The bosses are pretty hard to fight, and every now and then you’ll need to repeat missions to be able to buy better upgrades in order to beat bosses or the more tricky missions. There are a lot of enemy types with their own unique patterns, but after a while you’ve seen them all and they just repeat endlessly. There are also several bosses you encounter in missions. This is pretty expensive, but might be a good move to do frequently, so you can make back-ups in case good gear gets destroyed. There’s also a crafting system, where you can turn items into blueprints, so you can make more of an item. Being killed returns you to base at the cost of some money and all the loot you had in cargo. As long as you are not dead, retreating is at no extra cost. There’s no way to change weapons when you are flying a mission, but you can abort at any time. The best way to find out how fast it fires, what firing pattern and how damaging the bullets are is just equipping it and see what happens as you go with it. There’s not much info on the weapons however, apart from the description. You’ll be able to choose from different guns, shields, armor plating, thrusters, energy cells, etc. It’s an interesting system, where you really have to think about the optimal combinations of items you’ll equip, match them with the skills you like best, to make a build which perfectly fits your play style. After that you’ll be able to level up your basic stats (power, navigation & structure), and besides that, you can equip various gear which modify your stats (raise some, lower others), but being able to equip something is also dependent on your base stats.
at the start of the game you can choose between 3 ‘classes’, high damage, high armor or balanced. The customization is pretty extensive for a shooter. The cooldowns are dependent on your stats, mainly the base-stat ‘power’. Try to use your skills strategically whenever they are not on cooldown. these can be dodge, deflect, damage, etc. These skills all have a skill tree. You got four active and two passive skills to use. In the hangar you can sell or equip this gear, and equip new skills you’ll gain by leveling. During the missions you’ll pick up armor, health, credits, and gear. In the base you can choose skills and gear, reminiscent of an RPG. After the mission you’ll automatically return to base. The missions are simple: shoot anything that moves, catch the items that drop, dodge ships and bullets while spamming your skills and shooting continuously. Playing the game you’ll get a bit of story and conversation to click through, and then you’ll be able to choose from several missions in the command center of your base. However, in this game you can customize your ship’s skills and equipment completely, using an RPG-style system with loot, stats, an equipment shop and skill-trees. The gameplay is rather similar to any side-scrolling space shooter: shoot enemies and dodge bullets. The in-game conversations aren’t narrated.ĭrifting Lands is a horizontal scrolling shoot ’em up, combined with ARPG-style skills & gear upgrading. The soundtrack is pretty good it’s sold separately via Steam.
The background music consists of rather chillaxed electronic rock tunes, many different tracks. The sound effects are typical for a horizontal scrolling shooter lots of ‘pew-pew’ and explosions. The cut-scenes and conversations have a good, light and relaxed look, but during gameplay the screen is littered with enemies and bullets like expected in games like this, with a cartoon background. While the ships are 3D, the backgrounds are 2D layered. The graphics are colorful and cartoon-ish the style feels similar to the colorful arcade style most side scrolling shooters are in, but the choice for drawn and painted graphics makes the game visually interesting. The story is pretty simple but extensive enough for a side scrolling shooter like this. The story is being told via cut-scenes in between missions, and via conversations you can click through as the story progresses. You are one of the pilots fighting for humanity from a huge flying base. This game has been developed and published, on June 5th, by the French indie game developer Alkemi, and is available via Steam.ĭrifting Lands takes place in a future where pretty much everything is destroyed, and only men and machines are left in between floating landmasses, battling each other. This combination adds a lot of interest to the classic scrolling shooter genre, and an ARPG style skill & equipment system fits really well combined with bullet-hell shoot ’em up gameplay. Drifting Lands is an interesting combination of a side-scrolling shoot ’em up, with RPG-style leveling and skill mechanics.
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