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Story and Flow The Earth got ripped apart many years ago most of humanity's remnants live on floating bits of the former Earth's landmass, high up in the sky. For missions with multiple consecutive areas, retreating (willingly or not) also means that you start over from the first area of that mission. If you do this, you'll fly back to base with your money and loot drops intact, ready to challenge the mission all over again – from the beginning.

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Fortunately, it is also possible to trigger a manual retreat, allowing you to bug out of a mission before it's complete. Of course, if you really want to see how good you are, you can always swap out the passive Auto-Retreat skill for something else die with that setup, and your ship is gone for good, though your pilot will live on to fight another day. If you ever get blasted out of the sky, your ship will automatically return to base, but it will drop all of its cargo (anything you've picked up in this run, along with any you neglected to move to storage from earlier runs) in the process, and the emergency repairs will cost you all of the money you would normally have earned for that run. Also, it has a higher multiplier than any of the others. The game considers this one to be the hardest to use effectively, but with high rewards come high risks. The fastest ship, The Interceptor, which also has the lowest armor capacity, gains Focus by riding the ragged edge of disaster – i.e., by coming close to enemies and their bullets without actually taking damage. The mid-range ship (The Sentinel) is a bit zippier, and gains Focus by flying into circles of yellow sparkles which are (almost) always present. This ship can also equip more Armor plates than the other two.

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Running headlong into a Boss-class enemy will still take you out in one hit, even with full life and shields, so be careful. The slowest, least-agile ship (The Marauder) is heavily-armored, and gains Focus whenever your Shields have been depleted and are regenerating – so, yes, you want to get hit in order to keep gaining Focus. If you fail to increase your Focus meter for too long, it will begin to drop. As you go along blasting the heck out of your robotic enemies, you gather a resource called “Focus” – this improves your score multiplier, currency modifier, and alters the power level of certain special Skills. You'll be grateful for this once the difficulty starts ramping up and the game takes on a more “Bullet Hell”-type feeling.

You're a newbie merc – not the last, best hope for mankind, here, so you'll need to earn your keep and scavenge ship upgrades on your own until you can deck yourself out in the best gear, challenge the enemy where it hurts the most, and take 'em down.Įach ship has a small cockpit area which is the only part that can actually take damage, Touhou-style. Choose your ship – slow and tough, quick and fragile, or a happy medium between the two, and go out to earn your keep. Drifting Lands, from French indie studio Alkemi, is a well-executed hybrid of a side-scrolling SHMUP with Diablo-esque loot mechanics and upgrades.