power.
5deep47u
This game isn't the devil like some people are making out but it won't acomplish much in this state. The dev really really should've put more effort in then he did.
The combat is fantastic, its fast and the visuals and sound is great but thats all there is to it, about the only decent character worth caring about is the other drifter and even then its barely worth considering.
It needed more dungeons, it needed a bigger world with more to explore and more importantly it probably NEEDED dialogue now I look back at it.
It seems to me the dev made the game into a playable state and then went "Eh, good enough I guess." and just left it like that instead of going the extra mile to make it better.
I do want to see more of this world though and I do want to see the dev actually fucking try next time.
>>333507551
He probably wanted to get it out before he died.
>>333507551
I feel like there doesn't need to be dialogue, everything gets across well, and if they cranked out four more dungeons but they were shoddy and the original dungeons were left to stagnate too, then would the game have benefited? In Link's Awakening, you care about Link, and that's pretty much it, that's how I feel about this, yeah we feel bad for the other drifter, but we feel for our character the most.
>>333507257
That's the point though, they're supposed to be setpieces, reminders of something greater, technically.
What a shitty tombstone to be left behind.
You'd think if the bastard was about to croak you'd at least go the extra effort and break out the brass polish, at least make your statue you spent all this time building so people would remember you look like you gave a fuck,
>>333508351
How about delivering what he actually promissed and got money for? Or are teh two alternate dungeons he said were nearly complete a lie too?Or the vehicles he showed us a lie too? Or the UI? Or everything else?
>>333503489
You don't fight those guys? What a shame. I was expecting something like pic related. Indie devs always take shortcuts
>>333507480
In the movie it melts because its basically a fetus. In the manga it grows till its a baby. It thinks Naussica is its mom.
>>333504882
What this dude said.
>>333508631
Hm, well, we have to consider games aren't made in a vaccum. Just like how the No Man's Sky group lost half or more of their code to a flood, the lead dev had a major heart surgery. There's a reason the game wasn't released till now, and maybe we might even get addons later down the line. They clearly have demonstrated that they have a desire to continue supporting the game. Through the recent patches.
>>333508853
Naw man, they're Naussica's God Warriors with Unit 02's face.
The way they're treated plotwise is like Naussica. >>333508793
Thought the creator is an Evafag, Sachiel was an early placeholder enemy.
>>333508867
SO, he promised something while knowing full well that he probably wouldn't deliver the promise and would jsut pocket the money for his health problems, why not just make a kickstarter for that? Why not contract useful people to help him instead of a stupid twitter warrior? I understand what you're saying but this game was supposed to be release a long time ago, he fucked up and only after it became obvious he wouldn't be able to keep hs promises he started laying his life for everyone to see
>>333509083
Well shit dawg looks like I'm going to have read me some Naussica then
>>333503489
My guess is
>big spooky underground diamond made of pure evil sent the titans out to do the evils
>the goods people did the goods things and killed them
>the titans all had spherical cores made out of evil diamond, which is seen throughout important parts of the game such as after boss rooms, especially in the south
>the evil diamond core fragments, as well as the pink liquid associated with them, probably evil titan blood or some edgy shit, grant power and madness to anyone who uses them; these are the cultist birds you fight, the frog ninjas, mad samurai, bosses, etc.
>Mr. H. L. Drifter goes out and stabs fucking everything so he can go and destroy the big diamond, especially since the evil crap apparently causes radiation sickness and coughing up blood which eventually kills
>>333507069
Then please link it my friend
>>333509464
Manga's great. Bought the entire thing in hard cover.
Very Hippy, very Miyazaki though. Miyazaki's a good feminist, he writes what are basically young Ellen Ripleys.
>>333506512
>walk into ball to kick it lightly into position
>use dash to super kick it past the guy
>easy goals every time once you get the angle down since he always starts off defensive
There's nothing for beating him, though. No cosmetics or anything, even if you 10-0 the cheating bastard
>>333509583
Show me all those hot features that he deliverd us, faggot
>>333509669
lol very hippy
I might as well watch the film too after I finish reading the manga.
