Tuesday, April 1, 2014

CatShow

CatShow is one of those WTF games you sometimes find. Actual gameplay is somewhere between a VN, Warioware, and a lot of QTEs. The game is made in Gamemaker Lite (at least the version I played was), which means there is an annoying watermark on the upper left hand corner and you get a popup asking you to buy the full version after closing the game.

My opinion: Umm, I don't really have one. The only word to describe the art is shitty and the soundtrack consists of one maybe 20 second loop that's both annoying and slightly disturbing. Gameplay is odd and kinda bad, since it really is all QTEs and microgames with no chance to replay after failing them once. However, all that shittiness (including the annoying watermark and barely readable text) come together in a way that, while it doesn't make any of it any less shitty, makes it amusing to play. Nothing except the soundtrack sticks around long enough to become annoying and the game's attention span is just too short to let any of the awfulness start to stink. I'll have to give this one a recommendation, if only so you'll play it and try to form an opinion yourself.

CatShow is by NoxiousHamster. You can find it here.

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