Overall then Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan is an enjoyable outing. They also don’t actually change the gameplay and are very much just a kind of visual flourish to your X button. While the helpers are usable their use is limited to set points of the game. There are a variety of different helpers to discover throughout the game and this adds a nice bit of variety here. It is all told via a voice cast which is serviceable rather than outstanding and some cutscenes which are simple rather than extravagant. I didn’t know much about the story going into this game and, whilst the twists were predictable, I found myself getting engrossed with what was happening. Broadly speaking it follows the plot of the fairy tale The Six Swans, a tale of a family turned into swans by a wicked stepmother and a sister who is cursed to not be able to speak. Once again it is down to the story to drive the gameplay on and I found Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan to be fairly interesting. Having played a few of these games now I’ve come to recognise a fair few of these logic puzzles and was a little bit disappointed that the same style of puzzles keep turning up. These could involve rotating or moving parts of a mosaic to form a complete picture, which when done will generally give you an item to be used in a puzzle later in the game. The other kind of puzzles are more traditional logic based ones. For example finding a torch to then light with a fire to allow you to explore a dark passage. The first involves looking at scenes and finding objects, which will then be used to interact with the other objects. The puzzles are generally split into two distinct kinds. You have no direct control over your character and progression is simply on a screen by screen basis. Interaction is limited to pressing the X button to touch objects, or sometimes opening up your menu to combine items together. In controlling the game you have a circle which you move around the screen and you have to interact with objects, sometimes zooming in to certain specific locations. The game plays out similar to the other games from Artifex Mundi and you navigate through a series of well drawn 2D backgrounds solving puzzles along the way. In it’s own way this really is quite a beautiful game. There is also a great use of bright colours and loads of interesting movement in the scenes. The overall art style of the game is also a notch above what I’ve seen before showcasing a, kind of gentle, hand drawn motif. Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan is clearly a later game as the puzzle variety is high and there are limited instances of traditional hidden object scenes. It is easy to see the progression of these games over time as the earlier examples rely much more on traditional hidden object scenes. If you’ve played any other Artifex Mundi game then you’ll know what to expect here and there are no significant gameplay changes. We reviewed the first Grim Legends game a while back and while this game shares the same name there is no carry over in the story between the two. Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan is a game by Artifex Mundi, the purveyors of hidden object and light puzzle games. Augin PS4 tagged artifex mundi / Casual / grim legends 2 / hidden object / puzzle by Steven
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