What is the story behind Monument Valley?
Monument Valley is a minimalistic puzzle game featuring MC Escher - like structures. However, the story has a few fragments of a storyline, given to you by the Ghost, an adviser that you meet in some levels during your journey. The lines are short and few, but is there some kind of story behind this game that the Ghost and various structures throughout the game hint at? For example,
In Labyrinth, drawings of Ida-like beings are seen worshipping the shape that eventually restores the Observatory monument.
The Descent is also rich with clues, giving us
a resurrected Totem, drawings of Ida-like beings weeping, and a crow queen that is eventually revealed to be Ida.
So is there any confirmed story concerning this game? Any stories at all?
Best Answer
We're told straight out in the introduction to level 2: Ida is on a quest for forgiveness.
She's called a "thieving princess" in level 4 by the Ghost, implying she stole something. He tells us what in chapter 7:
Those who stole our sacred geometry have forgotten their true selves. Cursed to walk those monuments are they. Foolish princess, have you forgotten too?
And in Appendix 4:
When all sacred geometry is returned, so too shall be your crown.
And, most bluntly, the introduction to level 10:
In which at journey's end what was not meant for us is all returned
Ida's people, the crow people, have stolen mankind's sacred geometry, their "downfall" (level 9). Ida is on a quest to right her people's wrong and return the sacred geometry to whom it belongs. But, as the introduction to level 9 sadly proclaims:
In which there is nobody left to forgive us
Mankind was somehow wiped out. Ida is trying to do what she can to right that wrong, and pays tribute to their graves in this level. To one grave in particular - perhaps the Ghost's, the one character who frames the story?
The storyline might be a song, but at least the notes play a pretty melody rather than a random smashing of the keys.
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What is the point of Monument Valley game?
Monument Valley is an indie puzzle game developed and published by Ustwo Games. The player leads the princess Ida through mazes of optical illusions and impossible objects while manipulating the world around her to reach various platforms.What is the ending of Monument Valley?
At the end of the game when she has given back all the geometry she stole, Princess Ida is forgiven and is turned back into a white bird with a crown atop her head. In one of the levels, The Descent, Ida is led down a staircase, and on the player's left side there is a mirror.Why are the rocks red in Monument Valley?
The valley's vivid red color comes from iron oxide exposed in the weathered siltstone. The darker, blue-gray rocks in the valley get their color from manganese oxide. The buttes are clearly stratified, with three principal layers.Monument Valley Explained
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Ida (thieving princess) was the crow princess and she stole the sacred geometry from the humans, which caused their downfall. Throughout the game Ida is returning the stolen geometry. The ghost stated that whomever stole the geometry forgot their true selves, which foreshadows what happens later in the story when Ida becomes the white crow and remembered her true self.
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