While the first game let you use a wild card to bypass a stage you were having particular difficulty with, this game does not have an equivalent option. They’re distributed generously enough that you don’t lose too much progress if you need to start a puzzle over or want to take a break from playing. Your progress is saved through checkpoints. It does have that open-endedness wherein you just pick a direction and go rather than the game picking it for you. Though yes, it could also come from walking away and ruminating on it for a bit, then having the solution click when you go back to it. Instead, the ability to proceed past puzzles that previously stumped you comes from experience solving other puzzles. The closest would be the songs, but those aren’t really required to solve the puzzles (unless you need to restart one). The developers described Toki Tori 2+ as a Metroidvania, though the lack of upgrades or new abilities or equipment makes it a bit different from other games falling into that category. Still another summons a bird with a camera that you can maneuver to take pictures of the various fauna you come across, which are stored in the Tokidex. For example, one warps you to the last checkpoint, while another summons a bird that swoops you up and drops you off at a landing beacon you’ve activated (though this only works if you’re standing by a checkpoint and does not work in caves). You get various songs from birds scattered throughout the stages consisting of big (done by holding down the button a bit longer) and small notes. While this sounds like that would make the game a cinch or too repetitive, the puzzles usually require using them in different ways. Unlike in the first game, you never get any more moves or tools to use. Whistling causes animals to move towards you, while stomping causes them to move away. Either set of controls work equally well, though I mostly just used the keyboard. Z (or A or Y on a 360 controller) whistles, X (or B or X) stomps, and arrow keys (or d-pad/joystick) move. The controls are presented through icons when you load the game. Even though they’re only composed of two notes, Toki Tori’s songs manage to sound distinct from each other. The music is pleasant to listen to and never grates even if you’re listening to the same track over and over as you’re trying (and retrying) to get through a particularly tricky puzzle. Little details can be seen if you look closely, like seeing another bird waving to you from a tower in the background when you climb to the top of a ladder in one area or how in the dark Toki Tori’s eyes will be dilated (and its body also shivers in fear), but have larger pupils in light.
There’s a variety of creatures that inhabit the world, as well as environments ranging from sunny fields to dark caves. The graphics are cutesy with a bright color palette and are overall aesthetically pleasing. The lack of explanation for anything might be off-putting or confusing for some, but those used to games that throw you in medias res with no preamble or tutorials of any sort likely won’t blink. The goal seems to be to find the source of the black smoke and put a stop to it. Everyone except Toki Tori are gathered in an Escape Bubblecraft, though once it’s launched, it just bounces around the world map.
Essentially, black smoke that kills on contacts keeps erupting from the ground. There’s no narration of what’s happening or why you’re doing what you’re doing.
Even the pause menu consists mostly of icons. As an example of just how minimalistic this game is to its predecessor, when you start the game, you’re dropped right into a stage, and the title of the game only shows up in the background of the stage as you walk past it. Unlike the first game, wherein tips or explanations of new items were displayed before starting a level, there is barely any text at all in Toki Tori 2. Like in the previous game, you control a yellow bird named Toki Tori.
#TOKI TORI 2 WALKTHROUGH WII U PLUS#
Toki Tori 2 was actually first released on the Wii U, but now it’s making its appearance on PC, with a plus sign appended to the title. The original Toki Tori made the rounds in terms of platforms, starting on the GBC and then being released on iOS, Wii, PS3, and PC.
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