Monument Valley 2

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User Score
8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 62 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 46 out of 62
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 62
  3. Negative: 6 out of 62
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  1. memus
    Sep 11, 2018
    5
    It's still a good & beautiful puzzle game. But you can't enter the same river twice. And the sequel lost all the magic for me compared the first game.

    +The endless level-inside-level animation is mesmerising and cool. +The levels based on concave vs convex illusion also felt fresh. -I don't buy the new story. A kid and a group of elders? Meh. -The fractal drawings at the end of a    It's still a good & beautiful puzzle game. But you can't enter the same river twice. And the sequel lost all the magic for me compared the first game.

    +The endless level-inside-level animation is mesmerising and cool.
    +The levels based on concave vs convex illusion also felt fresh.

    -I don't buy the new story. A kid and a group of elders? Meh.
    -The fractal drawings at the end of a level felt unintuitive for me.
    -In general, without a freshness of the first game, this one seemed like a simple puzzle game with some uncool difficulty spikes.    … Expand
  2. Chenhanhnannnah
    Jun 20, 2017
    5
    Monument Valley 2 is a shameless cashing grabbing project. The first Monument Valley game was already overpraised. It looks too similar to Journey from ThatGameCompany. And the puzzles are easy and predictable in later chapters. However, on mobile platform, Monument Valley was fresh and interesting to its target audience back in 2014. It got overrated pretty easily.
    Unfortunately, things    Monument Valley 2 is a shameless cashing grabbing project. The first Monument Valley game was already overpraised. It looks too similar to Journey from ThatGameCompany. And the puzzles are easy and predictable in later chapters. However, on mobile platform, Monument Valley was fresh and interesting to its target audience back in 2014. It got overrated pretty easily.
    Unfortunately, things have changed a lot during the past 3 years. After the original Monument Valley game succeeded, many other puzzle games have come out to mobile platform. Some of them are bad, some are excellent. Hitman Go, for instance, has a better puzzle solving experience. But the design of Monument Valley has been roughly the same. I get bored even before half way through the game. There are some minor changes: the devs add a new character into the new entry, and try to make some emotional impact. But the game never earns it. The story, not sure if can be legitimately called a story, is told by a handful of short oracle-ish sentences . They tried to make it mysterious but ended up being a non-story.
    The second entry also keeps some bad aspects from the last game. Right after the player launches the game, a prompt says "this game is best played with sound". But just like the first game, the soundtracks are merely some ambient sounds. If I were the dev team and I had no budget for some real music, I would never talk about the sound. The last but not least, the puzzles are too simple, yet again.
    My overall experience with this game is hallow and unsatisfied. For people who love puzzles, this one is rather dull. For people who eager to new concepts and ideas from a game, this one has zero value of existence. This game is not completely valueless to everyone though. I think it is OK for people who have not played the first game and those who have not play any other games in this genre at all. For myself, I would rather erase my memory of this one. For what it is, Monument Valley 2 is just another generic game.    … Expand
  3. alanwaketan
    May 4, 2020
    7
    延续了上一作的特点而且依旧保持着高水准，遗憾的是并没有看到太多的创新。
  4. edxtan
    Nov 28, 2022
    7
    Monument Valley 2 adds original mechanics and levels by leaning into the animation and away from the puzzles.
  5. hoanns
    Nov 29, 2020
    7
    Very short, so I wouldn't pay for it. But gameplay and art style is great, like the first one
  6. tsschindler
    Sep 1, 2023
    7
    Riddles much less difficult than in the first game (which is not what I expected), shorter levels, quicker completion. Still fine but I prefer the original game.

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#45 Best iOS Game of 2017
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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Everyeye.it
    Dec 7, 2017
    87
    Monument Valley 2 is an experience that conveys the same sense of wonder and amazement of the first chapter.
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  2. Edge Magazine
    Jul 20, 2017
    70
    Despite the sheer, breathless volume of new ideas, there's a sense of wonder missing from the sequel. The well-meaning tale feels a little rote in comparison to the first game's supernatural arc of redemption. [Sept 2017, p.118]
  3. Games Master UK
    Jul 13, 2017
    86
    Consistently enchanting. [Aug 2017, p.82]
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