What a badly designed game.
>>333510395
Watch the movie first. Its like Akira where the movie feels a bit rushed at the end but ties up decently enough.
Manga is more what actually happened and really fleshed out. You'll probably enjoy it more movie first.
>>333510013
Are you such an impatient fuck that you can't wait?
>>333503489
>Game Hypes these massive spooky titan creatures
>You never get to fight or see any of them
Sure you do, just go watch Evangelion! It's a franchise that's over 20 years old. What a better place to rip off content from than something that's well established?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-XbxdrTZEs
>>333511116
You realise EVA is an ultraman rip off right?
>>333511305
Oh yeah? Ultraman is a Godzilla ripoff
>>333503489
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB-pG7wEnzM
>>333511305
Except it's not. How can you look at the titans in the OP pic and see anything but unit 02 from eva?
>>333511403
Ultraman literally recycled costumes from godzilla and spray painted them different colors. Hell, the same fucking actor who played godzilla was the one who did all the monsters for ultraman.
>>333511042
(You)
>>333509257
I think its silly to think that Antia had a big effort, you know she could've just donated right, people who donated got mentioned lol
>>333509506
Robots were controlled by people like the Drifter, notice how animal people live in all four areas? The blue skinned folk, human like ones, created the robots, hence why they're on their side in the Cyrstal Forest.
>>333511042
He's got a point, they could add them down the line.
>>333511765
Because it's not Eva? Four eyes and giant robots isn't exactly.. Eva only.
>>333512487
>the titans are robots
Is that confirmed? They definitely bleed and have preserved 'hearts'. They could be organic, or biomechanical.
>>333512487
I was talkign about one of his coders who spends way too much time on twitter posting bullshit
>>333511042
>Are you such an impatient fuck that you can't wait?
What is your excuse for this pic you cunm guzzler?
>>333510013
>>333511042
>releasing a "finished" game with none of the promised features people paid for
>>333513420
Anon, what are you talking about, its not like they actually cut anything right?
>>333513464
Because cutting would be wrong
>>333513557
Very wrong
The funny thing is I actually defended the game until I went looking for all those missing features, I became very fucking pissed
>>333513464
They did though.
>>333513464
But that was an old boss design.
It's not like there isn't a boss there anymore, right?
I haven't played it yet, just followed development
>30FPS
>in an action game
What were they THINKING?
>>333513734
Didn't it make around $600k
What made it in? The stuff not in red?
>>333503489
I predicted this was the case from the trailer
I realized, based on the game's mechanics it would impossible/gimmicky to fight a boss that size.
>>333513815
Yes, from a area that was promised or did you conveniently forget the burning cavern?
>>333513936
That is really not a problem for the game
I defeated the Bird Emporer mage dude up top.
Only have 1 Whole diamond 2 halfsies diamonds on the east and west but cannot go further I figure I need to find one more piece to fight the bosses.
Got 1000 in chain dashing and unlocked the blue, Yellow sword/Capes. and I still cannot go south until the west and east bosses are killed.
>>333514036
Except it's a huge problem.
>>333513963
Those are the things that are 100% not going to exist in the game, the rest people are waiting to see and some of the areas like the Mire people are still thinking if they are or not the East area
>>333514036
You conveniently forgot to read, autist.
>>333513734
>New Game+
Literally just the game with only 2 health
>Extended lore and character
Where?
Do I need an upgrade for this horseshit? Only 3 dodges can be linked, and I get hit by the first flamer anyway, no matter the timing. I'd leave in a jiffy if the map was at all readable and marked the items clearly in view.
>>333513464
>>333513557
These don't annoy me. Bosses will change over time, that's normal
What annoys me is shit like >>333513649 or a fuck load of equipment that just isn't there but they have shown footage of working. This >>333513734 is also terrible
>>333514082
Well North is a pretty hard boss, you can go east or west easily. I suggest you go east first because the west boss is harder.
