Mostly.īut as the “beastly” Piku, no more than a red blob suspended on two dangly legs, I soon have bigger things to worry about. I’ve broken the village bridge, an anthropomorphic rock’s tea set and a momma bird’s eggs, letting her young escape off into the world. They capture me and string me up in a cage. The locals are terrified of me, saying I’m a ghastly beast of legend. And it's extremely funny.I’ve only just awoken from my cavernous slumber and my day is already not off to a good start. (One especially in a way that I shan't spoil, but gosh it made me laugh.) The chatter is plentiful, but always fun to read (or enact). There are "boss fights", but they're deliberately not an impediment to progress. My voice for the Worm Mother was quite the thing.) (The dialogue is text with noises, so I had to invent voices for all the characters to read it all aloud to him, which then led to our spending the rest of the day talking to each other in robot voices. My son sat in for a couple of hours while I played this and adored it, but didn't understand any of the plot. It's family-friendly, without being a kids' game. There's a jaggedy quality to them in places. The other is that I wish the art edges, especially the speech bubbles', were smoother. The sound effects are all completely brill, so it's an aural shame the music feels under-developed. It's bleepy-bloopy, but just a bit too crude.
If developers Sectordub haven't watched CBeebies' Hey Duggee, I'll eat my Squirrels badges. It's more the former than the latter, too, sharing Orchard's apparent love of geometric design, and even the peculiar vignettes of dancing bugs. It lives on the exact mid-point between Grant Orchard's Hey Duggee and Roger Hargreaves' Mr Men books. And it's about the dynamism of the conversations, the laughs it generates as you go. It's about the game's movement, the way The Beast staggers and flails, the extraordinarily brilliant bulge of his eyes when you fall down a long drop. The screenshots don't do it justice - they make it look too simplistic. Or engaged in a battle to the death with a slice of toast. Because maybe now you're playing a weird version of basketball with a watermelon and haphazard kicking physics. And it has the guts to not fall back on it again. Not so here! Despite being a one-and-done moment, more for the gag than anything else, it's perfect! The buttons perfectly timed with the dance track, letting you find the groove to succeed. There was a moment maybe ten years back when every game thought it was a witty notion to crowbar the format in, and did a half-arsed job of it. One moment you're traditionally platforming your way up into the clouds to find coins, the next you're plotting the downfall of a corporation with a rag-tag group of rebellious leaves in their underground metro station, and after that you're taking part in a completely one-off Dance Dance Revolution-style dance off with an arrogant robot.Īnd crucially, it does all of these bits extremely well. It's silly yet brilliantly implemented, funny without being zany, cute without being cloying, and it all moves along at a splendid zip. Which involves poddling about, kicking physicsy objects, chatting with the locals, playing games, solving puzzles, jumping all over, winning at made-up sports, rolling through secret tunnels, being best at dance competitions, and kicking robots until they're cross. The inevitable unfolding plot (about which it would be frankly ludicrous to spend too much time analysing as an allegory for the ravishes of capitalism) is about fighting back against this naughty-bob. is a cloud! His enormous metal cloud robots are probably harvesting all their supplies of corn for good! Look at all the money they drop everywhere! It's definitely not suspicious that the CEO of Sunshine Inc. Upon leaving your hillside hovel, you discover a green and happy village where the pear-like creatures delight in how money rains down from the skies, thanks to the apparent kindness of a corporation called Sunshine Inc. It turns out, however, that you're a Mr Man-like red ball with eyes and legs, mostly expressionless, and definitely not terrifying. A creature feared by the locals, because you've been gone long enough for them to have mythologised you. Pikuniku, as well as being outlandishly fun to say out loud, is a platforming puzzle game in which you play The Beast.
That's what the character in the ridiculously delightful Pikuniku most immediately reminds me of. Publisher: Devolver Digital Release: 24th Janĭo you remember those jelly-like toy octopuses you had when you were a kid, which you throw at a window or wall? They'd half-stick/half-walk their way down the surface, their legs glooping on and off as they rolled in a semi-controlled fall.
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