And that's all done now, so that's absolutely all levels apart from the actual finale which I ain't done yet.

Also picked off the trophy for the three "hard" solves to specific levels. One of which was the solution I arrived at in my sleep about a week ago, so that was nice.

Still seven stars to go though (1 South, and all six West) so a smidge left. After that it's just bs that I can't be arsed with, like NPC bollocks and some missed flashbacks / ancient artifacts (meh). Scraping the game's barrel, basically.

It might have eeked back to a [9] I'm not quite sure. Suspect an [8] really, but a strong one.

Without spoiling what stopped it being as great as the first game?

At the last puzzle in the set of final puzzles right at the end and I'm giving stumped. Can't go cheating now though, I'm in touching distance!

CREDITS!

And I think a good ending given everything was 100% but still some intrigue and choices till right at the end.

Last set of puzzles were decent too, finally got the one I was stuck on, annoyingly simple in the end...

So yeah, oversight, I've kinda warmed back to it - is day it was [9]/[10] territory for worlds 1-7 and 11-end game, but there was a definite dip in 8-10.

Comparisons with the first have are interesting. Sorry it's much more direct, and I think I preferred the vagueness in the first. It also gets in the way here more, and there is a fair bit of traipsing about at points.

Overall it's easier too, only a handful of levels that had me properly scratching my head for more than five mins or so, but that still somehow got me to 30h on the final clock so it's obviously done a lot right. And there are multiple, multiple levels that were just excellent.

I think I started thinking this could supersede the first, but it didn't quite hold the standard. Maybe there are rose tinted glasses in play, I know the OG died at points too, and some of its stars were awkwardly obtuse. But I think it's newness and raw inventiveness just pipped this one. But it is close, this is still an awesome game, and I'm happy to go with [9] now I've seen some good shit at the end.

If you like a good cerebral puzzle, this is very much towards the toppest of tiers, the rest will come down to the nuances of personal taste.

Just started this on PC. Getting crackling sound from my right speaker with dialogue in the game. Anyone else have that issue?

Might be my speakers

Yeah there's definitely bits of that, but then you get a run of three worlds of good shit