Adventure Forward 2: Points of Conflict

Adventure Forward 2: Points of Conflict is a Roblox adventure game created by Explode1, along with a few other users. Players go on an adventure to collect Stars and Symbols from 10 different worlds (11 if you count the post-game mission) and Bonus Worlds to stop Celesteal from taking over the world. A fanmade remake under the title of Adventure Forward 2: Repainted released during September of 2021.

Story
The game takes place after the events of Adventure Forward 1: Star Savior where the first Star Savior managed to defeat Stratosfear, but then vanished without a trace, and now, a new villain called Celesteal has arrived, and the Second Star Savior (Or just the player) has been summoned by Cyalm, since he believes that the player can defeat Celesteal.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The game became mobile compatible during some point in 2018, however, this was the last update that the original Adventure Forward 2: Points of Conflict would receive before Explode1's termination.
 * 2) The thumbnail is far better from Adventure Forward 1: Star Savior's thumbnail, since the drawings look more polished and shows a few of the main characters that are represented such as Anshine.
 * 3) While the plot is just your generic "Oh no, an evil guy has taken over your home, now you must stop him", there is a decent plot twist where it is revealed that Cyalm was Celesteal all along, with an average buildup as well.
 * 4) The graphics are pretty nice to look at and do have some more charm added to them than Adventure Forward 1: Star Savior.
 * 5) The game doesn't really lag that much, even when the graphics are set to 10, and the game really only gets laggy when you force the game to get laggy.
 * 6) The gameplay is a huge step up from Adventure Forward 1: Star Savior, since there are more mechanics such as spring pads that make the gameplay more interesting, and there are a few new obstacles such as timed hammers (Seen in Adventure Grounds) and speed pads that make the pacing of the game quicker and parkouring a bit more tricky.
 * 7) There are multiple badges for players to collect when they collect more Symbol's throughout the game.
 * 8) There are a few new mechanics to make the gameplay more interesting, such as Marbles and Batteries, and a few mechanics also return, such as the Dash Pepper.
 * 9) There are more likeable characters in this game than Adventure Forward 1: Star Savior, since each of them have a more distinct personality, such as Cyalm having a more mysterious personality, and Ulipse having a more harsh personality.
 * 10) The hub world, Sky Emporium, is an interesting place to traverse through, since the player starts off by entering Sky Emporium and are greeted by Cyalm, and the player is allowed to talk to other Points, look at the tutorial, play a few bonus stages, or enter the first world, Adventure Grounds. The more Stars and Symbols that the player gains through the worlds unlock more areas that the player can access throughout Sky Emporium, which leads to decent looking views of Sky Emporium itself, or more Points to talk to throughout Sky Emporium, and if the player completes the post-game mission, the player can even collect Celesteal's Symbol and complete the game.
 * 11) The worlds are far more creative and feel more original, such as having a world based on Chinese culture (Mad Dragon Festival) and having a world based on electricity (Battery Canyon).
 * 12) The game adds a post-game mission and there is an entire world to traverse through to collect five Symbol's from five difference Points.

Good Qualities (Repainted)

