Frogger 2-Swampy
You can play old school original Frogger levels if you succeed in unlocking them. In these levels, you are presented with an old Frogger layout and have to do the same mission you do in Frogger 2, which is rescue the babies. The babies and the character you control which you are allowed to pick for the arcade are in 3-D, while the rest of the level remains in 2-D. These levels are very fun and you will try over and over again to try to get the best time on the level.
Finally, there’s story mode, which is the normal game. In story mode you are greeted by an opening movie to give you the background information of what’s going on and then start your adventure in the tutorial. You discover that your mission is to rescue the five baby frogs and this will remain your sole mission in every level of the game. This may sound like it become boring and repetitive, but it never ceases to be fun. Your mission is to jump around the level dodging enemies, not drowning, not falling off cliffs, and just basically not getting yourself destroyed in whatever means that particular level has in preventing you from winning. I mean you will encounter a ton of obstacles in your path on your way to rescuing the frogs: running from a giant boulder a la Indiana Jones, dodging lawn mowers, avoiding ghosts, making sure you’re not crushed, electrocuted, or impaled. To complete the level you will jump, send out homing signals to your children, and eat insects with your tongue. All of this may sound near impossible except for the fact that there are power ups scattered around all the levels. The power ups you find are actually various colored insects just hovering in a stationary spot. A purple one, for example, indicates an extra life. There are other power ups, like quick-hop that makes you jump faster and auto-hop that lets you hold down the d-pad and jump without having to press it. These will benefit you greatly and help you reach your goal of defeating Swampy. There is also a set of 25 gold coins with a blue outline scattered around the stage. You will want to make sure you don’t miss any of these because gathering them all will cause you to unlock a secret that the game has to offer. These secrets are definitely worth your while and you won’t want to miss them. Also, you usually alternate missions between Frogger and his wife, Lillie Frog. They both do the exact same thing, but I guess the developers wanted to add variety to the playable characters.
I do have two complaints about the gameplay in Frogger 2, though. First, it is sometimes hard to judge exactly where on the path the enemy is located causing you to think you are ahead or behind the enemy only to find out you’ve just been killed because you were standing on the spot. A good example of this is when you’re on a three block wide path and an enemy bird flies across it at various locations. I was killed quite a few times simply because I couldn’t tell where the bird was, unlike the free games to download. Another complaint I have is that you cannot make your frog turn and face a certain direction. Instead, you have to push the d-pad and that direction to hop a space and face that way. Let’s say you are on the edge of a cliff and there’s another cliff a double jump away but you are facing away from it. You have to simultaneously double jump to that other cliff while pushing left which is a lot harder than it sounds. Frogger constantly either double jumps the direction you’re facing or hops off the edge.