It is designed for two players but you can toggle between them when one or the other needs to do something unique. This was a cause of a great deal of frustration because there is a (mighty!) bug that when it thinks a second controller is plugged in, it automatically becomes player two. I didn't realize that was happening because your second character keeps up pretty much ala Tails from Sonic, but there were things I just couldn't do and I admit ... I yelled a few "what the heck?"s and stronger before investigating that there is a config file that I need to add with some value on their forums. Not Innit'tuitive?
The game play is similar to Beyond Blue where it's there as a layer over information that you can gleen about the native population. The game audio has an old native storyteller relating the story of the girls travels with a subtitle translation, at sometimes it's distracting to read the text - but there is a ... peaceful softness in having a grandfather accompany and narrate your journey.
What stopped me from finishing? Mechanics were a beautiful mediocre Mario with some frustrating companion reliance. It IS designed for two players, and a platform puzzler was more of a distraction to the old man's story. (Any jumps where one of us fell into the water and he'd reset the narration.) Probably more fun to watch someone play without that distraction of making the jumps?
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