Barely a game – Monument Valley 2 Review

Monument valley is a fantastic work of art with anemic procedural puzzles and a boring overly opaque story. The puzzles are so easy that I hesitate to even call them puzzles. They are just too simple and one dimensional. There’s no way to complete the steps in the wrong order which means that you just move pieces around until you find the next configuration to make progress. The simple style of puzzle is made worse because most of the time spent in the app is just clicking somewhere on the screen and watching the little character move to that location. Then you beat the level and have to watch a slow montage, then another slow montage to advance to the next level. I think it’s particularly disappointing because the design of the world and the isometric perspective tricks required to solve some of the levels are so compelling. It’s just way too easy and requires almost no discovery or thought to solve 95% of the levels. After spending an afternoon to finish the game I find myself hoping that there will be another installment that’s more of a puzzle game and less of a point and click story app.
Review by climberwannabe on Monument Valley 2.