Each nonplus in Kami 2 looks like something you’d wish to put on a wall — we roughly don’t wish to disaster with it to find a solution. But Kami 2 is also some-more than only a flattering game. Its puzzles, a array of colorful, connected triangles, offer only a right change between plea and relaxation. It’s a kind of diversion that pairs ideally with a morning crater of coffee.
Kami 2 starts out simple, maybe a bit too much. The idea in any theatre is to spin a patterned shade in front of we into one plain color. To do this, we name colors from a right side of a screen, and use them to “paint” areas of a puzzle. Each theatre needs to be finished in a set series of moves. Early on, it’s roughly comically easy to solve a puzzles. It took scarcely a dozen or so before we started feeling any clarity of challenge. But once a problem ramps adult — with some-more colors and increasingly formidable patterns — Kami 2 turns into utterly a head-scratcher.
But even as it hurdles we with puzzles that seem unfit during first, Kami 2 stays an roughly frequently relaxing knowledge throughout. Much of this comes down to presentation. Kami 2 looks like a diversion done of paper, with puzzles that overlay and flip in picturesque ways. (The developer, State of Play, is no foreigner to this picturesque art style, with games like a paint-spattered Inks and a paper universe of Lumino City.) When we finish a level, it folds itself into a nice, tidy, and impossibly gratifying tiny package. It’s a pleasingly pleasing experience.
As a name suggests, Kami 2 is a sequel, and it switches adult a regulation in a few ways. For one, a puzzles are done from triangles, since formerly they were squares, that a creators contend has led to some-more accumulation in terms of what can be created. “Triangles join to any other really differently to squares,” says State of Play’s Dan Fountain. “It gives we so most some-more leisure within a tiny area to emanate engaging joins and patterns. We can now have puzzles that do many things on only one piece of paper.”
Kami 2 also differs from a strange in that it is roughly wholly free. You won’t come opposite paywalls or timers that extent how most we can play. Instead, a paid elements are singular to a spirit complement and some options for a in-game puzzle-making tool. It’s roughly extraordinary how most we get for free: Kami 2 facilities some-more than 100 levels to play through, frequently updated daily challenges, and a origination apparatus to pattern and share your possess stages. You’ll need a lot of coffee to get by it all.
You can check out Kami 2 on iOS right now.