Cat Girl Without Salad: Amuse-Bouche

This feels like a fake game you would see on a cartoon

Originally a free April Fool's joke come to life, the game is a decent shmup with a novel powerup system, fairly obnoxious voice acting, and a nice freestyle soundtrack by Jake Kaufman. Not worth $8, but if you can get it for a couple bucks, it's an alright hour or so of play.

Hidden arcade-style gem. Super artsy and goofy and enjoyable. Only one complaint: its SUPER short. 3 levels. thats it. i refunded the game for this reason, even after buying it on sale. i LOVE you Cat Girl Without Salad, but you NEED more content. i PROMISE i'd pay the cost of a full price, Triple-A game for this game if there was just - more weapons (or maybe power ups?? idk) and - more levels to play The artsy-goofiness of this game is UNMATCHED, I just REALLY wish they did more with it.

Fun, but extremely short

I am a fan of WayForward's games, but it still stings how Lythero of all people exposed me to this game (if you are wondering what I mean, check Twitter)—as a "Curatorial Game Collector" myself. Either way, it is surprisingly charming and filled with life for a game that is short and obscure. And I experienced the funny moment as early as Level 2 where shooting mindlessly [spoiler]takes away your health upgrade and you have to play again to get it.[/spoiler] I actually did a decent job at going through each levels (barely). I mean, I died once at Level 2 or 3, but still. Also, I am going to assume that the sequel where Cat Girl goes to jail has no ending. I watched only one person that actually recorded gameplay, and they seem just as confused as I am.

I had a copy of this on Humble Bundle, but then nuked the Humble library system and taking my copy with it after I deleted it off my hard drive. From the creators of Shantae comes a smol silly gimmicky shoot-em-up based off an April Fools joke that I guess fans wanted to be turned into an actual playable product, so they did that. Weapon powerups are based on other game genres and references, dialogue is goofy and silly from beginning to end. Not much to say because smol game. Literally, I think there's only 3 levels of this thing. The Humble Bundle version was free, I got the Steam version during a sale and recommend you do the same should you have any desire whatsoever to touch this.