Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams Reviews

• We Love IT!!!!!!!!!!!

  
  By A1PP7J8SB7U0CC on 2004-10-15
  Tak 2 is a really fun game. I have a six year old daughter who loves to play it with her dad. They sit downstairs and play it for hours. As a mom, I love this game because it holds their attention and isn't a blow some person up for the fun of it game. The graphics in this game are better than any I have seen. We have tak 1 as well and this game is even better. The dream worlds in this are great. You can travel through Tak's dreams and nightmares. This game is great for all ages and keep's my husband very entertained. The humor in this is great as well.
  
  

• Family Fun Magazine and Parenting magazine give tops reviews

  
  By on 2004-11-05
  I guess I have to do this in Kids review section. My connection wont let me under regular. My name is Lisa and am the mom of 3 kids. I love this game and saw it reviewed in Family Fun magazine as their top software pick. The cut scenes in this game are hilarious. I think that these magazines are right on the money with how well this game is made. My husband and son play this game all the time and have a great time. Anyone looking for more info on this game may want to check out the Dec/Jan issue of Family Fun magazine. This gives an accurate picture of how well done this game is. As a mom, this game encourages me that it is not some shoot em up game!
  
  

• Not easy for normal humans

  
  By A1LK8AMYVALBE8 on 2005-01-01
  Please don't listen to the opinions of hardcore gamers who say this game is "easy" and "only for toddlers". It may be easy for those who spend 18 hours a day playing video games, but for the "rest of us" it's a challenging game. The barrel ride through raging waters and over waterfalls is particularly difficult and dare I say, very frustrating. I sincerely hope your family members don't find this easy, because if they do then they are playing video games far too much.
  
  To the gamers: get a life. To normal people: only get this game if you have a high tolerance for frustration and a strong stomach for disorienting visual images.
  
  

• Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams......

  
  By A3GKMQFL05Z79K on 2004-10-25
  One of the things I hoped they do if they ever made a sequel to Tak and the Power of Juju was to push the envelope and give us something new. While Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams hasn't really pushed the envelope in terms of gameplay, per se; it did give us something new(a new adventure, new characters, new linear environments, new potion mixing abilities, and wild new Juju and animal morphing powers). This time, Tak is out to recover the Nightmare Scepter and defeat Tlaloc once and for all. Once again, the game has stellar production values- is absolutely gorgeous, vibrant and colorful, graphically- voice-acting is top-notch-and cut-scenes are well-done and played out. Out of all the platformers being released this season; this is one that I've really been looking forward to. This time around, though,it's not your 'average' platformer anymore. It's pretty much on par with the big boys. I loved it. At times, the game really makes you use your mind to figure out how to go about a given task. The thing I loved most about it is it still has that sense of humor that was in the first one(Lok and Jibolba just crack me up sometimes).
  All in all, Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams rocks! Now, bring on a third game...THQ. You've got something good going on here.
  
  

• Luv it!

  
  By on 2004-12-06
  Hi, i love this game. It is fun and my mom let me buy it because it is an E game. You go thru taks dreams and fight his nigtmares. This game is fun for the hole family. My friends and I are excited for the cartoon and the movie to come out. In this game you can play it and not get bored. The cut scenes are some of the funniest. This is the best looking game I have seen out there. You don't get to blow up things but the action in this is nonstop.
  
  
• Must have patience to play
  By on 2004-12-28
  I'm 14, and I have the orignal Tak game. I'm not done with that one yet, but I wanted to move onto this new one anyway. Overall, after a week of playing, I find it extremely difficult in some parts. It feels like they hand you too many super-hard challenges back-to-back. It gets very annoying. I do like the game, it's funny and easy to follow along, but I wish it didn't have so many difficult, hair-yanking parts to it.
  
  
• Demo pretty weak
  By A2Y2DQ6C68VR3K on 2004-10-05
  Played the first one and thought it was okay. I recently played the demo that was packed in with OPM magazine. It was pretty dismal. The game play is slow, the camera is nausiating and overall the game is just slow and no fun. I think I liked the first one better than this one.
  
  
• cant wait
  By on 2004-09-26
  I cant wait for this game to come out. they say its better than the first. i finished the first finally. this game is about going through tak's dreams. nickelodeon did a great pick with this one!
  