 * 1) The graphics are far more superior than the original Adventure Forward 2 Points of Conflict's graphics, and they aren't too detailed at the same time to make the game extremely laggy.
 * 2) The soundtrack has been remastered and given new additions and has way more Kirby songs added into the soundtrack and gets rid of a few of the more edgier songs on the original soundtrack.
 * 3) There is now a new path in each world to collect an extra Star, along with four hidden Blue Stars that can be accessed once you've collected the Symbol of the world that you're in, and a few of the Red Coins have gotten new spots now, but that's probably because of the new path added in each world.
 * 4) The new Bully Bots have been gratefully improved over their past selves, since instead of having to annoyingly push them into a death pit and risking being flung all over the place and possibly being flung into death as well., now all that the player has to do is to jump on their heads, which is where the self-destruct button is (Don't ask why they even have that button in the first place), and then they usually will blow up.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The main thumbnail is incorrectly scaled, with the top and bottom sides not completely filling up the rectangle. Oddly enough, the Beta version has a properly scaled thumbnail, with the entire rectangle being filled.
 * 2) The rereleased version lacks every badge from the original game, and doesn't even have any new badges to introduce.
 * 3) The Superstar Mode doesn't have that much to offer, since all it does is raise the difficulty higher, and that's pretty much it.
 * 4) False Advertising: The game claims to have countless secrets, and the only actual secrets are mostly hidden in the Bonus Levels, and some of them are just dead memes. The secret ending even states that there are 296 Red Coins.
 * 5) The game gets really edgy once the player reaches Distortion Paradise, with very cheesy dialogue, and stranger music.
 * 6) While the soundtrack is nice for the most part, a few of the songs in the soundtrack are rather edgy, though this mostly applies to the songs for Distortion Paradise and onwards.
 * 7) As stated earlier in WIR #?, the plot is just your generic "Oh no, an evil guy has taken over your home, now you must stop him", and to make matters worse, this game was released in 2017, meaning that not only was Adventure Forward 1: Star Savior three years old by the time that Adventure Forward 2: Points of Conflict released, but other Roblox adventure series such as Roblox Adventure, A ROBLOX Quest, Legoblock Adventure, and Max Adventure were already 9, 8, and 5 years old.
 * 8) The Bully Bots are just as bad as they were in Adventure Forward 1: Star Savior, where you have to annoyingly push them into a death pit, while risking being flung all over the place, and possibly being flung into death as well.
 * 9) The main boss fights are laughably easy, with Ixol being the worst fight of the bunch, since his fight requires only around 10-30 uses of the WASD or arrow keys. Many players claim that Ixol is pretty hard, but in reality, he's pathetically easy.
 * 10) The original boss fight against Celesteal suffered from checkpoint starvation, but thankfully, checkpoints were eventually added after every three Symbol's that the player collects.
 * 11) Speaking of boss fights, the boss fights in the original game are now broken, thanks to Explode1's termination.

Bad Qualities (Repainted)

 * 1) The game is a bit laggy, which is something that the original Adventure Forward 2: Points of Conflict lacked. Players will most likely have to lower their graphics down a bit during gameplay due to the game being a bit laggy at graphics 10, which does damage the pacing of the game a bit.
 * 2) The game doesn't have that much to offer like Superstar Mode, since all of the good things that it adds is upgraded graphics, one extra main Star for each world, and four hidden Blue Stars for each world.
 * 3) The introduction looks really strange, since it shows a few of the Adventure Forward characters looking like humans, which comes off as a bit uncanny to others.
 * 4) The animation is pretty strange and doesn't feel very natural or realistic at all, mainly because the animation is kind of stiff.
 * 5) There is an unnecessary amount of Bully Bots cluttered throughout the first world, Adventure Grounds, and there is even a group of them guarding nothing at some points in the world.
 * 6) The hitboxes can be a bit wonky at times, since sometimes, if you hit a Bully Bot on the top of its head, it won't blow up and die sometimes, which can cause a cheap hit or even a cheap death to occur.

Reception
The game was highly praised for mostly its gameplay and for improving from almost everything from Adventure Forward 1: Star Savior. The game currently has around 71,000 (Original game) and 35,000 favorites (Rerelease. The game currently has around 3,000,000 (Original game) and 1,500,000 visits (Rerelease).

Trivia

 * When the game first released, the game was titled Adventure Forward 2 (GRAND OPENING).
 * There were two cut DLCs for the game under the titles of Remnants of Celesteal, and Hall of Memories.
 * The trailer for the original Adventure Forward 2: Points of Conflict was taken down at an unknown date.
 * There is an unplayable Beta version of Adventure Forward 2: Points of Conflict with a few minor differences. The game itself can be seen here: https://www.roblox.com/games/20779601/AF2-Beta
 * The game is titled AF2 Beta' instead of 'Adventure Forward 2.
 * There is no trailer available on the thumbnail images.
 * The badge names were different, aside from Shattered Vengeance, with each other badges (Aside from the post-game mission) being called Symbol Door #1 Unlocked, Symbol Door #2 Unlocked, Symbol Door #3 Unlocked, and Symbol Door #4 Unlocked.
 * Symbol Door #4 (Or Distortion and Dragons in the final release) was in a different spot, and comes after Shattered Vengeance in the badge list
 * The game originally might have not had the post-game mission, since there is no badge that represents it.