About Freeze Tag Extreme:
I would compare this to several games in the mario series, mostly 64, Sunshine, and Galaxy. It is a collecthon, I’ve found two main collectibles along with just regular “coins”. You leave the world after collecting one of the “stars”, and you can mostly collect them in any order that you wish, except for certain event ones, like how you couldn’t race against Koopa the Quick when you chose Battle on Bo-omb Hill. Several moves like the somersault, wall jump, and dive work similarly to sm64, except that you can chain dives and the somersault covers way more distance. The number of collectibles though isn’t techinally the same amount, there seems to be 40 “stars” and 80 “star pieces”, with 10 of those giving you one star. Since you don’t leave the world when you collect the star pieces, I can say you could probably complete this game faster then a run of 64 if you’re very familar with platformers and “collectathons.” I do recommend this game a bunch, though, as it is a great 3D platforming collectathon. Back in the good, old days, we had classic after classc like Super Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot and Beyond Good & Evil. Then… nothing. Super Mario Galaxy was great, but it was also the last, awesome 3D platformer. We could debate whether SMG2 was better, but personally, I felt it was more a SMG 1.5, or expansion to Galaxy 1. It wasn’t exactly as new and refreshing as SM64, SM Sunshine and SM Galaxy were. But nevermind that. Way off topic, sorry. Ever since Super Mario Galaxy, I’ve wanted a new 3D Platformer, but no one has delivered. Mario was scrapped, returning to his 2D roots and the semi-2D Super Mario 3D World.
