Copycat

Эмпатичным к животным людям будет тяжело играть в эту игру, но точно стоит. Поводов для слёз - 10/10. Разочарование в людях 11/10.

Loved it!

honestly the ending ruined it for me, your only choice is to let the cat die or go live with the stupid old lady who left you to die in the first place. The message should have been irresponsible owners should not have pets, not whatever that confusing "home is where you are needed" thing. A good ending would have been, old lady gets both cats taken away from her and they find a loving forever home with someone who can actually care for them properly. The old lady acted like she never had a cat before too, which made no sense since she was using you to replace her cat. No toys, no posts, nothing? Was very odd to me. I just hated all the humans in this game and felt sorry for the poor kitty. The story was kinda ass.

At its core, this is a narratively driven game where you go around investigating your environment and playing a few minigames to advance the story. But there’s a large amount of dissonance between the player and the several narrators of the story, where you don’t really feel like you get a clear choice in the way things progress. The game does have choices here or there, but overall the system forces you to do things to progress, things you may not actually want to do yourself. Maybe I don’t want to knock over the tea and soup, or spill the giant paint cans and make a huge mess (Also, when do artists use the big cans of house paint to do their canvas painting?). The game and story railroad you into situations you don’t want to be in. The cat you play as has her own agenda, as does the “wildcat documentary” narrator that often comes on, mostly to chide you as you play minigames (of which it doesn’t seem to matter how well you do, you still get insulted if you do well, making the situation frustrating in terms of what feedback you should pay attention to). After less than an hour of listening to the grating documentary narrator, I longed for the ability to outright mute them, they never stop being a miserable ass. It would have been better to just have the silent narration from the cat instead. Not that the little quicktime games are good either. They’re ultimately jank, won’t register key inputs if you put them in fast enough, and later ones are terribly designed to the point they feel like a bad afterthought. They feel more designed for Facebook grandmothers or mobile phone addicts. The story itself is interesting. It’s pretty good, and emotional. But the medium they put it in is flawed, and it often provokes you in awful ways. Some of the events are just, incredibly strange if not downright abrasive. It only adds to the overall inconsistent feeling the game and plot take. Things happen I cannot reveal without spoiling the game, but they absolutely suck and are terrible, infuriating events. The graphics aren’t great either. And their music choice just gets boring after awhile. The game promised an evocative journey, but falls short of delivering. Between bad minigames, an awful narrator, and disgusting plot directions, this has been an exasperating experience. Ultimately this is more an example of how not to make a game, and more importantly, how not to treat animals. Also Mae is a stupid ugly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that makes me hate the game more, despite her plot relevance.

Such a sweet game! Would definitely recommend it! I love being a cat. Even though i caused as much chaos as possible being a cat :D

ИГРА ВЫЗВАЛА У МЕНЯ ДЕПРЕСИИЮ. ГДЕ МОЙ ОБРАТНЫЙ ЗАХВАТ СЕРОТОНИНА, ВЕРНИТЕ ЕГО!!!

Очень важно всем пройти эту игру, перед тем как брать питомца в семью.

честно, игра очень цепляет, да она не идеальная по геймплею, но это не суть, главное-посыл. я считаю, что каждому, кто хочет завести животное, следует пройти ее, и задуматься, действительно ли он готов к такой ответственности. плюсом моя кошка очень внимательно следила за тем, как я играю! спасибо разрабам, с учетом того, что игру выпустили с поддержкой автралийских властей, они заслуживают похвалы и уважения, подобные игры, наверное, сопоставимы с социальными роликами на такие темы

I really quite disliked the direction the story took, I know it was intended to be heartfelt but it just felt it did not acknowledge the horribleness of what had happened in the story, and made it seem like abandoning animals is "okay" if you're going through hard things and the decision is hard for you. Overall, I'm entirely puzzled by what they were intending for the message of the game to be, and I found myself very disappointed I had spent my time on the game in the end. I hate to leave a bad review for a smallish game that is benefitting charity, but it might be really tough for most animal lovers to sit through.