

You can also chat with people and enter buildings, and there's some context-sensitive actions involving the hats you can unlock. You can jump, turn into a ball by retracting your legs, and kick things. Piku itself only has a few ways of interacting with the world. The story at first feels light and flimsy, and you'll spend a good chunk of your time wandering around wondering what the heck you're actually supposed to be doing.Īnd then suddenly you're embroiled in a grassroots rebellion against capitalism through the use of exploding pinecones, and it all gets a bit weird. Pikuniku has you playing as weird-ball-thing Piku, who has just awoken in a cave and is now wandering the world trying to understand… well, the world, really. It has its drawbacks - doesn't everything? - but Pikuniku is a brilliant platformer to kick off 2019 with. It's also hilarious in a charming, low-key way, with brilliant writing and tons of fun to be had with its simple controls. Forged Fantasy review - "A midcore ARPG that does almost everything right".

And it's beautifully, but in its simplicity and silliness rather than its attention to detail. It has the interesting mechanics, but they're used in more of a physics-y way.

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Last year's Gris was a gorgeous platformer full of interesting mechanics and beautiful environments, and new game Pikuniku is following in that trend - sort of. Devolver Digital is continuing to kill it with its Switch releases.
