Press X to sit motionless on a cushion and be hand fed treats
and y'all complain about this title being gameplay-light
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Stray by BlueTwelve Studio - Immersive Cyberpunk cat gameplay
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and y'all complain about this title being gameplay-light
Tel Velothi
Cipher
It could have quests for example "make X NPC become suspect of killing a cat for him to have death sentence by court"
or "make people believe you did some miracle so they'll worship you and they will give you x10 items to eat
I spent $30 on this game men.
This is definitely a contender to replace star stable as a codexian punishment.
This is definitely a contender to replace star stable as a codexian punishment.
Just finished it.
It is certainly an enjoyable game and fairly unique due to its protagonist, but I wouldn't recommend it at 25+ eurobucks. IMO pirate it now and buy it later when it's on discount. I like to evaluate games on a [ ( price in eurobucks / total hours of play) x fun coefficient ] formula and I finished it at 88% (not on purpose, I swear!) in like 7 hours total, which would put this game at a rating of like 20%. Like, I had fun playing it, but it wasn't some sublime sensation akin to Disco Elysium or those tense exploration moments in Elden Ring or when you're playing a fun build in Path of Exile etc.
The game's main selling point is its charm and it has a lot of it, but in many other areas it is lackluster. There is no substantial writing to speak of. What is there, is neither particularly clever or funny. Maybe it's for the better, as I got some heavy hints at "muh classism, muh environment, muh wahmen" during some of the lines. As there are no particularly likeable characters, there is also no investment in the story from my side. For that reason the couple of tweeeests in the story fell flat for me. The robots in this act like regular humans. Normie humans even. I don't find that appealing. I like my robots acting like T-100, Loader Bot from Tales from the Borderlands, the obelisk thing from Interstellar, Victor from New Vegas. There is also no environmental story telling either.
Gameplay itself is fairly basic. Your jump is only contextual. There are two more contextual action you can do. You can interact with certain objects for flavour, but it has no impact on the game state. I quite liked this feature actually. I would regularly jump on shit just so I could throw some bottles down. Very immersive. The game has some light combat sections. Those actually felt tense, but it is limited to just one section of the game. Another section features basic stealth. It's all fairly easy. I died a couple of times, but the check points are very forgiving. Game is on journalist difficulty for sure. Same goes for the light puzzling this game has. It suffers from the "all signal, no noise" issue which Matthewmattosis mentions in his Breath of the Wild review.
Honourable mentions: Music and environmental guidance system. The music doesn't feature any memorable bangers, but it was very enjoyable none-the-less. The "guidance system" felt very organic and I hope more game devs will implement it in their games.
In conclusion, I'm kinda surprised we didn't get a game like this earlier as it feels like a very natural idea to have your protagonist be a cat. I think it works in this game, but I also think there is a lot of room for improvement. Everything you accomplish feels automatically more heroic as a small animal compared to your typical "juiced out of his mind, carrying 500kg of weaponry, magic using, ninja-cyborg stealthing" action hero.
It is certainly an enjoyable game and fairly unique due to its protagonist, but I wouldn't recommend it at 25+ eurobucks. IMO pirate it now and buy it later when it's on discount. I like to evaluate games on a [ ( price in eurobucks / total hours of play) x fun coefficient ] formula and I finished it at 88% (not on purpose, I swear!) in like 7 hours total, which would put this game at a rating of like 20%. Like, I had fun playing it, but it wasn't some sublime sensation akin to Disco Elysium or those tense exploration moments in Elden Ring or when you're playing a fun build in Path of Exile etc.
The game's main selling point is its charm and it has a lot of it, but in many other areas it is lackluster. There is no substantial writing to speak of. What is there, is neither particularly clever or funny. Maybe it's for the better, as I got some heavy hints at "muh classism, muh environment, muh wahmen" during some of the lines. As there are no particularly likeable characters, there is also no investment in the story from my side. For that reason the couple of tweeeests in the story fell flat for me. The robots in this act like regular humans. Normie humans even. I don't find that appealing. I like my robots acting like T-100, Loader Bot from Tales from the Borderlands, the obelisk thing from Interstellar, Victor from New Vegas. There is also no environmental story telling either.
Gameplay itself is fairly basic. Your jump is only contextual. There are two more contextual action you can do. You can interact with certain objects for flavour, but it has no impact on the game state. I quite liked this feature actually. I would regularly jump on shit just so I could throw some bottles down. Very immersive. The game has some light combat sections. Those actually felt tense, but it is limited to just one section of the game. Another section features basic stealth. It's all fairly easy. I died a couple of times, but the check points are very forgiving. Game is on journalist difficulty for sure. Same goes for the light puzzling this game has. It suffers from the "all signal, no noise" issue which Matthewmattosis mentions in his Breath of the Wild review.
