OK K.O.! Let's Save The Planet

"OK K.O.! Let's Save The Planet" is an role-playing game, being the first game made by the new Deep Freeze Studios development company. The game is based on the existing Cartoon Network property, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, with the gameplay itself pulling inspiration from plenty of Nintendo games, the most notable of the bunch being the Mario & Luigi and Paper Mario series. It was released on November 15th, 2018 for $49.99 alongside it's own set of amiibo cards, the first for a fourth-party game on a Nintendo console.
The game's credit song "We're All Heroes" is performed by the internet band known as Starbomb.
==Gameplay==
As stated before, Let's Save The Planet takes heavy inspiration from Nintendo-made RPGs, including Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and the Mario & Luigi series. The gameplay is a fusion of those kinds of games with it's own twists thrown in to keep it fresh.
===Overworld===
In the overworld, the camera is angled at a slighty overhead view. You move your party, consisting of K.O., Rad, Enid, and Dendy, around the world. Each area is large and expansive, allowing for extra exploration. Along with that, each area is distinct from one another, ranging from a shopping plaza filled with familiar characters to a giant Hollywood-esque city on the back on an even larger animal. Plenty of easter eggs and items are sprinkled around each area, making the idea of searching every crack and crevice fun.
When the story in each area is completed, the world map opens up further, revealing more areas you can visit. The map itself is styled after the globe shown in the cartoon's intro, with each location being connected by a hypothetical line you can travel across. All of the areas you visit can be returned to any time you want, with each of them offering new content and sidequests.
Sidequests are an important part of the game. In each area, NPCs are sprinkled throughout who give you and your friends sidequests. Not only does completing these sidequests reward you with costumes, items, and more, but each sidequest makes the character themselves feel alive, therefore making the gameworld feel like a living, breathing real world.
In every major area is a shop branded as "The EXP Point". These shops sell costumes, items, boosts, and more. In some places, it's a large bustling store. In others, it's a small traveling wagon, which is more prevelent in Danger Zones.
Plenty of enemies are able to be encountered in each area, with every area holding unique ones that are more powerful than the last.
===In Battle===
When you touch an enemy (or an enemy touches you), a battle is started. On the left side of the screen is your party, consisting of K.O., Rad, Enid, and Dendy in a diamond-shaped formation. On the right side of the screen is your opponents, which can range from mindless monsters to compotent bosses. You get to move one character per turn, which can range from one of the four characters. The enemies have free range to attack any of your party member, even if they didn't act.
When you choose any character, a prompt appears with six options. These include:
*Attack: The most obvious of the bunch. You can attack with just a few hits or a string of combos to deliver the pain.
*Defense: This action lets you defend against an enemy attack at the cost of not attacking for the turn you're using it for.
*Special Attack: Special Attacks are character-exclusive moves that require SP to use. The SP meter can be refilled by using items, with moves ranging from physical to defensive attacks.
*Team Attack: Team Attack can only be used when two or more heroes are out on the field. This lets you perform strong moves that devastate enemies.
*Items: This menu lists all items you've collected inside and outside of battle. Each kind of item is put in it's own category, including healing items, defense boosting items, attack boosting items, and more.
*Forfeit: Don't wanna fight that tough Danger Zone enemy? Well, you just have to run away! This prompt doesn't work with boss enemies, however.
===Danger Zones===
Between certain areas of the world are "Danger Zones". Danger Zones are smaller bite-sized areas that contain stronger enemies and rarer items than usual. While skippable if the player desires to skip them, these areas are meant to negate the idea of grinding and also rewards players for stepping out of their comfort zone. While Danger Zones usually lack a large amount of NPCs, certain ones can be found in each one, along with their own stories to tell. EXP Points can be found via beating the tougher enemies in battle.
===Phone Calls===
In OK K.O.! Let's Save The Planet, pressing a certain button on the controller will activate a prompt, allowing any of your party members to call their friends and family. These calls are purely for entertainment, but add a sense of realism to the living breathing world. Some callers are available for all heroes, while a certain few are exclusive to each character.
For a full list of callers, check out this page.
===Rent-A-Hero===
In every area except for Danger Zones, Lakewood Plaza, and the final area, there is a building/traveling wagon labeled "Rent-A-Hero". This is where the amiibo cards the game came with come in handy.
Walk over to the counter of the store and talk to the owner of the chain, Renter Renter. He'll ask you if you want to scan in a POW Card (amiibo card) and bring in a helper. If you reply with yes, he'll take one amiibo card and scan it in behind the counter, making a "holographic" clone of the character you scanned in.
Once you take them into battle, they act as an extra party member. Unlike other party members, however, these clones can't be summoned for 24 hours in real time if they get KO'd in battle. This adds an extra layer of strategy depending on if you want to use them, but it makes fights somewhat easier due to the extra amount of party members.
For a list of all available amiibo cards, check out this page.
==Stories==
For more information on the main story mode, visit this page.
For more information on Lord Boxmode, a mode where you play as Lord Boxman and company, visit this page.
For information on Let's Save The Planet's upcoming DLC campaign, check this page.
==Lord Boxmode==
Lord Boxmode is a separate campaign that allows you to play as three entirely unique characters: Lord Boxman, Professor Venomous, and Fink. Each location acts as an aftermath of sorts after K.O. and the crew have finished visiting there. There are even some exclusive locations that K.O. and company don't visit. Because of this, enemies, NPCs, and bosses are all different in unique ways.
This mode is seen as the game's "hard mode", due to how it prohibits the use of the Rent-A-Hero feature, the presence of only three characters, and the slightly increased strength levels of certain enemies. As such, rewards are more...rewarding and more EXP is earned in the process.
==Playable Characters==
Below is a list of all of the playable characters that you can play as without the help of amiibo cards.
===Main Campaign===
Character	Description
 	
