3/12/2023 0 Comments Drifting lands pc game screenshotWith a fully equipped gear store along with all of the sweet look you collect in combat, the player is once again given another layer of character development that further refines your unique play style. Each of these stats works towards strengthening different aspects of your ship as well as unlocking the ability to equip certain types of gear. As you collect coin in the game you will be able to spec into three base stats: power, structure, navigation. Next on the list of progressive options are your skill points. Throw in the fact that you can have multiple types of ships, ranging from light cruisers with crazy firepower to heavy battleships with insane armor, the options for how you progress really begin to open up. With a limit of four active and two passive skills, it allows the player to really develop their personalized play style. Starting with skills, as you progress through the campaign you will be introduced to a wide variety of active and passive skills ranging from a revolving fire shield that does damage to anything that comes into contact with it all the way to a booster that teleports you across the screen. Did I mention that you can also own multiple ships? That is totally a thing and it is a great thing. Alkemi has really done a great job at creating layers of player progression through the use of customizable skills, skill points, and gearing. Thankfully this was offset by some great mobility skills (more on skills below) which worked well at compensating for the otherwise slow movement.Īs mentioned I want to touch on skills along with the many other elements that make up the RPG side of this hybrid SHMUPRPG. My only real gripe with gameplay was that although responsive and tight, movement felt a little too slow for a game that is all about dodging and weaving your way through endless hordes of enemies. The controls themselves react well and feel tight, which for those familiar with SHMUP style games, is paramount to successfully surviving for any real length of time. The layout on the controller is tight and well placed, with many of the buttons mappable. I personally found this to be the best way to play the game as the keyboard just felt clunky and slow by comparison. The game actually opens letting you know that you should be playing with a controller. Speaking of action, Drifting Lands was built from the ground up with the controller in mind. However, for the less focused this could get old quickly and leave you mashing the keyboard to skip to the action. For the lore lovers, you probably won’t notice and will most likely appreciate the time and care put into the story elements of the game. Although this was appreciated the lack of any real animation between dialog and action transitions did make the cut scenes fall a bit flat. For a game based in a genre that has also been called a bullet hell (not typically associated with story) it was refreshing to see this type of care taken.ĭelivery of said story (after the opening scene), is done mostly through the use of motion comic. I was quite impressed with the amount of story that was presented in those first few moments and even more surprised that this carried through as level progression took place. Story it seems, is a major element of Alkemi’s hybrid SHMUPRPG. The only habitable continents left are controlled by totalitarian corporations leaving you and your tribe flying from rock to rock searching for resources in order to survive.Īll of this back story is presented in a simple motion comic with some solid voice over work. Thrown into a future where your home planet has suffered a cataclysm that has left the planet shattered but still held together by unknown gravitational forces (because science!) You find yourself part of a group of nomadic outcasts. So sit back and grab a coffee as we dive into Alkemi’s Sci-fi Shoot-em-up/RPG. With a mix of Shoot-em-up and RPG elements, Drifting Lands attempts to marriage two unique genres with a fair amount of success. Alkemi, a small independent studio based in France, set out to do that very thing and ‘Drifting Lands’ is their latest game with this genre marrying focus in mind. Sometimes game developers take chances, mixing and matching genres in the hopes of creating something fresh and unique.
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