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Rani is adventurous and carefree, wanting to push into the depths of this planet and explore. The idea is to explore uncharted territory to find something to make money from, and before they know it they are in over their heads trying to save the planet itself.Īs a conceit to push the story forward, it’s simple and it works. One way or another this pair have been together travelling the galaxy for a while, and owe a lot of money for their clapped out spaceship. There’s an allusion to them being more than just business partners, but The Gunk is about the story more than it is the characters.

Landing on an unknown planet, Rani and Becks are partners. Yet despite all of this, it has a tremendous amount of heart. This is one of those titles where “thanks for playing” appears at the end of the rather short list of credits where a lot of the names repeat. When the credits rolled I didn’t feel hard done by, I felt as though a metaphorical hand had been extended for me to shake. That length, while irksome to some, is a boon for Game Pass subscribers and people who prefer shorter experiences these days. It’s one of the least pretentious experiences of 2021, with simple to grasp controls, motifs, and a runtime of well under under five hours. A game where the story develops as you play, there aren’t any collectibles, and the reward is just playing through once, then moving on. In many ways, The Gunk feels like a throwback to a bygone era. READ MORE: ‘Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney’ gave me an enduring love for character design.

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Image & Form is a well known developer that’s become a cult favourite thanks to the Steamworld series of games: each a brand new genre within the universe, but this is the team’s first new game in over ten years. The Gunk is out now on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.What is The Gunk? It’s a weird name for a game, but then, while it may stray too close to being safe at times, it’s a fairly strange experience from start to finish. On my scale of 1-10, the game’s art, graphics, and controls pulled it from the fire of my irritation towards the script reading, looping of dull tunes, and shortness of story, I’m giving it a 7/10.

Another bad thing about The Gunk is that it’s a “One and done” kind of game, where once you finish it, you most likely will never play it again which is a shame as it’s a really visually beautiful game. When it came to the dynamic between Rani and Becks I felt a bit lost about who they were to each other which a longer story may have shed a bit more light on that. The worse thing about the game I felt was the length, it could have been longer as I beat it in two days making it feel like there could have been more potential for the story. Overall The Gunk is a pleasant surprise that has its good and bad takes. I also like the detail of the faces of Rani and Becks when they talk during gameplay where you can see when their mouths move their lips are animated to move with the voice-over perfectly, not bad for an indie studio as you normally see this in some AAA games. With the system I’m playing on with a 4k HDMI cable, it really made the colors pop and bring the world of this mysterious planet to life. The biggest thing I loved about the game was the graphics and art. Solder is pronounced “Sod-Er” but it was read as “Saul-der”, and Gruel which is pronounced “Grool” was read as “Grull” (the “Ull” sounding like it would in the word “dull”), rant over on that part. With the voice acting, it was good but there are a couple of things that need to be said, someone clearly was not paying attention to how Nova and Turner said some of their lines near the start of the game where the actresses said some words wrong the two words being “Solder” and “Gruel”. The sound design is pretty good, the soundtrack is OK but some of the songs can be a bit much as they’re not that long and on a loop. When it comes to interacting with the Gunk itself it’s very satisfying using your power glove to suck it up, seriously it’s unusually satisfying! Onto the game itself, the controls for The Gunk are pretty straightforward and thankfully minimal and respond well especially during combat.

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The Gunk takes players to an unknown world where they play as Rani, voiced by Fiona Nova (Rooster Teeth), who along with Becks, voiced by Abigail Turner (Remothered: Broken Porcelain) landed on a strange planet where they hope to find resources that could make them rich but instead discover a planet full of Gunk, a festering growth that’s slowly killing the planet and hides secrets to an ancient civilization. Things suck on this planet, could it be worse anywhere else? Well, Thunderful has shown that the grass is not always greener on other worlds in their sci-fi exploration game The Gunk.

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