the dairy game Game review : The Gunk 4/1/2022
After the success of the development team, Image & Form, with the 2D series SteamWorld, the team presents us with its first 3D games with the adventure and platform game The Gunk, which was released on PC and Xbox for the current and past generations, and we will introduce you to this experience through the review. .
The story of the game focuses on Rani and her friend Beck, who are wandering the galaxy on a mission to find a source of energy in order to pay their accumulated debts. Roaming around the planet to try to discover the source of energy on the planet and learn more about dark matter during the process, and the name of that substance was called The Gunk.
During the story, you will play the character of the inquisitive adventurer Rani, and you will receive instructions from Beck, who is a serious character who wants to focus exclusively on finding the source of energy on the planet. The concept of being able to reach a compromise despite the great differences between people and stressing the importance of preserving the planet and natural resources as a sign of the planet.
The game offers an excellent graphic level with a cartoonish artistic orientation and a diversity of colors that produces a beautiful game with calm melodies providing most of the experience and some of the most enthusiastic melodies when engaging in battles. For the characters in the conversations, which is a perfectionism flaw that does not actually affect the experience.
The gameplay is simple and the gameplay mechanics revolve around Rani’s robotic arm, through which you remove the dark matter from the environment and as you progress in the experience, you will have to develop this arm to get more abilities that will benefit you in battles and in solving puzzles as well. It is an important feature to know what resources can be found in the environment. Gathering resources is very important because you will need these resources to develop your robotic arm. Also, scanning the various elements of the environment and gathering information will reveal to you the next ability that can be developed.
One of the main activities that you will do during the game is to remove the dark matter to open the way for you and this process is very satisfying because removing the dark matter will bring life back to the area around you to change that gloomy gray area into a forest full of plants, ponds and rocks with beautiful colors and with time you will be able to develop Your arm to make the black matter removal process more rapid and efficient.
The game offers many puzzles and challenges of jumping between entertaining platforms that you will need various capabilities of the robotic arm to solve and will require you to look at the surrounding environment to use some plants that some of them explode and remove black matter on distant platforms or plants that cause other plants to appear that you can jump on To reach high areas
The battles are present in the game, but they do not occupy a large part of the experience. Their purpose is to add diversification and break the routine. The battles part were not designed as required. They depend on the use of the robotic arm to attract enemies to you and throw them at others or launch a shell from your arm to eliminate enemies and what is wrong with this part It's very simple and quickly loses its fun.
In addition to the battles, the other defect of the game is the absence of the challenge. The experience is entertaining, but it is very easy. The puzzles do not require a lot of time or thinking to solve, and the parts of jumping between platforms are simple and do not provide any ideas that you have not seen in another platform game, and the defect of the game is not necessarily bad, but rather the absence of innovation Most of her ideas are traditional ideas or traditional ideas with some minor modifications.
The experiment is short and we finished it in 4 and a half hours with our interest in collecting resources and getting all the abilities of the robotic arm. It does not offer new ideas that distinguish it from other platform games