I mean his whole sprite was rotating on its axis, his legs leaving the ground and pointing left, now up, now right. I don’t mean he was turning to face away from my view. As they spoke, the blobperson on the very bottom of the tower started rotating with every accusation. They were accusing me of being a horrible beast of legend. One of my favourite moments involved the five blobby villagers standing on top of one another, like a multicoloured totem pole. It’s sure to be labelled cutesy, twee and “charming” but if the small chats I had with birds and blobs are anything to go by, I hope to find more of that fun-loving absurdity underneath it all. Easy-going co-op that at moments can break out into childish, petty squabbling. We also kicked each other in the face very often. And at one point we find ourselves both rummaging around in ball pits, fighting with the purposefully clumsy physics to kick the balls out and onto some switches. There's a brief car race in the form of childish split-screen speed-freakery. One person stands on a door-opening button, while the other pushes a giant ball through. We play a bit of the co-op too, and it's likewise a jaunt through simple levels (sadly lacking the characters of the singleplayer world). The aim is to keep things straightforward, I’m told by game designer Arnaud De Bock. In the end, this puzzle room is a stress-free matter of pressing switches and stacking boxes to reach the pencil, lying on a higher platform. He’s lost his pencil in his own basement. I’m drafted in to help out the local painter, for example. It mostly takes the form of simple puzzles.
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I'd be happy to continue this walkabout, chatting to the blobescent characters of the village, but there's a traditional puzzle platformer running through all the jollity (not to mention a story involving a creepy businessblob and a “deep state conspiracy”) so I've got to crack on. All these silly encounters remind me of the best cartoons designed for kids, the ones that are inevitably co-opted by greedy adults, but ultimately enjoyed by both. I'll have to do what they ask, and fix the bridge I've broken. Later, some villagers capture me and start yelling: “The beast is awake!” I keep trying to escape by jumping around the inside of the cage, but it's no use. I ask some bluebirds in a nearby field what they are doing. It’s perfunctory, colourful, and often summons a giggle. The terse, bulletpoint dialogue of an ancient JRPG filtered through a trippy nursery rhyme. Much of what I saw had the same playful tone. When you talk to the ghost who woke you up, he invokes that favourite line of game developers. But it’s not the movement that endears me to my twenty-five minutes of Pikuniku-ing. Simple enough for both kids and games journalists to understand.
That’s more or less your entire range of abilities.
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Later you can grab zip lines and swing from hooks. And why would you need them? There are very few problems that can’t be solved with a good kick.Īside from pottering about on your wobble-legs, you can also pull said legs into your body and simply roll from place to place. Nobody in this vector art world has arms (at least none of them do in the Gamescom demo I'm playing). You’re just a simple red shape with eyes and legs. At the start of the adventure, your character wakes up in a cave, roused by a ghost. It’s a physics-based platformer, but it feels more like a children’s storybook that didn't get approved for the school library. Childish arguments and misunderstandings between blobby, colourful residents of a world that could be described as Mr Men meets LocoRoco. Pikuniku is made of scenes like this one. As he soars over the river, his spidery silk follows, forming a new bridge of thread between the river banks. I walked across the bridge – really just a piece of string – and it snapped. Come down mister spider, and help me fix the bridge. But that's okay, I'll ask for help from the spider in this tree.
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