  
• My kids love the trial version!!
  By A2RPBE9SHX0IV0 on 2004-10-10
  They love it so much that I am doing a pre-order on the game. Sooooooo with that said, I guess its great for ages 7-10 cuz my girls love it!!!
  
  
• No thank you
  By A2CP81AEGR7S9W on 2004-10-18
  Not very good, not very fun, very slow. Much better products out there. My biggest complaint is the game has gotten any better since the first one. I rented it and am glad that I did.
  
  
• ign
  By on 2004-10-19
  ign gave this game great review, so my mom bot it for us. We like to go through the dreams of tak. it's a great game for me to play because i am way ahead of my sister. the worlds look great in this game. sometimes on my big t.v. i get sick with the way it moves. other than that this game is great.
  
  
• blackaciddevil hit it on the mark
  By on 2004-10-26
  You can read his review to no how I feel about this game. we rented it first and now bought it. I got the reviews from nintendo power and ign that rated this game as one of the top platformers this year. this hit the mark.
  
  fun- 5 stars
  graphics- 5 stars
  puzzles 5 stars
  camera- 4 stars
  repay- 5 stars
  
  Nickelodeon has done a great job!
  
  
• Whatever, Tak is great!
  By on 2004-10-30
  The review below is very weird. I have this game and have been playing it for a few weeks now. This game is tops for me because my mom will only let me have E games and this is by far the best E game out there. The puzzles in the game are cool and hard. You don't finish this game in one day which is like other games. Maybe the guy got a bad copy orsomething. The angles in the game are fuzzy at times but all the games cameras have problems. The game is really funny and levels are well done. This game looks a lot better than most kid games do. The dream worlds are great. I like this game and give it a 10. I think nickelodon makes this game.
  
  
• great game
  By on 2004-11-01
  i like this game alot. it was fun to play. we rented it first and then we bought it. my only bad thing about this game is the camera work. the game looks better than any thing else out there. if you check the gaming magazines they give this game great ratings. you should read ign's, nintendo power, etc to get a really good idea about this game. i like this game becuase you go through dreams and nightmares. i give this game the following.
  
  fun-5
  looks-5
  replay-4
  camera-4
  puzzles-5
  funny-5
  
  
• Buggy and frustrating
  By A5U0A0TJOYKEI on 2004-11-03
  I tried to post this review once so if it comes up twice I will delete one, I was booted off the system.
  
  We have been playing Tak 2 and own the game. Our impression of the game is it is very average. Me and my son have been playing the game together for about an hour a day for the past week. I believe we are fairly deep into the game. The best part of this game by far is not the game play it is the cut scenes. They were done really well and are funny and entertaining. The game does have all the formentioned issues of camera problems, lack of instruction, it is a fairly slow and tedious game to get through and there are parts where kids will get very frustrated because of not know where to go or what to do next. With that said we still wanted to play through the game to see the cut scenes and we are $39 invested into the game.
  
  Here is where the frustration started, we got to a part in the game where there are two spinning wheels in the air and there are sheep inside the wheels. The user needs to throw "Jobly?" across to the sheep which causes him to run and a platform to raise. Then you throw Jobly? over again to the other wheel and another playform raises you can jump across both and reach a rope bridge. My son through Jobly and hit the sheep but was not standing on the raising platform. When he did the platform did not drop, there was no way to reach it no way to continue playing the game. We ran around, we tried killing our character, we tried throwing Jobly across at the different sheep, we tried backtracking we could not get the platform to drop. So ultimately we decided to reset our machine and hope that we would be back into the level with everything reset. When we did this, we received a memory card message that our data was not valid and there was no recognizable save on the card. So our dilema, do we replay 4 hours of a game we are not having much fun with or do we put it down? We unanimously decided to put the game down. I cannot believe that this bug was not caught, I am not sure who to be upset with THQ, Sony or Nickelodian but as a parent this is completely unacceptable. Thanks for the $39 worth of frustration and 4 hours of completely wasted time for both me and my son. I will not buy another game from this company and certainly do not recommend this one to anyone.
  
  
• Frustrating game
  By A3HRD9ZSWGMAK9 on 2004-12-27
  Well we thought this would be a nice game for our kids, not gory violence, lots of fun, etc. My kids played it a few times than asked me to play because they were stuck. I got a little further, but then got to a place that is just too agravating. I would agree that the clips are funny, to a point, and I would completely agree that the controls are far too difficult and it is too easy to get stuck without any help to get out. Stay away from this game. A waste of money.
  
