![]() ![]() The gameplay of ape escape is easily some of the best I have ever played. It wasn't till years later when I saw the HD port of this on the PS4. Even though I grew up with a PS2 it was a game series I had heard about but never played. I have no nostalgia for ape escape whatsoever. You can never change a monkey’s ways, then, but you’ll never take away its sense of fun either.S tier,10/10. The new focused plot concerning a monkey dictator might be silly, but it lends the game a welcome sense of structure as you progress through his island stronghold.īranching paths and bonus items spice up the journey, and there’s plenty of variation to the physics-based challenges you face throughout its 30 levels (which, disappointingly, is around half what the original offered). Still, the core puzzling at the heart of Tiki Towers 2: Monkey Republic remains joyous and fun. This isn’t helped by the rather stingy bamboo allowances, which don’t permit the same scope for experimentation and variation as the series’s obvious inspiration, World of Goo. Completing some levels comes down to lucky trial-and-error. ![]() Some of the level design, while admirable in offering original challenges like stretchy vines held over lava pits, do more to frustrate than innovate. Not being able to see exactly where you’re placing your bamboo sticks is surprisingly irritating here in 2011, as is trying to pan the camera around without accidentally laying a piece. ![]() Time has been slightly unkind to the implementation – particularly when it comes to the controls. At this point, gravity takes hold of your ramshackle effort, twisting and contorting it in ways you might not have envisioned.Īdd to that the weight of half a dozen unruly monkeys and your early efforts are likely to result in tragedy more often than triumph - or at least the comical sight of monkeys scratching their heads and staring at you. This is especially true when you consider the laws of physics, which only kick in once you finish the building and release the monkeys. ![]() As the bamboo allowance is strictly limited according to the stage, you need to be quite wily with your placement. While it remains supremely playable, iPhone gaming has moved on - this sequel is cast in a slightly less flattering light as a result.Īs with the original, you touch and drag on the screen during a preliminary building phase to construct makeshift structures out of bamboo. Tiki Towers 2: Monkey Republic offers an identical brand of puzzle play. The first Tiki Towers, which was released almost two years ago, was an accomplished physics puzzler for its time.Īping the gameplay of then flavour-of-the-month, World of Goo (my how things change), it had you building bridges and ladders to help a gaggle of chimps along their way. It’s apt that Tiki Towers 2 – a game preoccupied with monkey business – sticks to what it knows and fails to grow in any meaningful way. You’re never going to find one reciting Oscar Wilde or taking to an internet forum to demand the reinstatement of Firefly. Ultimately a monkey is a monkey, and it will only develop to a point. You can even train a monkey to act like a human and dress it up in clothes. You can draw plenty of parallels between monkeys and humans. ![]()
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