This skill makes it so that when your ship gets down to 0 health, you run back to the hub area, while losing all the loot in your hold. This allows for lots of experimentation, while also giving the player a difficulty modifier of their own in the form of the passive “Automatic Retreat” skill. On top of that, there are repair skills and shields. Then there are mines, plasma beams, even skills that modify your primary fire. There’s a good level of variety here as players can choose from fiery spears that destroy foes in front and behind their ships, to devastating AoE attacks that clear a circular area. Only one skill from any given family can be equipped at a time. These skills are spread across different skill families. This is built upon even more by the game’s skill system.ĭrifting Lands allows players to equip up to six skills (four active, two passive). Thus, right off the bat, we’ve three ship types that require different approaches to how they’re played. The Interceptor, the lightest ship, favors getting dangerously close to enemy bullets or lasers in order to increase its Focus level. The Marauder is required to stay in certain areas on the screen, while the bulkier Sentinel gains Focus while recharging shields.
They’re also differentiated by the way they raise their Focus level, which acts as the score multiplier, score being turned into credits at the end of a successful run. Furthermore, upon reaching higher difficulty Grades, better variants of these ships can be unlocked. There are three types of ships one can choose from, each coming with their own stats, movement speed and armor slots. These include cooldown-based skills and a pretty large degree of random loot. What it does is try to mix shoot ‘em up gameplay with a handful of aRPG elements.
Playing out its many difficulty levels, it allows for a good amount of introduction to its mechanics. The first few levels of Drifting Lands put me in the situation of experiencing the most serene shoot ‘em up gameplay I’ve ever seen and I don’t mean that as a bad thing.
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