If absurdist humor and ironic low-quality art is your thing, then this has it in spades.īut it's not just the art and characters, it's the animation as well. And on your adventures, you'll face off against a possessed toaster, perform a dance-off against a cloud-shaped robot, and roll an engorged worm around, all to defeat the evil boss living in a volcano.
Everyone has the intelligence of Ralph Wiggum, and flaunts it at every occasion. And the game is just as nonsensical as these designs. You play as a so-called monster - consisting only of a red oval with eyes and some spindly legs - roaming around a world filled with pear shaped morons and leaf-shaped imbeciles and a dumb badguy who's shape is oddly disturbing. It all looks like it was done in MSPaint, and there's no telling what these characters are supposed to be.
One simple picture is enough to tell you where the appeal (or lack thereof) of this game lies. Not special enough to be worth going out of your way for it, not expensive enough to hurt, and short enough that it's over before you feel like dropping it. And really, it's a great impulse purchase. And then they decided to put it on sale for $1, putting it squarely in the impulse buy range. I was still standing in the nest and she replied “What do you mean it wasn’t you? Your feet are still on the shells!” Rounding up the chicks to make amends, one of them turned out to be a huffy teen (“why can’t I have my own life already”) and the other was fully conversant in self-help speak (“it’s true we haven’t bonded very much lately”).Pikuniku was not ranked very high on my "to play" list, I must admit. She demanded to know whether I kicked the eggs and I chose to deny all knowledge. Supporting that tone, the rest of the cast of characters have that specifically 2010s slight archness to them which keeps them from becoming twee.įor example, after kicking a couple of eggs I found in a nest and watching the chicks they contained flap off, a mother bird descended. Instead it remains at “more affable and PG version of a Dr Evil plot from Austin Powers” for the duration. Despite that premise, the tone never tips over into insufferable didacticism. What evolves from there is a cheery tale of endearingly bumbling and adorably illustrated violent resistance against a deep state social cleansing conspiracy. They settle on imprisoning you until you agree to repair the rope bridge connecting the village to the village crops (which you broke by bouncing on it) so that the villagers can tend their corn and be rewarded with rains of cash from the pink cloud.
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The local villagers believed you to be a scary beast and are not entirely sure how to handle the fact that you’re actually smaller than them, not threatening beyond delivering grumpy toddler-style kicks and pushes, and don’t look anything like their local beast lore descriptions. At first you’re just playing with them, perhaps enjoying the fact you can go a bit faster if you pull your legs in and roll, or bouncing around, trying to kick anything in the environment. Jumping, rolling, strolling and kicking are your primary forms of interaction. A useful exposition ghost prompts you to head into the fresh air so you can start exploring the 2D world.
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After an opening cinematic where a pink cloud offers you free money, you, a little red blob with legs, wake up in a cave on a hill overlooking a town.
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