Drifting Lands

Repetitive, grindy, cheap gameplay and too much visual clutter. I'd pass on this one even at $5. There's a reason why less than 5% of people have beaten the story.

I really tried to push through it to see if it gets better but no, after 24h it's still awful. A sample of the problems this game has : - awfull drop rate. 99% trash. - No unique weapon after 24h of play time. - Underpower weapons. Expect having hard time killing most enemies 10 level below your weapon. - Most weapons are useless. Completely unbalanced. Clearly the devs didn't bother. - Skill system mostly useless. Only a few skill are really competent. The rest is situational at best. - Half the enemies are coming from behind. Only a few skill can deal with that and they are either ineffective or make you vulnerable from the front. - Tanky kamikaze drones faster than you and coming from behind. There is nothing you can do except taking damage. - Minimal difference of speed between the 3 different ships. - You have to push the joystick quite far before the ship is starting moving, causing delay in your movements input. - Bullet sponge Bosses. Some of them are becoming easy to deal with once you learn the paterns but it will still take ages to kill them anyway. - Useless and badly implemented "focus" system you will forget really quickly. I mean staying immobile at a certain position on the screen to slowly gain focus is dumb in a bullet hell shmup. - Terrible UI to navigate with with a gamepad. In a shmup. Genius! - Too much bloom effect you cannot disable, decreasing the vibility. In a bullet hell. Genius! On overall, the game doen't seem to know if it's a bullet hell shmup or a diablo-like shmup. The diablo-like part is mediocre, farming is not rewarding and there is not sense of power. You won't get the nice feeling of finding a cool gear or weapon that will make the difference and allow you to push through the next difficulty wall. That won't happen. Never. And the bullet hell part is underwelming with the lack of proper tools to deal with it. No bombs to clean the entire screen of bullets for exemple. Or no proper way to deal vertical and backward damage. And no cool stuff like friendly drones, permanent rocket launcher, etc.... Only pew pew main guns.

4 hours played and I'm still encountering the same enemies over and over. I'm already bored of the itemisation and still a little confused by it. Overall this is a missed opportunity to be a great game, mired by confusing interface, repetitive gameplay, and stages that feel like a grind instead of fun. Better off to miss this one, there are WAY better shooters to play.

Game was okay. Found the controls sluggish and game play too repetitive. Just not for me.

Excellent loot-based shooter.

great game and runs perfect on deck

Ein schönes RPG-Shmup-crossover. Wer Lust auf Grinden von XP/Credits und Items hat und gerne Combos von Skills mit Ausrüstung konstruiert, kommt hier nicht zu kurz. Es gibt sogar etwas story. Die einzelnen stages wiederholen sich zwar und sind sehr linear. Wen das aber nicht stört, kann hier viel Spaß haben.

Dieu que c'est mou.

This is not a bad side-scroller at all and gets a definite thumbs-up from me as I had a good 11 hours of entertainment from it. Gameplay flows nicely, abilities are fun and varied, graphics are sharp and animations are satisfyingly fluid. My gripe is that the game is needlessly complicated. There are far too many loot-drops with far too many confusing stats on them resulting in confusion as to what is actually best to equip. As such, you'll spend more time on inventory management, between runs, switching items around than... you know... actually shooting things. Additionally, the progress system is not very well explained and is tricky to work out. Still, the shooting is satisfying when you finally figure things out... so there is that.

Graphismes au top, challenge corsé, des mécaniques de rpg assez bien intégrées et une bande son d'enfer. Bref une super découverte !