sobota, 28 listopada 2009

REVIEW: Flashcat

Here's my first review, of my favorite flash game in the history of the world ever: Flashcat! I really like nitrome's cat games, and this one is my favorite by far. You can almost feel the wind on your face as you sail through the sky off a jump in a futuristic kitty-city with even buildings shaped like cats!

There are a bunch of powerups you can collect through each level: Turbo, (gives you a monstrous boost, and the screen shakes in a neat way as you press it - there already is a turbo boost but you have to drive over it to activate it, besides the Turbo powerup lasts longer and you can activate it at any time you want) Invincibility, (well, there are always going to be bad guys in a nitrome game, right? so you have to drive through a throng of little pink and green monsters who seem to be intent on filling your brains with laser - seems violent but it isn't really) Bug Pellets (bug pellets, who woulda thunk it? you fire these at the many cracked walls you will see scattered around the sprint track, and they, well, get destroyed) and last but certainly not least, Mega Bounce (extremely useful, it's got me out of a tight spot from time to time - you get three of them, like the Bug Pellets, and like all other powerups, you can activate one at any time you want).

I ran into some bugs (the glitch kind, not the pellet kind) - whenever I hold left of right for a long enough amount of time, you get stuck and the next thing you know, you're careening off the neon-blue laser track down into the city.

There is no storyline, though the characters are quite cute - a little orange cat I presume is Flashcat, bold stuntkitty and his noble steed and pet, his little cyborg spidey racing machine.

It's a great game. I recommend it 100%.

http://www.nitrome.com/games/flashcat/