"Ready. . . GO!"
- An Announcer (possibly Milla), at the start of each Target Course
Shang Mu Academy is one of the extra stages in Freedom Planet, and can be accessed in Time Attack mode. As the name implies, it is a dojo-like academy located in Shang Mu.
Layout[]
Shang Mu Academy is where the player can practice playing as Lilac, Carol & Milla in 18 target smashing obstacle courses. The goal is to break all the targets on each course as quickly as possible while avoiding traps. All playable characters will have a maximum of 1 to 3 Life Petals, but some courses will have their Life Meters reduced to 0.
Target Courses[]
Course | Layout Details | Targets | Petals |
---|---|---|---|
Target Course 1
|
5 | 3 | |
Target Course 2
|
4 | 3 | |
Target Course 3
|
4 | 3 | |
Target Course 4
|
6 | 2 | |
Target Course 5
|
6 | 3 | |
Target Course 6
|
7 | 3 | |
Target Course 7
|
4 | 1 | |
Target Course 8
|
11 | 3 | |
Target Course 9
|
7 | 3 | |
Target Course 10
|
4 | 0 | |
Target Course 11
|
8 | 3 | |
Target Course 12
|
4 | 3 | |
Target Course 13
|
1 | 3 | |
Target Course 14
|
7 | 3 | |
Target Course 15
|
7 | 3 | |
Target Course 16
|
8 | 0 | |
Target Course 17
|
5 | 3 | |
Target Course 18
|
1 | 3 |
Badges[]
By completing all 18 Target Courses, the Player will not only unlock the Mahjong Mini-Game, but they will also receive a Target Master Badge for the corresponding Character.
Badge | Details |
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Trivia[]
- The Target Courses in Shang Mu Academy may have been inspired by the Target Smash Courses from the Super SMASH Bros. Series.
- A glitch may sometimes occur if Restart is used within a stage. It will cause the game to instead send the player character back to the Shang Mu Academy Stage Select Menu and render said Stage Select invisible. The Playable can also move around this empty area until an action button is pressed to either advance to a Target Course, or exit the Academy.
- There are unused sprites of a Basketball and a Basketball hoop for this stage. It is possible Basketball would have been some kind of unlockable Bonus Game. It is also possible the Shang Mu Academy might have had a different function entirely.
- The stage seemed to have been planned to use a level creator aspect, as hinted by unused files. However, this concept was scrapped for the challenge room gameplay.