So what would you expect in a futuristic game's music? Electronica? Maybe some subdued atmospheric tunes? You would be correct, friend. Specific rewards are also available via side quests and so forth like any RPG.
Parts can be bought or collected via the plentiful loot drops left in the wake of your enemies' remains. Tougher stages, a better personal performance, and a higher difficulty setting also helps with gaining war spoils. This brings us to the deepest part of the RPG experience: ship parts. These stats not only dictate your overall performance but also determine what parts can be equipped. For a price, you can - and should - level up your firepower, maneuverability, or durability.
You can also improve your ship directly with currency. More advanced skills become available via story progression and difficulty escalation. It has the added bonus to help you not lose your ship. It's one of the first skills you have in the game and the most valuable. For example, when you lose all HP, you'll automatically retreat to the base. You then have passive skills such as auto-retreat. You have to be aware of your actions at all times. Active skills have a cooldown after each use, so you can't merely just spam them. There's an added layer of strategy at play as well. An active skill, for example, would be explosives, which detonates around your ship to blow up foes. You're able to use/equip a number of active skills and auto skills. There are a number of options available to the player to accomplish this.įirst are skills these are either weapons or abilities to use in battle. If you feel that an RPG is only as good as how deep its systems can get, then you will be delighted to know that Drifting Lands is a proverbial bottomless ocean.Īt the core of the game, you have to maintain your ship and keep its performance top notch. This branch of the story plays out slowly across the larger narrative. Fueled by a need for more money, you potentially put your caravan in danger working with criminals. One example is a subplot that involves the black market. Even more impressive is how the plot hardly falls flat. Honestly, I really enjoyed how the narrative interwove these social-economic, political, and mystery themes together. The missions satisfyingly follow along with the narrative by increasing the difficulty and stakes in just the right ways. We, as the audience, even see our pilot play the part of unwilling pawn to shadowy schemes. However, at the same time, your retainer implores you to go on missions that will help undercut her influence. Your pilot will often question the motivations of comrades and commanding officers alike.įor example, the main story involves following the caravan leader for the good of the people. The title presents a large colorful cast of interesting characters, with each playing a special role within the plot. While Drifting Lands' combat heavily borrows from its shmup roots, it chooses to diverge via the inclusion of a narrative. It's tense and unforgiving like the classics of old.
Like any shmup, you also get to have fun facing off against large bosses. The better you perform the more it'll pay off. You receive a certain amount of your earnings after each stage. Instead of receiving a score only within stages, you actually gain income. As you progress in the story, the game's difficulty organically increases. Of course, you'll meet new enemies, more dangerous than the last at each new turn. Throughout the game, you'll face a number of stages across different environments. Some require you to survive for a set amount of time, while others task you with finding a target/items and so forth. However, missions vary from time to time. Yes, you will shoot down squadrons of enemies. For instance, first-time players may want a more balanced ship, while shmup veterans can opt for speed. Your preferences will probably depend on your skill level. From the beginning of Drifting Lands, you can choose among three ship types: balanced, fast and squishy, or slow and tanky. In Drifting Lands, you take up the reins of a pilot tasked with protecting your caravan from various dangers and threats - both inside and outside of your aircraft.Īt its core, the title is a horizontal shooter, much like R-Type. Oh, and there's also the threat of machines that want to annihilate humans. To make matters worse, corporations have become powerful, selfish, and totalitarian nations. Developed by French studio Alkemi, Drifting Lands is an arcade shooter set in a sci-fi, post-apocalyptic world where mankind lives in a dystopic and broken world within the sky.
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