![]() ![]() Piku and Niku must negotiate their way to a boat at the end of each stage, sometimes racing in little cars to get there, other times tethered together by a rope. ![]() Local co-op is self-contained from the solo adventure, with nine different levels, plus a surprisingly addictive basketball minigame. The music is as cheerful as the visuals, although it might grate on the nerves of anyone in your vicinity who isn’t actually playing the game. We were surprised to see a couple of framerate dips – it seems the Unity engine underneath is doing more work than the surface might indicate – but it wasn’t a consistent problem. That’s not to say it’s without challenge, but generous restart points and forgiving level design show that Sectordub is aiming to charm players of all abilities rather than craft real brain-teasers, and on those terms Pikuniku succeeds with flying colours.Īnd there are certainly plenty of colours flying! The shades and shapes you see in screenshots look lovely in both docked and handheld modes, and Pikuniku owes something to PSP classic LocoRoco in the look-and-feel department, with simple characters and buoyant, elastic animation really popping onscreen. You’ll come across more treacherous areas later on, but even the ‘dungeon’ areas are extremely forgiving – Pikuniku is the most accessible, approachable game we’ve played in a long while and with persistence even the greenest of gamers should have no problem getting through it. The joy of the game comes from exploration – finding ‘hidden’ passages behind walls with zigzag lines (containing trophies and other goodies) and speaking with NPCs with their endearing lowercase speech bubbles.Ĭomical boss battles follow the three-hits-and-done formula and a handful of minigames (including a fun little rhythm game) help fulfil the retro call-back quota. You swing from hooks by lassoing them with a leg and the floaty physics are forgiving enough to throw yourself around without too much worry. The majority of puzzles involve kicking things with ‘Y’ (buttons, rocks, robots) or pushing objects onto switches to proceed. All Speech Subtitled (Or No Speech In Game). ![]() Hats are accessible via a menu on the left shoulder buttons, with a small inventory of collectible items on the corresponding right buttons. Different ‘hats’ enable you to make progress by, for example, watering a plant to create a platform or drawing a picture. All in all, they decide to put you in jail.You’ll journey through valleys, forests and mines on your adventure, dropping in on inhabitants in their various abodes and buying swag with the coins you collect. However, when the dwellers see you, they find you smaller than themselves and pretty calm. When you visit the town, you realize that you have been a hero of the legends, a scary giant beast, violent and blood-thirsty. ![]() Get used to your body and see the amazing abilities it has. Your first steps in the game are going to be funny – you can run, bounce, and smash everything around you with your long legs. You observe the city that lays under the mountain and a freakish spirit gives you an advice: just go there and have a nice walk. You start your adventure are a red round creature at the moment when you wake up in the bosom of nature. Be ready to discover a real dystopia that stands behind the funny looking creatures and their universe. Well, maybe they do this sometimes, but their world is not limited to anything like that. Pikuniku is not another childish toy where the characters sing songs and dance under the sun. Meet the round-shaped and colorful fellows from Pikuniku and get ready for one of the most memorable stories in your life! Don’t let these cute-looking fellows confuse you. ![]()
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