Honourable mentions: Music and environmental guidance system. The music doesn't feature any memorable bangers, but it was very enjoyable none-the-less. The "guidance system" felt very organic and I hope more game devs will implement it in their games.
In conclusion, I'm kinda surprised we didn't get a game like this earlier as it feels like a very natural idea to have your protagonist be a cat. I think it works in this game, but I also think there is a lot of room for improvement. Everything you accomplish feels automatically more heroic as a small animal compared to your typical "juiced out of his mind, carrying 500kg of weaponry, magic using, ninja-cyborg stealthing" action hero.
Baron Dupek
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Thanks to PC release we get some magnificent modders mindset to enjoy
high brown arts
sauce - nexusmods
high brown arts
sauce - nexusmods
Mods will fix it's replayability.
It's an adventure game, that's all you have to say.
Curratum
Guest
Just looked the game up on HTLB...
Thousands and thousands and thousands of people are paying 30 dollars for a game with barely any "gameplay" in it, which, on top of everything else, is FIVE FUCKING HOURS LONG.
Top seller on Steam. We will never have good games again.
Thousands and thousands and thousands of people are paying 30 dollars for a game with barely any "gameplay" in it, which, on top of everything else, is FIVE FUCKING HOURS LONG.
Top seller on Steam. We will never have good games again.
Curratum
Guest
Newsflash - people buy CoD / BF for the hundreds of hours of multiplayer, not for the shitty campaigns.
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Silly whataboutism.
Curratum
Guest
It's not even that because the counter-issue proposed is intrinsically false - nobody buys CoD for the campaign.
Rellay value is such an overrated metric to measure the worth of a game.
Finished it. My impression of the game doesn't change much. Bit sparse in mechanics, but great presentation, atmosphere and setpieces as well as being relatively well polished. The most impressive thing about the game is how much they get the cat's animation right. Various memes and pictures of real cats reacting to it is the testament of how much work they put on making the protagonist.
It's probably impossible to put a cat on a mo-cap suit, let alone the ball sensor things, so i guess they are hand-animating the cat based on videos references and they actually keep several cats in the office.
Solid 7/10, if you aren't cat people buy it with discount, if you are a cat person, it's worth the price seeing your cats react to the screen.
It's probably impossible to put a cat on a mo-cap suit, let alone the ball sensor things, so i guess they are hand-animating the cat based on videos references and they actually keep several cats in the office.
Solid 7/10, if you aren't cat people buy it with discount, if you are a cat person, it's worth the price seeing your cats react to the screen.
Devastator
Learned
Finished it, basically a cat simulator + cyberpunk story in a walled city. Pretty decent and more fun than I expected.
For me it was included in PS Plus, so it's hard to judge its value, as I didn't buy it specifically. It was supposedly made by a tiny studio. It's half the price of Cyberpunk 2077 and Stray seemed like a more enjoyable game to me. WTF is CDPR even doing?
HLTB? If you are a completionist and/or explorer, around 8 hours is more realistic. If you just speed through the game, then expect it to take 4-5 hours.
If you want to see some screenshots, see here (WARNING: several minor spoilers): https://rpgcodex.net/forums/posts/8040467/
For me it was included in PS Plus, so it's hard to judge its value, as I didn't buy it specifically. It was supposedly made by a tiny studio. It's half the price of Cyberpunk 2077 and Stray seemed like a more enjoyable game to me. WTF is CDPR even doing?
HLTB? If you are a completionist and/or explorer, around 8 hours is more realistic. If you just speed through the game, then expect it to take 4-5 hours.
If you want to see some screenshots, see here (WARNING: several minor spoilers): https://rpgcodex.net/forums/posts/8040467/
Mary Sue Leigh
Erudite
Real cat sim would be "press X to sleep in the box for 15 hours". Then get up and annoy people to open a door for you, then never go outside.
I honestly love cats because they are assholes.
This however seems like it would be worth playing, at a discount at least.
I honestly love cats because they are assholes.
This however seems like it would be worth playing, at a discount at least.
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Well, that didn't take long:
Sherry
Arcane
Hi!
mew. Mew! MEW!
Stray is the next generation of advenutre games and you play as a cat in a world elft nbehind by humans who all died off because of global warming and the failure to reduce industry with a change of the jet stream, habitat loss, and control human population since Roe vs. Wade shows you a future with sentient A.I. who walk around, act, and dress like the humans to remember those who destroyed the only livable planet in our solar system. There is a great history here to unravel too with the language much like in Ultima you cam learn how to read the in-game language and this is no different some folks already have translated the assets of the game language. The clocks show a full day as 16hrs which would mean at least 1.4 billions years have passed since the last human died since every century our time moves 0.01 ahead so it has a nice base already to play through. Clues are unraveled as you explore the cyberpunk-like world in a location called City-99 just like in those post-apotocoplisitc gqames after a nuclear fallout so maybe there are otyher locations around the world that also have sentient A.I. like Italian machines making pizza or Saudi Arabians driving around in gold made cars or maybe in India where perhaps you would be a dog of the lowest of the lowest beneath cows."
