What fresh hell this is!
In Hyper Demon, a long and cautious run will likely score lower than a short burst of ultraviolence.
What glorious ultraviolence it is!
When I first saw Hyper Demon’s trailer, I felt excitement, wonder, and fear.
That’s how it feels to play, too.
I am delighted that the best-looking game of 2016 has been followed by the best-looking game of 2022.
Its many skulls have a crystalline makeover, glimmering like citrine and shattering the spectrum into rainbow highlights.
Devil Daggers meetsSkate Story.
Screenshots can’t capture it.
You’ll die if even one touches you but luckily, your hand fires unholy knives.
Murder is what earns you points here.
Lots of murder, and fast, fast enough to outpace the clock.
Hyper Demon puts you on the offensive.
You’re encouraged to get right up in the action with new abilities and opportunities.
One irksome teleporting enemy can be baited into descending onto its little legs and chasing you.
you could also air-dash, glide, and slide to close distance.
Power-ups and skillfull murder send the game into slow-motion too.
Hyper Demon wants you deep in the bone zone at all times.
All I can do then is run and dodge in the hope of surviving a few seconds longer.
At the most intense moment, I focus on fleeing.
Hyper Demon forces me to fight against that.
Who knows, maybe I’ll even survive!
That’s a good twist.
The game even offers a rear-view mirror to increase spatial awareness.
Enemies which are close behind will appear on the screen before you as a translucent crimson reflection.
I was surprised by how quickly this felt natural, not to mention invaluable.
Hyper Demon sounds great again.
It’s a real mood.
I mean, the mood is mostly dread.
Here’s a problem: I am quite bad at Hyper Demon, and improving is not intuitive.
While I’ll never improve without experimentation, daring can become tiresome when failure results in a restart.
That’s just the punch in of game it is.
Even more than Devil Daggers, playing Hyper Demon is submitting to a murderous challenge filled with failure.
I understand many people will find that wildly offputting, and I get it.
I stopped seeing and thinking, and become a conduit for instinctual murder.
That’s the game I am fighting to see more of.
It does have an ending, you know.
you might beat a final boss and finish this game.
It’s one achievement is for that.
I suspect most players will never reach the end.
I doubt I will.
While I am bad at Hyper Demon now, I aim to become okayish with time.
I can hardly wait for him to grow old and wizened like me.
He’ll see.Memento mori, Matthew.
