Unfortunately, while you’ll become addicted to the lightning-fast gameplay, HyperParasite tends to fall apart in terms of presentation. Just your typical rogues’ gallery of parodies and not-so-subtle references. This is especially helpful during the game’s brutally difficult boss battles. In a way, these enemies act as your extra lives if your host form gets destroyed, you’ll need another one to ensure the carnage continues. When that body has run its course, or when you encounter a different human with better weapons/skills, your alien can jump ship and completely shift gears. With the press of a button, you can shift into a nearby foe - including basketball players and deadly hookers - and begin mowing down everything and everyone in your path to proceed to the next level. That’s where your trigger-happy adversaries come into play. The alien in HyperParasite doesn’t possess a lot of health in fact, one or two hits will usually send you straight to the “game over” screen. The eponymous alien’s body-hopping skills not only allow you to play and unlock an assortment of different (and silly) characters, but it also opens the door for moments of unique, sweaty-palmed strategy. However, instead of playing one of these heavily-armed militants, you’ll assume control of the otherworldly lifeform, a being who possesses the ability to jump from one human to another in order to stay alive. After the President of the United States (sporting an eyepatch, no less) asks every citizen to take up arms against an alien invasion, the country descends into post-apocalyptic chaos. HyperParasite doesn’t waste any time getting to the action. This bullet hell looks a lot like post-apocalyptic 80’s New York. And in doing so, developer Troglobytes Games has created one of the best experiences the genre currently has to offer on the Switch. Instead, the game challenges you to make the most of its many systems and mechanics. Here’s the thing: While HyperParasite doesn’t pull any punches, every failure never feels unjust, unwarranted, or cruel. Trouble loves company, as you can bring a mate to deliver twice the carnage in two-player local co-op mode.HyperParasite, the latest twin-stick roguelite to make its way to the Nintendo Switch, will put your patience, as well as your arcade skills, to the ultimate test. Original beats served by Van Reeves and Joe Kataldo, delivering a thumping score with a pulsating synthwave bassline, punctuating every snatch and kill. And if you keep a tentacle out for the bosses, as they pack one mean punch! Pump up the volume! Can you survive the 5 Acts of this grungy-looking synthwave-filled world? Maybe yes, if you remember that what lies in the shadows is essential, as there are secrets within secrets to explore within its roguelite mapping system. Since the game is procedurally generated, nobody knows what's waiting around the next dark corner. 'Yeah, Downtown must be the friendliest place on Earth.'
There's even a storage unit for your already collected hosts to come back to in later games. Using some very weird machinery to store the brain, you can then unlock the character with your hard stolen cash. Hunt down the host class boss, rip their brain off (they didn´t use it anyway), and take it back to Wito's, our ever-greedy shopkeeper. 'Hosting makes me feel good'įeed the parasite with over 60 different characters, as you collect and control hosts, each with their own unique attack and smack-down.
That is, unless you found some nice upgrades, so keep your eyes open…or your feelers high.or whatever a parasite does. Once they die you can discard their skin, but keep on snatching, since one shot as the parasite and it's permadeath. Look at all those juicy meat-sacks going to waste on those grotty humans! As the HyperParasite you can make better use of them, snatching hosts with your tentacles, absorbing them and their different abilities. Be the baddest, navigating the dangerous procedurally generated streets of a hopeless past, in this tough twin-stick roguelite brawling S.O.B. Infesting the sickest corners of the most ass-kicking decade, you must fight your way to the top of the pop-cultural food chain, in order to push the Big Red Button and bring about the mushroom cloud of finality. You are the HyperParasite an evil alien with a bone to pick with humanity…just because it’s fun. Dragging your bloody tentacles on the greasy asphalt, you snatch body after body. Invading a grime encrusted dystopia straight out the eighties, you're the monster the authorities warned about.