Saturday Morning Gaming: Herding Cats (Or Sorting Them, Anyway)
Morris the Cat 1987 commercial
This one is simple. Cats Organized Neatly a trifle of a puzzle game that is relaxing and available at the bargain price of 3 bucks. You are given a bunch of cats that are shaped like blocks and you get to put the blocks onto a grid so that they all fit.
Check it out:
The levels eventually get somewhat complicated but nothing crazy.
If you enjoy just sorting shapes and making everything fit into a box, this game will scratch that itch for you (and if you’re a dog person instead of a cat person, there’s also a Dogs Organized Neatly game that is also available for $3).
No violence, no loud noises, just the simple and soothing act of putting blocks in a box.
So… what are you playing?
(Featured image is the menu screen from Cats Organized Neatly)
I finally got my hands on a ps5, and good golly it’s nice. I’m still playing Genshin, and the difference in quality between the ps4 version and the ps5 version is enormous. Graphics are better. I don’t get frame drops, even inside the cities, where in the past I’d drop frames very often. The biggest difference is that load times are nearly instant. For the ps4 version, you’d actually spawn in quite fast, but the world could take up to 10 seconds to fully spawn. That means you’d be running around a world of bad textures and no NPCs/enemies for several seconds waiting for stuff to load. Even just running around the open world, you run around just to have enemies spawn in around you, as you can move faster than the game loads assets. The ps5 has none of that.
I’m also playing Kena: Bridge of Spirits, which is a 3rd person action hack-and-slash with “Disney-esque” animation. I guess the company that produced it was actually an animation studio before they decided to make a game. I’m loving it. The world is engaging. The character is really cool and sweet. I adore her. The puzzles and platforming parts are really good. So far I’ve only had to “cheat” on one puzzle, and after seeing the solution I was kicking myself because I’d managed to figure out the exact same puzzle trick recently in Genshin. Somehow my brain didn’t make the same connection this time. (It was one of those “do things in a certain order depending on subtle environmental clues” puzzles. I missed the clues.) The boss fights are great. They’re actually quite hard — honestly one of them was too hard for me, so I dropped difficulty for it, which was disappointing and I hope I don’t need to do that again. But still, it’s a very engaging game. If you like hack-and-slash platformer, puzzlers, I’d recommend you check it out.
I guess technically it’s an “indie game,” but it doesn’t feel like one.Report
Did you go into a store and physically purchase it? Was it a web purchase?Report
Web purchase and I paid an inflated price. I had resolved not to do that, but it’s been over a year and I finally decided it was foolish to keep waiting.Report
Understood.
(And understood.)Report
I have a PS5. (I got lucky with Sony’s internal drawings on that — got an invite and then my place in the queue was high enough that I got one) The only downside is the small internal drive, which I’ve mostly gotten around by using a 4TB external and just moving stuff. Takes perhaps 5 minutes to move even a large game onto the internal drive, tops.
I’m waiting for official, tested, licensed, expansion drive for the open slot in the PS5. I know it’s really delicately balanced, heat wise, so I’ll pay extra for something Sony has tested and licensed and doesn’t require me mucking around with adding fans or sinks.
In the interim, playing more RDR2 and The Witcher.Report
Also downloading games is quite fast, so I’m not too worried about just removing games to clear up space. I’m rarely actively playing more than a few games at a time, so it really isn’t a big deal for me.Report