My first recommendation would be to upgrade your vacuum as soon as you can. Though you can find upgrades for pumpkin, like decoys, and extra damage from your canon, the focus lies more on cleaning up the planet and making your way to the final battle. Just remember, your vacuum is your best friend. The Gunk features minimal fighting and the combat is fairly simple. To some, the simplicity may be an issue, but I think the developers, Image & Form Games, created exactly what they sought out to with The Gunk, a beautiful, calming adventure. Using the plants and area around you, you climb, dive, and tunnel your way from area to area. I rarely found myself frustrated, and only got lost a few times.
The puzzles were typically simple enough, and allowed for a really relaxing gaming experience. “Image & Form Games, created exactly what they sought out to with The Gunk, a beautiful, calming adventure.” I looked forward to sitting down at night, solving small puzzles and making my way through the eight-chapter game. Realistically, it could be done in a day. The fact that there’s no proper lip synching for the human characters is a shame too, because it’s very noticeable.Like I said, I usually look for games with hundreds of hours of gameplay. However, the saturated colours are an odd choice for a game trying to play up the joys of returning the environment to life, as it makes everything seem a bit subdued and sterile whether there’s gunk present or not. Visually, the game can often be very impressive, with a more realistic style than the SteamWorld games but still maintaining an obvious visual lineage. Transforming your robot hand into a laser gun is a neat trick but since there’s less than a handful of different enemies, none of which are very difficult to deal with, it’s not the exciting upgrade it could be. You can upgrade your glove but the game’s already so easy it never really seems necessary. There’s also a crafting system, involving collected resources, but it gives the distinct impression of being included solely so that vacuuming up gunk wasn’t the only thing you do. The Gunk – cleaning is fun! (pic: Thunderful) The puzzle-solving is the strongest element outside of the central clean-up operation, in that occasionally you do have to stop and think about it for a moment – which is more than can be said for most mainstream games.
That’s a big risk to take and while hoovering up gunk certainly is satisfying it really isn’t enough to justify the whole game.Ĭlearing the world of gunk and watching the wildlife instantly spring back is reminiscent of Ōkami but while Capcom’s game was a Zelda style arcade adventure there’s not much else of consequence going on with The Gunk. The central tenet of The Gunk is that sucking up the black goo, using Rani’s transforming power glove, and seeing the planet slowly burst back into life is a fundamentally entertaining experience, without the need for further complication. The plot is very basic but the relationship between Rani and Becks is interesting, as the two begin to argue more and more over what to do and whether the titular gunk is really their concern. The Gunk focuses on two main characters, with you playing as a scavenger named Rani who, together with her partner Becks, discovers that the planet they were going to scour for salvage is infested with a slimy parasite that’s choking plant life and mutating creatures into aggressive monsters.
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