Posted on: May 6, 2015

TheDavisChanger

Jeux: 261 Avis: 6

Excellently Written but Lacking Gameplay

Throughout the course of The Cat Lady, I found myself intrigued but frustrated. Among the more immediate sources of frustration are the controls. You'll control Susan and interact with items and the environment with the arrow keys and the Enter key and that is it. This may seem petty, but binding to the WASD keys would have been much more comfortable. Additionally, it would have been nice to have a key to hold to make Susan run, if only because you don't need to watch her walk across the screen. You will want to run to get to the action. I found myself growing impatient with the frequent and lengthy dialogue Susan has with the other characters. I found no way to skip any of the dialogue, which would have been nice. Fortunately the voice acting is superb. Without it, the game would have been unplayable for me, despite how well written the script is. Your character Susan is slowly revealed through these interactions and her depression is relatable rather than painting her as obnoxiously pathetic. The friendly characters are gradually built up to be sympathetic and the antagonists make themselves absolutely loathsome. I never felt so determined to seek lethal revenge on any character in any other game as I did in The Cat Lady. Additionally, Susan is a completely dynamic protagonist and the pacing with which her history is revealed and how she develops during the adventure is expertly done. All of this dialogue is not broken up frequently enough by the puzzles. As bizarre as this game is, none of the puzzles were so obtuse as to be frustrating. There is also surprising variety in what seems like such a limited number of puzzles. The soundtrack like the voice acting is excellent. The art style is basic and appropriate and I found it neither exceptional nor distracting. The controls seemed archaic and I wished for more puzzles and less conversation, but perhaps the abundant dialogue was necessary to feel so passionately for your allies and against your foes

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Posted on: February 27, 2019

pcaldredbann

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Jeux: 203 Avis: 2

Wow... just, wow!

I'm a huge fan of point-and-click adventure games, so I went into this wary of the control system (it's not point-and-click, but it is fundamentally the same as one). I literally couldn't put it down, I actually looked forward to getting home to play this, the story grabbed me from the first scene and I genuinely cared for Mrs Ashworth and Mitzi. All I can say is, do not overlook this. Buy it and set yourself a weekend aside to play through it, large screen, curtains closed, headphones on. You won't be disappointed.

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Posted on: April 14, 2022

tapeworm00

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Jeux: 856 Avis: 3

A slasher with a heart

There's a Stephen King reference at some point during the game, which helps explain the serious attempt at making a slasher horror game with a deep topic. Playing it in 2022 left me with positive, yet mixed feelings about it: it has not aged well, both technically and in terms of writing, and yet it is charming, sometimes even powerful. I'm not sure the theme was bound to work anyway - depression and slasher aesthetics are kind of opposites in many ways, and the slow-burn horror of the earlier only very clumsily fits into the extreme, gory and exaggerated horror of the latter. The best part of this game is arguably a conversation between the two main characters about their pasts, which goes to show you how the fit doesn't work; horror here is not really a device for thinking, but a device to shock. Slasher aesthetics win out overall, pushing whatever meaningful message the game has about depression to a weird, uneven place that barely makes sense as the story moves through scenes set up around clichéd slasher killers. They're cannibals, torturers, senseless killers - barely human figures that, against the full humanity of the protagonists, seem vacuous and silly. These clichés are really showing their age now (particularly at the game's end). It is in this extreme where the message is muddled - depression is an illness, yes, but the mental illnesses of the antagonists are portrayed stereotypically (they're slashers, after all), stripping them of all possible humanity, and that just doesn't really work as a constructive comment on mental health at all. And yet, there are moments of brilliance here, which is why I give it 4 stars. The dialogues between protagonists are great, as is the dialogue between the main protagonist and the supernatural being she's tied to. The limbo/hell sequences are surreal enough, and show you parts of the protagonist she doesn't show herself. That's good, but still, don't go into this game expecting something truly meaningful.

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Posted on: April 13, 2013

Abram03

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Jeux: 136 Avis: 25

First-Class Horror Adventure

Fans of the genre would do themselves a terrible disservice in bypassing this fantastic sidescrolling horror adventure. Keyboard-only controls are simple and work great. Mixed media graphics are expertly assembled, portraying a world thoroughly drenched with blood and acid tears. Voicework is pro level; you believe that what's said, is what's felt. Great writing! The story is all about overcoming crippling depression whilst killing the hell out of a set of truly vile human monsters at the behest of a parasitic demon. Big plus in that the supernatural elements are REALLY supernatural, not just more "it's all just a figment of your broken mind" cop-out crap. My fellow crazy cat-lovers might also be glad to know that there are no scenes of violence against kitties in this one, though a couple of your victims have hurt some in the past. The main guy behind this, R. Michalski, also has a game out called "Downfall," set in the same world and featuring Joe and Ivy from Susan's building.

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Posted on: October 27, 2017

goose696

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Jeux: 134 Avis: 4

Weird, cruel but for sure ART.

If You are borred with typical story, and sweet graphics try THIS. You will not regreat.

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