Kiki isn’t just confined to the mech suit, as she gets the chance to pilot a submarine with guns and a fixed turret for some specific sections of the game. The haziness of the volcanic area really makes it feel dangerously hot, while Kiki’s little head bobbing inside the mech suit melted my heart. No matter which you choose, Gato Roboto has a very cute style with a surprising amount of detail in the environments. By default, the sprites are black and white, but they can change to all sorts of other colour schemes, including black and red if you long for permanent eye damage. There are also a couple of items that alter the colours on screen. I also recommend using the spin jump to leap long distances whilst bonking on top of enemies like some kind of twisted whack-a-mole. Rockets are a particular highlight, as they use a short cooldown timer instead of a finite stockpile of ammo, thus enabling the firing of rockets with reckless abandon. Gato Roboto scatters a number of upgrades throughout the research facility, all for the mech suit, including health boosts, abilities, and new weapons. On top of that, all the upgrades I picked up only made the controls feel tighter. Not once did I think that it was the game’s fault that I missed the platform with a jump, or an enemy that I tried shooting at. Since this is a 2D platformer, the controls need to be precise, and Gato Roboto succeeds there.

Kiki will spend most of the game doing this in her mech, which is initially only capable of firing pistol rounds and jumping around. Inspired by Metroid in many ways, Gato Roboto has players explore the research facility's different, non-linear sectors (running through the old favourites like ventilation ducts and a laboratory), and requires them to solve environment-based puzzles and kill enemies. Luckily for Gary, his cat is able to pilot a gun-wielding mech suit, despite not having opposable thumbs. Gato Roboto is a cutesy platformer where you control Kiki, the house cat of a pilot name Gary, who is now marooned and immobile after Kiki crashed their vessel. They can bring home their terrified, half-dead prey, lie down in really inconvenient places, or, y'know, press the one button that makes your spaceship plummet into an abandoned research facility.

Cats are adorable house pets loved by millions, but they're also fluffy little terrors.

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