Unravel 2 contains roughly 4 to 5 hours of gameplay, but there are loads of mini-challenges to complete, as well as special items to find mid-level. There is a great combination of ways of attacking each level design. There are many ways to combine yarn too, all in order to solve the tricky but not impossible puzzles that are on offer. In single player, this allows you to switch between the two with a click of the button, or combine them both together to form a strange symbiotic hybrid. The big difference in Unravel 2 when compared to the original game is that you are connected to your yarn sibling and can use that mechanic to help solve puzzles. But that’s not all there is to the Yarny influence and you can also build bridges, use objects and, later on, utilise a very special ability. So much so in fact that I found the gameplay more intuitive and much more interesting than the first game, with a simple yet stunning single player adventure that promises a whole host of extra cooperative fun.Īnd much of that enjoyment is found in jumping around the levels, and attaching onto special knots that propel you upwards or across obstacles. Well, I’m going to come straight out with it, with no beating around the bush – I loved Unravel 2 from the very start to the utter end. The cooperative spirit is all well and good, but it lacks that extra edge needed.īut other than the story, how does Unravel 2 play out gameplay wise? This story isn’t, if I’m honest, as affecting or as emotional as the previous one that took us through a family’s history, instead focusing on the power of friendship. Like the first installment, this human story is played out through ghostly figures in the background and it involves the exploits of two teenagers on the run from a religious boarding house of sorts we see their journey through the island and to the final confrontation.
There is another story to be told as well – one with humans that the yarn twins basically affect and influence as well. It’s a brilliant little adventure as well, exploring some amazing environments from stunning rivers to industrial warehouses. You quickly connect your pieces of fibre together and set off to explore the island.įrom there you are basically taken through multiple chapters (there are seven in the main storyline), allowing you to explore the island and take in a magical journey. Your yarn connection has been lost, but you need not worry because in a stranded suitcase is another different coloured Yarny. You start the Unravel 2 adventure lost at sea, before very quickly becoming stranded on an island.