Kattish Review | TheXboxHub

Kattish does one thing that’s notably odd. It doesn’t really reveal what sort of sport it’s till after you get 1000G. It’s fully doable for achievement hunters to get their 100% Gamerscore and depart Kattish with out realising what sort of sport it’s. 

For the primary ten ranges, Kattish is a particularly generic platformer. You’re a cat, and also you solely have eyes for the exit on the finish of the extent. In-between are some platforms and enemies, and the one weapon you’ve got readily available (on paw?) is a limp little soar. So, you might be leaping from platform to platform, dodging the spikes and slugs, and attending to the interdimensional cat flap on the finish of the extent. 

Degree one, 100G. Degree two, 100G. And so it goes all the way in which to stage ten, solely 5 minutes later. Cue loads of ‘1000G in 5 Minutes!’ achievement movies on Youtube. That can most likely internet Kattish loads of £4.19s. 

It’s solely on stage eleven that Kattish reveals what its gimmick is. All of the sudden, dotted strains seem throughout the map. Soar into the dotted line, and gravity will get reversed. In the event you had been to leap by means of a dotted line after which go away the pad alone, you’d maintain switching gravity, time and again, falling forwards and backwards by means of that line. It’s sufficient to offer you movement illness. 

It’s an ‘aha’ second that brings Kattish into focus. Now, that’s what it’s attempting to do. We had been prepping a 2.5/5 rating, and smug feedback of ‘good for achievements, paw for gameplay’, as we readied our our bodies for a generic platformer. That received tossed within the bin.

The Xbox Retailer web page for Kattish presents it as a sport the place “every part has totally different mechanics from one another”, which might be over-selling it a bit. The gravity defying is the dominant mechanic, whereas the others are extra tacked on. Pushing packing containers, accumulating keys and hiding in shadows aren’t precisely game-changers, so the gravity fiddling is what Kattish hangs on.

Alas, we will think about a model of Kattish the place the gravity stuff works. If it moved extra into the course of  puzzling, then it coulda been a contender. Navigating a map the place you may strategy a given platform from any given angle sounds good to us, and we might have loved taking part in it. However Kattish goes elsewhere.

As an alternative, it goals for some twitchy action-platforming. It desires you to slingshot from one finish of an enviornment to a different, fastidiously pulling off a trajectory that doesn’t have you ever ending up as shish kebab. It desires you to tug off a sequence of gravity loops, dodging enemies as you go. The emphasis turns into talent and timing, and it’s nowhere close to as enjoyable.

There’s solely a lot management you may have over a slingshotted leap. You’re on the whims of Isaac Newton, and that places a dampener on the enjoyable. Typically it may really feel too random. And pulling off figures of eight and others, all whereas dodging the patrol routes of enemies is extremely fiddly. One pixel within the incorrect place and you must do it over again.

Consequently, we discovered Kattish extra painful than enjoyable. We knew precisely what wanted to be finished, however getting it finished wasn’t all the time fulfilling. We hoped that Kattish would discover its puzzle facet, nevertheless it stored back-sliding again into motion.

It’s not dangerous by any stretch of the creativeness. Certain, we’re finished with cats in puzzle video games (we will’t inform you what number of we’ve performed not too long ago), however that is a minimum of a finely crafted one. The pixel artwork is properly introduced, the cat adorably cute, and the degrees are properly designed, give or take some fiddly bits. And hey, there’s 5 minutes of 1000G in order for you it.

However the over-reliance on navigating a cat mid-air makes for a cumbersome tackle motion. It by no means fairly turned one thing we wished to do: it was all the time the required evil to finishing a stage.

Possibly we’ll retrieve that smug quip from our bin in any case: Kattish is, certainly, good for achievements and paw for gameplay. It’s simply not poor in the way in which we anticipated. The opening ranges make it appear painfully generic, however when the gravity gameplay kicks in, it turns into painfully fiddly. Kattish trades one itchy furball for an additional.

You should purchase Kattish from the Xbox Retailer