It's all very reminiscent of the Wii and Wii U title Art of Balance, where you use the Wii remote to delicately stack blocks in a small zen garden. If you want, you can finish levels with about 70% completion, allowing you to speed through the game, but giving a compelling reason to return later. If you want to go for 100% on each level, you'll be here for a while finding the optimum routes through, but it's not necessary. And that's before you take into consideration where you started.
Soon notches jutting out of the objects and crevasses hiding a nail that you need to get to will dictate the angle you must approach them from. Often the shape of objects will prevent you from simply wrapping the rope around and being done with it, even though that's certainly how things start out. The shape of the objects, and the nails you must touch in the levels where those are relevant, greatly changes how you'll go about completing the challenges.
It reminded me of the chest unwrapping minigame in 1-2-Switch, but much more intricate, requiring a delicate touch instead of pushing you to rush to victory. You basically have to angle your rope by twisting the Jo圜on in your hand, and there's a decent amount of challenge involved, especially when you're trying to wrap the rope in a specific fashion in order to maximise your progress. Painting a certain percentage of the object will allow you to continue, but of course you have limited rope, and getting a higher percentage will give you a better score. The game starts with a basic paint mode, where the object you contort will be painted by the rope covering it. The game is also on mobile, but using the Jo圜on's gyro features to twist ropes without having to angle your phone around gives the game a wonderful new lease of life. It's such a simple concept, but in practice it manages to be both relaxing and engaging. In Zen Bound 2, all you need to do is wrap string or rope around wooden structures in a neat or specific way, covering a certain amount of the object or touching certain nails that are protruding from it. Which is why Zen Bound 2 is actually a wonderful game to pick up for Nintendo Switch. Things can change fast in the gaming space, and those motion controlled games that were so prevalent in that era are, well, few and far between now. Remember the Wii U's death only two years ago? Wow. Remember the Wii's launch ten years ago? Wow. Over the last decade, novelties have risen to power, and then died a death in the gaming space.
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