Mewgenics

miau

Game of the year but I will never forgive Edmund for getting Blood Frenzy and other bs from events.

[h3] [strike] Isaac and his mother [/strike] The cats lived alone in a small house on a hill... [/h3] I enjoyed the time I spent on Mewgenics thoroughly. The main gameplay loop of cat breeding, house upgrading and going on adventures works really well and can be very addictive. There's a lot of stuff to tinker with when coming up with optimal strategies and the game's difficulty certainly encourages making the most of what you've got. While the house/breeding component of the game could use some polishing for easier management of cats, setting cats up for an adventure can get quite laborious thanks to the vast assortment of abilities and items in the game (and the resulting synergies between them), and the adventures themselves can go on for quite a long time, personally I found such shortcomings minor in the grand scheme of what the game has to offer. [h3] 0,08 € per hour of entertainment [/h3] Mewgenics manages to keep the gameplay engaging throughout the whole length of the campaign and even the full completion process, as the wide pool of abilities and items that the game has you draft from makes every run unique. Since the player's given a choice from a fairly limited selection of abilities at a time, not every cat manages to get equipment and spells that synergize with one another, but interesting combos happen often enough that I kept always looking forward to the next adventure. For me, the difficulty was tuned just right, as every adventure felt like it had stakes and a sense of danger but it never got overwhelming. Even as I managed to break the game in a way where every run had a near guaranteed success rate, little things like having a kitten be born with some insane new name that I didn't expect contributed to keeping the experience fresh. [h3] Someone help, the game's out to get me [/h3] The game can feel very unfair at points as the evil, vile rng can ruin the player's carefully crafted plans at the drop of a hat (R.I.P. The Righteous Chubbers, whose expedition to Hell crumbled after El Gatorade, in a bout of confusion, punched himself in the face 9 times in a row), though the game does provide the tools for the player to eventually minimize the bad outcomes of random rolls. The game is not easy and demands a lot from the player, but it also rewards those who learn the many systems that are in place... and maybe put in the time to exploit said systems. [h3] Noooo I swear the song's about cats [/h3] Oh my god man, the soundtrack? Duuude, that ♥♥♥♥ contains a legitimately crazy amount of catchy tunes. While the instrumentation gives the music an overall jazzy sound, Ridiculon has managed to make each track feel unique via implementation of a mixture of different musical styles. The vocal performances are equally deserving of praise, too, as they all help shape each song into their own thing. The intricate composition, raw vocal delivery and crude yet clever lyrics make even a song about a poop circling the toilet bowl sound like it has some profound truth to it. And you know what? Maybe it does. [h3] In conclusion [/h3] It's rare for a game to keep me coming back for so many hours over a span of 6 months. Other games with bigger names got released during that time period, yet Mewgenics was mostly the only game on my mind. I look forward to what the team's going to cook up next. That said, I'm more of a dog person ¯\_(ツ)_/¯