La-Mulana 2

La-Mulana 2 asks for patience, notes, and a taste for getting lost on purpose. By our assessment, that is exactly why it has a loyal audience: it is a dense Metroidvania built around exploration, puzzle-solving, cryptic clues, and old-school punishment for careless movement. The good part is the scale of its world and the way every new room feels tied into a larger machine of traps, switches, and hidden logic. The downside is just as clear: it can be opaque, harsh, and easy to bounce off if deciphering clues is not the fun part. In practice, it plays like a game that expects you to map, backtrack, and keep your own trail of hints in mind. It sits well above simpler platformers and far below anything that wants to hold your hand. La-Mulana 2 is for players who enjoy stubborn labyrinths and do not mind learning the hard way.