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Heyo, folks, I'm Will. < - And that's SuccinctAndPunchy.And we've played way too much Freedom Planet!  Developer: GalaxyTrail Platforms: PC, Wii U, PS4 Initial Release Date: July 21, 2014 Genre: Action Platformer This is a voiced, co-commentated VLP. Freedom Planet is an action-heavy platforming game that takes clear inspiration from a variety of classic SEGA Genesis platformers, such as Gunstar Heroes, Ristar, Rocket Knight Adventures, and Sonic the Hedgehog, with a tightened focus on combat and a number of more modern approaches to game design that, in my opinion, put it well above the games it draws life from, as well as most of its contemporaries. It was developed largely by one guy: Stephen DiDuro (who we'll mostly refer to by his Internet handle, "Strife"), with the help of Leila Wilson (a composer who wrote most of the soundtrack and orchestrated all of it) and an awfully large voice cast. Freedom Planet follows the adventure of three fast-moving critters, Sash Lilac (a dragon*), Carol Tea (a cat), and Milla Basset (a dog), whose homeworld has just been invaded by a scary green dude. That's the story. *yes I'm serious Succinct and I have collectively dumped about 1000 hours into this game (him, over 800, and me, over 200), and we figured we ought to use our knowledge of Freedom Planet, both inside and outside of the finished product, to present the game we love(d?) so much in a variety of lights. We'll be taking you through the full game two separate times: a casual runthrough with Lilac (on Hard difficulty), and a speedrun (also featuring Lilac), with a few extra tidbits on the history of FP and Strife here and there. You're free to discuss spoilers (although there's not much point to talk about plot points until they're pertinent, frankly) - otherwise, all we ask for post content is that you try to keep things on topic. For the sake of having as few videos as possible and keeping things simple, I'll be including the gameplay and cutscenes together, but the latter will (almost) always be stuck wholly in the second half of a video, so as to let people tap out when they feel the need. Now, without any further ado.... Episode List Series Playlist Episode 1: Dragon Valley Episode 2: Relic Maze Episode 3: Fortune Night Episode 4: Sky Battalion Episode 5: Jade Creek Episode 6: Thermal Base Episode 7: Pangu Lagoon Episode 8: Battle Glacier Episode 9: Final Dreadnought (1&2) Episode 10: Final Dreadnough (3&4) Episode B1: GalaxyTrail History Episode B2: Jade Phoenix Episode B3: Super Ecksdee Panic Ultigonio fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Aug 29, 2017 |
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Yep, the no-cutscene mode is called "Classic Mode," and we'll be seeing that in our second playthrough of the game. A few incidental cutscenes still appear in this mode, but it's otherwise totally free of them. Besides that, cutscenes are also skippable, and single lines can be skipped by tapping A. Whether or not you'd consider Freedom Planet to be something you'd enjoy as a "good Sonic game" depends mainly on what you get out of Sonic games. If the joy of Sonic games for you is memorizing layouts and beating your best times, then yeah, you'll get that. If you like fast-paced levels with varied pathways, then you'll get that, too. Freedom Planet starts to break off from Sonic when it comes to combat, boss fights and moment-to-moment platforming, though (for example, Sonic's challenge lies in its stages, where FP's challenge is usually more in its bosses). Comparisons to Sonic are still worthwhile (and we'll almost certainly be making them), but Freedom Planet's heart lies just as much with other Sega Genesis classics, and this'll become gradually more apparent as we move forward. but yeah the VA is kinda' whack Ultigonio fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Mar 21, 2017 |
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Mar 21, 2017 08:54
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Episode 2: Relic Maze I hoped you enjoyed those cutscenes in the first episode 'cause we're in it for the long haul, now. Ultigonio fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Mar 27, 2017 |
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Mar 27, 2017 15:52
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Episode 3: Fortune Night Coming off the back of Relic Maze, Fortune Night is level that feels straightforward in platforming but has a lot of vertical openness. It also has a couple great boss fights! And still a lot of cutscene.
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Apr 3, 2017 16:45
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Episode 4: Sky Battalion In this episode, Punchy and I have finally become so exhausted with the game's cutscenes that we're at a loss for words.
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Apr 11, 2017 06:55
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Episode 5: Jade Creek Now, we're in Jade Creek. This is one of the game's better levels, especially if you're interested in going fast. In fact, Punchy follows his speedrun muscle memory for the first 10 seconds of gameplay. Mr. Highway posted:I'd say the voice acting is mediocre, so far. I haven't heard anything horrible, but they do have a lack of inflection. Just about every line is delivered the same as every other line so far. It's like the voice actors focused on having unique, cartoonish voices but hadn't developed them fully. Ultigonio fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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Apr 18, 2017 02:21
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Episode 6: Thermal Base Where the level's good and the plot doesn't mean anything - this is the essence of Freedom Planet. Katsuma posted:This whole game has some fantastic music, but Jade Creek's level themes really stand out to me, and are far and away my favorites. Leila Wilson does some great work. Yes! I respect Woofle's work a lot. She's got a recognizable but very cohesive style, good use and reuse of melodic motifs, mixing abilities that are easy on the ears. And I'm glad you're enjoying the LP! We deliberated on its creation for at least a year, it's good to see that passion, knowledge, and handsome voices sell an LP as well as ever.
