Cats and the other lives Review.

Who doesn’t love cats, today I’ve had the pleasure reviewing cats and the other lives from Turkish studio cultic games.

Cat and the other lives is an 2D pixel art story of a family pet were you and see first paw and through the eyes of the family loveable rogue our little mate Aspen.

The story starts of where Bernard mason dies and brings back the stalwart family to come back to the home due to his sudden death.

Aspen must uncover memories and truths and to try and understand what happened all of them years ago and why people are not what they seem.

Playing Aspen, you’ll navigate through the stalwart manor, trying to gain insights into the family’s interactions piecing together memories of what has happened prior to Bernard’s departure.

You’ll find yourself trying to solve occasional puzzles to further scenes, I found the controls quite easy to use and even easier to solve the puzzle you get presented to you, you’ll need to interact with various items to be able to progress.

There was a certain part of where I needed to jump over a wall and to do that task you’ll need to topple over a bin and roll it toward the wall to use as stepping stone.

Throughout the game you will find you will be drawn to shrieking pixelated animated icons highlighting you heightened senses these will illustrate a puzzle or action that will be needed to be performed and to get one paw closer to the end game.

The longevity of the game should take you between 4 and 6 hours or so or even longer if you want to take your time wandering around looking for additional memories.

Despite the loveable rogue Aspen, I did find myself getting a bit bored with the gameplay however the content of the story was well thought out, much of the game I feel was filled with more puzzles than game play.

The controls of the game ae quite basic and didn’t really cause any issues with movement the only real issue I had was figuring out what button did what, this only caused a small length of time at the start of the game mainly because I’m an old fart.

However thinking about it there was a part which I’m not sure converts over to the console well not that I’ve played the game on a PC, is your in a old study with animals all hanging on the wall and you need to follow a spider to unlock a part of the fireplace.

This process I found quiet annoying as selecting the directions to jump took time and the whole puzzle started again, which was very frustrating to say the least made me wanna punch my TV, Calm down Col its all good.

Overall, I did enjoy playing Cats and the other lives, while the puzzling was a tad boring, I did enjoy exploring whitest meeting various characters and listening to the family reconnect and how people are plotting next steps after Bernard’s death. I’m not sure I would recommend this to every click and point fan, however I did enjoy running and pouncing around as Aspen.

You can pick up Cats and the other lives for around £19.99 and is worth a look into, beware that this is not the longest game for the price but i still would recommend trying this.

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