In some surprising news, the excellent Sonic-style platformer Freedom Planet 2 will be getting a Limited Run Games physical release for the Switch.
This game originally launched on the eShop earlier this year and received a 9 out of 10 from us here at Nintendo Life. The physical launch will include a standard edition for $39.99 USD (or your regional equivalent) and a deluxe edition for $69.99 USD.
The deluxe edition comes with some additional goodies including pins, posters and a soundtrack. Pre-orders for both will open on 20th December 2024 and close on 19th January 2025.
Here's how we summed up Freedom Planet 2 in our review on Nintendo Life:
"Freedom Planet 2 is an excellent achievement by GalaxyTrail, setting a high bar for quality that will be tough to beat if we’re ever lucky enough to get a 'Freedom Planet 3'. A compelling story, well-designed levels, tons of gameplay variety, and gorgeous visuals all come together to make this an absolute must-play for fans of high-speed platformers and a certain blue hedgehog. Freedom Planet 2 exudes quality and passion in just about every way imaginable."
Would you be interested in a physical copy of this game? Let us know in the comments.
[source limitedrungames.com]
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It's published by Marvelous/Xseed though. Why can't it get a proper release?
Well, good thing I took the day off from work on the 20th because of my girlfriend's birthday the day prior. We'd be getting back super late from where I'm taking her for her birthday (Medieval Times), and we start work at 6:00 in the morning and work for 10 hours, so I figured it would be logical to take the next day off so we wouldn't be so tired at work. I'll try to preorder it then!
@AstroTheGamosian You have a full month time to pre-order till 19th January 2025. I am probably going to pre-order this together with Shin Chan Shiro of Coal Town.
Edit: Now I don't know. Maybe I order it. But Shin Chan Shiro of Coal Town will also get an European release early 2025.
https://x.com/clearrivergames/status/1866138006735987165
@RainbowGazelle well Limited Run did release the first game in the series so kinda makes sense.
This is nice.to see. I’ve held out on getting this one as I suspected we may get a physical. I’d liked a duel pack with the first game but that’s ok.I’ll order this with the shin Chan game as well I think.
Love to see a physical release for this even if from LRG (although to be fair it could be worse as someone mentioned last time) - doubt I'll get it myself even if my usual retailer here in Italy imports it as I already have the game digitally and its size isn't particularly big so it would be more for collection than practical reasons!
These are dire times when even Marvelous is using Worst U&I
@JohnnyMind who could possibly be worse than LRG?
@Zeebor15 Dispatch Games and First Press Games
@Sylamp Dispatch I've never interacted with so I can't comment, but the one time I interacted with First Press they were certainly more honest than Josh
I got the first one at Best Buy so probably may get this one the same way. If not I'll buy it second hand later on in 2025.
When Oceanhorn 2 got a physical release, there was also a skew that had a bundle with a physical copy of the first as well.
I’d really appreciate them doing that again with this game and other delayed sequels
@Serpenterror
LRG stopped their Best Buy releases quite a long time ago, so don't count on it.
But yeah, you can usually pick up LRG releases later on, Videogamesplus is a good place to do that. Bazaar Bazaar is another for UK residents.
@RupeeClock I think they still do business with a few of them.
@Serpenterror
Is that so? I guess they just stopped selling the exclusive cover sheets through LRG's site.
I like Sonic enough although not die hard fan. But wow this looks great. Have a feeling I'll order this on Xmas day while a bit tipsy
@Zeebor15 - Obvious Marvelous & XSEED since they cannot publish and warehouse a couple million copies for all the people who would... Wait 2 years and buy it at their loss.
@Paraka ...which one are you responding too?
Good. Hopefully it makes the GameFly rounds.
An enjoyable game which I would recommend
@Zeebor15 Don't know why I didn't get notified of your comment but anyway, here's the article with the comment I was talking about: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/12/shin-chan-shiro-and-the-coal-town-switch-limited-run-physical-release-announced.
@JohnnyMind ...so are we saying PlayAsia is worse?
@Zeebor15 Nope, it's iam8bit and especially Special Reserve Games that are supposedly worse than LRG.
@JohnnyMind iam8bit?! How can they be worse? You can still buy active inventory of all their releases from both them and Best Buy. How could anyone who sends every release to Best Buy be worse than "ships in 6 months maybe"?
@Zeebor15 To be honest, I was confused about iam8bit's inclusion as well while it's not the first time I've heard bad things about Special Reserve Games.
@JohnnyMind I've heard nothing but bad things about Special Reserve, but they don't have the almost Walt Disney levels of marketing and networking skill Josh seems to have, despite how much of an ass he is at all other times, so they've never gotten anything i care enough to interact with them for.
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