History VideoGame / MonumentValley2

* MeaningfulName:

* ShoutOut: To the old game in the level IV, where one of the crow people is depicted in statue form.

* MonochromeApparition: Averted. The ghosts Ro talks to are colored teal and purple.

* RiteOfPassage: In level XIII, [[spoiler:Ro's daughter creates the first piece of three dimensional sacred geometry seen in the game, and later on the mountain top, she takes her place among her mother and their ancestors to create more sacred geometry]].

* RiteOfPasaage: In level XIII, [[spoiler:Ro's daughter creates the first piece of three dimensional sacred geometry seen in the game, and later on the mountain top, she takes her place among her mother and their ancestors to create more sacred geometry]].

* RidingIntoTheSunset: [[spoiler: Ro and her daughter take their places on a mountain with their ancestors as they all create their own sacred geometry]]

** The proper name of level XIV is Mirador, which means 'lookout' in Spanish. This name makes a lot of sense, as the final stage of the game takes place [[spoiler:on a mountain top, looking out over Monument Valley"]].

* MeaningfulName: The proper name of level IX is Mên-an-Tol. This is based off the standing stones of the same name located in Cornwall, England. The name means ''the hole stone''. It could be that the recursiveness of the level is like gazing infinitely into the hole of the stone.

* UndergroundCity: At the end of level II, Ro and her daughter descend into the ruins of what might have once been an underground civilization in order to collect the lights that become sacred geometry.

* WhamShot: In Level XII, Ro's young daughter enters a door in the leaves of one of the trees in the orchard. Slots appear in the wall, and when the player drags them, the room opens up, exposing the tree to light. [[spoiler:The tree grows, a pod blooms out of the top of it, and from it, Ro's daughter emerges, now fully grown]].

** Ro and her [[spoiler:grown]] daughter stand at the top of the mountain, and their sacred geometry floats in their air among that of their ancestors.

* InteractiveFiction: In every level where a character weaves impossible geometry, the pattern is determined by the swipes the player makes. They can be remade every time you play that level, and appear in the level select screen afterwards.

* HeroicMime: Ro and her daughter never speak, but do share tender moments, such as hugs each time they [[spoiler:reunite after being separated]].

* CoolGate: At the end of level VIII, Doortem turns sideways, and [[spoiler:opens its mouth, revealing a glowing portal that can transport Ro to other places, and even other times]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Ro and her daughter bow before the sacred geometry they've created.]]

* LivingStatue: [[spoiler:The Doortem]]. The only difference is that it's colored bright blue and pink compared to the lifeless blue-grey statues, or the blue and yellow Totem before it.

* {{Hammerspace}}: Ro [[spoiler: and later on, her daughter,]] can pull her comically large hat out of thin air.

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: [[spoiler:After level VI, Ro's daughter leaves, and you spend the next four levels just playing as Ro. Then, at the end of level X, the story goes back, this time to Ro's daughter's perspective after her departure.]]

* BagOfHolding: Early on in the game, Ro produces a large round hat in which many small lights can be contained. When those lights are released, Ro can sculpt them into pieces of impossible geometry. Later on [[spoiler:when Ro and her daughter part ways, Ro's daughter gets her own hat.]]

* CoolGate: At the end of level VIII, Doortem turns sideways, and [[spoiler:opens its mouth, revealing a glowing portal that can transport Ro to other places, and even other times.]]

* Hammerspace: Ro [[spoiler: and later on, her daughter,]] can pull her comically large hat out of thin air.
* HeroicMime: Ro and her daughter never speak, but do share tender moments, such as hugs each time they reunite after being separated.

* LivingStatue: [[spoiler:The Doortem]]. The only difference is that it's colored bright blue and pink compared to the lifeless gray statues, or the blue and yellow Totem before it.
* MeaningfulName: The proper name of level IX is Mên-an-Tol. This is based off the standing stones of the same name located in Cornwall, England. The name means ' the hole stone''. It could be that the recursive was of the level is like gazing infinitely into the hole of the stone.

* Railroading: A minor example, but many of the rotating platforms in the game can not be moved while Ro and her daughter are standing on them. It's a shame, all in the name of making the puzzles slightly more challenging.

* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: At the end of level III, all Ro has to do to reconstruct am elaborate monument is stand on two different buttons, as helpful groups of cubes zoom out, bring new pieces of architecture in their wake.

** In level IV, this becomes a mechanic, in which Ro and her daughter or often separated and have to cooperate in order to progress. Again, at the end of the level, Ro and her daughter are reunited.
** In level IV, [[spoiler:Ro sends her daughter away on a boat, and in level XIV, Ro's daughter returns a grown woman.]]

** In level XI, [[spoiler:Ro's daughter descends into another one in order to gather her own lights.

* WhamShot: In Level XII, Ro's young daughter enters a door in the leaves of one of the trees in the orchard. Slots appear in the wall, and when the player drags them, the room opens up, exposing the tree to light. [[spoiler:The tree grows, a pod blooms out of the top of it, and from it, Ro's daughter emerges, now fully grown.]]

** Ro and her [[spoiler:grown]] daughter stand at the top of the mountain, and their sacred geometry floats in their air among with that of their ancestors.

* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Ro wears a beautiful orange-red dress that resembles an upside-down flower. The color of the dress stays the same throughout the whole game, except for level X, where the color changes at various points to blue and green.

* RedIsHeroic: Both Ro and her daughter dress in shades of red.

* GreyRainOfDepression: No actual rain is involved, but the monotone gray of the opening of level VII has a similar effect.

* GreyRainofDepression: No actual rain is involved, but the monotone gray of the opening of level VII has a similar effect.

** When Doortem reveals [[spoiler:the portal in its side]], this becomes a game mechanic two levels later.

* GreyRainofDepression: No actual rain is involved, but the monotone gray of the opening of level 7 has a similar effect.
* HauntedHouseHistorian: The spirits that Ro speaks to give her advice in the face of [[spoiler:her daughter's impending departure]].

* ShoutOut: To the old game in the level IV: The Viaduct, where one of the crow people is depicted in statue form.

** In the temple where Ida meets the first spirit, some of the architecture resembles a grayscale version of the Totem who shows up later.
** The things the spirits say to Ida become relevant to the game's plot later on. [[spoiler:One spirit asks if she is like the crows who forgot who they were, and has forgotten her true self as well. Another spirit calls her "thieving princess".]]
** [[spoiler:If you look at Ida from behind, you'll notice that she looks like a white version of the crows, giving an earlier hint of what her true form might be.]]
** Ida spends the entire game putting things back in each level. [[spoiler:In the past, she stole the Sacred Geometry, killing off an entire civilization and cursing both herself and her own people with IdentityAmnesia, forever wandering the Monument Valley until Ida repented for her crimes and gave back the Sacred Geometry.]]
** Ida, the Totem, and the crows are the only living things in Monument Valley. [[spoiler:That's because the original residents of that area are all dead, presumably thanks to Ida stealing their Sacred Geometry.]]

* RecursiveReality: Level 9. We see several segments before gameplay starts, and progress consists of getting farther in.

* WhamEpisode: Level IX. [[spoiler: As Ro enters Doortem's portal, she travers farther back in her memories until she revists the moment she had to leave her own mother]].