The opening scenes of Hyper Light Drifter are straight from the playbook of the early days of Anime on Western shores; Incomprehensible scenes of foreboding prophecy accompany a blast of light and disintegrating titans before a hint of story is teased: a white crystal just out of reach; encroaching inky tendrils; an devilish obsidian presence. An undisclosed amount of time later your charmingly animated avatar wakes up in a pastel world and staggers around with a distorted cough, hacking up pools of lurid blood. Where Hyper Light Drifter and those Anime broadcasts part ways is that the former is a complete and supposedly focused artefact, whilst the latter were often confusingly repackaged or unfinished articles. The reason their stories so often felt loose and disconnected were because they literally were, either through the lack of a second series or the mistranslation of script issues.
