Here, we have come to the second point of this paragraph of the review.Īs the title said, I loved the chases in this game. …Like a chase against probably a version of yourself from another timeline can do.
Survival is perpetually based on managing your current situation, having inconvenient consequences, but don’t give you a game over instantly… The experience does not come from the warnings that subsequently give you a game over suddenly, but from the consequences if you do not manage in the right way the situation you are in.Īnd this, for me, it makes this game more “survival” than the other two titles I mentioned. If you do not use tapes well, you are forced to continue playing until you find another one of them (which is never too late, since the game has a good arrangement of objects). So the player isn’t overwhelmed by the mechanics, but finds a real challenge… As it should be. It was a smart choice, honestly, because you don’t find yourself in the perennial rhythm in which you risk having a game over every second and you have to constantly check the levels of something, without enjoying anything of the title, which also has a nice atmosphere.īut the effect of anxiety is still eligible, since something as vital as saving is limited. It has simply mastered this system, giving as limited objects the speed and the possibility of saving. This is because they always put the situation “on a razor’s edge”, especially CaNDLE (I would like to point out that Faust Alptraum suffers much less from this problem than CaNDLE, having a discrete positioning of the indispensable objects). Now, I won’t talk about how this system could have been better in detail, but I just say that in both games the anxiety of having a real game over at any moment due to the limited objects… Makes both titles simply more anxiety-inducing and with players more inclined to ragequit, if I allow myself to exaggerate. The first two, or due to a bad arrangement of objects (in CaNDLE you cannot finish the game if you don’t take the first three candles that are at the beginning) or simply for the mechanic in general, create a constant anxiety in the player who will have to constantly check the level of Ca’s candle or Elisabeth’s energy.
We will compare these two titles with Cat In The Box. Yes, I also know CaNDLE and its anxiety-inducing candle system!
Yes, guys, I know very well that Faust Alptraum has chocolate to make you run, I was explaining. The first element that makes it different are the limited objects to save and run… Why did I write that it is a product that looks very Western compared to others of its kind?īecause, in my opinion, the Cat In The Box gameplay hangs on the survival front, a typical sub-genre of the horror game that is typically produced by us in the West, compared to the typical Japanese Horror RPG we have all been used to. In general Cat In The Box is really enjoyable to play, the exploration phases are never boring and, luckily, we constantly find the tapes for our camera, so that the player does not rage-quit just to save the game and doesn’t waste precious game hours, as well as chocolate to keep the player from falling asleep on the keyboard due to the initial speed of the protagonist.Īs you may have already noticed from the title and what PaoGun said, Cat In The Box is a much more “Western” Horror RPG than many that we are all used to seeing, although the girl protagonist is drawn in a more or less anime style.īut let’s go into detail, let’s start from the exploration. Gameplay – Elements of survival and divine chases I, Ele, will mainly take care of speaking of the game mechanics and gameplay in general of this title, for which we decided to dedicate this specific article. Want to know more about the plot? PaoGun has already talked about the storytelling of this game in the second article of Tin Coffee Pot Time: “Storytelling – Three alternative ways to tell a story”! Since the protagonist of Cat In The Box, instead, was able to leave her house (even if the game was released this year…) she decided, to be popular on her… Youtube? Dailymotion? Nicovideo channel? To explore the house that days before belonged to a cult. Happy Christmas Eve, and happy lockdown for who’s home!
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