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COMPLETE: Monument Valley 2
Aug. 14th, 2020 01:41 amWe got this one free in some promo or another and actually cleared it a while back and... not forgot to write it up; it's been on the to-do list this whole time and you all know how much things like that bother me. It's just been on "oh geez it's two in the morning, I'll write this entry tomorrow" status for like... a month or so.
Monument Valley 2 is a mobile puzzle game about navigating M. C. Escher geography. Most stages involve rotating pieces around so they line up in just the right angle and then walking across them, because perspective is whatever it needs to be for the sake of the puzzle. On the other side is a button which makes a new spire rise up out of the ground that contains more movable pieces which can be fussed with until you make a path to that button over there, and so on. There's a very abstract story (I have no idea if playing MV1 would have helped with the context in any way or if the series is just kind of like that) about a mother and daughter solving puzzles together, learning to let go/spread her wings, respectively, and reuniting, as they each are going on some kind of quest to... light up all the... things... that like, unleash the good energy that saves the people or... something. I don't know.
I do know that the gameplay is fun, the more character-focused mother/daughter development (as opposed to the vague quest they're on) are sweet and sentimental, and the whole thing is just neat and good.
Monument Valley 2 is a mobile puzzle game about navigating M. C. Escher geography. Most stages involve rotating pieces around so they line up in just the right angle and then walking across them, because perspective is whatever it needs to be for the sake of the puzzle. On the other side is a button which makes a new spire rise up out of the ground that contains more movable pieces which can be fussed with until you make a path to that button over there, and so on. There's a very abstract story (I have no idea if playing MV1 would have helped with the context in any way or if the series is just kind of like that) about a mother and daughter solving puzzles together, learning to let go/spread her wings, respectively, and reuniting, as they each are going on some kind of quest to... light up all the... things... that like, unleash the good energy that saves the people or... something. I don't know.
I do know that the gameplay is fun, the more character-focused mother/daughter development (as opposed to the vague quest they're on) are sweet and sentimental, and the whole thing is just neat and good.