Features & Use
Badland takes place in a beautiful and ambient space, reminiscent of a mixture of jungle and industrial wasteland. At the beginning, all kinds of debris is flushed out from an old drain pipe and in the middle of it all: a little winged creature, also known as the "Clone", that you will control throughout the game. Although the little fellow cannot really fly properly, he flaps and flops and bounces his way around the obstacles. You control him with just a tap on the screen to flap his little wings and the screen scrolls endlessly sideways as the level progresses.In this side-scroller you must always be one step ahead. The game world around you moves on its own and if you do nothing, the world will move on without you and your little guy will meet a premature end. Fortunately though, you don’t have to then start again from scratch, but simply from a very recent point in the game.
The path through the industrial jungle is not easy by any means. While this game has the shortest learning curve ever – you only have to do one thing to control the action – the various obstacles awaiting you, including dead-ends, dangerous rotors and rotten pipes that collapse without warning, will put your skills to the test.
And the only control you have is held in the tip of one finger. Sometimes the environment will collapse around you, at other times your little bird will swell up or shrink, making his passage through cracks (or forcing your way through an area) either easy or impossible. There are also various bottlenecks that are only bested with a lot of tact. Sometimes speed is of the essence, sometimes hanging back, and sometimes you’re just getting bashed along by cogs or rotors and hoping for the best. As long as you don’t fall victim to crushing rocks or spinning blades you’re usually ok.
Every now and then there are small power-ups that will make your little hero big, or make him even tinier. Or even better: the little birdie will be cloned and suddenly you’ll be controlling a whole flock of birdies through the grinding thicket. This is where things get interesting, because sometimes you have to sacrifice some of the flock for the rest to move on, or split the group in two, or rearrange which one you’re focusing your attention on.
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