WT2: Deluxe+ is basically an open world collectathon platformer lacking in some polish (minor bugs). I say this because you go through the entire map without load times and there are teleport spots whenever you activate them. You mainly try to collect tears in 8 worlds in order to complete the game. You can also collect red berries (currency to buy cosmetic and upgrades), over 380 blue berries (for new moves), 27 decorations for your house and more.

What sets this game apart is the freedom to be superman if you want. Not only will you be able to jump 3 times, you can also glide, wall jump to almost any wall/object AND combine these moves. It’s a great feeling that you can get almost anywhere, ignore certain sections and break things should you desire it. The game also has some very minor puzzling with water drops that is pretty cool but a little basic/under utilised. The graphics look cute and some of the music sounds pretty nice. I like that the game respects your time in different ways. The game auto saves often aside from manual save whenever you want. There are many checkpoint spots. You will receive a blue berries radar after collecting over 50% to find the remaining blue berries when you’re done exploring. I really find this to be a great way of handling collectibles that are great in number. Let me have the fun of exploring as much as I want and once I feel I’ve had my fun, I can turn the radar on. It can still be fun to find the remaining blue berries even with it on (can be turned off). You even unlock the ability to get double red berries near the end. So you don’t have to grind heavily for the remaining items you can buy. It took me more than 15 hours to 100% the game and that’s with using the radar for the remaining few and looking up the last collectibles left.

The flaws are mainly bugs as far as I’m concerned. There are 2 major ones: sound and falling through the map. The music mixing (2 music from 2 areas at the same time), cracking and the sudden lack of music can be pretty bad sometimes. There are around 3-4 sections where you fall from the map and die (I don’t know the correct term to describe this). Although the latter sounds very bad, the spots are small, empty and unimportant with nothing in them. And because you auto save, you don’t lose progress aside from very minor backtracking. Attacking enemies is awkward at first but this is greatly enhanced every time you upgrade your leaf up to 3-4 times. This is also my advice, use your red berries to upgrade your leaf before buying anything else.

I enjoyed my time playing this. It’s a relaxing game to take a break with from other things. The bugs don’t detract from the experience but it would have been amazing if the game was more polished. I highly recommend this for fans of collectathon platformers with an itch to play one without expecting much. The €1,80+ spent during Steam sale is 100% worth it.