Recent reviews by rKool

short and sweet indie game goated with the sauce. a real trendsetter in gaming back when it first came out (even though that trend ended up evolving into walking simulators on occasion). aged like fine wine itself.

if you think this game looks fun I got two words for you: random encounters

This is about cuckolding, and its not even funny

Democracy sucks but this game is p cool ig

It had its ups and downs but overall a positive experience

This game is oozing style and creativity. Very replayable, very fun. Don't have much else to say, GO APE OUT!

Boring soulslike/metroidvania mix. Only reason I didn't refund it was because it cost me barely anything when I got it on sale and I thought it might get later on into the game. Looking back, I wish I had decided to get my 50p back. Combat is as dull and monotonic during the final boss as it is in the first hour.

Story is nothing short of generic and the "true ending" is not worth the time you put in as it is literally just an ambigious af cutscene and that's it.

Even the exploration, which should be one of the strongest aspects of a metroidvania, fails to feel rewarding as optional upgrades you pick up barely impact gameplay. Most of these secret exploration areas are just "oh look here's another wall you can turn the corner around on" and involves an annoying amount of backtracking.

Speaking of backtracking, it's terribly tedious game as you get no mobility upgrades (the hook doesn't count as it can only be used on enemies or certain access points that are built in) .

I guess I could say a lot more and articulate things better. It's just a mid game and considering how many better games are already out there you that you can spend your time on instead, I can't recommend this to anyone (maybe to someone who has barely played any games of the similar genre)

Let's start off with what I love about this game:
+the art style and colouring,
+the character animations/emotes
+the overall premise, NPCs and your dialogue with them (nothing too special but very fitting to the theme and were about what I was expecting),
+all the cute lil hats you can wear!
+the details that makes an "open world" and "exploration" game enjoyable. Like how there are no loading screens at all unless you decide to fast travel, or that there are tiny areas to explore and things to interact with in almost every corner.


Unfortunately the game drops the ball in the area that matters the most. movement. Even though it gives you full control of your character in terms of parkouring around the map UNLIKE ANOTHER CAT GAME, the controls are so sluggish and unresponsive that it feels like you're tying to drive an RC car that has it's batteries dying.
I'm meant to be a cat ffs. An animal most commonly known by it's agility, balance, quickness and athleticism. These controls do not make you feel nowhere near that.

I thought maybe a more expansive move set would open up as I kept playing(and maybe that is still the case for later down the line in the game but the base mechanics don't feel good enough for me to the only "new mechanic" I unlocked before I had to stop to go over the refund window is the vine-climb and even that doesn't feel properly implemented with there being seemingly no use for the vault option as it just moves you very slightly up an drains almost all of your stamina.

Also I frequently walked through small walls, corners and even got stuck in them while falling due to walking off the edge of a wall I was walking on because, again, sluggish turning. I genuinely had to tab out of the game to check whether I was playing an early access title.

This one definitely needed a lot more polish in the gameplay section before release. This game, at the state it is in is just not worth the money. Especially not at full price.

I wish I could like this game but it just feels terrible to play no matter what.

Unironically, it gets better after the first 8 or so hours where you got enough upgrades and shards to customise your gameplay. At my current save where I just finished he game once, got all he modifications and started ng+ it feels so much better. although I will say most people might not want to bother with the annoyingly sluggish early state of the character, so I cant blame anyone for not making through.

Edit: I just found out about the no-hit and no-death achievements. This game does not have the tight/responsive enough controls and animations to support that kind of gameplay. The fact that devs think it's reasonable to add those kinds of achievements tells me they don't even know what game they made. Also only being able to pick up one upgrade item per run AND you lose them at the start of the next one? perfect way to make the player feel like their character is stagnating whereas every enemy is getting more powerful each run. Just arbitrary difficulty increase for the sake of it. A lot of design decisions in this game does not make anything you achieve feel rewarding or satisfying.

Overall, a 6/10. Quite mid. I had my and fun rage but there are games (eg FURI) out there that do the exact same thing(boss rush action) but better. so go play that if you havent already.

its not fun(ny) even as a joke