At first i was skeptical to try the 2nd series because of the hardcore puzzles from the last one.

But it turned out that this one's more intuitive and engaging.

Great graphics, gameplay, puzzles, sound and animations. The music though i personally prefer the lat one.

Never the less, the game is actually fun to play and i would also recommend even the kids to play this game :). Mind the puzzles though, they can get a lot challenging as you progress further.

Nice puzzle game.
Cute graphics.
Intuitive controls.
Interesting enemies and approaches to beat them.
Plus add steam workshop, just priceless.
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Get it and have fun playing this relaxing game.

Tl;dr version;
* Toki Tori 1 piques your mind wondering how to solve this puzzle, and makes you feel rather good once you finally solve it.
* Toki Tori 2+ piques your mind wondering what the developers where thinking.

* Toki Tori 1 is fun trying to solve puzzles and complete them.
* Toki Tori 2+ is wondering when it's starting to get fun; and it never gets there.

Conclusion; If you want a game where the fun is puzzling out puzzles get Toki Tori 1. If you want a game where you want to wonder where the fun went, buy Toki Tori 2+

Long description;
Toki Tori 1 was a bit of a surprise to me how much fun it was. I didn't really expect to get hooked on a puzzle game, not generally my thing. Even if it was relative simple, with a short amount of items, the puzzles were usually engaging, making you think, and making you feel good about yourself once you finally figure them out. Or feel stupid if you can't and YouTube them and then go "Oh, that was the sollution. How could I not see that?"
All in all; it's good fun.

Which makes it all the more baffling what went wrong during the development of Toki Tori 2+
* Instead of expanding the game, they took almost everything out. You only got 2(!) commands now. Z and X (stomp and make noise) which you need to solve ALL puzzles. Does 2 buttons for puzzles seem too shallow? Then you would be right, since it is. Instead of TT1 where you felt good solving the puzzle laid out before you here you simply need to do the command the developers want you to do, since there's not much more with 2 commands. Puzzles (like the frog and bubble) get repeated ad infentum. Instead of puzzling all you need to do is manipulate the environment, which isn't all that difficult since you only got 2 buttons to do stuff. To add injury to insult instead of large areas as TT1 TT2 decides to hugely zoom in. The result? That you never get complex large puzzles, but small compact instances. If you're "stuck" it never takes long since everything you need is within your small screen. It may take a small time to figure out, say, more fireflies bind together to make more light. But you can be guaranteed once you solve it the game will throw it 30 more times at you to make sure you remember what Z and X are on your keyboard. So instead of making your brain think, you simply follow the simple commands to allow the game to move you on. Away goes almost all the TT1 fun. But it gets worse.

* For some reason levels weren't good enough, so we now got an "open world". Why? I don't know. You still follow level after level, but thanks to a map which is useless and doesn't show in any way where the levels are you pretty much wonder where the heck you're going. The map/levels branch too. I have no idea why, since it adds tedious backtracking, and a wonderement where to go next. Why? Because nothing is interesting at all. Do I need to go left or right for the game to start getting fun, to actually get somewhere? Nope... you just follow level after level of pointlessness, purpose-less and boring. Other games might actually make this pointless moving forward interesting with a plotline, cutscenes, rewards... ANYTHING, but not this game... it's just moving forward and forward into a meaningless pointlessness, not even worth exploring like say The Elder Scrolls since the world while cute isn't interesting *at all*. You can also forget looking forward to new mechanics, you keep Z and X'ing forever. Environmental stuff changes, but it never really feels any different than the very first puzzle you came across.
It's not a good thing when a game makes you wonder "why am I even playing this?"

Finally, I got somewhere that I got a song to take pictures of animals. Why I have no clue still, but after I was done with it I suddenly got teleported to the useless map screen and had to point at a glowing pillar many many levels back. That pretty much was it... it was boring to go through content once, what makes them think I would even want to go through it twice? Why the heck can't that bird get me back to where I was... why even.
You know what, my 3rd Steam card just dropped. I don't care anymore... take your game. I'll go back to Toki Tori 1 to have fun. Since no way in hell will I retrack to where I used to be through the same pointless "puzzles" that bored me to death this first 1 hour.

I have no idea where they went off so badly that they produced such a pointless, dull and uninteresting game, that while cute, lacks any depth what-so-ever. And for a puzzle-game, that's killing.
Many people want sequels to be different, to not be more of the same. I would say the same. But Toki Tori 2+ completely missed the mark in this respect. A missed opportunity. Oh well, atleast we got the first game...

It does what it does really well, however i do not like what it does lol. Everyone says that part of the game is figuring out how to do things, which if you like having to figure out how to make your character do something with no hints clues or suggestions is not a problem, but i did not realize that about this game going into it. With that said i will give it two rankings with that in mind.

If figuring out how to do something, not just solve puzzles is 0 issue for you, than this game gets a solid 85 in my opinion.
If figuring out how to do things is a chore and causes you to get stuck forever than i give this game a 70.

The art is great, smooth, no glitches i am aware of..... The puzzles themselves are for the most part good, the music..... it is good but not my style, but with this type of game just play your own background music.

In both instances wait until it goes on sale if it interest you.

And you do get what you see in the videos.

