Reviews for Frantic Planes 2

[Haggard]

Nice game with a steep difficulty curve. The first few levels are a breeze, but level 10+ become very challenging. Haven't been able to beat the last boss, because there's so much going on on the screen and the final special seems to be pretty useless (even though Iron Man appearing on the screen IS funny), especially since it blocks my view of the screen, so I cannot avoid the bullets anymore. :(

Just like CollectiveSin I encountered the "coin bug" where the coin counter wouldn't stop rising. Didn't affect my game too much, though, as I only had two upgrades left to buy.

Thoughts on how to improve this game:
- Change the specials, so they clear the screen from all enemies (except bosses). I found that the last special was pretty much useless, it didn't even kill the tanks on level 14 (and they are tough to get rid of otherwise!). Maybe even have the special remove all the coins from the screen, so the player has to decide if the tradoff "no coins - no enemies" is worth it or not.
- Introduce some graphic options. Would be nice to be able to turn off the "snow" effects, as they cause the game to lag a bit and there's already so much going on on the screen, it really is distracting the player
- Different music? I know there's the option to turn it off, but I think different kinds of music would be a nice little extra.

Overall, it's a good game. The medals are a good mix of easy to get and hard to get, which always offers a nice challenge.
The gameplay is simple enough, the controls are very responsive, the upgrade system is a nice little bonus.

Overall, I rate this 3,5 out of 5.

Frozennnn responds:

Hi thanks for the feedback hehe yes the money buy its a preformance bug that im trying to fix soon. Thanks for the feedback

[shadreesden]

The game is too easy and the magnet's broken.
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This game seems to come from a talented group of people but it has so much wasted potential.

My biggest bugbear is the coin magnet. Upgrading it - even to max level - seems to do little improvement. All it does is make coins you almost touch glide slowly toward you. As such, so many coins get flung to one side or another. This also proves detrimental to gameplay as it's hard to differentiate coins from enemy fire. One plus I will mention is that powerups are drawn to you as well.

The game is too easy for the most part. Only till level 11 does it seem to pose a challenge. The difficulty leap of the first boss was nuts though. It was the first time I died and needed to farm coins.

The artstyle of the sprites are too cutesy for the music and backgrounds.

I liked the helper units you get but they die when they get hit, meaning it's impossible to keep them around in later levels.

If you max out your Special Power meter, you'll be faced with a massive screen-blocking Iron Man knockoff that doesn't seem to do anything. I assumed it cleared the screen with a silent burst but never seems to have any effect for me.

I can't tell what the bombs do. They seem to die without doing any damage. I'm also annoyed they're not bound to the mouse (like right-click).

Why are there coins in the Avoid minigame that you can't collect? To make the game harder? 10 minutes is far too long a time to get an achievement for. It gets too boring and extremely difficult after a while.

Where are the other minigames? It's a plural and has its own menu....

One minor bugbear is that you need to collect 5 stars per level and if you play an earlier boss, it's possible to beat it before the second star even pops up.

I liked the movement in Survival. It was smooth and fluid. Pity pausing the game crashed it.

All in all, it's a fun enough game while it's around but there's too many mistakes made for me to recommend.

[Lakawak]

This game reminds me of Strike Force Kitty. Not the game play, of course. But both were games that had a LOT of valid criticism for their first game, and yet the sequel took absolutely NONE of it to heart and just churned out the same exact faulty game with all the same flaws. And I am no even talking about how no matter how many times I tell it I don't want to hear hthe god awful annoying music, it comes back on randomly every so often.