Absolute masterpiece of a puzzle game, standing alongside the first as one of my favorite games ever. The story+setting are a compelling and logical followup to the first, and the new group/community dynamic is an interesting contrast with the first game's sense of alienation/solipsism (I get why this puts some people off but I loved Yaqut, Byron, Alcatraz, and Melville). All the philosophical text and audio logs were interesting and emotionally charged, well spread-out between puzzles as well. I especially love the "true" ending one gets after doing all the gold puzzles, so beautiful man

Minor nitpicks I could make are the Prometheus spark chase stars were rather pointless and easy, and each level was maybe a little too massive - leads to sooo much running (although I didn't mind on the more beautiful islands like West 2).

Also probably the dumbest nitpick but if you're a completionist you have to play the game three times if you want to get all three mayor trophies/achieves, kind of rough when there's little replay value

Reviewed on Nov 07, 2023


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