Game Rating: F
Pros:
-Nice graphics and music
-Overall very charming presentation

Cons:
-Controls are almost too simple (only two buttons are used but they do tons of different things)
-Puzzles are very vague and hard to follow
-You'll need a guide... good luck finding a complete one
-Navigation is confusing and awful due to the game being one huge map, rather than individual levels
-The most unsatisfying "ending" ever

Additional Notes:
Just like every game I play, I make it a commitment to finish the game all the way through. Of course, I finished this (despite this game's flaws), and my achievements are proof of that. Toki Tori 2 just has so many fundamental design problems making it a title I cannot recommend to anyone. It pains me to see how disappointing this ended up being since it looked like it really could of been something special.

Toki Tori 2+ isn't just one of the cutest games, but also an expertly crafted puzzle game. The satisfaction of discovering its secrets is immense. I've seen it mentioned as a metroidvania, but you could call it that only in the slightest sense. Central to the game is a beautifully rendered island in which you manipulate creatures and your environment in order to progress through puzzles that don't look like puzzles. The latter really makes it feel more like a beautiful exploration platformer, with an art-style and -direction that tell you that this game was a labor of love.

Its a bit hard to start liking, because it's very different to other games, but its a great, smart (game), beatiful (visuals) game.

Great little game, not much to say. I recommend

Don't buy. It's nothing like the first Toki Tori. Very boring, easy and casual.

I was fooled into buying this game by the reviews. I love Metroidvania games, and this is not a metroidvania game.
The genre consists of a hero who runs around and fights monsters in an open ended world where progress is earned by finding new items that unlock new paths.
Toki tori 2+ is is a linear series of simplistic puzzles that center on stomping next to animals to scare them.

You play as a big yellow bird that can move around in a colorful world filled with cute animals, and you can interact with the world by singing and stomping. The stomping causes different kinds of animals to react differently. By scaring the right animals to do the right thing (usually eating another animal) you may advance to the next puzzle. If this was all there was to the game I would still feel cheated as it is no metroidvania, but it's a fun enough puzzle game where the player gets to explore a pretty world by solving simple puzzles.

What kills the enjoyment for me is the singing. It is a candidate for the most stupid game mechanic ever - basically there is a single button for singing. Pressing the button "rapidly" causes the bird to sing at a higher and higher pitch, and pressing it "slowly" causes the pitch to drop. The idea being that you run into birds that sing a song, and you have to mimic it. Here I think a rapid press is anything below 100ms, and everything above that is a slow press, which means that at least I am unable to accurately enter anything, and when I press as fast as I can I am still mostly unable to produce the rising tones, and thus the singing really hurts my fingers and takes a really long time to get past due to the button mashing effectively being random.

TL;DR cute little puzzle game, not a metroidvania like the liars claim. Could be fun for a while, but the singing kills any enjoyment. Only get if you hate yourself and wish to inflict physical pain on your fingers.

A truly exqusitely crafted and incredible puzzle game; I'm not kidding in adding it's an all-time favorite of mine. A note regarding the other reviews: the game does seem easy at first, as it eases you into things, but as you progress you realize just how intelligent and tough the game really is.

This is easily one of the best puzzle games, let alone puzzle platformer games, out there, especially for its pricepoint. The level design is consistently solid and new elements and new ways to utilize existing elements are constantly introduced without ever breaking the flow of gameplay and without feeling the slightest bit handholdy. There is an immense sense of discovery to every aspect of the game as shortcuts and hidden paths are constantly present and it is up to the player to decide where to go and to discover how to best use everything the game presents them with. The game also does a great job of adjusting to the player's skill level (or the player's desired difficulty) as there is always a clear path to take, but harder, hidden routes through the game's world are ever-present for players who wish to discover all that this game has to offer.

With its excellent sense of physical and mechanical exploration and puzzles which range from fairly easy to outright diabolical, Toki Tori 2+ is a game which puzzle fans should leap at the chance to play as soon as they can.

Toki Tori 2 is a wonderful continuation of the first game. As far as puzzle games go, it's incredibly cute and can be extremely challenging. 100% recommend.

Bought this for the Wife and she seems to like it so far.

Beautiful graphics
Good music
Challenging puzzles

Highly recommended

samus aran got her armor from bird people so here's a metroid starring a bird person, with good puzzles and really clever pacing.

Better than Call Of Duty: Ghosts

SO GOOD. the game world gradually opens up. and the game does a great job of introducing new mechanics and reinforcing them every so often. i even almost succeeded in getting my wife to play and she doesn't like puzzle games! (or maybe she stopped playing because i kept taking the controller from her... hahaha)

oh, and the art is very cute and charming. i love how silly the bird looks when it picks up toki tori. hehehe

would highly recommend, even if you've never played puzzle games before.

English: This is a very nice game. Simple puzzles with nice music...just what i like! :)
French: II s'agit d'un jeu tres agreable. Puzzles simples avec de la bonne musique...tout ce que j'aime!

Metroid without unlockable equipment. You're a little bird, and you have two whistles: "come here," and "go away." Manipulate the environment with those two commands. Impossible-looking barriers become easy as you figure out new tricks.

A superb example of teaching the player through level design.