Name: K.O.
Personality: Go-Getter, Eager, Naive, Optimistic
Abilities: Decent Strength: K.O. is shown to be stronger than an average person.
Above-Average Speed: K.O. is also faster than most, being able to clean the bodega extremely fast.
Power-Fist Fireball: K.O. sends a large blue fireball out of his fist into an opponent.
"Turbo" Form: K.O. can turn into T.K.O., a powerful yet evil form of him.
 	
Name: Enid
Personality: Lazy, Logical, Relaxed
Abilities: Decent Strength: Like K.O. Enid is stronger than an average hero, being able to beat a hero one level higher than her.
Ninja Skills: Enid can disappear, clone herself, make smokescreens, and more.
Soul Sucking: Inheriting her mother's power, Enid can suck the souls out of her enemies.
Power Foot Fireball: Enid can send a fireball in the shape of a foot ricocheting off of things, including enemies.
 	
Name: Radicles/Rad
Personality: Slacker, Cocky, Secretly Sensitive, Boastful
Abilities: Decent Strength: Again, Rad is stronger than most average people. He can lift heavy boxes with ease.
Levitation: Rad can capture anyone or anything with his levitation powers, being able to throw them and lift them as long as he concentrates.
Finger Beams: Rad is able to fire multiple different kinds of projectiles out of his fingers
Power Poke: Rad can launch a projectile that can send characters flying back or even up.
 	
Name: Dendy
Personality: Shy, Kind, Intelligent, Curious
Abilities: High Intelligence: Dendy is extremely smart, being able to create her backpack, repair objects quickly, and even break into vans.
Object Manipulation: Dendy can reactivate and repair objects in the blink of an eye using her wits or her backpack.
Molecular Restructuring: Dendy's backpack can change the structure of any physical object, turning a tree into an elephant.
Backpack: Dendy's backpack is the source of all of her powers, being her most useful asset.
===Lord Boxmode Campaign===
Character	Description
 	
Name: Lord Boxman
Personality: Evil, Mean, Bitter, Insecure
Abilities: Decent Strength: While usually weak, Boxman is shown to be able to break usually hard to break things easily.
Flying Desk: Boxman's office desk doubles as a flying desk, which can be used in a multitude of ways (including flying).
Intelligence: Lord Boxman is shown to be quite smart...in the field of robotics. Common decency...not so much.
Engineering Skills: Lord Boxman built his robotic "empire" all by himself using the knowledge he had about said topic.
 	
Name: Professor Venomous
Personality: Calm, Relaxed, Secretly Vicious
Abilities: Intelligence: Venomous is very intelligent, judging by all of his visible feats. Unfortunately, he uses his intelligence for evil.
Manipulation: Venomous is manipulative and a master at the craft. He can manipulate his way out of a bad situation if he wanted to.
Technology: Venomous is very good with technology, knowing how to operate devices that aren't even his own.
Scientific Knowledge: Judging by Fink's existance, Venomous is very good with the field of science.
 	
