![]() Sunshine, it’s a brief and breezy journey, carried by a whimsical score from Calum Bowen. Jumping may be a little too floaty, but for a game that’s more adventure than platformer, traversal feels wonderful.įrom being first mistaken as a ‘ghastly beast’ to joining an underground resistance against Mr. Better still, his leg also doubles as a lasso to swing on hooks or race up zip wires. For just a red oval with a pair of lanky legs and a pair of dots for eyes, he’s surprisingly expressive as you bounce him around this childlike 2D world, as he’s capable of rolling around and through tight spaces, or using his long legs to kick switches, boxes or other hapless denizens, whether that’s to solve a puzzle or just for, um, kicks. ![]() It’s a sensation you get from the moment you wake up from a cave as Piku, cuteness incarnate with minimalist effort. It just wants you to have a jolly good time. Sunshine handing out ‘free money’ to the villagers of an island in exchange for plundering its natural resources, but with this out of the way, Sectordub doesn’t pause for any deep state commentary. Sure, there’s a greedy pink-faced capitalist calling himself Mr. Men, is marketed by publisher Devolver Digital as a dystopia, it’s hard to resist an eye-roll.įortunately, those fears are unfounded. ![]() So when Pikuniku, a seemingly innocent-looking game with characters that look as simplistically drawn as the Mr. Maybe I’m just getting old, but it seems almost impossible to look at a seemingly innocent-looking children’s cartoon aesthetic and not wonder if there’s a more sinister or profound message going on underneath.
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