simplecoffee
Fun puzzles, but I signed up for a tiny robot rescuing their kidnapped friends. I did not sign up for this tiny robot (ie us, the player character) indiscriminately and mercilessly DESTROYING OTHER ROBOTS along the way. Holy shit, the whiplash!
Characters are cute, but a bit too self-satisfied for my liking. (I like my smugcat!characters with a bit of angst or tired stoicism for flavour. This says absolutely nothing about me, of course.)
Plot is very cool, though resolved too simplistically to quite hold water for an adult playing. Puzzles are fun for the most part; I'm good at shapes and logic puzzles, less so at numbers. Some of the trick questions made me roll my eyes, but others were clever. I enjoyed the little minigames that progress in parallel to the main plot (assembling the painting, collecting gizmos to make a creature, and furnishing the characters' rooms based on their silly reactions to the stuff they're given.)
Plot is very cool, though resolved too simplistically to quite hold water for an adult playing. Puzzles are fun for the most part; I'm good at shapes and logic puzzles, less so at numbers. Some of the trick questions made me roll my eyes, but others were clever. I enjoyed the little minigames that progress in parallel to the main plot (assembling the painting, collecting gizmos to make a creature, and furnishing the characters' rooms based on their silly reactions to the stuff they're given.)
Replaying the first game on my own on Android, while also watching girlfriend play it on Windows PC. This thing is SO GOOD. So fucking bizarre and so fucking good.
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Sir, are you aware that you're a cat?
SOBBING
Sillier than Ace Attorney somehow, but deeply moving regardless. Watched/'helped' (doubtful how much help I was) girlfriend play on Windows PC.
Sillier than Ace Attorney somehow, but deeply moving regardless. Watched/'helped' (doubtful how much help I was) girlfriend play on Windows PC.
2022
Love logic puzzles in this style. The framing device is very fun, too!
2023
Lots of fun! However, the database doesn't have a bunch of the more interesting plants, like Rafflesia or the titan arum or pitcher plant.
2023
More animals! More animals!
2016
Beautiful graphics, great gameplay, haunting music. Surprisingly, I think the music really brought it down for me, reducing the zen puzzle aspect of the game in favour of drawing attention to the existential dread of what the player is really doing. Excellently done, but I stopped playing due to the melancholy it was inducing.
TBD
I play the big fucking guy (7-letter board) constantly.
2019
Friendly Scorpion my beloved
2019
Love the ambience and visual design, but the puzzles are extremely repetitive. I think better translation work would have done this game a lot more favours.
2015
Played the compilation (Where Is Cat?, Cat in Japan, and Christmas Cat) on Android. I can confidently say I love cat.
2015
Fantastic puzzle game.
Needs more boards, but then all the recent Mario Parties do.