Overview
The Super Freaks' second take on Fantasy Zone, now with extra NiGHTS!
2023 was a big year for the Super Freaks. Their fourth mainline platformer, Super Freaks 1 Ultimate Edition, released at SAGE 2023 and became an immediate cult favorite, earning a whole truckload of cameos and crossovers. But that wasn't all; 2023 saw the long-awaited release of Super Freaks Presents: Strato-Scruffy, a Super Freaks shmup game from 2009 that was similar to Sega’s classic Fantasy Zone. 15 years later, it’s time for the Super Freaks to take flight again in Strato Freaks 2!
ITCH.IO LINK
OTHER SUPER FREAKS GAMES AT SAGE:
Super Freaks 1 Ultimate Edition (2023-2024)
Super Freaks Arcade
Super Freaks Presents: Strato-Scruffy (2009)
Super Freaks Classic Pack (2006 - 2016)
Gameplay
Just as in Strato 1, you can freely move your character around in any direction, with no auto scrolling. Traveling around is pretty quick thanks to the new endlessly looping level sections! Fly around and gun down those killer Kranibots at your leisure, but don't just sit there! You can rack up a gnarly combo by knocking out your enemies and collecting yorbs as fast as possible. Unlike in Strato 1, there is a time limit, and when it runs out, the sinister skeleton Sticky will drop in and hunt you down until he finally corners you! Oh, and don't forget to use the strafe button (or one of many strafing modes) to shoot in one direction!
In each level, the end goal is to find and collect the magic monkeys. They'll usually be found frolicking around, somehow completely oblivious to the chaos happening around them, though you may need to free some imprisoned monkeys by doing some star challenges. Once all the monkeys in a section are found, a portal opens to the next.
Strato 2 will contain a whole heaping of new levels, as well as every level from Strato 1. The Strato 1 levels are presented as they were in 2009, with (sometimes heavy) tweaks to the level layouts to better accommodate Strato 2's expanded gameplay. Strato 2's new levels, on the other hand, are split into multiple sections for faster paced gameplay, and contain some very smooth and fluid cartoon graphics!
Oh, and one more thing; this game has two player co-op! A buddy can drop in whenever they please and you two can team up. Don't ask me how I got the multiplayer camera working with the endlessly looping levels, I cannot explain that ungodly black magic coding in words.
DEFAULT CONTROLS (KEYBOARD + MOUSE):
Move - Arrow Keys, WASD
Shoot - Z, Left Click
Strafe - X, Right Click
Powerup - C, Shift, Middle Click
Start - Enter, ESC (Won't close the game this time!)
Move - Arrow Keys, WASD
Shoot - Z, Left Click
DEFAULT CONTROLS (GAMEPAD, XBOX LAYOUT):
Move - D-Pad, Analog Stick
Shoot - A, LT
Strafe - B, RT
Powerup - X, LB, RB
Start - Start
Confirm - A
Deny - B
2023 was a big year for the Super Freaks. Their fourth mainline platformer, Super Freaks 1 Ultimate Edition, released at SAGE 2023 and became an immediate cult favorite, earning a whole truckload of cameos and crossovers. But that wasn't all; 2023 saw the long-awaited release of Super Freaks Presents: Strato-Scruffy, a Super Freaks shmup game from 2009 that was similar to Sega’s classic Fantasy Zone. 15 years later, it’s time for the Super Freaks to take flight again in Strato Freaks 2!
ITCH.IO LINK
OTHER SUPER FREAKS GAMES AT SAGE:
Super Freaks 1 Ultimate Edition (2023-2024)
Super Freaks Arcade
Super Freaks Presents: Strato-Scruffy (2009)
Super Freaks Classic Pack (2006 - 2016)
Gameplay
Just as in Strato 1, you can freely move your character around in any direction, with no auto scrolling. Traveling around is pretty quick thanks to the new endlessly looping level sections! Fly around and gun down those killer Kranibots at your leisure, but don't just sit there! You can rack up a gnarly combo by knocking out your enemies and collecting yorbs as fast as possible. Unlike in Strato 1, there is a time limit, and when it runs out, the sinister skeleton Sticky will drop in and hunt you down until he finally corners you! Oh, and don't forget to use the strafe button (or one of many strafing modes) to shoot in one direction!
