Stray Cat Door 2 and Gaming Journalism. (Rant!)

[Graeystone]

Ok, now that this wonderful game is on Steam can we get some professional reviews? HAHAHA! Who am I kidding?! The lack of any so-called 'professional journalism' concerning this game is just another reason why I ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY LOATH that part of gaming and it's a feeling I've had long, long before the Gamergate fiasco!

This game has been out first on phones then the Switch. Player reviews are always overly positive YET NOTHING FROM THE SO-CALLED PROS! I even checked out IGN and Kotaku. IGN is no go. . .and for some reason Kotaku's search engine is broke for me on both Firefox and Chrome. Now I can see maybe not caring when the game being on the phone but the frickin' SWITCH?! Again why no reviews when it's on a CONSOLE WHERE MOST GAMES ARE PLAYED?!

Now some of you reading this may be thinking I"m being a fan boy. And you know what. . .I am for once! I've been gaming since the Intellivision first came out and I can honestly say I can literally count on one hand the number of games that hit all my emotional buttons and they were the Lufia games for the SNES and Final Fantasy IX on the PS1 because, wow. That doesn't mean I didn't like games like Crono Trigger or the other Fantasy Games from that era. Sure there was humor and even loss(Tellah, Aeris, Crono [kind of sort of], Tidus until FF X-2).

The difference is that when I replayed those games the emotions I felt wasn't as strong as the previous play through. Even when I didn't play for a long time, including months or even a year or two then went back to play the initial strength of the feelings didn't return.

But the Lufia games and FF IX. . .every single time the emotions I felt on a new game is like playing the game for the first time. The same exact emotions whether laughter or sadness, it's always the same intensity no matter what.

And Stray Cat Doors 2 is the same way. Every time I play the game the initial emotions come flooding back without losing what I felt the first time playing. The light humor of the Girl in the White Hat jumping in surprise or getting too close to a bee hive and her reaction. What happens in the Christmas Stage. Even thinking about that stage and what happens after for awhile without playing will stir up the emotions inside of me a bit.

It's a darn shame this game isn't as well known or have the accolades it deserves for the type of game it is. Of course it's not a grim dark game nor a game strictly about depression. There's no near nudity and people aren't killed in bloody graphic ways. There's no bizarre confusing meta extensional nonsense that makes a gamer more confused than anything else after beating the game.

It is instead a game about genuine emotions. Not just one or two emotions but all emotions outside of hate. If you don't feel any emotion when playing this game then you're either a monster in human form or dead on the inside. It's not a story told with text or voice but with imagery and music(IMO music is a very important part of the story and does it very well).

Ending here cause, yeah, I mentioned the Christmas stage and I wasn't kidding about what I feel on the inside.