Honestly I think FP2 does play a part in it however it’s also a chance of people discovering the games and trying it out. Admittedly I heard about the game a while back but never really check it out until recently.

With blogs dying off it’s due to people either losing motivation to rp and / or moving to a different fandom. Either way, I think Freedom Planet is not really notice much at all and in my opinion; suffers from that especially when people judge it as a ‘Sonic’ game.