Flat Kingdom Paper's Cut Edition

Cute 2d platformer with a lot of personality. Love the artwork in this game. Gameplay is fairly simple, and although a few of the controls are clunky, its still fairly easy to pick up. The story is pretty short and I'd hope to see a game similar to this with more depth from the publisher in the future.

This game is made out of paper, but it's a decent sheet of paper and the art style of this paper is the main feature of this paper game.

Fun and charming little game. Can be rough in some ways but it's an enjoyable and short game. Most of my complaints are about it making you redo levels sometimes and the bosses can be a bit boring. Still worth a play I'd say.

Flat Kingdom is a 2D platformer. The objective of the game is to recover the jewels and stop the evil Square King from destroying your Flat Kingdom.

Gameplay-wise, you must use a controller. The keyboard is just too difficult while you have to change shapes. On top of the jump button, you have 3 shapes to change into; Square, Triangle and Circle. They match the PlayStation controller. The function in a transitive loop, Square> Triangle >Circle>Square. The enemies appear in one of those 3 shapes and you beat them in the above order.

Square. Slow, strong and hard to move
Triangle. Fast, pointy and spinney
Circle. Jumpy, floaty and glidey

Conclusion, do try Flat Kingdom. The game is far too short for much value and you will get annoyed with the shape changing but it's a decent game.

There is a game breaking bug in the final boss fight. Its been a known issue for over 2 years now. I wish I would have known this in the first place because I wouldn't have wasted my time playing through the game just for that. if it weren't for that, it would have been a slightly above mediocre game. It does some needless padding to the gameplay especially towards the end but I would probably just pass this game up even on sale. It doesn't look like the dev is going to fix this issue.

TL;DR - A decent game brought down a lot by the poor combat mechanics.

Flat Kingdom's simultaneous strength and weakness is in its three different forms your hero can take - Circle, Triangle, and Square. Each of these forms has their own abilities and purposes, but they are forced into a unintuitive rock-paper-scissors combat system where you must quickly remember which shape beats which in order to deal or avoid damage. This is further complicated by some enemies and projectiles not being clearly defined as one shape or another. The game really could have used some kind of mnemonic for the combat system, because you frequently don't have the time to glance at the "shape guide," an optional animated UI element showing the rock-paper-scissors hierarchy.

The game is a collectathon, but not to the extent that you stress out, and it's entirely optional - the coins you collect only go towards extending your max health, and the items you collect for NPCs do the same, so you can opt out to challenge yourself if you like. The game also makes it clear that you won't be able to get every collectible in a level until you return with more abilities, so you can just play through without being needled by your OCD. Adding to the replay value, the game actually changes enemy layouts and attack patterns as you change difficulty levels, although I'm not sure they got playtested as much as they needed.

In fact, a number of things in the game needed more playtesting. Several levels have jumps that are just barely possible, jumping while dashing up a wall will lodge you in it, you can simultaneously die and defeat a boss, bosses either don't telegraph their moves or have the same tell for multiple moves, some of the final boss' attacks actually can't be dodged, one boss will moonwalk out of the fight so that you'll have to restart, and some things don't reset properly when you respawn at a checkpoint.

One thing I would like to note is that the artbook is mostly just what appears in the final game, and a decent chunk of it appears to be Google Translated, so if you're getting the DLC, do it for the soundtrack (which is pretty good).

I am extremely disappointed that I don't love this game:

Pros:
- Cute and unique art style
- Interesting game mechanic ideas

Cons:
- Controls are very slow and awkward to use
- Game mechanics were executed poorly

I really believe this game had a lot of potential but the poor execution of the main mechanics really killed the experience for me. On another note, the pricing of this game is fairly reasonable so if you are not too bothered by awkward controls, this game may be worth your time and money.

This is a game that isn't that popular, but this is a good game. It has interesting art styles and interesting story lines. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to play a game that plays oddly but familiar.

Cute graphics but not so great at different resolutions. Gets really boring really fast. Annoying puzzles.

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Sorry devs, but I just can't recommend this game.

On the bright side, the tone and art direction are pleasant (although graphical quality is extremely uneven). Gameplay-wise, the game seems to be inspired by Trine, and carries a bit of its charm.

The rest is unfortunately not worthwhile.
- not yet fun after half an hour of play
- character controls are sluggish and unpolished
- insanely heavy handholding
- game pacing is slow and constantly interrupted
- very weak narrative immersion
- generic music and setting

I think the worst is that gameplay concepts are completely arbitrary and unjustified narratively. For instance, the main mechanic of the game is about switching between three shapes (circle, triangle and square). Once you are in the right shape, simply touching an enemy will destroy it. This feels really dumb. A rabbit is jumping towards you and you're a circle? Oh man, you're in trouble! But if you're a triangle, the rabbit instantly vanishes by barely touching you ... poof. Reeeeally?? In what kind of fantasy is this cool and immersive? Similarly, the game requires of you to understand that this or that object is associated with a square or circle or triangle. So you are expected to know that a moose is a square (or whatever they thought a moose is, I can't recall). Anyways, none of this resulted in a fun and immersive experience for me.

