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Pikuniku is a short and sweet experience that's fun, simple, engaging, and smooth. I can recommend it to just about anyone.
Are you in the mood for an absurdist yet cheerful adventure-platformer about corporate sabotage? Pikuniku just might be your game.
All in all, Pikuniku is a unique and stand out experience that makes you feel good to play it. It certainly isn’t for someone looking for action or a serious challenge, but those who want a relaxing game where you bounce around, kick things, and make friends will find a lot to like here. Adding to the replay value are the trophies that I mentioned, 9 co-op stages, and the ability to play Baskick against a friend. That said, I do wish there was a little more to do, especially since the world and characters are so unusual and entertaining. Anyone with even a little interest in Pikuniku should…
There’s a point about halfway through Pikuniku where you meet Ernie. Ernie is the son of the gigantic worm with whom you’ve joined forces to defeat an evil
If you’re looking for something short, sweet and bound to make you smile, you won’t be let down by Pikuniku’s infectious charm and gameplay.
In the wrong hands, Pikuniku could have been a shallow and ultimately forgettable experience, but its expressive dialogue, clever framing, and charming, upbeat soundtrack do enough heavy lifting to elevate it into something far more endearing. The characterization, in particular, is delightfully fleshed out. It’s a simple game with a ton of heart that’ll leave you beaming when everything’s said and done.
Pikuniku is an intriguing game as it takes some heavy concepts and transforms them into something colourfully palatable, with interesting characters and a fun soundtrack. The mix of heavy and light concepts works well in a game that allows you to choose your own pace. The fact that Pikuniku can be taken both at face value and can be dissected further makes it a wonderful game that allows people of all age groups their own unique experience.
We struggle to recall a dystopia quite as cheerful as the one found in Pikuniku. It’s a short game, but one packed with heart and imagination, with a great single-player component and excellent couch co-op that can genuinely be enjoyed by anyone. It makes us remember the fun we had cutting pieces from our friends in Snipperclips, but where we occasionally hit a brick wall with that game, Pikuniku sidesteps frustration in favour of a breezy and charming adventure; a perfect salve if you need a break from the backlog, but don’t dive in expecting endless hours of gameplay.
To further mix things up, Pikuniku throws in a variety of wonderfully absurd mini-games, including a basketball competition and, my personal favourite, a dance-off against a robot. There’s also a heavy helping of humour which lands more hits than it does misses, the jokes often stemming from how naive and oblivious the land’s inhabitants are. It’s not the longest game in the world, taking three hours or so to complete, but there’s still plenty to explore even when you’ve beat the game and are allowed to continue to roam. Since completing Pikuniku I’ve returned to it several times, both to bounce around the landscape and also complete the various side-tasks that I missed.
Despite being rather short, Pikuniku is sure to please players anyway thanks to its pleasant presentation, relaxed atmosphere, goofy characters, and its world that's just plain fun to explore.
Bouncing into Pikuniku’s colourful dystopian deep state scheme.
Whoever decided to release Pikuniku in January of 2019 is a genius. As the collective gaming community recovers from a deluge of exhausting AAA titles
Pikuniku is the type of game in which one moment you’re rescuing vegetable-shaped blobs stuck on trees, while another sees you invading the realm of a giant demonic piece of toast, in a sequence that pays tribute to classic platformers. It also starts with a pink creature in a top hat enthusiastically offering “free money” in exchange for junk.
Pikuniku is a quirky and colourful puzzle-adventure from the wondrous minds of French-British collective ‘Sectordub’. Rémi Forcadell, Alan Zucconi, Arnaud De Bock, and Calum Bowen’s peculiar world evokes a sense of comical wonder and optimistic chime. An underlying social commentary and fluent construction elevates this little project to the next level, making it a necessary addition to anyone’s library.
This is a joyful, happy-faced good time. There are "boss fights", but they're deliberately not an impediment to progress. (One especially in a way that I shan't spoil, but gosh it made me laugh.) The chatter is plentiful, but always fun to read (or enact). And it's extremely funny.