It's hard to really summarize why this and the first game mean so much to me. The games are super fun and have some of the best platforming I've experienced. However, this goes beyond that for me. As works of art, they ruminate on the melancholy of dreams and focus in on the importance of all human emotions, even the ones we want to subdue. The tone is memorizing and almost meditative.

To put it shortly, it feels like your playing a dream and all that comes with that. I love it dearly.