While there are item upgrades in The Gunk, you come by them with little effort-and they don’t really feel like they upgrade much. Walking down any path in a single direction was enough to unstick me, however, there were a few times were I was running against a dead end convinced it was the way to go-but that was all because of poor guidance. There were often times I would feel lost, either not knowing which direction to travel, or what I was even supposed to be doing next. But for a game that’s so linear, I found that it had a huge problem with signposting. There is very little going off of the beaten path in The Gunk. The Gunk is one of those games that gives you a beautiful world you want to explore, and then gives you ledges marked in paint showing you the only location you can lift yourself up-it’s a bit of a bummer. Eventually, the gunk starts spawning enemies that you can dispatch by using your vacuum to dispatch them. Navigate Rani as she goes from point A to point B, activating switches, solving simple puzzles, and vacuuming up lots and lots of gunk. While it is narrative driven, that means The Gunk follows a mostly linear path. And while sucking up gunk in The Gunk is actually a bit satisfying, it’s not enough to compel you through an entire game. To do this, you must make prodigious use of Pumpkin to suck up massive amounts of this ooze, which turns out to be the game’s main feature. This gunk is one of the main antagonists of the game, and must be vacuumed up or otherwise disposed of to bring back the planet’s naturally healthy ecosystem. It turns out, there are plenty of resources, but also a black corrosive ooze that is spreading and destroying the planet. #THE GUNK REVIEW FULL#Rani and Beck think they hit it bit when they find an uninhabited planet that is full of resources. Rani is the more reckless of the two, having lost her arm in an accident sometime prior, but it was replaced with a mechanical arm called Pumpkin. In it, you play as Rani, one part of a two part Scavenging crew including your partner, Beck. The Gunk is a third person adventure game. In other words, The Gunk has some seriously good contemporaries that I can’t help compare it to. Fortunately, there has been a bunch of really great solo adventure titles this year, like Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Sable, Psychonauts 2 –as just a few examples. While those things aren’t necessary, it’s just a fact that a large studio can (usually) bring more to a game than a smaller studio with limited time and budget. A few years ago, I was afraid that single player games were dying-especially games with more AA or AAA type gameplay and graphics.
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