HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER UPDATES MOVIEThe movie hits a lot of the same beats as the original–love triangle between hotshot pilot (in this case also a reporter), singer (here an alien one) and military officer lady (in this case a pilot). Even the famous “Space Battleship Macross”, which the movie is named after, is largely referred to as “The ship of Axul” and only very rarely actually called “Macross.” Thus the new aliens are quickly clarified to be not exactly Zentraedi, but a variety called “Marduk” aliens, and while one of the heroines is named “Sybil Gena,” it’s never actually said that she’s the daughter of Max Genius, only that she is one half “Meltran” (female Zentraedi). Macross II is, as I said, weird, and because of the licensing issues it can barely reference anything from the original franchise. Is it terrible? Yes, but I wanted it since I was 15 AND NOW IT’S MINE. What with streaming and everything, the best movies to get, arguably, are the weird obscure ones that you can’t find anywhere else. I don’t even really remember where I picked up Macross II–I think it was when the Hastings movie store was going out of business and selling off all their inventory. Invariably, they’re weird with completely new characters that barely reference the original canon, and they end up being very weird. HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER UPDATES SERIESBut because the series WAS sort of popular back in the day, they keep trying. The only one any good is the Macross section of the anime, which is a quirky show that parodies various 1970 anime conventions without really being clear about the joke.Īnyway, the rights to the series are a mess and basically prevent any sort of actual sequel series with the same characters–one studio owns the rights to Robotech and another owns the rights to Macross, etc, etc. Three animes jam-packed together into one series, helped to popularize anime in the US. Found an art book at the library that was really more of an “episode summary” book. Have I talked about Robotech? I’m pretty sure I must have. Along with giant horrific skeletons of some massive human-shaped monsters that destroyed the world back in the day. And there are the skeletons remaining from various genocidal atrocities scattered about the landscape. Of course, the hero IS a blue-skinned creature with a chronic condition for coughing up blood. There’s more combos, and the protagonist has a gun, but otherwise there’s a lot of similarities. There’s the different zones with different enemies, the dungeons, even sort of a Triforce, though here it is actually a four-sided diamond. Mostly, the game reminds me of Link to the Past and other Zelda titles. (Since starting this blog entry, I’ve run into the Undead Raccoon Samurai King. I can only guess that this is a sign of when it was released, in 2016, after the Dark Souls series was out, but before the wave of “Souls-like” indie games was really underway. Perhaps it’s more complicated than, say, Bastion, but the gameplay is smooth and accessible. But the combat is no more difficult than many a top-down hack-and-slash I’ve played before. The art looked beautiful and I wanted to like it, but I worried it would be too frustrating and that, in turn, I would drop it.Īnd it’s… not? I’ve just started to play it, admittedly, I’m only in the first couple zones. Instead, I decided to try another game which I’d long held off on for hearing it had similarly demanding gameplay– Hyper Light Drifter, a hack-and-slash game described with phrases like “lightning-fast responses” and “complex combos” in the combat. Award winning game, interesting ideas, not my speed.
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