Freedom Planet

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Summary

Freedom Planet is a combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragon girl and her friends against an alien attack force. There's trouble around every turn, from insects to giant robots to sheer explosive destruction, but you'll have a variety of special fighting abilities to blast your way through each stage.

As Lilac, you can use Dragon powers to whip enemies with your hair, spin like a cyclone, or fly through the air at high speed like a comet.
As Carol, you can bust through foes with a flurry of punches and kicks or summon motorcycles that let you ride up walls and ceilings.


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Freedom Planet Reviews & Ratings

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Review by Vectis99 [user]
October 18, 2018

Freedom Planet is exactly what it is advertised, that is to say, a better action plat former than Sonic the Hedgehog. Visually and in terms ofFreedom Planet is exactly what it is advertised, that is to say, a better action plat former than Sonic the Hedgehog. Visually and in terms of the narrative, it's really cute and easy on the art. It has reasonable voice acting and great music. All coming together to make a comely experience. Freedom Planet delivers exactly what it promises making for a simple game experience of an exceptionally refined quality.

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Review by crackajaxx [user]
January 11, 2018

Sonic the Hedgehog has had a...checkered history, to say the least. It was only a matter of time before a contender would rise to usurp theSonic the Hedgehog has had a...checkered history, to say the least. It was only a matter of time before a contender would rise to usurp the throne of classic fast paced action platforming of days long past. Freedom Planet I believe is that game, the game to finally surpass the legendary Sonic 3 & Knuckles. I finished the game multiple times with multiple characters, and definitely see myself playing it even more afterwards.The game straight up looks like it belongs in the Sega Saturn era, or maybe PS1. It didn't feel like an indie game at all and instead felt like a long lost game from those libraries the graphics were emulated perfectly. The game is just gorgeous to look at and very colorful with fun visuals and cartoony design.Where the game excels is the gameplay: you get into this groove, helped along with the incredible soundtrack that is disgustingly underrated and crisp visuals and fast paced gameplay. You don't want to stop, you just want to keep running and platforming. And I love that, this game pulls it off in a way I haven't quite seen on this level, it is literally the next evolution of the classic sonic formula, everything old sonic from the 90's did, but bigger and better. New sonic as you should know is just terrible in general and it's nice to see an indie developer take it up a notch, or several notches.The music is absolutely wonderful, and criminally underrated. It's got this bubbly, playful feel to it however it knows when to shred when it wants to, and feels heavily inspired by Megaman X and Gunstar Heroes, along with some Sonic and it's own colorful feel. It's kind of mind boggling how underrated that OST is and I look forward to more of it for sure.The story is by far the game's biggest weakness. It's not very good. We're talking about cartoon animal characters so I'm not expecting shakespeare but the story definitely lacks focus and has the hardest time deciding on its tone. One moment its a playful cartoony world like saturday morning cartoons or something then suddenly the main character is getting tortured with electricity and its just kind of surprising how dark it can get out of nowhere. The voice acting is the definition of mixed bag, the main characters sound pretty alright and the villain sounds exceptional, then you've got a few characters that sound like they've been recording in their bathroom or something. Also the dialogue sounds stilted at times and you can tell it was written by the developers themselves and not any kind of writing team, but I can forgive all of that because it comes with a 'classic' mode that allows you to just skip the story and focus on gameplay itself. Not saying you should skip the story but just don't expect to be blown away by it. If I would recommend the story mode for any reason it would be for the music, it's once again very good.Kickass game, and literally one of the most underrated gems I've ever seen, Freedom Planet is one of the best indie games I've played recently and I would strongly recommend it to anybody that appreciates old school platformers.

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Review by GameCritics
September 29, 2017

The most impressive thing about Freedom Planet is just how good it feels. It feels great to find the correct sequence of actions to send Lilac rocketing through a level at warp speed. It feels great hearing each song on the excellent soundtrack for the first time. It feels great to nail the perfect spin dash on an enemy and absolutely shred it. That type of exhilaration is rare and worthy of praise. There’s no shortage of retro-style games that will charm one’s socks off with beautiful sprites and catchy tunes, but to combine all of that with such a deep mechanical understanding of those old Genesis platformers is a remarkable feat. GalaxyTrail, please take a bow.

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Review by Destructoid
January 4, 2016

While Freedom Planet isn't a perfect experience, it is still a very enjoyable and easily one of the best Sonic the Hedgehog-esque games I've played in years. If you were looking for something to scratch that 16-bit Sonic itch this might be it. Just don't say I didn't warn you about the questionable story, voice acting, and late game bosses.

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Review by SpazioGames
October 27, 2015

If Shovel Knight was a great homage to the NES era, this is an amazing homage to the Genesis and Master System era. It's what Sonic should be in this day and age, and it's quite funny that its developer wasn't SEGA, but an indie team with a lot of passion for the blue hedgehog. It has brilliant level design, great and tight gameplay, various playable characters, and good pixel graphics. What more do you want? A good storyline? Not there of course, but we don't really care considering the rest.

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Game Information
Release Date July 21, 2014
Publisher GalaxyTrail
Content Rated E10+ (Everyone 10+)
Game Modes Single player
Player Perspectives Side view, Text
Genres Platform, Adventure, Indie
Themes Action, Fantasy, Science fiction
Platforms Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Wii U, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch