The Ables: Freepoint High

I am a big fan of Jeremy's work. I really enjoyed the book, so when I first learned about this game, I knew I was going to buy it. These are my unbiased thoughts of the game so far. Pros: - Good looking graphics, somewhat reminiscent of Mega Man games. - Beautiful background music. - The gameplay works well, starting off fairly easy, then sending you into a real challenge quickly. - The boss fights are a nice challenge, taking me a few tries to beat them. - A wide variety of powers at your character's disposal. Cons: - Lack of customization for characters. - Only half of the levels are currently available. - You can't control where the fireballs go. There are times where you want to hit a certain enemy, but they will go after a different one. - The hand blasters can only fire directly in front of you. I wish you could control the direction in which you fire like you do with the laser eyes. - I never like it when enemies in a game follow a pattern, preferring that they react to the player. Some of them do that, but a good chunk of them don't. - During the boss fight in the Beach Cave, there is a point where it's impossible to avoid taking damage, that being after he summons the mini Supernovas then uses his powers to fly to the other platform at the top of the screen. - During the Transportation Center level, the difficulty seems to suddenly spike too high out of nowhere. - Also during this level, the game will start lagging when a lot of enemies spawn at once. - As you're entering the boss fight of this level, there is a glitch where sometimes the screen will leave without you, automatically killing you. Sins: - What's the point in having super strength as an optional power if punching becomes obsolete once you obtain the hand blasters? There should be a way to switch between blasting and punching. - During the first level, why is it that none of the other students are doing anything? Why do they just stand there until they see me, then give me their powers so I can do all the work? - Where were the teachers during all of this? - During the Downtown level, why is the player running in the middle of the street instead of on the sidewalk? They could avoid the cars a whole lot easier this way instead of jumping over them. - Game does not contain a lap dance. Overall thoughts: This game has a lot of potential. At only $9.99 (though I bought it during the holiday sale) it is a definite purchase. It does have quite a few problems that need to be fixed, but I'm sure that once they are, this game will be all the more enjoyable.

Fun fast paced metroid-esque platform action with really cute artwork. Levels are not too easy; they provide the player with a fun challenge; the bosses are really cool!

[early access] Awesome game! Unique enemy design, characters all have a lot of personality. Very exciting to see how the end of development will go!

It's real fun!!! I enjoyed the book and I am sure I will enjoy the game as well. Needs a save/checkpoint feature ASAP, I had to quit and now I must play from the begging! Also, in the controls there are button to change between powers but it doesn't seem to work for the time!

As a cinemasins fan I went into the ables trying not to like it just because I enjoy cinemasins. I ended up loving the book and nearly forgetting by the end of it jeremy wrote it. The same thing happened with this game and I found myself loving the classic mega man like platforming action. Only problem with the game is the lack of options in terms of powers only doing one thing. Not sure if this is being changed early on but seeing powers like superspeed and mentalsim having more than one use later on would be incredicle, maybe dazing enemies with mentalsim and slowing time slightly with superspeed?

it couldn't run on my core m notebook, please solve it, core m should be fast enough for this game, when I play it on my pc, it runs fine and is pretty fun, wish the other map can be unlocked asap

It's ok. It isn't great, and it may be plain bad, but you gotta cut it slack because it is clearly a labor of love. Several bad game mechanics, some bad level design, but still ok enough to look past that for the price and passion.

This game plays very much so like Mega Man, and thats a good thing.

meh it's pretty cool and a good play but someone needs to make a sin video for it Reading *ding

A fun game based on the book The Ables. This game is essentially a sequel to that book, but you don't really need to read the book to understand what's going on in the game. They do a pretty good job of exposition while still throwing you right into the action. It's not a particularly inventive platformer, but there is a compelling story and the game itself is fun to play. It also works well with an xbox controller.