>>333513936
>that horrible fucking pause when you get hit
REEEEEEEEEEEEE
Because it's another indie shitter title with not much effort put into anything other than presentation which is all that narcissistic fucks care about. You gotta learn that by now.
>>333514326
>Only 3 dodges can be linked
You got the upgrade, right? You can chain dash for as long as you want once you've got the timing down.
>>333514326
Upgrade to Chain Dash its literally 12 Gold pieces needed for it. Its not that hard.
BUT IT'S INDIE YOU SHITLORDS
>That moment in the Bird boss when you got your groove on and just chain dashes to the safe zones while blasting the boss and his adds.
I just want a boss rush.
>>333514082
The amount of shards you have in each area isn't really linked to whether you can fight the boss or not. It's possible to accidentally miss shards and get to the boss before you pick up the 4 required in each area to actually beat the game.
They do usually put 4 or so in your way before you access the boss arena though.
Anyone else massively creeped out by the cutscenes that plays when you activate the pillars? I think it's the sound that does it for me.
>western indie game made with gamemaker
This should immediately tell you to not bother.
BUYFAGS BTFO
>>333514380
Ah good.
Now the problem is....
The Constant downloads.
iF THE GAME WAS SO UNPOLISHED WHY MAKE IT SO THAT DAY AFTER DAY THERE ARE FUCKING DOWNLOADS FUCKING MY INTERNET UP AND GAMING SESSIONS.
i GUESS Its my fault I have Auto Update on.
Don't forget $600k is only the preliminary earnings from the Kickstarter. They also made a ton of money off of pre-orders too, which should have been factored into their development budget.
Is the input lag fixed?
>>333510013
Uh, why is this game so hyped? And how did they get so much money? I've seen gameplay and i think it looks like utter dogs hit.
>>333516347
muh indie pixel art 3deep5u storytelling
>>333515569
No.
>>333506109
That's cool, but
>Heart Machine
Is pushing it, I think
>>333516347
Why do the majority of kickstarters get money?
Because people are fucking idiots.
>>333514473
>>333514501
"Buy the chain dash" they said.
I was so hyped for this game, then it left me disappointed. The stretch goals didn't make it in and the gameplay wasn't so great so funded the shit, such a shame.
the game is so shit
30fps lock, the most boring cutscenes with no fucking exposition, bland combat with mediocre controls, MUH ART N MUSIC
it's not even nearly as hard as people say either, just a boring slog. Deadbolt is a much better Muh INDIE game
>>333520159
"It's gonna be fine" they said.
>>333504882
No, it's mostly unit 01 with more eyes. Unit 02 makes an appearance up north.
>>333520525
2fast
I killed a north boss and got stuck just fucking around, this game has no clue how to guide a player, and putting essential items behind invisible walls is shittiest level design ever. I hope fag who made this gets heart cancer
>>333504882
Yeah, because NGE invented giant humanoids, idiot.
Fucking anime shitters I swear on me mum
>>333520676
he already has heart cancer or something and has had it through the whole development process
>>333503489
Fuck off shill.
so whats with the keys? i found like 2 in the entire game and some of those doors take like 30. does it seriously expect you to backtrack through the entire game remembering where every locked door is, and for fucking what?
>>333520967
EPIC
>>333522723
I've got 2 keys on my first playthrough, I'm at 12 now, there's like 16 keys.
Keys unlocks doors, which lead either to gear, cores, money, health, monoliths, or more keys.
>>333505012
>The issue then is, why establish them at all, why show these things, why make them out as some major thing if they're not important to the story.
because they look cool.
>>333523592
so basically more of the same? and what the fuck were the monoliths for?
>>333503489
>Game hypes
what
i dont even care
the game plays like ass and I'm glad I didn't buy it.
Its pretty to look at, but I'd rather effortlessly watch someone else struggle through the games janky bullshit.
If the combat were a little slower and less hectic, then 30 frames wouldn't make me wince.
>>333520525
Leave it to an indie dev to make a game so aesthetically offensive that it makes dog shit look like art.
