Posted on: December 3, 2014
Stolken
Games: 175 Reviews: 7
Don't be lead on by the "reviews"
Freedom Planet is not as good as people should be let on to believe. There are obvious faults with the game and the people giving five star ratings to it are either under heavy doses of nostalgia or really big furries. To start with, the story mode is an absolute joke. They hired about one or two decent people, and then picked random people on the internet to voice act in it. Plus the cutscenes are on average about 10 minutes long and they're terrible, and not even in a good way, they're just boring and not funny. The dialog is so ear gratingly bad it's unbelievable nobody spoke up and said "Hey guys, this isn't even close to funny." There's a mode that let's you skip the entire game's story, which is what I'd recommend if you ever do pick this up. The gameplay itself is a simple "I am not sonic please don't let anyone tell you otherwise" game. You have a health bar and levels with loops and crazy hills to run fast in, but it's not a sonic game. The level design remains largely unchanged for the 3 characters in it, even though the characters are different from each other. The level design becomes a mess where nobody really gets a good time from the characters. Plus they tweaked the physics to allow characters to just walk up walls and ceilings because they couldn't redesign or give them different levels. The controls are responsive however and at points the level design can be decent, so when the game does play well, it's fun. The graphics and music are very well made. Graphics have nice little qualities in them and overall are very pretty. The character designs are trash though, they've made little effort hiding the fact that they're just sonic ocs, and said effort makes them look ugly. The music is very well composed however, and since you're getting the soundtrack, enjoy. Overall, freedom planet is still an okay game, sometimes good when it can be, but there's a lack of focus in the gameplay department that can leave this game pretty mixed to people.
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