Freedom Planet

Controls feel a bit loose, doesn't come with a manual to explain what all the power-ups and items do. The story is, cartoonish, girly, retarded, and nothing new, but not without its charm. It's basically a good sonic game, or what a good sonic game ought to be. Levels feel rather huge, environments are weird but fun, theres some destructible terrain, hitting stuff feels nice, you can go fast, obstacles and enemies are sensibly placed, bosses are sweet to fight. The game looks good, sounds good, feels good, plays good. If you want to just have fun with a game that has that old school platformer feel of the sonic variety then this game is for you.

Game is known as a Sonic clone and it's done really well. It does have good story for this type of game, it's light and fun in terms of being child friendly and not too serious if that is what you are looking for. Gameplay wise it offers several characters and different campaign options. Characters overlap within campaigns and certain number of levels is different from one another depending on the character selected. Characters plays differently and have special abilities unique to each other. It feels like Sonic as I said but having played Sonic 3 first (shorter version), that puts impact on the flow of the speed and it's continuation rather than too many obstacles I would prefer to enjoy in speed rather than action. Continuity and atmosphere got me into Sonic 3 rather than what is showcased in Sonic 2 or later games. Other than that this is great game and you should definitely try it out.

Never really grew up with Sonic, played Sonic 1-3 and others years later on the PS2 collection and generally enjoyed them, although I had my problems with them. Freedom Planet is basically my Sonic, so to say, as I feel more connected to FP than Sonic, despite only having 1 (now 2) games. That's how solid Freedom Planet is. The game obviously takes inspiration from Sonic, Gunstar Heroes, and some other games. Played Gunstar a bit later after FP, loved that too. Hands down, one of the best things FP does over Sonic (and just in general compared to a lot of 2D platformers) is that enemies have to actively attack you in order for you to receive damage. Instead of 80% of enemy attacks just being contact damage, and when there is contact damage in FP, there's a good reason for it, like the enemy is spiked, or it's on fire, etc. Also, in FP, you have a life bar, and can take a fair amount of hits, and get health pickups, which is great, because getting one shot in a Sonic game just cause you don't have any rings gets old real fast. The combat's pretty decent (a bit better in the sequel), the music is memorable, the bosses are neato, and the stages are rad. The stages can stretch on for a bit too long at times, someone dubbed it as "Freedom Planet Syndrome" where a level in a platformer stretches on for waaaaaaay too long, which I don't really have a problem with usually, unless it's stupid long. Klonoa 2 did this over a decade earlier, where some levels are like half an hour long, while most levels are like 8-15 min long. I'm sure there's a bunch of other platformers that do something similar. The protagonists are very charming and memorable too, and have fitting voices to go with their personalities. There are 3 different playable protagonists, each with their own playstyle, mostly sharing the same levels, but have some levels unique to each of them. Here's to an eventual release of FP2 on GoG as well, as I'm allergic to Steam, but bought it on there anyway.

This is a fun 2D platformer. The graphics and gameplay are inspired from the 16-bit generation which was a golden age in gaming, where developers had to compensate for hardware limitations with good game design. The game manages to recapture that! Gameplay is good. Anyone who played the classic Sonic games or Mega Drive classics Rocket Knight or Gunstar Heroes will quickly feel at home right away. Graphics are great. Not raytraced kind of great but very well done pixel art kind of great. Unlike the graphics, the sound is 100% a modern affair. There's speech during cut scenes to keep the story going, with the voice talent and the music being as good as everything else. There are many great 2D platformers on GOG. This is one of the top ones. If cute characters saving the world is your thing, this is the game for you.

I bought this rather cheaply (50%) off, assuming that it was maybe a fun if rather forgettable platformer... how wrong I was, this game is INCREDIBLE. Basically everything about this game is flawless, graphics reminiscent of the golden age of gaming? yep, great music? yep, Great boss battles that are the right kind of frustrating, but enough to make you learn from your mistakes and then revel in their destruction? yes. Pick it up while its still 50% off, its the best Not Sonic game in years (might even be even better then the classics) And people moaning its a Sonic clone, it really is not anything like one, its basically a loveletter to all people who grew up playing these kind of fast action platformers from yesteryear (yet this game still manages to actually have a rather good story that dosint distract from the action either, and I suppose its nice to actually have strong Female protagonists which some people complain about the lack of these days :)