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Yeah that game was complete gutter trash…….i played for at least a few hours until it got boring. Little Kitty big city was a little better, but not by much. If rather play as a shark…….. Just saying……..at least man-eater was fun enough to complete……..
You completely forgot about all the badass Lo-Fi music and the button collecting
I love when people give spoiler warnings
Sounds this game displays the exact ludonarrative dissonance that I sensed from the trailers! :/
Does this man not love anything that is sacred?!
It makes a strange amount of sense that a cat would become the symbol of the resistance; the cat's ability to do whatever it feel likes with no concern for what others expect is inspiring to them! As for the protagonist fulfilling the tasks requested of them, well, that's just necessary to progress the story.
I can't stop giggling at the terminator png in that pose, looking like it wants to square up but is absolutely scared to do so
Now seeking seed funding for: Roomba Revolution.
Yahtzee is the sort of person who would level up his "bollocks licking" stat despite it having very limited gameplay benefits. But before you get too comfy laughing at him, just remember: if you could, you probably would, too.
I feel like the whole "you are a slave to contextual buttons" thing is a leftover symptom of console-game-itis. Every time a game tells me it's "beSt eXPeriencED WiTh A GAmePad", I mentally roll my eyes and prepare for the worst.
The game where you are supposed to be a cat and you can't even be a cat. You have to find the robot buddy and be the wheelchair for the robot buddy. Just let me be a cat.
Kinda like the notion of a player character with no clue what's going on and no real motivation. Why are they doing this? They don't know, you don't know, and more to the point they don't know what they're doing. It's like playing one of those Call of Dumbass games where you're led by the nose from shooting gallery to setpiece and none of it makes any sense or matters. Except, y'know, deliberately so this time.
I feel like part of the point of the game is the cat is we're supposed to project more intelligence onto the cat than an actual cat would actually have. Hell, the fact that he knows to follow the arrows and what the arrows mean is enough evidence of that.
To me the ending is unsatisfying.
1:15 Its either the game or it isn’t. There is no ‘proper’.
And then I wonder what dogs do these people have because I have never had a dog that wanted to obey me all the time. No I have to pay them in treats to get them to do anything. And if they don't like the treat then too bad, they lay there and ignore me. Then again all my dogs have been a chows.
Still enjoyed the game and found that every once and a while they would find some new way to remind me that the developers know how to cat. As far as the button prompts go there's a vary good reason for that. In earlier development they did have free form jumping. However they quickly found out that the play testers had lot's of trouble with it. People couldn't tell if they could make some jumps, common problems when figuring out what could be jumped on of what was out of bounds. Going to guess is also didn't look natural if it turned out like anything from Tokyo Jungle.
0:48 Alley Cat them ol' 8bit computer systems.
I see everyone talk about how great this game is, but I don't see it. Every time I hear people talk about it, they say it's this amazing 10/10 but whenever I see the gameplay all I see is a walking simulator but with a cat.
"You play as a regular cat in a cyberpunk dystopia" ok… and? The gameplay looks pretty boring and being a regular cat isn't a hook. It's literally just a cat. Not to say it needs to be some fucking robot dragon cat, no, I absolutely love cats. I just mean "what you play as shouldn't be the only hook" and "it's just a fucking cat, dude, it's not that important. Yes, it's cute, but that's really it". Also, cyberpunk stuff is just ugly.
There was a previous game with a very small part where you play a cat. CAT Interstellar has you play as a robot oddly called Dog for most of it, but has one stage where you play a kitten at the very end.
I had a silent giggle fit the entire video
ZP's Fifth Blandest Game of 2022, as summed up by Yahtzee:
"As always, The Game Awards showers its indie prizes on whatever passing trend gains sufficient buzz to be deemed worth you hanging with the cool kids, even if it is just a linear hike whose core gameplay lacks any noteworthy feature besides a bumhole-concealing algorithm. It's Stray, a game that you can recreate at home if you happen to own a cat and a laser pointer shaped like a contextual button prompt."
I'm glad Yahtzee exists to counter the hordes of people praising this nothingburger game just because the player character is a housecat
Am still upset you never see the other cats again
I've never played this game, but that wheelchair joke had me crying.
There's a game I played many years ago on the Wii called Deadly Creatures, I loved that game, it was an action adventure with exaggerated combat but its USP was that you played dual storylines which paralleled each other and the two main characters were a Turantula and a Scorpion. There was a story deep story about a pair of guys who find spanish treasure in the desert, but you were only witness to the story because you were a tiny insect trying to survive in a world where everything wants to kill you, the two protagonists never communicate outside of clicking and spitting during cutscenes and it worked. I feel Stray should have done its story like this, I loved the world in the Stray, I loved the characters, I loved the story, and I loved the way the world moved, but being a cat just didn't jive with how involved you were in the story (because let's face it, a cat wouldn't do anything for anyone else). The game should have been about us playing cat and witnessing the story going on around us but having no effect on it because we'll let's face it. You're a selfish cat.
There was a ps1 era game where you played as a robot assassin spider. I dunno how good it was though lpl