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Deeply unusual gardening game Grunn’s shear snip deserves every award Geoff Keighley has ever inventedShear genius
Shear genius
Image credit:Sokpop Collective
Image credit:Sokpop Collective
Ok, so look. I really dislike it when people use ‘on acid!’ to describe something colourful and imaginative, but Grunn is so wobbly and saturated that I’m very much drawn to that general area of comparison. Let’s try something else: Grunn is both crisp and blurry, like the morning after a house party. It plays bird sounds at you, and even after about five second of playing, I had the intense revelation that these bird songs were now part of me, and I needed them to stop me drifting somewhere dark and inward. Thanks, chirpos!
I explored a bit, then I found a polaroid which acted as clue to tell me where a bridge key I’d already found was. After experiencing some trademarked weird happenings, I found some gardening tools and a to-do list, and set to work. I’m left unsure what my motivation is to perform these tasks, but theyaretasks, and this is a video game, so why not?! I was right to carry on, it turns out. Grunn’s greatest pleasure was just around the corner…
(It’s the shears. I was trying to be mysterious, but it’s the shears again. They’re really great.)
