KoroNeko

Cannot get past Tundra Level 10 and there's no way to skip levels & no guides available so I'm effectively stuck; which sucks. Seems like a huge oversight to not be able to skip levels.... I've tried on and off for a total of 5 hours over the course of a month or so to try and pass this level so now I cant even get a refund for a game I'm never gonna touch again.

Un juego de puzzles muy cuqui que aunque parezca sencillo tiene algunos niveles bastante complicados. Cuando no tienes ganas de jugar a nada y quieres desconectar, está muy bien!

حلوه

A great game to relax

Very cute and pretty game design! The levels are all different and get harder the higher you get. The last level really was a challenge but I made it after a few hours of losing my sanity. :D I recommend this game!

Brainy. good.

KoroNeko is a cute and unique puzzle game that I found myself enjoying far more than I thought I would. The way that KoroNeko operates is that you have a creature stuck in a cube jar with a top that matches a circular piece on the level grid you have, your goal is to match them together. This straightforward mechanic is then added upon with certain stages having unique mechanics to change the way you play (sliding ice, teleporters, disappearing spaces, etc.), it works well in creating unique puzzles. There is nothing I can complain about as far as the mechanics go, but the puzzle design deserves some criticism. In general, I prefer if a game has a scaling curve of difficulty, however, KoroNeko had a pattern of 9 easy to solve followed by 1 level where you have two creatures instead of one that suddenly makes it noticeably harder. It kind of feels odd, but it makes sense based on the way that the levels are organized so it is forgivable however the final level is something else. All other levels that conclude a stage have two creatures and at most two added stage mechanics; however, the last level uses all 5 mechanics and all six creatures. That is a massive jump in difficulty and one that I was not able to manage. Perhaps it is the ‘tism, but I couldn’t figure it out, and it kind of frustrates me, because it is one thing to get to a mid-point and realize, “Oh I am not really getting this and this may not be for me,” and a different thing to be like, “FML I am on the last level and this is harder than anything else and there is likely story locked behind this that I am not going to experience, which is sad because I am literally one level away.” Difficulty scaling is important and this game lacks it anywhere at all. Speaking of a story that I may never get to finish; it is simple and purely visual. A jealous strawberry witch sees all these creatures having fun and decides to ruin their days by putting them in jars and separating them. And it is up to you to get them all back together. It is simple, it is cute, and it works well with the feel of the game. It serves its limited purpose and serves it well. The music is fitting and the sound design is simple. You might get annoyed by some of the consistent sounds of moving around the puzzles, but I never had an issue. The music is simple but it matches very well thematically, it is well composed, but never really stood out to me. It is pretty standard background music and there really isn’t anything wrong with that. Artistically the thing most people will realize immediately is that it is in a cutesy style and I think it nails that aesthetic. All the model work is simple, but it works well with the clean style. The animations are a bit lackluster though, everything feels a bit stiff and I wish that there was more expressiveness. The only major complaint I have is that there is an after-effect that creates this faux 3D glasses superposition effect on certain objects, often those not centered upon, and I think it looks annoying and ugly. Such a complaint is minor though, so overall I think the game is quite good-looking. Overall KoroNeko is a good puzzle game with a great final challenge for serious puzzle game fans at the end. I think the game is priced well for the amount of time I played, though that may be inflated by the roughly 2 hours I used to try and solve that last level. I am sad that I was not able to complete it in the end, but my lack of ability does not make a game bad. As always I am thankful that the developer was kind enough to give me a copy to review as I always find it fun to play games that I normally would not have sought out on my own.