Stray focuses on playing a cat and sadly there is no lasagna to eat during the entire game.
Gosh it is a pretty experience and runs grteat on the family computer Crispy helped us build with our out-dated 1080 gpu but the rgb probably helps a lot.
Explore by climbing to high points in the city to wiggling under wagons, through small ducts or by using B12 your little A.I. friend who helps you translate to talk to other machines who are making the best for themselves . Your entire goal is to get back to the Outside and find others who also had tried in vain to do the same. The puzzles are light since the game is made for a younger generation, sometimes it reminded me of Ghost of a Tale where you play a MOUSE! OMG!!! I hope a dog game does not come out next because who wants to sniff urine on trees, bushes and fire hydrants right? Or bark at a car5 driving by lol okay so there is a lot of jumping if you have an X-box controller for your PC you could use that to play this game or mayube you already are a console gamer it is available there too but had no issues playing it on our keyboard and mouse.
Yoiu can get your head stuck in a paper bag, or jump in to an empty box to even take a nap which the camera slowly zooms out on the area so you can see locations normally you could not see and get an idea of where you could jump up to and find those hidden secrets!
The game took me 13 hours to complete with exploration the top of my list the visuals are top notch but not a lot of roleplaying here like DEADFIRE offers but if you are looking for al ight-hearted game to sit back and just relax with Stray hits all the right feels.
Think about getting it on a sale if you do not want to pay full price. Had zero problems and the soundtrack is exceptional ran buttery smooth, thank-you again Crispy!
Thanks,
Sherry
mew. Mew! MEW!
Stray is the next generation of advenutre games and you play as a cat in a world elft nbehind by humans who all died off because of global warming and the failure to reduce industry with a change of the jet stream, habitat loss, and control human population since Roe vs. Wade shows you a future with sentient A.I. who walk around, act, and dress like the humans to remember those who destroyed the only livable planet in our solar system. There is a great history here to unravel too with the language much like in Ultima you cam learn how to read the in-game language and this is no different some folks already have translated the assets of the game language. The clocks show a full day as 16hrs which would mean at least 1.4 billions years have passed since the last human died since every century our time moves 0.01 ahead so it has a nice base already to play through. Clues are unraveled as you explore the cyberpunk-like world in a location called City-99 just like in those post-apotocoplisitc gqames after a nuclear fallout so maybe there are otyher locations around the world that also have sentient A.I. like Italian machines making pizza or Saudi Arabians driving around in gold made cars or maybe in India where perhaps you would be a dog of the lowest of the lowest beneath cows."
Stray focuses on playing a cat and sadly there is no lasagna to eat during the entire game.
Gosh it is a pretty experience and runs grteat on the family computer Crispy helped us build with our out-dated 1080 gpu but the rgb probably helps a lot.
Explore by climbing to high points in the city to wiggling under wagons, through small ducts or by using B12 your little A.I. friend who helps you translate to talk to other machines who are making the best for themselves . Your entire goal is to get back to the Outside and find others who also had tried in vain to do the same. The puzzles are light since the game is made for a younger generation, sometimes it reminded me of Ghost of a Tale where you play a MOUSE! OMG!!! I hope a dog game does not come out next because who wants to sniff urine on trees, bushes and fire hydrants right? Or bark at a car5 driving by lol okay so there is a lot of jumping if you have an X-box controller for your PC you could use that to play this game or mayube you already are a console gamer it is available there too but had no issues playing it on our keyboard and mouse.
Yoiu can get your head stuck in a paper bag, or jump in to an empty box to even take a nap which the camera slowly zooms out on the area so you can see locations normally you could not see and get an idea of where you could jump up to and find those hidden secrets!
The game took me 13 hours to complete with exploration the top of my list the visuals are top notch but not a lot of roleplaying here like DEADFIRE offers but if you are looking for al ight-hearted game to sit back and just relax with Stray hits all the right feels.
Think about getting it on a sale if you do not want to pay full price. Had zero problems and the soundtrack is exceptional ran buttery smooth, thank-you again Crispy!
Thanks,
Sherry
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Looks like there's another "play as an animal" game that was recently released, "Endling". It's on a 2.5D plane and revolves around playing as a mama fox guiding her pups to safety.
WL'ed it.
WL'ed it.
Morenatsu.
Liturgist
this is hot
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