Toki Tori 2+
£9.99/$9.99
“You play as a plump little bird but, naturally, you cannot actually fly” Requirements Learn more Available from
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This game is a great way to wind down your working day and chill out – you can even play it one-handed for maximum loafing factor. Unlike most games, you’re not told what to do or even what the controls are – you’re just dumped in a forest and must proceed on your merry way by interacting with the various creatures that you meet. You play as a plump little bird but, naturally, you cannot actually fly (that would kind of defeat the object of the entire game) and you can barely jump. But all is not lost. By doing pathetic little stomp or chirping actions you can either scare creatures away from you or attract them to you, transforming them into handy objects to help you scale the terrain.
So, while you can easily hop up little steps, larger ones need logic to overcome, which is where the other woodland creatures come in. For example, you can manipulate hermit crabs to plug Mac App Store
gaps and sacrifice small bugs to frogs so that they belch out a bubble to entrap you and gently elevate you to previously inaccessible areas. You can even employ other birds to carry things for you as long as you keep them close by constantly chirp a-cheeping.
Dotted throughout the levels are collectibles to pick up and you can also learn ‘Melodies’ to chirp (long-pressing Space for a longer note and tapping it for short notes) that enable you to use a camera to take images of the creatures and items of interest along the way (for an album that is accessible from the pause screen), view the world map, fast-travel, reveal the direction of unclaimed collectibles and restart the last checkpoint.
Although it looks like it’s aimed at a younger audience, the sharp challenge of the puzzles means that anyone who enjoys problem solving will enjoy it. Cute, but mentally strenuous.