Overcoming these dangers aren’t really challenging but they are fun enough to change things up a bit. Combat isn’t difficult so it doesn’t interfere with the relaxing gameplay | Eventually sucking up the goo becomes a bit harder as the Gunk blocks your view in narrow environments but it also spawns natural defences like cute little monsters, turret shooting flowers or even bigger surprises.Carefully read my ‘felt like’ words though, as the gameplay is actually pretty basic but the unique mix of everything that The Gunk has to offer makes it so fascinating. Sucking up the goo with Rani’s glove, discovering craft materials by bringing the world back to life and solving easy platforming puzzles and combat setpieces felt like they reinvented the platform genre. A gameplay loop so addictive that I finished The Gunk in one sitting, twelve hours of pure joy. Here is where The Gunk shines, it constantly rewards the player for cleaning up the black goo. What makes something fun? An important reason is having a rewarding feeling. Refreshing gameplay | What makes the gameplay from The Gunk good? First, we need to understand the essentials of fun gameplay.Throwing seeds to grow mushrooms so you can jump to unreachable places, The Gunk is a linear game but with enough secrets to encourage exploring. When you cleaned the environment from the gunk you often use plantlife to proceed in fun platforming puzzles. While The Gunk doesn’t bring this message on purpose I couldn’t help but feel connections with humanity’s way of destroying the planet and the blackish gunk. Throughout the game, I regularly started to link the alien world without very own planet Earth. There’s also something emotional about the whole thing. There are so many alien biomes too, more than I hoped for. The magical and gratifying feeling you get seeing plants and flowers get revitalised never grows old. When Rani removes all of that black sticky stuff the area comes back to life in a beautiful colourful way. Rather quickly they discover mysterious black gunk that sucks the life out of the environment, resulting in depressing greyish visuals. Bringing the world back to life | Rani and Beck land on a planet hoping to find valuable resources.Size doesn’t matter, except when you control a glove sucking powertool. ℹ️ Reviewed on Xbox Series X | Review code provided by PR/publisher, this review is the personal opinion from the writer. If someone asks me the question, what is your game of the year for 2021? My answer would be The Gunk. After finishing it I immediately started replaying it for a second time, because I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to Rani. No game is perfect, even The Gunk has things that could be better but it left me with such a fascinating feeling and I absolutely loved every single thing about it. I’m not the one who easily throws with maximum scores so this is very rare. In case you didn’t check the score yet, I’m giving The Gunk a 100%! That ambitious game is leaving one hell of an impression on me. I think I can say that this is the most ambitious game that the studio has ever done. This is the studio’s first 3D game and fully exclusive for the Xbox platform. In 2020 Microsoft announced The Gunk at the Xbox Series X Games Showcase. LifeisXbox’s The Gunk review | Image & Form Games ain’t no stranger for most gamers, this Swedish developer is quite known for the highly-rated Steamworld series.
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