Her stray paw presses the wrong button, and your ship crash lands in the facility, with your human trapped in the wreckage. When the game starts, your human Gary is answering a distress beacon from a research facility, and like most cats, Kiki makes a bad situation worse. It doesn’t take itself too seriously like most in the genre, and that’s refreshing in and of itself. Equally important, there is a ton of humor in the game. It’s just an adventure very inspired by retro, not to mention games like Metroid II, Downwell and others.

That isn’t to say it’s not a complex game, as the combat and exploration is very nuanced. Not only that, but it was definitely inspired by the presentation of the original Gameboy, and renders everything in a two tone palette. The first thing you should know about Gato Roboto is it’s a Metroidvania (or Meowtroidvania, as it prefers to be called). But there’s a lot of difference between a demo and the final build, so the question is – did this live up to my hype? So this marriage of the two was very exciting to me, especially after playing it way back at PAX West. While most know me as a giant fan of the Metroidvania genre by now, I’m also a cat person.

Why an astronaut traveled through space with a cat is beyond me, but it does provide the context for this strange adventure to begin. Instead, you play that astronaut’s feline companion, Kiki. Because in Gato Roboto, you don’t play a human and explore the mysteries of space. That’s the only reasonable way I can rationalize how a game this delightfully strange was created. I honestly wonder if Gato Roboto was brought into existence while developer doinksoft were doing shots and hardcore Karaoke while singing Mr.

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