What a pleasant and relaxing little adventure.
Little Kitty, Big City is probably the sort of game Stray (2022) should’ve been, as you much more distinctly feel like a cat with all the whimsy that entails, rather than a voiceless avatar for an unoriginal dystopia narrative. It doesn’t quite have the loveable charm and challenge of Untitled Goose Game (2019) but they clearly have been inspired by its success.
This game could easily have been released many years ago in the 64 bit era as it does nothing that hasn’t been a staple of 3D adventure games ever since. However, what it does do - it manages to do well and with a sort of irreverent joy you sometimes need in your life.
The only challenging thing here is the occasionally clunky camera and the sometimes inaccurate jumping mechanic. You enter our feline friend’s home city full of the joys and happy to discover the colourful urban maze and all the characters within it. When you do discover a new area or solve a vertical puzzle you experience a sense of simple satisfaction that used to be the bread and butter of adventure games, before it was decided poorly written dialogue was more important.
Having played a series of overhyped and overproduced let downs recently I was more than happy to sit back and collect some hats whilst being lectured to about riddles by a chameleon in a cartoon Japanese city.
Sometimes in life it’s exactly what you need.
Little Kitty, Big City is probably the sort of game Stray (2022) should’ve been, as you much more distinctly feel like a cat with all the whimsy that entails, rather than a voiceless avatar for an unoriginal dystopia narrative. It doesn’t quite have the loveable charm and challenge of Untitled Goose Game (2019) but they clearly have been inspired by its success.
This game could easily have been released many years ago in the 64 bit era as it does nothing that hasn’t been a staple of 3D adventure games ever since. However, what it does do - it manages to do well and with a sort of irreverent joy you sometimes need in your life.
The only challenging thing here is the occasionally clunky camera and the sometimes inaccurate jumping mechanic. You enter our feline friend’s home city full of the joys and happy to discover the colourful urban maze and all the characters within it. When you do discover a new area or solve a vertical puzzle you experience a sense of simple satisfaction that used to be the bread and butter of adventure games, before it was decided poorly written dialogue was more important.
Having played a series of overhyped and overproduced let downs recently I was more than happy to sit back and collect some hats whilst being lectured to about riddles by a chameleon in a cartoon Japanese city.
Sometimes in life it’s exactly what you need.