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* BigBrotherIsWatching: It doesn't take long to start noticing the "hidden" surveillance cameras popping out of the scenery to watch your every move. [[spoiler: Turns out to be a ChekhovsGun, when Mr. Sunshine gets fed up after watching you destroy several of his robots, and abruptly flies in to take care of the problem himself.]]
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Everything is cute and shiny and colorful, little birds are flying around, pretty flowers are blooming, there's lots of free money and dance parties for everyone...[[spoiler:and the evil corporation that's taken over the island is surveiling the population and strip mining their communities for resources, which it's hoarding to rebuild a new society from the ashes after destroying the island with a volcanic eruption]].
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* BreadAndCircuses: Most of the citizenry is too busy exulting about the ''FREE MONEY'' and dancing in the Sunshine Inc. exclusive dance club to stop and think about how their resources are being sucked away. [[spoiler: This is a very deliberate distraction strategy on Mr. Sunshine's part.]]
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* MegaCorp: Sunshine Inc has only the best intentions for the people of the island! Shhh. Just take your ''free money''.
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* FlyingOnACloud: Several of the platforming areas require you to zoom around on cute little SolidClouds.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Mr. Sunshine presents himself with a jovial and friendly facade and gives people free money, this way, the villagers are too busy spending their money while he exploits the world's resources.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Mr. Sunshine presents himself with a jovial and friendly facade and gives people free money, this money. This way, the villagers are too busy spending their money while he exploits the world's resources.
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Enter Piku, a strange ball with legs. While at first they get accused by villagers of being a monstrous beast, they eventually help them to restore the world back to its former glory. Along the way they'll meet characters of very diverse characteristics who just want him to stop and help.
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Enter Piku, a strange ball with legs. While at first they get accused by villagers of being a monstrous beast, they eventually help them to restore the world back to its former glory. Along the way they'll meet characters of very diverse characteristics who just want him them to stop and help.
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Enter Piku, a strange ball with legs. While at first he gets accused by villagers of being a monstrous beast, he eventually helps them to restore the world back to its former glory. Along the way he'll meet characters of very diverse characteristics who just want him to stop and help.
''Pikuniku'' is a puzzle platformer where you control Piku who walks strangely and can extend his legs to grab onto hooks and can also roll into a ball to squeeze into tight corridors and move faster. The game is an open-world platformer that is meant to be played at a leisurely pace and with a graphical style resembling paper cutouts.
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Enter Piku, a strange ball with legs. While at first he gets they get accused by villagers of being a monstrous beast, he they eventually helps help them to restore the world back to its former glory. Along the way he'll they'll meet characters of very diverse characteristics who just want him to stop and help.
''Pikuniku'' is a puzzle platformer where you control Piku who walks strangely and can extendhis their legs to grab onto hooks and can also roll into a ball to squeeze into tight corridors and move faster. The game is an open-world platformer that is meant to be played at a leisurely pace and with a graphical style resembling paper cutouts.
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* SillyWalk: Piku's walk animation is quite silly, since his main body accelerates and stops rapidly, but his legs are left having to catch up. When he starts walking, his body leans forward and his legs stretch a fair distance before actually starting the walking animation with long strides; when he stops walking, his body stops suddenly and his legs have to course-correct, usually taking steps backwards so they remain beneath his body.
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* SillyWalk: Piku's walk animation is quite silly, since his their main body accelerates and stops rapidly, but his their legs are left having to catch up. When he starts they start walking, his their body leans forward and his their legs stretch a fair distance before actually starting the walking animation with long strides; when he stops they stop walking, his their body stops suddenly and his their legs have to course-correct, usually taking steps backwards so they remain beneath his their body.
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* GreenwashedVillainy: Mr. Sunshine markets himself as a businessman who sends flying robots who pick up trash and even gives money to the residents of the town. [[spoiler:He actually wants to destroy the island with his volcano to build a perfect city in his image.]]
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* PermanentlyMissableContent: There's no way to return to the volcano in the PlayableEpilogue, which means trophies and the micro bug in the volcano are missable.
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* NoPunctuationIsFunnier: Most of the dialogue has no capitalization or punctuation.
* PermanentlyMissableContent: There's no way to return tothe volcano [[spoiler:the volcano]] in the PlayableEpilogue, which means trophies and the micro bug in the volcano inside are missable.
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* AccidentalAstronaut: [[spoiler: Mr. Sunshine's undoing. One kick and off he goes into space.]]
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* ElSpanishO: One of the rebels calls the secret bunker "El Bunko."
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* AdvancingBossOfDoom: The second robot you fight requires you to cross the entire valley without getting caught while it chases you.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the characters at one point or another. Piku's dialogue options usually include a snarky one as well.
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* DoorToBefore: The more difficult platforming and puzzle sections usually give you a shortcut back to the beginning. In some places the "door" is a frog that teleports you.
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* GenreBlindness: Exaggerated and played for laughs with the villagers in the first town, who blow right by all the obvious clues that Mr. Sunshine is the bad guy and come up with all sorts of enthusiastic excuses to cheer him on while he takes their stuff.
