So this Saturday on Twitch at 2 PM I am streaming "Toki Tori 2", a game from 2013 that looks like an iPhone game for kids and currently retails for $1.50 on Steam but which I am assured by seemingly everyone who's played it is actually a deep puzzle game with revelatory design that achieves that game designer's holy grail: a Metroidvania where the "keys" are made out of the player's knowledge of the game itself. I'm very curious what this turns out to mean.
Watch at: https://twitch.tv/mcc111
@mcc wait, REALLY? Oh shit. People have poked me to try it for years, but I kept thinking it was just, more Toki Tori, which was super cute but really just a block pusher.
Dang. Ok. Yep. Grabbing that, thanks!
@glassbottommeg Yeah, Toki Tori 2 is totally different from Toki Tori 1, I haven't started Toki Tori 2 yet (and am trying to go into tomorrow knowing as little as possible) but I know that Toki Tori 2 doesn't even have the same controls/verbs. I saw someone theorize that when they finished making the HD remasters of Toki Tori 1 they were like "hey, you know what game we really SHOULD have made with these assets?"
They are both well regarded but apparently for different reasons.
@mcc @glassbottommeg I would second everything you’ve said about Toki Tori 2. From a gameplay perspective it is as good and creative as you’ve heard. I hope you enjoy it (and the hype is not too high)
