It was always a pretty looking title even on mobile but thanks to the Switch’s screen it looks even better in handheld mode and just as nice when docked. Visuals are beautifully crafted, from the menu screens which offer a level select in the form of paper lanterns on trees to the realistic, tactile, wooden objects which wait in each area. To its credit, Zen Bound 2 is a game you can play for a moment and make decent progress or get lost in its tranquillity for hours on end without even realising. Each level has three target scores to achieve – minimum, medium and maximum, which can bring a surprising amount of complexity to the game. Many of the levels are quick and easy to beat but the real fun comes in the challenge of getting the required target score using a limited length of rope.

The game mechanic is simple yet pure genius, making you rotate a rope around the given object and subsequently painting the surrounding area that comes into contact with it. Zen Bound 2 is more of the same which is perfectly OK with me, it features over 100 levels each of which contains a different size and shaped object to overcome. Sequel of the 2009 cult indie hit by Secret Exit in-which the aim of the game is to paint a variety of objects by wrapping them up.

Of course, though this isn’t always as simple as you might think and that brings me neatly back to Zen Bound 2. In Nintendo’s the mini-game players frantically rotate the Joy-Con in an attempt to unravel chains surrounding a treasure chest in the quickest time possible, it was relatively fun and helped to showcase the versatility of the new hybrid console. You could be forgiven in thinking that Zen Bound 2 is a copy of the Treasure Chest mini-game from Nintendo’s 1-2-Switch just released as a standalone game but that isn’t true at all.

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