Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Mar 25, 2016
    70
    Toki Tori 2 is a cute little platforming puzzler that gets more interesting and fun to play as you make your way through the game. Yes it becomes a very challenging game probably more down to trial and error but it’s open world mechanic allows you apply open world thinking.
User Score
5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Negative: 2 out of 5
  1. Mar 7, 2016
    4
    Lifeless, over-produced 3D graphics, sterile single-player gameplay with no interesting flavor. It's about as sterile and boring as Ecco theLifeless, over-produced 3D graphics, sterile single-player gameplay with no interesting flavor. It's about as sterile and boring as Ecco the Dolphin or Soul Bubbles with the further sterilization of smooth-shaded 3D. The music and sound effects are so bland and repetitive, I had to disable them.

    There's an excessive amount of arbitrarily locked nonsense to memorize and come back to at the "right point" in the game, rather than being immediately solvable in more brutish or imaginative ways -- a hallmark of this "Metroidvania" style they're attempting to copy.

    The penalty for death is very low, just having to restart at the latest checkpoint, creating very little compulsion for advancement because challenge is reduced to nearly the same level as watching the game play itself -- why not just make a video instead of wasting people's time with it in game form?

    For some reason, there's an overly-complex overlay to the stages, requiring manual traversal through the puzzles if one wishes to backtrack, rather than simply having a linear set of puzzles to overcome. Moreover, there appears to be a "collect all the items" psychological draw in a game that otherwise seemingly has no compelling reason to be played, no high score list, or any other reason than to be evil and exist in the meta-game of trophy hoarding.
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