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Puss! Is an action-adventure, arcade, and puzzle game. I was excited to have a chance to play because, like a cat, I was curious how good it would be; let's fin
Words can’t fully describe the experience of playing PUSS!. The visuals and style are unlike anything I’ve really seen before, at least recently, and the gameplay offers a unique take on the action-puzzle genre. While not for the faint of heart, practice can get you closer to perfect, and over time you’ll encounter the same stages and know better how to navigate their dangers successfully and quickly. Even though there are visual options for changing your cat and altering the color scheme, it would have been nice to see some ways of adjusting the difficulty, perhaps with extra checkpoint…
If a mini meander of mind-bending meow-sochistic mouse mazes sounds like a good trip to you, then PUSS! Is undoubtedly a great recommendation. Otherwise, the purposefully stringent controls, disorienting gameplay, and rage-inducing cheap-shots might rub folks the wrong way.
Whereas for its 2018 PC release, PUSS! played with the mouse to deliver an experience akin to a digitalised version of Operation!, the Switch port is best played with the joysticks, similarly to a bullet hell shmup. The left stick handles small movement and pressing the right accelerates the player drastically. Alternatively, the game can be played with the Switch’s touch screen, but this method felt much more unwieldy and I often found myself careening into walls. No matter which control style you choose, the game is hard. Victories feel earned, and it’s a credit to the developers that th…
Puss — which will be available on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One starting on February 19th — is a simple puzzle game with a mind-meltingly psychedelic aesthetic. It might be the strangest video game I’ve ever played.