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Explore the different pixel-art environments of KUNAI, each with a minimalistic palette, while Tabby makes cute faces. Use a variety of ninja tricks to move around the world and unleash your deadly arsenal of weapons to fight your way through armies of evil machines, rogue androids, and mindless mechs to maximize your badassness.
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Posted on: February 7, 2020
Zerodius
Verified ownerGames: 360 Reviews: 6
Great movement, mediocre everything else
Kunai is a strange experience. I guess that it does exactly what it set to do, which is offer a fast-paced action game experience with smooth movement. However, given the general lack of polish of the game, it leave me to wonder why the devs opted to make this a Metroidvania-style game instead of a straight action game. Gameplay-wise, movement is fast and fluid, though the automatic aim of the titular kunai take some time getting used to. However, once you get used to it and get into the rhythm, movement become incredibly fast, fluid, and fun. Unfortunately, everything else has drawbacks, both minor and major. The combat start out mildly interesting but suffer from the 2D Metroid effect ; once you have the rocket launcher, every single enemy and boss encounter is resolved simply by shooting a rocket at it with no other thought necessary. This include the boss fights, which while fun, are overly simplistic (even the last one). The level design... oh boy. The action-oriented level design and linear sections are good. But the non-linear exploration suffer from samey rooms, no fast travel or coherent major shortcuts, and arbitrary invisible wall secrets with no telegraphing. Not that there's much use in the secrets (almost all of them are hats and the two health upgrades in the whole game give only a puny extra boost). Graphically, the game does have some very pretty environments. Unfortunately, the limited palette also means that many rooms look samey. Music is best aspect (why is there no final boss theme though?) However, the worldbuilding is non-existent. You never learn anything about anyone, or the world. The villain's motives, or even what it is, is never explained or hinted at. The atmosphere at the start of the game is good but past that, a few jokes from NPCs and pointers at your next objective is all you get. Oh and bugs gallore. Falling through the floor isn't fun. This isn't to say that Kunai is atrocious ; I give it 3 stars, not 1 or 2.
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