Dying isn’t too punishing, thankfully, and despite it being a fairly recent game, I had no trouble finding a (text) walkthrough when I got stuck. However, the game takes a sharp turn in the later chapters, and it goes from being almost too simple to a level of challenge that the first part of the game in no way prepared the player for.Īs a result, the last couple of hours were a bit of a slog for me. The platforming is basic, the puzzles aren’t terribly difficult to figure out, and the combat – at least in the early game – is barely combat at all. When the landscape isn’t being smothered by gunk, it’s gorgeous. You wander around, sucking up gunk and resources, scanning the vegetation, and bit by bit, learn about this strange polluted planet. The first half or so of the game is fairly simple, and if the story doesn’t manage to captivate you, there’s unlikely to be meaty enough game play to keep you interested. It’s a fairly short game I took just over five hours to complete it. Conveniently, Rani’s power glove can suck up the gunk, clearing paths and reinvigorating the landscape. The problem they both face is the gunk, a toxic slime that is sucking the vitality out of the planet. Your partner, Becks, is a little more grounded, focused on filling up the cargo hold, while the player character is more interested in exploration. You play as Rani, half of a pair of down-on-their-luck space explorers who land on an unknown planet in search of marketable items. I wasn’t completely sure about it going in – I’m notoriously bad at platformers – but I was pleased to discover that it leaned more towards story and exploration than either puzzling or platforming. Coming off of a pretty significant binge of games where you clean things up, The Gunk seemed to be a good choice for something to ease me back into something, well, a little more game-like.
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