![]() This is likely designed to prevent any sort of over-leveling as they can control how much you’ll have access to scan at key moments in the game. There is a decent amount to unlock and craft at your ship’s crafting station and you'll increase your range of upgrades oddly by filling an experience bar by scanning the plants and other oddities you find on the planet’s surface. You'll earn these upgrades by collecting planetary resources like plants and minerals however, they largely don't feel like they make a substantial impact other than a few of them offering such abilities as firing off a blast to unlock doors, launching probes to distract enemies, or increasing the range and suck power of your vacuum arm. ![]() The Gunk has a very simple execution in its mechanics and ideas as apart from some basic platforming and light combat, you'll have a few upgrades to unlock to push through certain progress blocks the game throws at you, and no, this isn't a Metroidvania. The Gunk is not a long adventure, coming in at around 4-5 hours, so there is not much filler or additional quests to bog down the story and instead allows its narrative to feel front and center. While Rani will discover much of what is going on through her solo explorable curiosity, and while initially against the wishes of Beck, her justification of wanting to help does genuinely come across due to some fairly decent voice work by Fiona Nova as Rani, and Abigail Turner as Beck, even if I feel that some of the dialogue is laughably bad from time to time. While The Gunk has a thrilling concept in its story, it's largely focused on conversations largely between Rani and Beck to push the story forward. While treating the land by cleaning up this pollution, Rani will discover a long-lost event that transformed the planet into this desolate and barren wasteland and bring it upon themselves to hopefully right the wrong and save the planet and its people. ![]() Equipped, coincidently with a vacuum arm of all things, Rani is capable of sucking up said gunk, transforming the recently barren and colorless environment into the lush and colorful paradise it once was. As they explore this grimey and bland world, they discover that much of that dark and gloomy aesthetic is due to a gunk that has consumed much of the planet. The Gunk is very much one of those games that while enjoyable for the brief few hours it takes to complete, isn't going to likely be remembered that much going forward.īroke and looking for a big payday, Rani and Beck land on an uncharted planet in hopes it contains something that can make them a quick buck. From games such as Extermination, Primal, or Freedom Fighters, each resonated in their own way, despite being games that would never reach much acclaim other than retrospective videos on YouTube about forgotten gems of a past generation. The Gunk, the latest title from SteamWorld’s Image and Form games reminds me of the era of the PS2 when new IPs were released one week and then forgotten the next. ![]()
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