So yeah, I stopped playing after half an hour because I was not having any fun and I kept being underwhelmed by the game. If like me, you need a game to engage you quickly otherwise you give up on it and go look elsewhere for entertainment, I strongly discourage you from buying this game.

A good platformer with fitting music, some annoying enemies and a lot of frustration for people like me who suck at platforming.

Sometimes you aren't sure where to go and especially the time challenge bits with rising lava are frustrating as hell when you fail a jump once and have to do everything all over again. The bosses offer quite a challenge with the exception of the final boss for no apparent reason which was kind of a letdown.
A meh story but fun worlds which are all different in appearance make for an inviting look and fun platforming, defintely worth playing.

Good platformer. If you played this game or a demo before the paprer's cut edition and didn't like it, you should give it another chance because the game is much better now.
It combines the feeling of an action platformer and a puzzle platformer.
It has some gameplay mechanics that translates into a very interesting gameplay dynamics: Flat can transform into 3 shapes, each shape has different properties and different ways to interact with the world. Most of them are very intuitive and provides some depth while still being simple.
Also, some times its visual style is outstanding.
Unfortunately the first levels feels a little unpolished, but after beating them the game is pretty good.

Flat Kingdom Paper's Cut Edition or FKPCE or maybe Flat Kingdom, whatever the name, it’s a side scrolling, platformer made by an indie developer by the name of Fat Panda Games. Upon first glance at the game, the Paper Mario series might spring to mind. You wouldn’t be completely wrong on thinking that, the games does share several features of the Paper Mario games, but not many. The graphical style has the paper-made-world idea set out pretty well and the music fits well with each stage, feeling cheery when traversing the colourful world and dangerous when fighting against bosses.

Mechanically however, the game doesn’t quite hit the spot. The idea of transforming between different shapes to fight off the varies enemies is a nice idea and fairly unique at that. The puzzles are fairly easy but are a welcome challenge to help players get to grips with the shape transformations. On the other hand there can be some fairly pointless puzzles that seem to serve no real purpose, and some sort of expect you to understand what the developer was thinking to solve them. Also on the rare occasion you can find enemies that you think were square, for example, only to realize they’re actually circular and you just wasted one of your precious hearts. Boss battles are another thing that seems to be on the iffy side. It takes several attempts to figure out what to do, if you can work it out at all, and you sometimes have to be in the mind of the developer to fully understand what’s supposed to happen.
I’ll give the developers credit though, their enemy dies are fairly different, including the bosses. Triangular rats, spherical fish and a killer whale called Hank.
The various stages are all thematically different ranging from cardboard caverns to volcanoes of paper (God knows how that works).

Flat Kingdom is fun game that tries too hard at some junctures but at the same time feels unique. The art style is very reminiscent of the Paper Mario series and it’s great. The mechanics are iffy at times but for the most part they work in the games favor. Overall I’d recommend playing Flat Kingdom even if it’s for a quick platforming fix. It’s different and fun and well worth a look. Good Day!

Finished it. Pretty darn boring, the boss battles are the lowest lowpoint. Maybe ok for small children, but even little kids would get bored by the second boss. To me, this is a good example of poor level design.

It's not without its flaws, but this is an entertaining and pretty platformer with a large number of bosses and secrets.

Amazing game, really good music, gameplay and graphics! I give it a 8.5/10 I would totally recomend to any indie fans!

Well the game still can be improved in some aspects but is really fun for people who like plattform, i reccomend it, good job and keep updating it because this game can be better with some more checkpoints, explanations and some few fixes

Excelent game, really amazed by you guys. I saw your interview in "TOKEN PODCAST", That's how I found this game. The only thing I haven't liked so far is the fact that the text of the dialogue boxes cuts off when the button "E" appears and you can't read the whole thing, which are really entretaining.

THANK YOU!

Likes:

- fantastic artwork and atmosphere
- unique concept
- fun gameplay
- challenging, but not overbearingly so

Dislikes:

- dying can set you back quite far, if you haven't hit a checkpoint in a while

Conclusion:

Flat Kingdom is a very fun platformer with some unique gameplay mechanics that set it apart from the pack. Definitely recommended. I live-streamed my first hour playing the game, which you can watch here: https://youtu.be/ZhvAoQ9vQNA

I played this game up to the first boss battle, for the price it isn't a bad little game. Check out my video to kind of see what it's about before spending your money if you aren't sure. https://youtu.be/1yXMh-bvbV0