The gunk release time5/2/2023 The Gunk does has a good visual style with environments that pop with colour providing a feeling of hope, while the more grey and dreary areas really helping to evoke a sense of oppression and dread. A quick quit to the main menu and reload resolves this, and there’s thankfully frequent checkpoints so no progress is really lost. Your playtime might also be disrupted by a few minor bugs blocking progression because clearing the gunk didn’t trigger the animation needed to continue. The Gunk takes roughly 6-7 hours to complete, but the pacing feels more drawn out through the final act than it needs to be, especially when it leads up to a rather simple final boss. They don’t become so complex that you will get stuck for long. The puzzles will start off simple, but as you make your way through they become a bit more complex and spread between multiple room. To pass these puzzles you will need to use certain plants, like a seed plant that will grow a sturdy natural platform, or another plant that acts as a bomb. The upgrades vary from making Pumpkin’s hoovering function more powerful, to providing additional health for Rani, and creating a decoy that attracts enemies.Īs you explore the world and make your way through The Gunk’s story you will encounter a number of environmental puzzles. You can’t craft while on the go but must instead return to the campsite – in each area you visit, you will be able to set a beacon so you can fast travel back to base. Doing so will allow you find resources like metal, organic, and fibre, with all of these being used to craft upgrades for Rani and Pumpkin. Pumpkin has a scanner function that allows you to learn about some of the plants, animals, and other points of interest in the environment. The environment handles much more of the story telling than Rani’s dialogue does.Īside from clearing gunk and fending off critters, The Gunk is also about resource collecting. It’s a direct allegory for the pollution in the real world and destruction that it is causing, as the gunk is having a major ecological impact and killing off the natural environment. The Gunk is very much a tale of nature against industrial overreach and it handles this topic well, unfolding its story gradually and in an often subtle way. Through most of The Gunk you will be vacuuming gunk to clear areas and breathe life back into them.
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