You can also find permanent upgrades to your suit health, which is very handy. You explore, find upgrade modules and continue exploring previously unreachable areas. Gato Roboto controls like most games in the genre. But none of that would matter if the game weren’t fun, but thankfully it’s a blast. Oh and there’s a strange rat that seems to be capable of speaking English for some reason. Strange experiments occurred in the facility, and you’ll find all sorts of mechanical sentries and alien creatures to confront. Set your disbelief aside, cause there’s a lot more crazy where that came from. Miraculously, Kiki fits inside it and is able to manipulate the controls. As such, it’s convenient you quickly find a mechanized exosuit to protect yourself.
Touching anything harmful will instantly kill you. While they say cats have 9 lives, that does not prove to be the case. Kiki effortlessly escapes the wreckage and starts exploring the planet where the facility is located. What’s a cat to do but try and assist her helpless human? 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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