In each level, the end goal is to find and collect the magic monkeys. They'll usually be found frolicking around, somehow completely oblivious to the chaos happening around them, though you may need to free some imprisoned monkeys by doing some star challenges. Once all the monkeys in a section are found, a portal opens to the next.
Strato 2 will contain a whole heaping of new levels, as well as every level from Strato 1. The Strato 1 levels are presented as they were in 2009, with (sometimes heavy) tweaks to the level layouts to better accommodate Strato 2's expanded gameplay. Strato 2's new levels, on the other hand, are split into multiple sections for faster paced gameplay, and contain some very smooth and fluid cartoon graphics!
Oh, and one more thing; this game has two player co-op! A buddy can drop in whenever they please and you two can team up. Don't ask me how I got the multiplayer camera working with the endlessly looping levels, I cannot explain that ungodly black magic coding in words.
DEFAULT CONTROLS (KEYBOARD + MOUSE):
Move - Arrow Keys, WASD
Shoot - Z, Left Click
Strafe - X, Right Click
Powerup - C, Shift, Middle Click
Start - Enter, ESC (Won't close the game this time!)
Move - Arrow Keys, WASD
Shoot - Z, Left Click
DEFAULT CONTROLS (GAMEPAD, XBOX LAYOUT):
Move - D-Pad, Analog Stick
Shoot - A, LT
Strafe - B, RT
Powerup - X, LB, RB
Start - Start
Confirm - A
Deny - B
Updates
- Demo 3.1 (September 7th, 2024)
- Thanks for playing, everyone! Sounds like I cooked pretty hard with this game. That being said, it definitely needed a bit of rebalancing, so let's go over that for a second:
- Enemies are nerfed all around
- Sticky, on the other hand, is more aggressive, with a charge attack that he'll do more often if you keep shooting him.
- Krankenspine's fight in TV Tower should be much easier now
- You can pull up the controller reconnect screen from the options menu now
- Demo 3.0 (September 5th, 2024)
- Initial SAGE release
- 79 downloads total between Windows and Linux versions
Credits
Lead Developer
SuperFreaksDev
Characters and World
SuperFreaksDev
Kingnormal
Assistant Programmers
defnotreal
JorJoe05 (Linux Version)
Guest Characters
Eris - BUDD, EngineerKappa
Mr. Shootem - Mr. Shootem Breaks Out!, defnotreal and the Shooteam
Nadine and Selena - Prototype N, Arrietty Lunaris
Mayor Cheddar - The hit game Tacti-Cat, NULL3D
Artists
SuperFreaksDev
Arrietty Lunaris (Guest Characters, Mugshots, Super Freaks Stadium Background)
Ayleen Seraph (Cutscenes)
EngineerKappa (Powerup Graphics)
Metalefactor (Freak Forest Background)
Riegel25 (Controls Reconnect Screen)
RummySM (Logo)
Music
philRaco
Placeholder Music
Gradius ReBirth (Intro Cutscene)
X-Men Arcade (Strato 1 Picnic Plains)
Jumping Flash (Strato 1 Towering Tree)
Playtesters
AlmyriganHero
ColonelSandwich
Danger Cliff
NULL3D
Saturn
SuperFreaksDev
Characters and World
SuperFreaksDev
Kingnormal
Assistant Programmers
defnotreal
JorJoe05 (Linux Version)
Guest Characters
Eris - BUDD, EngineerKappa
Mr. Shootem - Mr. Shootem Breaks Out!, defnotreal and the Shooteam
Nadine and Selena - Prototype N, Arrietty Lunaris
Mayor Cheddar - The hit game Tacti-Cat, NULL3D
Artists
SuperFreaksDev
Arrietty Lunaris (Guest Characters, Mugshots, Super Freaks Stadium Background)
Ayleen Seraph (Cutscenes)
EngineerKappa (Powerup Graphics)
Metalefactor (Freak Forest Background)
Riegel25 (Controls Reconnect Screen)
RummySM (Logo)
Music
philRaco
Placeholder Music
Gradius ReBirth (Intro Cutscene)
X-Men Arcade (Strato 1 Picnic Plains)
Jumping Flash (Strato 1 Towering Tree)
Playtesters
AlmyriganHero
ColonelSandwich
Danger Cliff
NULL3D
Saturn
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