Shang Mu Academy

"Ready. . . GO!"

- An Announcer (possibly Milla), at the start of each Target Course

Shang Mu Academy
Game	Freedom Planet
Playable as	Sash Lilac Carol Tea Milla Basset
Theme

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 A Simple Layout	5	3
	Target Course 2 A little more Complex	4	3
	Target Course 3 1st Course with Jump Springs	4	3
	Target Course 4 1st Course with Spikes	6	2
	Target Course 5 1st Course with Spike Pillars	6	3
	Target Course 6 A High-Speed Layout	7	3
	Target Course 7 1st Course with Moving Platforms	4	1
	Target Course 8 Several Moving Platform	11	3
	Target Course 9 A Maze Layout	7	3
	Target Course 10 Spikes No Life Petals	4	0
	Target Course 11 Mostly Jump Springs	8	3
	Target Course 12 Floating Loops	4	3
	Target Course 13 Precision Jumping Narrow Platforms	1	3
	Target Course 14 Inside of a Big Loop	7	3
	Target Course 15 Layout Spells "GO FOR IT!"	7	3
	Target Course 16 Ladders Spikes No Life Petals	8	0
	Target Course 17 Three Deep Half-Pipes	5	3
	Target Course 18 An Extended Layout	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
	Target Master (Lilac) Clear all target rooms in Shang Mu Academy as Lilac. Target Master (Carol) Clear all target rooms in Shang Mu Academy as Carol. Target Master (Milla) Clear all target rooms in Shang Mu Academy as Milla.

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.

Gallery

Carol in Target Course 4 of Shang Mu Academy

Lilac in a Shang Mu Academy Restart Glitch

An Unused BasketBall Hoop . . .

. . . along with an Unused Basketball