Subsequently, they can also tie their strings to opposing hooks to create bridges, which allow the player to bounce to reach high places. Yarny can swing from hooks with a comfortability I haven’t experienced since Spider-Man 2. The gameplay comes as a reprieve from the usual action games that I’ve been playing of late. I am not, and I did not look up anything about the first game to help me understand what was going on, but thankfully, I don’t think I needed to. The story is vaguely understandable, depending on how familiar the player might be with the first game.
The power behind this title is the pure audio-visual presentation of tone, combined with mostly simple-to-understand gameplay, accompanied by a touching, parallel story that, while completely devoid of spoken dialogue, instills in the player an emotional bond with the events that play out onscreen.įollowing the adventures of Yarny (now a duo, compared to the first game), an anthropomorphic coil of yarn, Unravel Two could be described as a puzzle-platformer that best utilizes two players to fully experience, but it is still enjoyable playing solo. I knew that there was something different about Unravel Two when the gameplay had me engaged not in bombastic action and constant checking of position to see how close I was to whatever objective I needed to get to, but in how calm it made me feel.