But the childish veneer is charming, and while Pikuniku isn't the deepest game around, it's lovely, funny, and engrossing in its own weird way.Īt the game's opening, your character-Piku, an entity made up of an oblong red body with dots for eyes and two long spindly legs coming out of it-awakens in a cave, prompted by a ghost to go outside.
It's a game about battling a corporate takeover, and the writing has the playful, sarcastically irreverent tone you're more likely to see from someone in their 20s or 30s. A giant company pays a town by making money rain from the sky a trendy nightclub will only let you in if you dress "cool" by wearing sunglasses you play a game someone "invented," but which is, essentially, just basketball mixed with soccer.īut Pikuniku (Japanese for "picnic") never feels like it was designed specifically for children. It tells a simple story that doesn't always quite make sense, it's pointedly very silly, and there are scenes within it that seem to be based on how a child understands the world. With its simple character designs and a game world that often looks like a young kid designed it by cutting up and sticking together different bits of colored paper, Pikuniku sometimes feels like a video game adaption of a children's book.
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