first time really venturing into the nintendo console forum since E3. I should have kept up with this thread to shamelessly shill respond to the impressions on Freedom Planet, as it is a game I really care for a lot and feel that it has it's chance at a second life on Wii U. The game kinda unfairly got buried last year for it's steam release, coming out SO close to shovel Knight and not really having the same hype vehicle as that game did.
Freedom Planet is a game that indeed begin it's life as a fangame distributed around sites like Sonicretro.org and SSRG, but they eventually decided to take the idea away from simply being a sonic fan game and do their own thing with it. one thing the Wii U demo didn't have were some of the other characters, which make the game considerably less sonic-like.
The control of mid-air momentum makes a lot more sense when you play a character like Carol the Wildcat or Milla the hound. Carol plays more akin to zero from mega man X with her claw combos and distinct wall jump, while... I'd honestly say Milla is something more inspired by Yoshi than something like tails. she has a block tossing attack and a shield attack that she can aim out at enemies, and her 'flight' behaves a bit more like a souped up version of Yoshi's flutter jump than Tails' flight.
This isn't even including the two stretch goal characters that haven't come out, such as Commander Torque's Gunstar Heroes inspired gun upgrade system or Spade, who will have some sort of deck of cards thing going on that changes his attributes and methods of attack or something!
Or the crazy ammount of level variety! there's a SHMUP level that's VERY inspired by the kirby SHMUP interludes. The attention to detail is great, and the dev's love for the project shows with how much they are willing to outreach to the community. one of the most telling videos about freedom planet was one time where they basically approached Slowbeef of Retsupurae fame (he also headed the coding on Policenauts fan translation and did the first sort of video upload of a video game with voiceover for the entire lengh of the game ever.) and did a stream with him and got him to completely turn around on a game he probably wouldn't have given a second thought about otherwise.
Please, I implore you folks; give this game a try when it comes out! I really do love it and want to talk about it with more people!
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