Pikuniku coloring pages5/29/2023 ![]() The whole thing is a massive throwback in style to the sort of oddball titles you’d get on the Speccy and C64 in the 8-bit era, only with a very modern ‘throwaway’ vibe of the sort you usually only see in Nintendo titles. It’s packed with random gems to make you smile, such as tooting the horns on the little cars in 2-player mode – keep beeping them and they play ‘Take on me’ by A-Ha. Not ‘oh, that’s a mildly amusing voice line’ funny – genuinely laugh out loud funny, like a little surreal sketch show. The biggest reason for my adoration is that as well as being fun to play, it’s funny. It’s your job (as a somewhat reluctant rebel) to rise up, free the people, and restore happiness and harmony via the likes of winning nightclub dance offs, beating a possessed toaster, kicking melons through a hoop and forcing a bloated, radioactive worm who drank some real bad stuff through an abandoned mine.ĭespite the fact that all sounds like I just picked a load of random words out of a dictionary, it’s an entirely true portrayal of things because the following is also true: Pikuniku is completely and joyously unhinged. 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”).Essentially the adventures of a demented tic tac on legs that only seem about 40% within his control, Pikuniku sees you platforming your way around a colourful, cartoony world populated by blobby people being oppressed by a malignant cloud dude and his robot enforcers. 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. 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. 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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