So, I can honestly say the game is well worth its price tag.īoxCatHero gives Drifting Lands a Drastik Measure of 8.8 out of 10(88).ĭrifting Lands is available on Steam for $18.99 USD.No need to keep playing tones of hours to get what we have here. I believe even non-fans of the genre would get enjoyment out of Drifting Lands. Just the sheer amount of detail that went into it is well worthwhile getting the game. Everything else about the game was a joy from start to finish. I understand why the devs chose to have the missions work out like that, but it doesn’t mean I have to like it. To me, this would enhance the gameplay and replayability of the game. The only complaint I have is the fact that you can’t go back and redo missions. The sound effects further enforce the overall atmosphere and the music is perfect for this game it is also clear and not out of sync. The character models that are present in this are remarkably well designed and give you a feel of the setting for the game. There are a few cutscenes that seem to be hand-drawn as well as some dialogue sections. The missions produce a 3D-like feeling within being 2D, which is why I say 2.5D. The graphics for Drifting Lands can be described as mostly 2.5D in my opinion. What’s more interesting is that some gears have stat requirements and can boost various capabilities of your ship, such as skills. The gear slots you have are determined by what ship you possess.
Gear is then divided into the following eight categories: armor, engine, thruster, energy cell, shield, CPU, helmet, and weapon. During missions, as you destroy enemies, they have a chance to leave behind items ranging from money to the most important gear to equip your ship with. The gear system is something that I think Drifting Lands brings to the genre. An example of the “Auto skills” type is the survivor skills, the first of which you start the game with is “Automatic Retreat,” which pulls you out of the mission before you get destroyed. An example of the “Advanced active” skills are the “Ring skills,” first of which you get a ring of fire that appears around your ship to damage enemies it touches. An example of the “Basic active” skills is the skill group “Blade skills,” the first of which “Flame Blade” emits a spear-like field in front of you, damaging enemies in its path. There are fourteen types of skills divided into three categories: “Basic active,” “Advanced active,” and “Auto skills.” Each skill type has 4-5 skills under it which can be unlocked as you rank up in the story. The skill system is a new implementation of a power-up system from games of this genre. The focus level changes your score multiplier and the way you generate it is different for each ship. The three statistics, Structure (Health/Armor), Navigation (Health/Firepower), and Power (Health/Skill Power), affect more than a singular aspect, each considering that some ships have a favored stat which gives it a boost if you put points accordingly into it. Nothing is lost in translation with the other two systems it’s best I inform you about what I call the “ship statistics system”, which shortly consist of your health, shield, and focus levels in combat. There is the lightly armored fast attack ship called the Interceptor, the slower and heavily armored named Sentinel, and the balanced Marauder. The three ship classes are just as easy to explain. The real difference between the two is that, in easy mode, you don’t lose your ship after you die and your items might need to be repaired. The game modes can be summed up quickly by calling one “normal” and the other “easy”. The two difficulty options and the three different classes of ships you can choose from at the beginning of the game. However, before I go into more details for the three systems, there are two things I have to talk about. As far as features go, there is a lot to discuss, but the three important ones are the gear system, skill system, and the ship statistics system, which all tie in together in the actual shoot’em’up gameplay. From the tutorial to the help sections, they do a great job of delivering all the information you need to start playing the game. That being said, Drifting Lands does have a lot of details and features put into it. Your job is to protect the Ark and ensure the safety of its people.
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You are a citizen of the Ark, which is one of the last city-ships free of their tyranny. Drifting Lands takes place in the skies of a shattered world where major corporations have taken control and formed totalitarian states. Whatever the case, the game brought me back into the fold of the horizontal shoot’em’up genre. However, to me, it seemed to be mixed with roguelike instead of action RPG. Drifting Lands is a hybrid of horizontal shoot’em’up and action RPG from Alkemi.
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