Guess where I’ll begin is with deciding to do the mode that everybody is warned is the lamest part of the game: Adventure Mode. It’s as if every single aspect of this game from the menu sounds to the music to the characters themselves were designed specifically to fill in that hole that Sonic games no longer occupied. If you couldn't guess, I was not only surprised by the quality of the game, but I got goddamn goosebumps from how… happy Freedom Planet made me. I watch the trailer for the game on the Steam page and see all the high octane thrills and fights the characters blaze through with that amazing main theme playing in the background and I decided just 3 days ago,”Fuck it, let’s give this a go.” I’m not entirely convinced but I rationalize it in my head that something must be special about Freedom Planet if guys like LittleV would make tributes to it and even the most cynical of critics like TotalBiscuit would eventually praise it. I was a tad bit hesitant at first with how this was originally gonna be simply another Sonic fangame that the creators then decided to kickstart in order to make it bigger and supposedly better.
The main theme alone, even if remixed by him, was enough to get me interested and start looking into just what this game was. So imagine my thoughts when I see a LittleV rock cover for a game I’ve never heard of called Freedom Planet. As much as I love masterpieces like Mass Effect, Dark Souls, SOMA, Red Dead Redemption, and so much more I will not deny for a second that Sonic was where it all started for me.
FREEDOM PLANET TORQUE HERE WE GO SERIES
And it was with that redeeming title that made me decide that that’s how I wanted to remember the franchise as a whole and leave the series behind on a high note. I would later revisit the franchise again with the excellent, but all too short, Sonic Generations. I avoided Sonic for a good time after and watched from the sidelines as the community and game quality further spiraled into the mess that we all see today. Yeah, as you can imagine I was devastated at the time and felt the kind of betrayal that made me want to check out other games that could provide a substantial adrenaline rush of epicness. And wouldn’t you know it, the entire reason I begged my mother for an Xbox 360 was just so I could get my hands on what could be the most ambitious and mindblowing game ever in my 10 year old mind: Motherfucking Sonic 06. Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes all stood out as the Sonic games I knew and loved the best. Trust me, I was a megafan of the Blue Blur from elementary school throughout my first year of junior high. Sadly, Sonic never did age gracefully as the lot of you know. The reruns of Sonic SatAM and the related comic book series was like icing on the cake with the unique lore, settings and colorful characters of Mobius. Seeing Sonic Adventures cutscenes convey the story and then allowing me to engage in the awe-inspiring action of blazing through creative levels, finding cool collectibles, watching crazy set pieces take place throughout a stage to flip the entire level on its head, and then fight epic bosses to boot was really what defined my childhood. 6 year old me was absolutely blown away with the concept that you can jump into the shoes of a character and walk through their world thanks to just a console and a controller. I grew up right when 3D games were really starting to hit their marks and the first game I’ve ever played was Sonic Adventure on my older sisters new Gamecube.
I’m willing to go on grand, meaningful journeys like in Xenoblade Chronicles as much as I am eager to thoughtlessly hunt Zinogre to extinction for the sake of crafting a badass greatsword in Monster Hunter.Īnd yet despite me holding these games in high regard and willing marathon them all for good ole’ times sake, not one of them has given me the feeling that Freedom Planet has given to me recently: Nostalgia. It’s very apparent to me that I only have favorite games, not favorite genres. And I’ve felt undeniable glee in murdering the hundreds of denizens of Hell in Doom. I’ve questioned my own sense of self and belief-system in no small part thanks to SOMA. I’ve witnessed the epic trilogies unfold in Mass Effect and Dark Souls since their humble beginnings back in 20 respectively. I’ve stuck with this hobby, this passion, of mine for the better part of 15 years and have seen many incredible shifts in design and leaps in technology that have made gaming evolve into a medium where any story can be told, and any feat can be accomplished. I’ve been playing video games since I was 6 and have experienced dozens if not hundreds of incredible titles. This is gonna be a long one, so bear with me.
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