Last week Nintendo Life reported on a Facebook post from the official Freedom Planet page that subtly hinted that the Sonic-inspired platformer might be Nintendo Switch-bound. Well, turns out our cautious yet excited take was spot on because indie developer GalaxyTrail really was just pulling out collective leg.
In a second post on its page, the studio addressed the light-hearted trolling. "About our previous post: We want everyone to know they we’ve heard you loud and clear about the Switch," it wrote on Sunday. "(We’ve now counted literally thousands of requests sent to us!) We’re currently exploring all of our options to offer you the game and the sequel on the Switch. The best we could give you so far was a silly pun though. "
So it really was, as we sadly suspected, just a little joke, but Galaxy Trail does leave us with a glimmer of hope, saying: "Stay tuned for more news about ports, while our programmers work diligently to bring you FP2, we’re still working to offer you the game you love on every platform we can, even toasters if we can manage it! (Those have screens now right?)"
Were you excited to see Freedom Planet make the leap from Wii U to Switch? We certainly thought it felt like a no brainer. Let us know your thoughts below...
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Not cool...Please don't use Switch owners to hype up your games just because it's owning at the moment.
Shame on them for doing that.
Last week Nintendo Life reported on a Facebook post...
And KayFiOS is confused by the writing style here
I thought it always looked like a bit of a joke post more than anything else. People need to stop reading into things and making assumptions too much or it'll just lead to disappointment.
"We’re still working to offer you the game you love on every platform we can, even toasters if we can manage it! (Those have screens now right?)"
If AVGN can get a toaster to play video games, so can these guys.
Stupid pun, not even funny.
After the chibo robo thing I think it would be very unwise for anyone to tease images like that now or in the future, forever.
Just do it! Stop whatever you‘re doing, put the sequel on ice, this NEEDS to be on Switch (alongside its sequel, of course!).
...What pun?
Never heard of freedom planet, love the look of it. Give it to me. Take my money
@CanisWolfred the game was "on the" Nintendo switch. Like haha on-top-of...
@tamantayoshi Right on, neither are even slightly funny and only serve to toy with the biggest fans of Chibi and FP. I at least expect something concrete on the horizon if these are the kind of teases being otherwise mindlessly flaunted.
Not my king of game so don't care...
Hard to imagine this won't be on Switch at all considering they're putting the sequel on Switch before PS4 and XB1.
It wasn't a joke. It was a test to see how many people are interested to get the game on the Switch.
@MatoFilipovic
Had the same thought with this.
I didn't even recognize it as a pun. I thought they just put a soundtrack on a Switch for no reason. Now that it's out that they decided to "tease" something they weren't planning in the first place, they get to join the exclusive club of developers who were too slow to recognize the Switch's success and are paying greatly for it.
Oh FFS.
Here's some insight into getting the game to the Nintendo Switch.
Freedom Planet, AVGN Adventures, The Escapists, and some other titles are developed in something called Clickteam Fusion. The default export options for this game making software aren't great though.
For that reason, a cross-platform runtime called Chowdren exists.
http://mp2.dk/chowdren/
This allows developers to port their Clickteam Fusion games to other platforms, including the Wii U and 3DS. At this time though, it doesn't look like Chowdren supports Nintendo Switch. I hope it can though.
I don’t know if they know what a pun is
Don't do that again devs. People REALLY want games on the Switch and Freedom Planet would've been a good addition
I wouldn't mind having this on Switch. I liked it on Wii U although I have yet to beat it--it's pretty hard.
Guess i was the only one here that thought the pun was funny. Knew it was a joke too since clickteam doesnt have a Switch export module.
If I were the developer I wouldn’t want to go toe-to-toe with the very excellent Sonic Mania.
Would love to see the first and it sequel to be released. Was a big fan of the first game ,and was glad I downloaded the demo during e3 2015 I think
Meh they'll have to bring it to the Switch no matter what, it's not like there's any other platforms they could bring it to that would help sell the game successfully. The Switch is an indie haven machine now, not like the Wii U so unless they don't want success it's up to them. They brought it out for Wii U, there's no reason they would skip the Switch, not with that huge install base the Switch already has.
Hope they can export it. I'll buy if they do.
Well on paper it shouldn't be that hard for these guys to figure out how to port this game to the Switch and I wouldn't mind purchasing the first game again along with the upcoming sequel on the system. But dang a few people here are being a bit unfairly dismissive towards this game just because of Sonic Mania. I've enjoyed Sonic Mania as well but I want to play other fast paced 2D platformers too of course.
Discount the Wii U game, then.
Well, jokes and trolling aside, looks like GalaxyTrail has their guage of interest now. The game is a good game with surprisingly good production, theme, and gameplay value, so honestly, if they DON'T put the game on Switch, that WOULD be dumb as they'd be leaving money on the table.
@PipeGuy64Bit Well they would need a programmer to figure it out. I'm sure they could hire one. The comments above say they are using Clickteam Fusion. If that's accurate, then they are currently making the game with a drag and drop tool.
@Abes3 Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel...
@Masurao I'd argue Freedom Planet was better than Sonic Mania. I only hope that FP2 is just as good, if not better.
Joke? There were obviously checking out what the reaction would be.
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