Combining a cute artwork model with playful dialogue, Floor Divers plumbs the literal depths of alien worlds, whereas solely grazing metaphorical ones.
The sport takes place in a distant future. You’re a part of a unusual little workforce of explorers despatched to mine pure sources. The workforce is cute, with cheeky banter bouncing between them. The designs look incredible – it’s clear that lots of effort and time has gone into crafting every member of the solid.
You management an cute robotic named Tsuruhashi. Your workforce offers you recommendation, however in any other case, you work together with them largely between ranges. They man the warehouse the place you retailer your finds, can help you craft new drills and different bits of apparatus, and customise Tsuruhashi earlier than your subsequent run.
Within the opening scenes, you get a glimpse into the financial setting. There’s a temporary dialogue of an power disaster, however no clear reasoning why mining is the answer to it. It’s tough to inform if that is meant to be satirical, because the slapstick humor in Floor Divers doesn’t really feel like social commentary.
Equally, there’s a passing reference to the enemies you face being the planet’s indigenous inhabitants, who’re (understandably) upset at you invading their dwelling, destroying the setting and stealing their sources. It might have been extremely attention-grabbing to border you as colonizer on this respect as an ethical quandary. As an alternative, the subject doesn’t come up once more, and also you get merrily on along with your mining.
Not utilizing a sport predominantly aimed toward youngsters to make vital environmental and political statements is legitimate. Nonetheless, the inclusion of passing references raised the topic appears like a darker undertone was deliberate for the sport, solely to return to humorous dialogue between characters, as an alternative of constructing on the nuance. The moral dilemma has taken a again seat in favor of the candy, foolish model.
The gameplay itself is mostly enjoyable. There are seven missions, every with three ranges to mine, rescuing trapped UFOs, preventing opponents and accumulating minerals. For every stage, you may have three duties to finish that may rating you bonus factors. This contains utilizing particular strikes, discovering treasure and breaking a sure variety of blocks.
You’ll be able to return and replay the degrees as usually as you want, with new maps randomly generated every time. This lets you rethink your technique about what path to take via the bottom, the place to arrange base camps and the right way to get probably the most out of your journey. You employ sources you discover to construct energy ups, so you possibly can return with extra power and firepower, and fine-tune Tsuruhashi for the calls for of any given mission. In some ranges, you’ll profit from sure sorts of particular strikes that might be extra highly effective when you may have the suitable attachments outfitted.
The missions general are easy and satisfying. They final a restricted period of time earlier than both Tsuruhashi runs out of energy or the creatures in your path lose their endurance and destroy your camps. This makes the sport appropriate for just a few fast rounds if you don’t have a lot time to play. Floor Divers lends itself nicely to anybody who enjoys seeing slightly little bit of technique develop into greater rewards, with out overthinking the plot.
