Hidden in the game’s world are lots of optional quests, such as helping a giant bird find her newborn children that you accidentally hatched, or helping someone find out what’s wrong with their toaster. The other part of the game where players can die comes in the form of optional challenge zones. Death itself is nonviolent, with Piku simply becoming transparent with a surprised look in their eyes, followed by a retry. As Piku is limited to kicking, the boss fights consist mostly of dodging attacks, then fighting back in unusual ways, such as kicking a pine cone into a giant robot, or blocking a giant straw with your own body to prevent the robot from sucking up a lake. These boss fights are few, but they are among the few moments in the game where Piku can die. Even the game’s final boss fight is silly. They include drawing a new face on a scarecrow with the help of a pencil hat, helping someone finish a song by kicking a bell, and challenging a robot to a dance contest to gain access to an underground base. Some of the quests players can do, both the optional and required ones, are absurd. Players can kick the townspeople, eventually causing them to start questioning Piku’s anger management skills, before they fight back with some kicking of their own, pushing Piku around.Ĭomedy, really, is a major theme in the game. Indeed, kicking is used both as all-purpose gameplay mechanic and as a source of comedy. The spider gets knocked across the river and its silk flies out of it, creating a new bridge. Depending on your dialog choice, the spider either tells Piku to clean up their own mess, or teases Piku about how spiders can use their silk to repair the bridge, but since Piku isn’t a spider, “good luck with that.” What a rude spider! If you opt to teach it a lesson by kicking it, that’s the solution.
For example, there is one point early in the game where players can talk to a spider and inquire about a broken bridge. Other times, the puzzles tie into the humorous story. The puzzles are sometimes encountered while exploring the environment, such as an acorn that needs to be pushed onto a switch that activates a geyser of water that Piku can ride. There are also hooks that Piku can grab onto using their legs, done by pressing the kick button when within range. Need to push a box to stack another one on top of it? Kick it. Need to knock a ball onto a switch? Kick it. There are not even enemies for the most part! The ability to kick isn’t so much an attack as it is a form of puzzle solving. The game is largely based around exploring, solving puzzles, discovering objectives and then completing them. You can walk, jump, kick, roll around with your legs tucked inside you, wear various hats with special abilities (such as watering flowers so they grow) and talk. It’s basically a semi-Metroidvania or semi-open world 2D platformer. Sunshine who is giving away “free money” in exchange for using his giant robots to take things that belong to others. A plot which involves a cloud-shaped creature named Mr. It isn’t long before Piku regains the townspeople’s trust, and ends up discovering details of the game’s surprisingly twisting yet light-hearted and goofy plot. Piku’s gender is ambiguous, with some characters saying “they” and others saying “he.” At the beginning of the game, Piku is awakened by a ghost and emerges from a cave, and is soon greeted by distrusting townspeople who are afraid Piku may be the mysterious “beast” they’d heard so much about. The player controls a creature by the name of Piku, a red jelly bean-like thing with two eyes, two legs, and nothing else. The game has a bit of a simple children’s book feel to it. The dialog is written with a very laid-back feel, with most of it written entirely in lower-case, and sentences often not even ending with a period. And the music is as simple as the art, with few instruments playing at once in songs that are at times twee or tinny, at other times cute and charming. Or, another way to put it could be to say that it looks like what an old Atari game might look like if it were in HD but still had limited colors and simple designs. Men children’s books, with very limited colors and simple shapes and round designs. Pikuniku has an art style like nothing else out there. retro-inspired games, “walking simulators” that are more about storytelling than gameplay), Pikuniku is distinctive enough that even among indie games, it sticks out. While that does include a lot of ideas used numerous times over (e.g.
In the age of downloadable games from indie studios galore, seemingly anything can and will be created.
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