You can hold down A (or Space, if you're so inclined, although Stray is definitely best played with a game pad), for example, and your cat pal will leap around to its heart's content as long as there's a corresponding button prompt on your surface of choice. It puts your Uncharteds and Tomb Raiders to shame, really, even though its platforming follows a similarly automated mould. The minimalist HUD is still a touch artificial, to be sure, but the overall effect it creates is one of astounding realism, letting you actively pick through this forgotten jumble of ledges, rooftops and air conditioning units as you see fit, rather than feeling like you're simply going through the motions on a predefined path. Whereas other 3D platformers tend to drown you in gallons of paint and glinting footholds telling you where to go, Stray opts for a smarter way of doing things, offering up simple, context-sensitive button prompts showing you where you can and can't jump as you move the camera around. I wouldn't go as far as saying it loosened my jaw quite as much as when I first set eyes on Trico from The Last Guardian, all told, but I reckon if BlueTwelve had the same kind of budget and scale as GenDesign and Sony's Japan Studio did back then, then Stray's cat would be every bit the equal of that famous cat-bird-chimera.īut it's the way Stray's cat navigates its walled, closed-off city that impresses the most. You can also play a mean game of billiards, much to the annoyance of the local robots. You can scratch the backs of sofas and knead and shred carpets with alternate squeezes of the trigger buttons, meow at will, lap from dripping water bowls, topple piles of carefully stacked books and push paint cans off the edge of ledges - and, if you leave them idle long enough, they'll stretch and catch flies too tiny to be caught by the human eye. The cat itself is a marvel of digital observation, fully inhabiting all of the best cat-isms I know and love. Stray, BlueTwelve Studio's cat 'em up explorathon, puts you in the paws of a similarly savvy feline protagonist.
#Meow match roof top windows
As an owner of two tortoiseshells myself, they've unlocked routes in our house I never knew existed, using the tiny lip of our fridge as a gateway to the top of our kitchen cupboards, bed frames as launch pads to the middle bar of our sash windows (not even the actual window sill, those daft beasts), and don't even get me started on how they managed to get onto the top of our 2cm wide shower rail that one time.
A must-play for cat lovers, and it also breaks new ground for action adventure fans.Ĭats are masters of their domain. A remarkable tale about the best cat in video games finding their way home through a dense and rich post-apocalypse.
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