Coming from NEXT Studios and META Publishing, Biped 2 is a charming sequel to the 2020 co-op action adventure title. Play solo or in up to 4 players co-op to save the day again by exploring an unknown planet and solving puzzles by utilizing the game’s innovative mechanics. Biped 2 demo is available now, with players having a chance to return to the adventures of Aku and Sila as they seek to reactivate all the beacons on an unknown planet like the real bipedal superheroes they are.
Whether you are playing alone or with friends, Biped 2 offers an unforgettable fun as you work your way through the levels: pressing buttons, soaring through the skies, grappling onto ledges, or timing your hasty waddle through the turning tiles and around moving logs.
Using a gamepad provides a better level of control, though I still recommend trying your hand at the mouse controls – it is quite fun attempting to wrangle your little biped robot to answer your commands, and falling short just because your hands are not used to it.
The demo offers seven levels: the prologue tutorial that will teach you the bare minimum such as how to move your little robot’s legs, slide around, interact with buttons and chests, and more, followed by six gorgeous levels.
Biped 2 features a bright world with diverse locations, all of them charming to the max. Between warm, bright colors, and cute sounds produced by the robots themselves, the game immediately evokes the endearing atmosphere that draws you in, and makes you want to play more, and more, and see what’s next.
The characters’ and the surroundings’ animations only add to it, with bipeds flailing their little legs or falling down with a little frowning emoji while letting out soft sounds of distress. Similarly, the game’s music is a soft ambience that doesn’t take away from your adventure and does an admirable job of filling the moments of silence without being distracting or annoying.
On your adventure, you will stumble across the coins scattered through the levels. Sometimes collecting them is quite easy, other times it requires some exploration or going out of your way through a series of puzzles. You can use them to customize your characters’ looks with a variety of cute items such as glasses and hats – being that playable characters are literally heads on legs, that is as far as you can go at the moment.
What is the gameplay process like in case you haven’t played the first Biped?
You play as a little biped robot out on a big quest. Having saved Earth, you have received a strange signal from a faraway planet with someone calling out for help. Now, you land on a planet with a mission to reactivate beacons and save it from distress.
However, it just might be more fun and more complicated than it sounds: in order to reach the beacon, you will have to overcome a number of challenges, starting with learning to control your legs. That’s right, you have a separate control over your robot’s left and right leg… and that’s about it, because it’s all legs, really.
From cautious walking to swift sliding, you will move to simpler puzzles such as interacting with a button or pulling a lever and carefully navigating your way to your goal. But, as you proceed, the challenges will become more complex – and fun – as well.
Soon, you will learn how to use a glider to soar in the skies or employ a grappling hook to conquer ledges and breaks. You will also run into challenges that require you to match the requirements: stand on one leg, now switch to both, press the buttons in the correct order to proceed, avoid being shot by the turrets or getting blown off your narrow path in the air, toss the energy blocks to provide enough power to open the gates, catch little elemental beings and bring them to the corresponding zones, and more.
While the basis of the game simply requires you to control two legs, the developers have gone out of their way to introduce diverse challenges and puzzles to make sure no moment is like any other and prevent the gameplay from feeling monotonous or repetitive.
Biped 2 is really meant to be played with friends. It is an incredibly fun experience solo, but adding extra interaction with others will explode the overall level of enjoyment you can get from it. It will change the overall approach to how to solve puzzles as, for example, instead of spawning energy blocks and rushing into the correct point to be able to transfer them into the required zone, you will be able to rely on your friend to do a portion of this task.
Or, for something like catching little lights and delivering them to the respective cages, you will be able to pass them from one to another instead of herding and nudging and tossing all the way through on your own.
Also, it gives you bragging rights when your friend gets knocked off by a random rolling log or falls off a ledge while you manage to clear the obstacles.
Biped 2 takes the approach of fun challenge over repetitive and monotonous puzzles from its predecessor, but makes it bigger and better and more diverse. It is a perfect game to spend a few evenings in, overcoming little puzzles with your friends.
Don’t just take my words for granted, check out the Biped 2 demo for yourself, now available on Steam for free.
