Toki Tori 2+ impressions / a small review for anyone who's interested:
I strongly recommend Toki Tori 2+ to anyone who likes puzzle games or puzzles in their games at all. Don't be fooled by its cuty looks - the game is really challenging (but very fun).
The game doesn't hold your hand at all. It does give you subtle environmental hints all the time, but you need to you need to watch and figure them out on your own.
The game is sort of a metroidvania style open world puzzle adventure, but instead of power-ups, the game keeps throwing you new mechanics all the time throughout the whole game and keeps subtly teaching them. You have only 2 abilities for the whole game - stomp and whistle - and you need to figure out the ways to interact with the environment and with the creatures in it in order to solve the puzzles to move on to the next level. Having only 2 skills may sound low, but the game does some pretty fantastic things with those. The puzzles really have tons of variety as there are plenty of different animals in the environment and you need to also make the animals interact with each other and the environment.
As the game is open world and since you don't have any real power-ups, you're basically free to go anywhere right from the start. However, the multiple ways are either hidden as puzzles or blocked with puzzles. Meaning, in most levels there are multiple paths to take and often you won't even realize those paths are there, or you see a possible way but you just can't figure out how to get there. But as you progress, the game teaches you slowly so that you're able to figure out those paths and how to get to them.
There's no wrong path to take, but there is a clear path of the least resistance at the start. During that path the game subtly teaches you all the basic mechanics and at the end of it, the game kinda throws you out there with clear multiple paths to choose (but shows you an optional goal to go for). If you accidentally, or by will, choose a different path at the start, don't worry, the game will still teach you and soon lead you to the end of the path of the least resistance, after which you'll be able to fly to any location you've been in before. It'll be a bit harder that way of course, but still very logical and very possible to go through.
The game will probably take you around 17-22 hours for normal playthrough, and roughly about 30 hours if you go for 100%. For 100% there's a small but fun in-game reward and of course the puzzles are harder.
The gameplay is kind of slow paced (as it's a puzzle game) so if that's not your thing you might wanna beware. There are some people I've seen saying they got very bored by the game, but some of those people also have later realized how the game works and started to really like it.
Don't buy the game itself because of this though, in case anyone missed it:
Instead buy that bundle. Edge, Rush and the original Toki Tori are fine games too, but not nearly as special as Toki Tori 2+. You don't need to play the first game to play the sequel. Plots aren't connected (the little plot that they have), and the gameplay is very different in each.