  
• Best game ever created!!!!!!!!!
  By on 2005-02-19
  This game is great. It can get a little frustrating but over all it is a lot of fun. I really like how you can change in to a squirrel, a bore, and a frog. I really recommend it.
  
  
• Tak, why have you got me hooked into your games?
  By on 2005-03-23
  Yes, I love this game so much! Play Sly 2 for four hours and
  this for four hours! Tak 3 is coming out later in 2005! Now if
  you like Maximo the poor loser than this will make you hate ol'
  killjoy Maximo! The only levels that upset me is Silverfin River, Ballam Falls, and Pomendium Gates. So don't rent it! play
  the great victory of TAK 2! I took the liberty to show you four
  levels from Tak 2.
  
  Moon Juju Interlude
  Gyre Mountain
  Skyrock Crater.
  Pachyderm Shrine
  
  The best thing about Tak 2 are the graphics. Tlaloc the sheep
  is mad and he gets The Nightmare Scepter while you throw away
  your thwark and get The Dream Catcher! Plus you get mini~games!
  P.S. get a very bright memory card! You will need it!
  
  
  
• Fun Game
  By A1UH8M9QALD2LS on 2006-03-26
  INTRO.
  I know that some people (if I may quote the other reveiwer, Mr. B.,) think this game is 'not easy for normal humans', but seriously, it is a good game! Don't base it on whether a level or two is challenging. Would you like it better if it was a piece of cake? I sure as heck wouldn't. (To be fair, I did have some trouble with levels: Rift River, some parts of the Planetarium, etc.)
  
  GAMEPLAY
  Tak 2 plays very nicely, as far as games go. Environments and animals and people are so nicely done, and the levels are varied, not like you're in one area for the whole game. The music is easily listenable to, not like some other obnoxious video game music, example being Kingdom Hearts Traverse Town music. (Forigve me!) The fighting system is basically button mashing at the beginning, but it develops as you get new juju powers and learn combo attacks. I also enjoyed the animal changing parts of the game...true, some parts were unbeliveably annoying (like when you're a flying squirrel, juju runs out and you plummet to your death kind annoying.) but I still liked the idea of being able to change into bears, squirrels, frogs, and boars. This game's graphics do the animators credit. It's awesome how Tak's moves look so realistic when he's in water, or in mud, or tipetoeing, or jumping, or whatever.
  
  PROS AND CONS
  Pros:
  1. Amazing animation
  2. Funny dialouge
  3. For once, a game with good music
  4. Nice fighting system
  5. Awsome animal changes
  6. Just darn fun to play and beat!
  
  Cons:
  1. Some really hard killer levels...I had a ton of trouble with the darts in Gloomleaf Swamp...bleh.
  2. A few glitches and bugs in this game.
  3. Augh! Loading times!
  
  OVERALL
  I'd definitely say buy it, if not rent it. It's really fun and has a ton of replay value.
  
  
• Disappointed!
  By A3K29RKCGF3WRL on 2004-10-12
  We have been playing Tak 2 and have been very disappointed in the product. The game play is slow and not that fun. We like the Nickelodian games in general, Sponge Bob, but this one not so much. You might want to rent before you buy.
  
  
• Great Game
  By on 2004-10-14
  I love this game. You get to do even more magic than on the first and this game is a lot fast er and actionpacked. The playing environment looks awsome. their are so many things to do as you travel through tak's nightmares. Cant wait for the cartoon to come out. Go Nickeloden!
  
  
• Yeah, Baby!
  By on 2004-10-19
  I love this game. I can't wait for nickelodeon to come out with the cartoon version of this game. In this game you go through dreams of taks and take on his nightmares. the dream levels are really cool. I have played this for three days now. the colors in this game are just like a dream. i think that number 3 should let you multi player but other than that no complants. I hope that this gives you a good idea how fun this game is.
  
  
• Dreams and Nitmares
  By on 2004-10-23
  This game is fun and you get to go through tak's dreams and nitmares. the screens are great because they look like you are in his dreams for reals. this game is fun and a lot more action paked than the first. I love this game but have only had it for a week so far. The camera is kind of jumpy some times.
  
