I’m not even convinced a depiction would work – OCD is both widely misrepresented as a condition solely concerning cleanliness and symmetry, and one where many of the obsessions and compulsions that make up a sufferer’s existence are internal and unseen. And, I’ve never seen my condition depicted within a video game. It makes life much more complicated – more traumatic – than I would have liked it to have been. I’ve had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) all my life. I’m interested in the representation of illness within the medium I love so much.
That’s something I’m keenly familiar with…” Preston told The Guardian upon the game’s release “The main character in Hyper Light Drifter ‘suffers from a deadly illness, one he is desperately seeking a cure for. It transpires that the game’s creator was born with congenital heart disease and has spent his life in and out of hospital with digestive and immune system issues relating to the condition. There’s also a blob of nasty, black goo that stalks you throughout the game. At other times they will collapse, then wake up, woozy, somewhere else on the map. Credit: Heart MachineĪs you make your way through the game, your character will suddenly stop, keel over and begin to cough up blood. That is the physical well being of Hyper Line Drifter’s protagonist – presumably, the titular ‘Drifter’. There’s another lick to it, though, that has exacerbated my obsession with the game. Hyper Light Drifter has some of the most unique in-game art I’ve seen in yonks bright, garish, neon colours paint the picture of a ruined world – which could either be somewhere in the distant past, or somewhere in the far future – strewn with the corpses of failed civilisations, and strange tribes of creatures walking its forests, mountains and underground lairs. The SNES, a wonderful machine, is a great reference point. READ MORE: What happened, Google Stadia?.Fittingly, creator Alx Preston has described the game as his tribute to the SNES. Or a game even older, 1985’s Atari-made, top-down, fantasy-themed hack and slash, Gauntlet. It’s a game built on systems even older it’s hard not to recall 1991’s The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past when you’re exploring the games’ 2D, pixel art map.
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It’s not an especially new game – it debuted on PC, Xbox One and PS4 in 2016, Nintendo Switch in 2018 and iOS in 2019. It’s called Hyper Light Drifter and I’ve been playing it obsessively ever since. My friend Ali of the brilliant horror video games podcast Zero Brightness turned me onto a game the other day.
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