Roll The Cat Review

Back to back Ratalaika Games from me review-wise and I’ll get straight to the point, you get that from me, honesty.  This time around I got to sit down and review Roll The Cat, a cute top down puzzle game where you have to roll the cat, if that wasn’t clear from the title then I’ve lost you already. Roll The Cat features 50 levels for you to puzzle your brain through, some easy and some with a little more difficulty, in a nutshell the difficulty progressively gets harder and harder as you progress through the games puzzles.

“Did you ever wake up in the middle of the night and hear a cat meowing? Roll The Cat is a game about that!” – is the official game description.

Like the previous Ratalaika Games title I reviewed (Arsonist Heaven) Roll The Cat is of course another easy 1000G completion game towards your Gamerscore. If achievement hunting is your kind of thing, then you will be pleased to hear, that this game doesn’t take you long to get complete the achievement goals required for completion. You’ll easily be able to snag the full 1000 gamerscore in roughly an hour (or less).

Unfortunately Roll The Cat doesn’t appear to have any story flowing through the game, which is an immediate disappointment.  The only brief and task, is that it’s time for bed, you best get those lovable cats into their beds, that’s it. There aren’t any massive plot twists with Roll The Cat, and you won’t find a narrative masterpiece within this puzzle game, but what you might experience is some puzzle fun, if solving puzzles are your thing.

Levels start off very easy and gradually get harder in Roll The Cat, but to be honest I didn’t find it all that difficult and I’ve completed 25 levels so far, which happens to be how far you need to get for the full completion. With Roll The Cat, it only takes a few levels and you quickly get the gist of what is required for the rest of the game. For me, one of the biggest downer’s with this game is that it doesn’t offer anything different as you progress through each level. You get some tubes added to the mix at a certain point in the game, but that’s pretty much it.

For me Roll The Cat doesn’t have a lot that stands out, when playing the game, or anything that stands out between or differentiates the levels aside from the actual puzzles in the levels themselves. Overall there is a nice art style used within the game, but unfortunately they have not built the up, it uses a basic colour palette in every single level, which is visually uninspiring for the eyes, and perhaps a place where the developers could have offered something a little different, at the very least.

Roll The Cat is not all doom and gloom, the game will definitely cater well towards puzzle fanatics or achievement hunters, However’ personally I could not recommend Roll The Cat to a “hardcore gamer” or even really a casual gamer, there’s just nothing here to make me want to play all the way through all 50 levels. After a while the levels just feel a bit too much of the same and the more time I spent with this game, the more I realised it just wasn’t for me.

Verdict

Roll The Cat didn’t give me a reason to stick around for all the levels. Once you played one, you’ve played then all, there isn’t anything that “stands out” in each level. They all look the same with no unique features, which is a bummer.

I will admit that i had some audio issues and having to play through a game that i wasn’t enjoying, you might think may have affected my overall opinion of Roll The Cat, but i can assure you it didn’t, despite trying to do everything to fix the issue.

I wish I could elaborate and write more about Roll The Cat as a game, but there isn’t an awful lot going on with this game. It’s very, very basic, so don’t expect to be blown away. Unless you’re really enthusiastic about puzzles, puzzle based games or you just want a quick and easy fix of Gamerscore, I wouldn’t bother with this one.

Sitting at an install size of 428MB, it won’t take you long if you do decide to dive in at the asking price of £4.99 (Xbox store).