  
• #1 in parenting magzine
  By on 2004-11-28
  This game is fun and you can see why parenting magzine rated it the number 1 software of the year. i like to play it with my dad. this game is really fun because you fight tak's nightmare monsters. this game has a lot of action.
  
  
• TAK attack!
  By on 2004-10-13
  This game is much better than the first, and the first was good. If you go to gamerankings.com you'll see that IGN gave this game an 84%. That is a great rating for IGN to give. This game is action packed and much faster than the first. I don't know what the review earlier was saying, maybe it was because he was playing off a demo? Overall, this game is great. Parents will love it because it is clean and kids will love it for humor and action! I have played this game for two days now and like it a lot. The graphics are good.
  
  
• Fair not great
  By A34M6IP74XG6HV on 2004-10-15
  Our family owns the first Tak and while I don't think this game is bad, it just seems a bit too similar to the first game and still has many of the same problems. The collect-fest of the game is still as annoying as it was in the first game also the camera works very poorly. The characters and graphics look better, the worlds are larger and there are some decent puzzle aspects - but it just still feels a bit slow and monotnous.
  
  
• Not such a great game
  By A3VN6A5ID4UJLL on 2004-10-29
  I don't know if everyone posting here has actually played this game or not, we have the game and have actually played it and I can honestly say there is no way this game can be considered a 5 star game. The first game is actually better than this one. This game suffers from a lot of "glitchyness" and abstract, confusing and frustrating game design. The framerate of the game is really bad, there is tons of slow down and glitchyness. There are times where it effects the control of your character. The camera will make you sick if you are a person who tends to get to get dizzy while playing some games, both me and my son felt this and I tend not to have this problem in other games. Also there are just elements that defy common sense and logic in the game that make it go from a light fun game to frustrating and annoying. For example, if you are familiar with the game you follow feathers to get to objectives, well they designed the game so that by following the feathers you will often end up dying because it leads you to a pit or some other danger. There is a barrel sequence where you float down a river that is boarderline unplayable because of this. Also there are times where you have to do some completely abstract action in order to procede, you have no idea what to do so you just end up running around doing nothing in very small areas, for example there are bears that throughout the entire game you jump on to get to higher areas, in one sequence you had to jump up and down on the exact same bear 3X and if you did not nothing would happen, how as a player would you know to do this? In essence it is just very poorly designed for kids. On top of that the environments all sort of look the same when you are running around and the bad camera mentioned above does nothing to help you so you feel lost and confused through much of this game. I don't know who they made this game for but my son quickly became frustrated and bored. There are much better choices out there for E rated game this one was far below expectations especially after the good effort of the first game. If your kids are fans of the first game as my son was you might want to rent or do some research on the internet the ame is not scoring that well.
  
  
• Too Complicated!
  By on 2004-11-28
  I have this game on a demo disc and it's pretty cool, for the first five minutes! Although my mom likes it, this game lacks direction and the controls are too complicated! Plus, it's not my kind of game and I was going too buy it. I definitly recomend to rent it first.
  
  
• please, don't rescue failed development....
  By A3C5ZFX7DLAIEQ on 2005-11-02
  ...obviously this game nearly never was.
  
  brilliant graphics, cool story, humorous dialog (especially if your a fan of this kind a thing e.g jak...) its just a pity its so rubbish:
  you've defeated loads of woodies and now face their boss. a hint tells you to wait until his weapon is stuck in the ground and attack him from behind. this you do, and in defeating him you succeed. but wait, nothing else happens, no new enemies, no cut scene. have you missed something? no. the game has failed to realise your success and continues to inform you of a hint about how to succeed in what you've already accomplished. the only way forward is to jump of a ledge at start the scene again, win and hope this hack of a title lets you continue. that's how this game runs. obviously the original developers had hoped for more, but who ever took over obviously couldn't give a ?#*!.
  
  whats more i don't think its age rating gives much indication. this is scary for a 3++++ child: scary dream monsters and a battle against them (that cant be won - even by the accompanying adult helping them)
  one to be missed!!!
  
  
• I will settle this
  By A1QM4LE3HBYJ9Q on 2004-10-30
  This game stinks! The dream sequences are terrible in particular.
  
  

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