Frogger 2: Swampy’s Revenge

About Frogger 2: Swampy’s Revenge

Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge is a top-down platformer video game, part of the Frogger series, developed by Blitz Games and published by Hasbro Interactive. It was released on PlayStation, Dreamcast and Windows in 2000. It is the sequel to Frogger (1997).

Swampy, the crocodile from the original Frogger video game, gets revenge on Frogger by kidnapping frog babies from him and Lillie Frog. Both Frogger and Lillie go around many areas saving the babies.

Being its direct sequel, Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge plays similarly to Frogger (1997), with just a few key changes. Levels are once again composed of obstacle courses the player has to traverse, which usually resemble the gameplay from the original Frogger game by having to evade enemies that move in simple patterns and ride on moving platforms.

Like its prequel, the objective is to find and rescue the five Frog Babies that are scattered throughout each level. However, this time the Frog Babies are much easier to locate, as they are usually found along the main path of each level, and instead they mainly serve as checkpoints (apart from other scripted checkpoints); if the player dies, they'll respawn on the same location the last Frog Baby was rescued.

Frogger moves one space at a time in any of the four cardinal directions (up, down, left, right) and in a grid-like manner. He can perform either a Super-Hop (single jump) that mainly serves to climb on blocks that are one square high, or a Double-Hop that besides allowing to climb blocks that are two squares high, it also jumps two spaces forward instead of one, which is used to make it across gaps, as well as to jump over enemies unscathed. After jumping, the player's frog also has the ability to Float (glide) for a moment to slow down their descent, which is helpful for precise platforming.