Name: Fink
Personality: Aggressive, Rough, Loyal
Abilities: High Kick: Fink is able to kick her opponents straight in the face with one high jump.
Glorb Collar: Fink has a special Glorb-fueled collar that allows her to undergo a similar transformation that K.O. has to turn into T.K.O..
Tackle: This one is self explanatory. Fink can tackle her enemies via a pounce and tear up the competition.
Punch-Glove Gun: Fink holds a small gun that unleashes a boxing glove stuck to a spring, socking an enemy away.
==Locations==
Locations 	Description
Lakewood Plaza Turbo	
Lakewood Plaza Turbo? More like the BEST PLAZA EVER!!! (K.O. forced us to write that). Anyways, the plaza, while having it's own dedicated areas and shops, is used as a training ground of sorts for most of the games mechanics. It consists of Gar's Bodega, Logic Cuts, Fitness Dojo, the Neo Rama Game Center, and many more different stores. This is one of the few locations without a Rent-A-Hero shop.
Boss: Terrorhurtz. A large robotic mech piloted by a criminal mastermind child prodigy: Terrorvolt. It attacks via it's rocket thrusters and it's comically large spiked fists. This is one of two boss battle the player is actively designed to lose.
Blandy Meadows 	
Blandy Meadows is primarily the home of the Florian people, who are a range of plant/human hybrids. The town itself is encased withing a large industrial greenhouse dome, powered by gases, electricity, and solar power (the whole shibang). The greenhouse is usually attacked by the Florrior people, another group of plant people, who usually always fail in their conquest. But maybe they can use Terrorvolt and co. as an opening of sorts...
Boss #1: Grassimilian. The leader of the Florriors, Grassimilian will not let you take his new home away. He can use root-based attacks to hinder your party or evil summon vines to tie around an enemy and keep them locked up in vines.
Boss #2: Megalodon. The muscle of Nuclear Family challenges the puny Team K.O. to a fight! Megalodon has some water based attacks, but his main mode of fighting is his brute strength, including punching, slamming his fists down, and ramming into one of your teammates.
New Ankhwood 	
Welcome to the city that never sleeps...literally! New Ankhwood is a large city planted on the back of a giant turtle-like gargantuan monster, with it's insides acting as the sewer system. The city is known for it's lights and it's entertainment, being filled to the brim with video games, television, music, movies, and the whole shabang! Seems like the poor monster needs a bit of help, however. Maybe YOU can find out what's wrong?
Boss #1: The Terrorform. A large slim mech suit with two large drills for hands. This bad boy was used to drill into the belly of the beast New Ankhwood is on. It attacks with kicks, but 90% of it's attacks are based on it's large drills.
Boss #2: "The Gigavirus". A poisonous house-sized virus that feeds off the inside of New Ankhwood's monster. It attacks by spreading poison throughout the battlefield, poisoning the land you stand on. It also makes miniature versions of itself that can be popped, harming you and your party.
Dead Galaxy Gulch 	
Dead Galaxy Gulch was once a bustling western town, complete with some of the best jazz music on the planet. Now, it's but a husk of it's former self, becoming one of the spookiest ghost towns of all time. The only things that make any noise here are the rolling tumbleweeds and the creaky floors of the buildings. However, don't be surprised if you feel a little...tap on your shoulder now and again. It's just the wind...trust us.
Boss: The Entire Town. K.O.'s awakened the ghosts and now they wanna duke it out! The houses are alive, the saloon stage is crawling around, and the ghosts have possessed the now out-of-control Terrorform! Avoid the mech, attack the stage, and fight back against the Swingin' Specters!
Magmus Raceway 	
Magmus Raceway is known for it's pride and joy: it's races. Ran by Bichael Ryder, also known as Motor, these races pit a crew of characters against others in race cars races that even dip down into the village's very own Mt. Cragtop. When Nuclear Family (in poor disguises) are acting as their very own team's pitstop crew, K.O. and company have to race to stop them from getting what they want! Just try not to wake Magmus, ok?
Boss #1: The Box-Bolt Crew. TBA
Boss #2: Rockensocken + Magmus. TBA
TBA 	TBA
==Danger Zones==
Danger Zone 	Description
Danger Zone #1	This is the first Danger Zone in the game, being between Lakewood Plaza Turbo and Blandy Meadows. Consisting of Outlanders, a group of animals who see every living creature as prey, this Danger Zone is also home to a few enemies that are a bit stronger than usual enemies at that point.
Danger Zone #2	This Danger Zone is right inbetween Dead Galaxy Gulch and Magmus Raceway. While this Danger Zone contains more Outlanders, it has much more variety in enemies and decorations. In addition, this is the base of operations for Aviator X, and as such, this is where you can find out a bit more about him...
==Costumes==
Stores in each area also have a fair amount of costumes in stock for your party to equip. These costumes, while just cosmetic, are a fun way to spruce up the look of your character.
If you want a full list on all of the character costumes, please take a look at this page.
==Trivia==
*Let's Save The Planet's project title before it's final name was revealed was Project: Knockout.
*In the beta of the game, Carol, K.O.'s mom, was originally a fifth playable character for the main mode. This was scrapped for unknown reasons down the line.
*The game was originally going to be on the Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4, but was changed to be a Nintendo Switch exclusive later down the line. This was most likely due to the amiibo card functionality.
*In a leaked Twitter picture of the the game's team, two amiibo cards can be seen in the background that haven't been released. Those two cards belong to the characters of Elodie and Sparko. This sent fans speculating that there'd would be one more amiibo card wave or if these two or more would be exclusive to an event like Comic-Con.
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