Flynn and Freckles

I really didnt want to write a bad review, but I have to put the facts out there so less people do the same mistake and waste their money on this product. For starters let me tell you - this game is one big mess, feels unfinished, has barely working features which I will gladly describe beacuse they have been source of many frustrations, where I kept playing because it became a challenge to keep going, not for its difficulty, but for its incompetence unfortunately. 1. Game is littered with bugs: You wanna inifinitely fall thru the floor on random places - check (where surfaces should be playable but they are nor rendered as they should) where only way to end that torture is quiting the game where we come to next problem. 2. Random Checkpoints - now this is super weird. Normally games load your last checkpoint as you fail, die...whatever. But here, it kinda random, here if you die you might be teleported to a mile away from place that suppose to be last checkpoint (and you can see sa...

[table] [tr] [th][b][i]Byte-sized review[/i][/b][/th] [th][b][i]A platform adventure best left marooned on a deep sea ocean island[/i][/b][/th] [/tr] [tr] [td][i]Review[/i][/td] [td]I adore 2D/3D colourful platformers (next to RPG's it's my second favorite genre). In fact some of my favorite gaming memories consist of myself huddling around the NES, SEGA Mega Drive, Playstation 1 and 2 playing through each systems latest colourful platformer, often staying up into the wee hours of the morning getting lost in each ones world. While the genre has fallen out of favor somewhat unfortunately with the big publishers thankfully we have indie game studios trying to rekindle the flame and through that we have seen a popular resurgence with 2D 8/16 bit adventures such as [b][i]Shovel Knight[/i][/b] and [b][i]The Messenger[/i][/b] and in the 3D realm with the brilliant [b][i]A Hat in Time[/i][/b] to the mediocre and somewhat disappointing [b][i]Yooka-Laylee[/i][/b] (disappointing considering ...

I couldn't finish the 1st level, because of the horrible jumping mechanics. You jump higher if you stand still, but to reach the first cave, you'll have to run and jump... well good luck with that!!

If you like old school 3D platformers you're going to like Flynn & Freckles. It has the vive of a late 90s game with modern graphics. Controls are good and camera behaves well. I love the begining of the game, there are some parts of level design through the game that I would change, but the overall feeling is good. It has charm characters and enough back story to keep you interested about the world. Some elements remember to Zelda on N64 or GameCube, some to 3D Mario's games, somes to Spyro or Ratchet & Clank... It's quite linear but with enough exploration, some figthing and variety on the gameplay mechanics. It's just about having a fun time, as simple as that. I totally recommend the game.

TL;DR - it's busted on a fundamental level. Due to serious collision detection problems, your character freezes on landing from a jump, or falls through the platform, or fails to jump. The level design does not account for this. I did not finish the game because my save file has permanently preserved or not preserved the state of various level elements in such a way that it can't be completed anymore, with no option to restart the level. Do not buy this game. The game has crippling problems with collision detection, even with recognizing whether you have landed from a jump, and so you can receive fall damage from a relatively small fall. The collision detection problems also make your character come to a dead stop for like a fifth of a second on landing, and make you simply slide off some platforms without jumping, or fall through solid platforms when falling fast enough. There are serious problems updating level state after death - some things will stay as they were, others will ret...

Unfortunately bought this game a while before trying it so may not be able to refund it. Even in the first area it was unplayably buggy. Imagine Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but now imagine you have to constantly manually adjust the camera angle and that you have a 50-50 chance the platform you're jumping to will glitch out from under you and you'll pass through the solid rock. Running through the village Flynn would randomly drop through the ground and drown. It is unplayable in this state.