Review of Monument Valley 1 & 2
Back to the year of 2014, I was in junior high when Monument Valley was launched. It was lifetime memories of mine to manage to pay for this aesthetic artifact; to share a phone with my friend to enjoy this excellent experience; to be amazed at the elaborate design of The Observation; to be astounded at the solemn atmosphere of The Descent.
How time flies, bringing me to the year of 2017. I heard of the release of Monument Valley 2 but soon left it to the back of mind, neither giving it a try nor searching for any spoiler. It was then, buried under the ashes of memory, not mentioned, not until its launching on Steam in 2022. It's a pleasure of mine to revisit the whole series with these panoramic editions.
The redemption of Ida was familiar to me, being smooth for both suggesting the solution and conveying the thesis. Spending less thought on solving puzzles, now I could better savor the architecture of everything, especially the delicacy of DLC Forgotten Shore, which set a new height for both the storytelling of exciting adventure and the introduction of new mechanism.
Enjoying Monument Valley 2, unexpectedly, is quite another story. At about one fourth of the whole flow, I was quite confused with the mechanism behind Ro's daughter. Admittedly having sensed the improvement in its narration, I still criticized its "obscure" mechanism illustration among friends of mine. How unaware was I, unaware of what would happen in the following hour. I smelt sorrow at the lecture of the sage and got blurry eyes later when Ro practiced it by letting her daughter lead the way. It DID make fantastic storytelling about family and intergenerational tradition passing-on. Once being disappointed about the color scheme expressed in Monument Valley 2, I later realized my fault in The Orchard when the young child grew out of the tree, growing out of herself, to take up the Mantle, and deeply comforted by the maker studio and their wielding those techniques vide supra for their message spreading. It was... breathtakingly beautiful.
Pic shot by Syl in Monument Valley 2
Finding myself incompetent, I hardly talk about my family; spending time thinking about it, I am competent of judging a work on this topic. Granted that the message in The Tower was kind of elusive, which let me down for a bit, and the attitude to death is pityfully not concerned, there is no doubt that Monument Valley 2 is a splendid minigame with profound thought beyoud technique. It is... hard to say but it touched me, who long to conclude this with a quote from it.
Our shadows grow long as we wait for one to take up our mantle.
She has taught you well. But there is still more to learn.
The path will be hard. But remember, we walked it too.
p.s. Thanks lady Rosie Thomas for my looping her It'll Be Alright during my typing.
by Syl & Sylvia @ 2023-01-07 22:56:18 @ Wuhan, Hanyang District
originally posted @ https://www.cnblogs.com @ 2023-01-07
Pic shot by Syl in Monument Valley 2
