The big problem the console release could face is if it comes out at the same time as Hollow Knight Silksong which is due sometime this year. It seems like they’ve been holding off for the console release.Īlso because I think development overran and they only finished actually making the game two weeks before the game was due for release due to mitigating circumstances like Sabrina's hand injury. If I recall, I don’t think they even sent review codes to the major reviewers (IGN, GameSpot, etc) yet. It seems like that they’re gonna help push this game marketing-wise. We don't know who it is yet, but they have a publisher helping them out. I’m hoping the console release changes that. It’s selling far better than Freedom Planet 1 did back when it was only a Steam release.ĭespite that, it’s still not talked about nearly enough for the reasons Aperson mentioned. Originally posted by Sortable19:Good news is that the game is doing well for the devs. The game is however selling at an overall better rate than the original apparently. So there wasn't really anyone major who could call attention to the fact that the game had released and the people who were expected to be the game's signal boosters couldn't do it at the time of the game's launch. GT are not very good at marketing and Youtubers like Somecallmejohnny and The Completionist who could have given a big signal boost for the game either were too busy or due to mitigating circumstances like the collapse of G4 could only drop a single tweet acknowledging the release of the game. So I think the timing of the launch as well as the many years in development as people just got frustrated waiting for the game to come out and stopped paying attention as a result. It took Johnny until AFTER Frontiers came out to get around to reviewing FP2. Then amidst all that was also the Tokyo Game Show where Sonic Frontiers was earning rave reviews so at the audience which would be most receptive to this game their attention was more focused on the upcoming Sonic game so there wasn't really any time to give attention to smaller indie projects. I know in Johnny's review he mentioned the fact that the game came out so close to Splatoon 3 means that the attention on social media was more on Nintendo's new game, not to mention that the game came out on the same day as a State of Play AND a Nintendo Direct. The game was sort of launched as like a community thing almost, where those already in the know and paying attention who are an active part of the GT community were rewarded. But yeah it is mainly the same people consistently doing that sort of stuff. There are a small number of creators on the likes of Twitter and DeviantArt that are constantly making new fanart. For FP2, however, the whole release seems to have gone in basically stealth mode, both in official channels and the fan stuff. I'm not saying if fan works are good or bad, but they produce ripples which people notice giving the game more exposure. Just crunching some cold hard numbers here and sharing some concerns. I'm also not advertising anything, especially the imageboards, given the nature of most content posted there. To be clear, in no way am I trying to diminish the efforts of fans and their creations. If you take the infamous "monosodium glutamate" imageboard (if you know, you know), there were just 82 new FP-tagged pictures posted since the game release out of 1700+ present on site total. However, there was hardly a bump if any at all. Normally, you'd expect such an event to produce a noticeable wave of fan content on all channels, given the new lore and characters. As a very bright example, if you go to, say, fanfiction(dot)net, you'd find out that FP series has 6 pages worth of stuff, yet NONE was posted or even updated since Feb 2022, which was a year ago and 7 months before the release of FP2 in Sep 2022. For FP2 the situation honestly doesn't look so good, and most of the stuff actually predates the release. While it's admittedly an unreliable indicator, one can use the amount of fan work present, like fanart or fics (yes, yes, including THAT type of stuff) to check how active the fandom is. The only reason I ever found out about it? One of my friends bought it on Steam like 2-3 months after release, and I saw it on a "Recent Activity" tab which I only checked out of pure boredom.Īnother thing. Yea, I feel like FP2 is quite heavily overlooked, even though it's a very solid fun game.
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