Catovania

I have been watching a lot of AVGN and GDQ lately, so I was naturally attracted by the title "Catovania". I mean, Castlevania, but with cat! What could go wrong? There are some good things about this game, but the bad outweighs the good. In short, this game pretty much captures a lot of the strengths and weaknesses of the early SNES action games, and even plays like one. As I was playing it, I couldn't help but imagine I am James Rolfe collecting material for an AVGN episode. I couldn't even help writing this review AVGN style. Let's start with the good. (1) The music, even though a bit monotonous, is great. Fits incredibly well with the game. (2) Enemies are TOUGH, and I appreciate the challenge. The kind that makes me feel like I achieved something every time I get past one. I have killed more than 50 bees over my course of play, and every time I kill one, it still feels fun. And then, the bad... (1) Unreasonable control scheme! Your left hand, at the minimum, has to deal with the run, the left/right and the jump at the same time. Whenever you do a running jump (which is all the time), you strain your left hand. The scheme even put the attack button on the left hand -- a fo…

Cute game that you WANT to like but movement speed is horrible and once you reach the water level, everything goes downhill. EVERYTHING hits you.

Nice game like the old games on the NES. It's a pity that is not yet supported gamepad. When using the keyboard, you need to press left shift to make the character run.