Not to be a party pooper, but a studio is only as good as its staff. If they really have laid off ‘nearly everyone’ then any creative vision they had is inevitably lost along with them.
They can claim continuity with a skeleton crew and design documents to use as reference, but it won’t be the same. Once you blow up a team there’s no going back.
Keep in mind the original game was only 5 people. The heart of Hyper Light Drifter started with just a few minds. If Preston scales the company back to what it was back in 2015, it can return again.
The fact that they announced it wasn’t a closure is good. Don’t forget that online journalism relies on clicks and uses exaggerated language to keep those clicks coming.
Not to be a party pooper, but a studio is only as good as its staff. If they really have laid off ‘nearly everyone’ then any creative vision they had is inevitably lost along with them.
They can claim continuity with a skeleton crew and design documents to use as reference, but it won’t be the same. Once you blow up a team there’s no going back.
Keep in mind the original game was only 5 people. The heart of Hyper Light Drifter started with just a few minds. If Preston scales the company back to what it was back in 2015, it can return again.
The fact that they announced it wasn’t a closure is good. Don’t forget that online journalism relies on clicks and uses exaggerated language to keep those clicks coming.