Look, I could write another 10 paragraphs and give away the gags, or wax lyrical about how it’ll just make you laugh and smile until I’ve run out of superlatives, but if you’re on this website (assuming you haven’t ended up here after googling ‘disturbing poo stories’) then I’m guessing you have a certain sense of humour. I genuinely cried laughing at some points, it’s so gloriously silly, AND it has solid gaming chops as the platforming in parts is no breeze either. ![]() These alone will last you ages, as for every few minutes of trying to finish the level you’ll spend another 10 booting each other about the place like loons.īut despite its smallness, it’s perfectly formed – it simultaneously leaves you wanting more, but also not wanting more in case they actually did more and spoiled it by not making it as marvellous. It’s only short (yet: gloriously cheap to match at just over a tenner), though you’ll want to replay it to make sure you see everything AND there’s also the separate 2-player co-op stages. Quite often a gameplay mechanic will appear for one task and then you’ll never see it again, but that variety and creativity only adds to the charm. The whole thing is a massive throwback in style to the sort of oddball titles you’d get on the Speccy and C64 in the 8-bit era, only with a very modern ‘throwaway’ vibe of the sort you usually only see in Nintendo titles. It’s packed with random gems to make you smile, such as tooting the horns on the little cars in 2-player mode – keep beeping them and they play ‘Take on me’ by A-Ha. Not ‘oh, that’s a mildly amusing voice line’ funny – genuinely laugh out loud funny, like a little surreal sketch show. ![]() The biggest reason for my adoration is that as well as being fun to play, it’s funny. It’s your job (as a somewhat reluctant rebel) to rise up, free the people, and restore happiness and harmony via the likes of winning nightclub dance offs, beating a possessed toaster, kicking melons through a hoop and forcing a bloated, radioactive worm who drank some real bad stuff through an abandoned mine.ĭespite the fact that all sounds like I just picked a load of random words out of a dictionary, it’s an entirely true portrayal of things because the following is also true: Pikuniku is completely and joyously unhinged. Essentially the adventures of a demented tic tac on legs that only seem about 40% within his control, Pikuniku sees you platforming your way around a colourful, cartoony world populated by blobby people being oppressed by a malignant cloud dude and his robot enforcers.
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