Hyper Light Drifter

Hyper Light Drifter

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Little trick to beat Boss Rush
By Oda
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Introdution
This guide shows little trick that can be used to recover health after any boss fight in Boss Rush. It's not crucial on first trials, but on Boss Rush 3 we lack any upgrades so we can no longer drift at incredible hihg speed and amount of health kits decreased to 3.

Attention! This guide is about using game glitches, so don't open/read/use any of this information if you surrounded by people, who's saying things like "GIT GUD YOU FILTHY CASUAL".

And of course, don't forget about spoilers if you haven't beaten the game.
Fun time
First of all, you need to kill the Boss.


Now you need to jump from the edge until you're dead.


(Ok, dead)
After respawn the boss is still dead and your HP will recover.


These screenshoots don't show my health but trust me, it works.
How does it work
The game loads your health from the moment first you enter the boss room.
If you enter the boss fight with max amount of health at the beginning you will recover your health to max after you respawn. Moreover, you can recover ammo too.

Important info:But if you had less health than you do at the end of the boss fight, the game will load lower amount, so you'll just waste you health kit. Same goes to your ammo.
Where trick dosen't work / Features
This trick dosen't work with the boss of North, Hierophant,


It works diffrently on the bosses of [/b],South[/b],.
While fighting Archer and Sorcerer, you can blow himself and boss by using their explosives.
My biggest gratitude to WagglyJeans4010 for mentioning this.

Third Boss of the Sounth, Reaper: he will still fight with zero health. However, after respawn boss will be dead and you health will recover too.
I don't know under what conditions it's happening but I'm very grateful to aquatorrent for finding this.
Conclusion
That's all!
I hope it will help someone to fulfil their... fantasies about getting all achievements. I needed to beat this amazing game three times before I master it and even after that Third Boss Rush wasn't a joke for me.

If you like what I found, you can just thank me in the comments, I'll be very glad!


Happy drifting!
9 Comments
Bobsofa 28 Aug @ 11:13am 
This guide has helped me tremendously. I was able to face Judgement with all medkits (5/4/3) in all runs by doing the West boss last.
Oda  [author] 13 Jan, 2021 @ 3:19am 
@aquatorrent a pleasure to know that it was useful!
aquatorrent 13 Jan, 2021 @ 3:10am 
no problem and thanks for the guide! it helps me to finish the boss rush when i still need to learn the boss mechanics :)
Oda  [author] 13 Jan, 2021 @ 2:31am 
@aquatorrent that's unique, I've never seen that before. Mind if I add this to the guide?
And I'll fix info about main bosses then.
aquatorrent 13 Jan, 2021 @ 1:54am 
fyi, this only works for the west boss and frog boss (east). also, for the reaper boss (the one with scythe), somehow i got my health to full after dying when his health is 0. the boss somehow didn't die after i shot him with my pistol and it kills me since i thought it already dies. the boss dies after i respawned and i got my full health back (despite me not having full health after the battle).
Oda  [author] 23 Aug, 2020 @ 12:51pm 
@WagglyJeans4010 thanks! Hope I'm gonna play HLD soon again, so I can confirm it and add to the guide
WagglyJeans4010 23 Aug, 2020 @ 10:16am 
The South bosses you can still do this trick on, at least for the archer and sorcerer(?). They have explosives that damage both you and them, so when they're about to die, just blow them and yourself up.
Mr Fish 5 Jul, 2020 @ 2:02pm 
me too
Mightyenacrush 26 Jun, 2019 @ 9:51am 
Nice. I'll be sure to try this.