Beaten: Little Kitty, Big City (Series)

 In recent years, I've been loving games that let one play as a regular animal and mess up human stuff, like Goat Simulator, Untitled Goose Game, and of course Stray. I think of that as my role in this world anyway (to mess up human stuff), so these games really appeal to my itchiness for anarchy.

Since Little Kitty, Big City was on XBox's Gamepass, and I needed something light to play while stuck in other games, I dove in and started checking it out and found myself enjoying it more that I had suspected. 

In terms of gaming habits, this year I’ve shifted from an absolute determination to finish each game one at a time, and instead, when I get stuck, move on to another game for a break. I'm currently stuck in Gears 5(One) and A Boy and His Blob Trouble on Bloblonia (NES), so after perusing the contents of Xbox Game Pass, I found Little Kitty, Big City and dove into it's cute, fun adventure.

The cat you play is living the good indoor cat life up in a highrise home, when sudden circumstances bring the kitty down to street level, with a quest to just get back up there again. The viewpoint is third person, with a fairly large few blocks of city making up the map. The graphics are colorful and simple, and the city looks great. 

Kitty's quest takes him around a few blocks with some things the kitty can jump up to, which is easy as a prompt appears onscreen when a jump is viable. At first I thought that this prompt made it too easy, and then I remembered that such jumps are instinctually easy for cats, so this was accurate.

There's lots of exploring to do, and little surprises along the way including encounters with other cats who help the kitty, and dogs that can be bribed with a bone to allow access to areas.

I don't have much else to say about Little Kitty, Big City except that it was a light, short, and fun game that was a nice break from the usual fare I play. It's not sophisticated like Stray, nor does it have as many things to do as Goat Simulator 3, but for the cost (free with Gamepass), it was just the break I needed.