>>333523846
They also unlock the challenge mode.
Monoliths are just there for the lore and finding them all give you a gear that give you +1 health
>>333508701
fighting them would have taken away from their titanic size and that sort of majestic ruin feel whenever you see a dead one lying on the side of a mountain or a giant arm.
they are setpieces to show that some kind of cataclysmic war happened, and even they are now gone. Along with many other dead robots you find in the overworld
making some kind of fight with them cheapens their impact. Yknow, the kind of impact when you see the first one
>>333514326
I did it with no upgrades and with 3 health packs
>>333524470
At least do something with them.
I dunno, make us explore a room inside their body, allow the drifter to pick up a tiny piece of them which just happens to be a really effective gun, have more characters "talk" about them, explain the giant beating heart in the south level, SOMETHING. The height of their impact is literally the first two seconds after they appear and before they crumble to dust, afterward they add nothing.
>>333520967
Pure coincidence.
>>333524980
>homages aren't allowed to exist
crystal king is best boss
>>333524889
they add scale.
I was more let down by how the game was not Zelda or Diablo or the other bullshit the dev made up but a fucking bullet hell.
Only two hours in it just devolves into spam dodging and seas of projectiles.
Glad I got refunded.
>>333526059
They're too few (in the whole game, there's maybe 5 of them? 1 in each zone+1 more in the west) to really give off a sense of scale, and even then, it doesn't pay off because the Drifter doesn't go in environments that makes him feel "small". Everything is relatively to his size, and the bosses, while bigger than him, are all about the same size and none come close to the titan in term of scale anyway.
For example, in Dark Souls, you feel small while visiting Anor Londo, and this is accomplished by size of the level, the doors, the elevators, the hallways, the size of the enemies themselves, and the fact that you literally run up ledges to progress through the level. In HLD the Drifter evolve in a world where he's at a "standard" height. It's the Titan who are, well, Titan-sized.
>>333526509
>but a fucking bullet hell.
you clearly haven't played the game. maybe play it instead of shitposting?
there is literally only ONE arguable bullet hell moment and it's a miniboss in the South. that's it.
>>333525596
This guy again, today, every single thread.
Why are you so obsessed in shilling this game?
>>333526767
>shilling
I dunno, why are autists constantly triggered by a game making an homage to anime?
>>333526714
Yea it is, the game devolves into spam dodging enemies right after the opening segment, mindless crap bullet hell.
Like that has shit to do with Diablo and Zelda, they weren't spazzy twitch games, pretty bad marketing.
>Have the badge which makes the cop follow you around and fight for you
>Kill that blob boss in the secret level
>Turns into a harmless little blob after you kill it
>the cop immediately shoots it
>>333510324
HOLY SHIT HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THAT!
>>333526884
>constantly
>Not denying he's the same faggot defending this game everyday
Fuck off dev, your game sucks.
>>333526998
You're fucking shit m8, that's all
DO YOU FIGHT THE EVA
>>333527580
No.
>>333527580
nope, they are just giant props that make the terrain look pretty and you walk past.
>>333503489
>pixel ""art""
>indie
>ripping off EVA
>see? you get to fight these guys! Nah jokkng xd
into the trash.
>>333503489
>>333504535
I don't understand the idea that just because you saw something cool in the trailer, that means you were supposed to fight it. Or talk to it or whatever.
It really sounds like you conjured up these expectations in your mind. And now you're upset that the dev didn't didn't read your mind.
>>333527427
Yeah, I'm shit at twitchy bullet hells
Proud to be bad at shit genres
>>333528096
But we're not talking about MGS 5.
>>333528096
bullshot apologists are a thing?
>>333523592
>monoliths translate ancient text
>find all of them and assemble the big glowing text wall
>can't read it, or even interact with it at all
>>333529974
2
FUCKING
DEEP
>>333529974
You can, it translates into english.
Le epic Eva reference to coax the idiotic Western anime community into supporting the game.
It worked.