* GetBackHereBoss: [[spoiler:The closest thing to a final boss is a sequence where you chase Mr. Sunshine across a river of lava in a speedboat while he throws corn (which turns into popcorn upon hitting the lava) at you.]]
* GetBackHereBoss: [[spoiler:The closest thing to a final boss is a sequence where you chase Mr. Sunshine across a river of lava in a speedboat while he throws corn (which turns into popcorn upon hitting the lava) at you.]]
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* InsistentTerminology: One of the rebels is really attached to his nickname for the secret hideout, El Bunko. The others get annoyed whenever he calls it that.
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* InventionalWisdom: The volcano on the island is designed to erupt at the press of a button. [[spoiler:Right next to it is a button to cancel the eruption.]]
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* TemptingFate: Sam's Pottery
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Developed by an indie group Sectorgroup and published by Creator/DevolverDigital and first released on January 21, 2019 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, ''Pikuniku'' is a puzzle platformer game in a world where all is not as it seems.
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Developed by an British-French indie group Sectorgroup and Sectordub, published by Creator/DevolverDigital Creator/DevolverDigital, and first released on January 21, 2019 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, ''Pikuniku'' is a puzzle platformer game in a world where all is not as it seems.
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* ShoutOut: In Co-op mode's car levels, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnOAC6wiBmA continuously honking the car horn]] will play ''Take on Me''.
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** In Co-op mode's car levels, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnOAC6wiBmA continuously honking the car horn]] will play''Take [[Music/{{Aha}} "Take on Me''.Me"]].
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* SurpriseCreepy: [[spoiler: The abandoned mines are filled with dilapidated housing and black statues shaped like Mr. Sunshine. One would assume it was just his first attempt at an {{Egopolis}}, but those aren't statues; those are the corpses of his townsfolk after a magma flow killed them all.]]
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** [[spoiler: The abandoned mines are filled with dilapidated housing and black statues shaped like Mr. Sunshine. One would assume it was just his first attempt at an {{Egopolis}}, but those aren't statues; those are the corpses of his townsfolk after a magma flow killed them all.]]
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Mr. Sunshine gets away with exploiting the world's resources by giving people free money.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can kick most NPCs, and some can't even object, but...
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Developed by an indie group Sectorgroup and published by Creator/DevolverDigital and first released on January 21, 2019 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, ''Pikuniku'' is a puzzle platformer game in a world where all is not as it seems.
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Enter your character, a strange ball with legs known by others as only "The Beast". It is the goal of The Beast to help restore the world back to its former glory. Along the way you'll meet characters of very diverse characteristics who just want you to stop and help.
''Pikuniku'' is a puzzle platformer where you control "The Beast" who walks strangely and can extend his legs to grab onto hooks and can also roll into a ball to squeeze into tight corridors. The game is an open-world platformer that is meant to be played at a leisurely pace and with a graphical style resembling paper cutouts.
''Pikuniku'' is a puzzle platformer where you control "The Beast" who walks strangely and can extend his legs to grab onto hooks and can also roll into a ball to squeeze into tight corridors. The game is an open-world platformer that is meant to be played at a leisurely pace and with a graphical style resembling paper cutouts.
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''Pikuniku'' is a puzzle platformer where you control"The Beast" Piku who walks strangely and can extend his legs to grab onto hooks and can also roll into a ball to squeeze into tight corridors.corridors and move faster. The game is an open-world platformer that is meant to be played at a leisurely pace and with a graphical style resembling paper cutouts.
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* AndYourRewardIsClothes: There are hidden temples that aren't plot-important, just NintendoHard extra areas. The result from most of these is... a hat with no use.
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* BlackDotPupils: Most everyone except the worms, and that's only because it's a white pupil on black. Surprise, excitement, or stunned expressions merely add a white ring to show the eyes wide open.
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* DanceOff: A particular robot suffers a feedback loop and explodes if you beat it in a dance-off. You have to do this to prove to a group of rebels you're against Mr. Sunshine.
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* GreatEscape: Late in the game, Mr. Sunshine arrests the Beast and puts him in jail for breaking his robots and interfering with his plans. It is within jail that the Beast learns of his plan and needs to escape to stop it.
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* PunchClockVillain: Literally, and taken to extremes. [[spoiler:The only reason the bot doesn't kill The Beast Piku in Mr. Sunshine's lair is because Mr. Sunshine revealed one of the larger bot operators isn't getting paid where his partner is. The two ''both'' think it's unfair and refuse to continue work until the one is getting paid. Rather than acquiesce and let it go, Mr. Sunshine tries to escape.]]
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[spoiler:The volcano's short-lived explosion is large enough to shoot The Beast and Mr. Sunshine into outer space, but most of the villagers barely consider it.]]
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler:One of the villagers treats the volcano's massive explosion as a spectacle, and only decides it was bad because a piece of magma fell down and burned the last page of the book he was reading.]]
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** Mr. Sunshine tries to create a new "perfect" race called the Sunshiners, which end up being a mix of his robots, valley residents, and forest residents. [[spoiler:They're harmless, but don't look too good.]]
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