Vanquishing a challenge stage is always satisfying, and with the main story dialing back the difficulty, these levels are great additions to the package. These challenges take skills you build in the main campaign and test your mastery, as well as your timing and reflexes. These are much shorter than the standard stages, often consisting of a single screen, but don’t be surprised if they take longer to beat than the story levels. The main stages likely won’t push you to the limit of your platforming prowess, but the 20 challenge levels might. No matter how hard the story tries to be touching, it never quite succeeds. This makes the character and scenes hard to connect with, and only near the end of the game did I begin to feel invested. It’s a wordless tale depicted though ghostly images in the background, so the specifics are left vague and open to interpretation. Mirroring the two Yarnys’ adventure, you watch a tale of two children getting into various kinds of trouble. Unravel Two’s platforming feels great, but the swinging is the star of the show I always got excited when I saw multiple grapple points lined up inviting a lengthy swinging segment. You jump and swing with precision though seven lengthy stages in the campaign, solve physics-based puzzles, and witness a passive story unfolding in the background. With the characters’ shared thread, you can dangle from any ledge, swing whenever you want, and wedge the yarn over obstacles to scale them.Īpart from the new character, the rest of gameplay should be familiar to fans of the first game. However, you quickly learn to use this to your advantage. Whether you’re playing cooperatively or going solo, the two characters are tethered, so you can’t venture far from one another.
I enjoyed figuring out the right spot to leave the one character, then finding the best path with the other once the coast was clear.
To pass, you need to constantly distract the chicken with one Yarny by putting him just out of reach while the other Yarny progresses through the level. For example, one level unleashes a chicken that chases you.
Swapping and swinging are critical to nearly every challenge, and encourage you to think outside the box when conquering an environmental riddle or platforming section.