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Section Z posted:As my last normal playthrough was with Carol, I'm getting reminded again how Lilac is basically easy mode by comparison by a large margin. Any and all "Actually, Carol is more efficient when-" tends to involve way more button inputs and having to bother with timing. Or, you know. Just sitting with your thumb up your rear end waiting for even some of the easy bosses to come within Carol's attack/wall jump range in the first place Carol's Wild Claw does help to shrink the gap a fair bit, but this is a move that most people will either find out about well into the game by pure accident or never discover at all (though I can't think of a way to "fix" that). quote:What's it say about how botched the writing is when I think the Magister is still a bigger rear end in a top hat than the guy torturing you giving the stock 'Maybe it is YOU who are the assholes? hmmm? DEEP'. I guess it's because he's supposed to be an rear end in a top hat, while the Magister and Panda cop are still talking down to little miss BBQ face washing up on shore half dead like she was caught shoplifting. But have that whole "No, he's supposed to be the noble smart authority figure In addition: for what it's worth, the first trailer for Freedom Planet 2 teased that the Magister may not be as pure as we're lead to believe in this game. Whether this is intended through FP1's writing or not is anyone's guess, but it wouldn't be the only instance of plot points probably being added with the sole interest of expanding upon them in future games (which we'll be seeing a bit of in the next video). Ultigonio fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Apr 27, 2017 |
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Episode 7: Pangu Lagoon This is the first time I have ever bothered to google the meaning of this word. It makes sense.
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Kibayasu posted:Also this isn't really a complaint because I do like seeing the levels just get destroyed but your map knowledge combined with the enemies that aren't threats until they actually attack makes things go super quick. I think the bee enemies are the first ones in a while I've gotten a good look at, and even that is via aggregate, not because I was able to see one for a while Thotimx posted:I have nothing profound to say here, but I am enjoying this well-done LP. I've never played Freedom Planet, but both the level discussions and the commentary on the plot has been entertaining so far.
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Episode 8: Battle Glacier Another week, another FP video - we're just about to get into the final stretch of the game. If you'd like to listen to the cutscene track that plays at the end of the video in isolation, you can do so here: https://galaxytrail.bandcamp.com/track/snowfields
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May 9, 2017 03:48
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Episode 9: Final Dreadnought (1&2) We're now at the penultimate episode of our casual playthrough of Freedom Planet. Enjoy!
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May 15, 2017 22:52
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Episode 10: Final Dreadnough (3&4) And with that, our standard playthrough of Freedom Planet comes to a close. We're still pretty far from done, though. Coming up next is a dive into the history of the game's core developer, Strife.
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May 23, 2017 03:16
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Hey, folks! No new video quite yet, since I forgot how picky I can get about solo commentary and tried to stuff five days worth of work into just two. Instead, I've uploaded some old gimmick runs of mine for your viewing pleasure. Blindfolded Dragon Valley Blindfolded Relic Maze
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Jun 6, 2017 05:42
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Episode B1: GalaxyTrail History Alright! We're now in the ~history~ part of this LP, starting with a general overview of Strife's pre-FP games. For the next three videos, I'll be covering Jade Phoenix, Super Ecksdee Panic, and Christmas Time Heroes in their own separate videos. If you'd like to try these games before seeing my commentary over them, you can grab them here: http://www.create-games.com/profile.asp?id=3481
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I'm back from my uh, vacation! Episode B2: Jade Phoenix Strife's first big project was an action-platform game called Jade Phoenix. It was never finished, but even the released "beta" version of the game is chock full of content. If you'd like to try Jade Phoenix for yourself, you can do so by grabbing it from here: http://www.create-games.com/download.asp?id=7856
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Episode B3: Super Ecksdee Panic Somewhere around the time Strife started losing steam on Jade Phoenix, he decided to try his hand at a sort of personal 30-day "jam". The result of that is the surprisingly polished Super Ecksdee Panic. If you wanna try Super Ecksdee Panic out, you can download it from The Daily Click: http://www.create-games.com/download.asp?id=8298 Kibayasu posted:The camera really is one of those things you don't notice until it's not working right. Watching the camera move with (nearly) every movement the character makes at such a close distance was indeed pretty disorienting if it went on for longer than a few seconds.
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