This is an amazing 2D platformer, I'm tempted to say that is one of the best platformers of all times, but with so many indie games, it's very hard to assure something like that, but I feel confortable sayting that it has the quality in gameplay and level design of the best 90s platformers and also, it has an amazing pixel art with more variaty and detail than any 16 bit console.
Yes, this game is heavly influenced by classic Sonic, but at the same time, fixes lots of issues that prevents many of us from enjoying a classic Sonic game (like the lack of spindash button, the large delay to gain speed, the limited fov and the camera that doesn't gives extra visibility ahead when running) and also, it incorporates elements of other great action platformers, mainly Megaman X and Gunstar Heroes.
I have to say it: the boss fights are huge, epic and badass.
It has some drawbacks, but all of them can be prevented to be serious drawbacks:
1. Like a modern Sonic Game it tries too hard to be a story-driven game with a "serious" and "epic" story that just doesn't work. Fortunatly, the game has the option to be played without the story, just the stages (at the beggining of the game, you can choose between "adventure" mode and "classic" mode, do yourself a favor and pick "classic")
2. The game have 3 playable characters: Lilac, Carol and Milla. It's very fun to play as Lilac; but with Carol, most of the time I feel that I'm controlling an slow character in a game that it's supposed to be a lot faster (with the exception of the motorcycle power up, with that powerup is very fun to play as Carol); and Millia, it's just not worth playing.
The good news is that you can play all the game with Lilac and ignore the other two characters.
3. Comparing with the stages, some bosses are too hard and sometimes they can feel unfair. I'm not saying that the game shouldn't be hard, I'm saying that the difficulty is not consistent, some times it's easy to beat a whole stage without dying once and after that, die 10 times with the boss. Fortunatly if you got stuck, it's possible to decrease the difficulty of the game by just reseting the stage(it's not necesarry to restart the whole game).
As a whole, Freedom Planet is a great game, I recommend this game to anyone who enjoy the 2D platformers, even the ones who doesn't like Sonic.

This is an amazing 2D platformer, I'm tempted to say that is one of the best platformers of all times, but with so many indie games, it's very hard to assure something like that, but I feel confortable sayting that it has the quality in gameplay and level design of the best 90s platformers and also, it has an amazing pixel art with more variaty and detail than any 16 bit console. Yes, this game is heavly influenced by classic Sonic, but at the same time, fixes lots of issues that prevents many of us from enjoying a classic Sonic game (like the lack of spindash button, the large delay to gain speed, the limited fov and the camera that doesn't gives extra visibility ahead when running) and also, it incorporates elements of other great action platformers, mainly Megaman X and Gunstar Heroes. I have to say it: the boss fights are huge, epic and badass. It has some drawbacks, but all of them can be prevented to be serious drawbacks: 1. Like a modern Sonic Game it tries too hard to be a story-driven game with a "serious" and "epic" story that just doesn't work. Fortunatly, the game has the option to be played without the story, just the stages (at the beggining of the game, you can choose between "adventure" mode and "classic" mode, do yourself a favor and pick "classic") 2. The game have 3 playable characters: Lilac, Carol and Milla. It's very fun to play as Lilac; but with Carol, most of the time I feel that I'm controlling an slow character in a game that it's supposed to be a lot faster (with the exception of the motorcycle power up, with that powerup is very fun to play as Carol); and Millia, it's just not worth playing. The good news is that you can play all the game with Lilac and ignore the other two characters. 3. Comparing with the stages, some bosses are too hard and sometimes they can feel unfair. I'm not saying that the game shouldn't be hard, I'm saying that the difficulty is not consistent, some times it's easy to beat a whole stage without dying once and after that, die 10 times with the boss. Fortunatly if you got stuck, it's possible to decrease the difficulty of the game by just reseting the stage(it's not necesarry to restart the whole game). As a whole, Freedom Planet is a great game, I recommend this game to anyone who enjoy the 2D platformers, even the ones who doesn't like Sonic.