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Hyper Light Drifter Special Edition Now Available
Barcelona, Spain - December 8, 2020 -- Hyper Light Drifter - Special Edition for Nintendo Switch is now available as the physical Collector's Set. Pre-orders are open now, December 8th, at the Abylight Studios online store. The long-awaited Switch release of the indie classic is 49,95 €. The first 5000 copies will start shipping in January 2021. A distribution agreement has been reached with Limited Run Games for the Americas.
What's inside the Collector's Set?
Game Card: the physical copy of Hyper Light Drifter - Special Edition.
Poster: A full colour illustration (51 x 31 cm).
Keychain: The Drifter’s Companion (4 cm).
Lenticular Card: A Rosetta Stone card to interpret the forgotten language of the land.
2 CDs: The original soundtrack by Disasterpeace.
Sticker: Circular sticker (6 cm diameter).
Manual: A full colour booklet of 24 pages.
Inlay: A reversible cover with 2 design options.
"Today, December 8th 2020, we launch Abylight's own online Shop. We launch it with one of the most wonderful games we've been lucky to work on: Hyper Light Drifter, all thanks to Alex Preston – Creative Director of Heart Machine - an amazing talent and generous person for letting us work on such a special project", says Eva Gaspar, the CEO of Abylight.
"This Shop means a lot of things to Abylight and me personally. For Abylight it's another step to be closer to the players while reinforcing another leg of the publishing branch. For me, a milestone long sought after that with lots of effort and continuous work, we'll keep improving, perfecting and expanding".
What's Hyper Light Drifter - Special Edition about?
Your favorite indie masterpiece by Heart Machine, enhanced and published by Abylight Studios: it has all the original content of Hyper Light Drifter, plus the exclusive content of the Special Edition: a new outfit, 2 new weapons, and a new location with a challenge.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies, at 60 FPS on Nintendo Switch. Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Hyper Light Drifter is an action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale.
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