{"id":9242,"date":"2024-06-03T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T23:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=9242"},"modified":"2024-06-03T17:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T23:22:23","slug":"little-kitty-big-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=9242","title":{"rendered":"Little Kitty, Big City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/apps.42325.13605545843678606.ba639605-7305-422e-9637-2411fb07e5f6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/apps.42325.13605545843678606.ba639605-7305-422e-9637-2411fb07e5f6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been playing <em>Jedi Survivor<\/em>, but then I saw that the game I recommended for my wife looked a little more low key and fun for the week, and thusly I instead invested a few nights into <a title=\"Little Kitty, Big City for the XBox Series X, at the XBox Store\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-us\/games\/store\/little-kitty-big-city\/9nf5s7mlm8xt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Little Kitty, Big City<\/a>. See, you&#8217;re this cat living a highrise life, when suddenly disaster strikes!, in the form of gravity. Now you&#8217;re on the ground, surrounded by people and dogs and birds and, by far worst of all, by puddles of water. How will you get home?!<\/p>\n<p>Well, by completing quests[1], and collecting various bits and bobs, and avoiding all the beings who wish to do you, if not harm, at least a series of unpleasant wettings and\/or barkings at and\/or chasings away. And by knocking things over, let us not ever forget.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s basically <a title=\"My review of Untitled Goose Game\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=7309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Untitled Goose Game<\/a>, but with more of a plot, and a lot more teleportation and reverse causality. At six or eight hours[2], it does not wear out its welcome, and if the graphics are a little below top of the line, and if the controls for some of the jumps can be a little janky, well, that&#8217;s how indie games go, y&#8217;know? Nothing that drove me away, <em>although<\/em> it&#8217;s fair to say a little less jank might have resulted in me chasing a few more achievements,<\/p>\n<p>[1] Sample quests including jumping in all five boxes, or sleeping in all five A+ nap spots, or taking the ducklings home<br \/>\n[2] and then only if you&#8217;re trying pretty hard to do a lot of the things; I spent hours after I reached the point of &#8220;you can go finish now if you like&#8221; before I actually proceeded to try to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing Jedi Survivor, but then I saw that the game I recommended for my wife looked a little more low key and fun for the week, and thusly I instead invested a few nights into Little Kitty, Big City. See, you&#8217;re this cat living a highrise life, when suddenly disaster strikes!, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[436,1329,1342],"class_list":["post-9242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-adventure","tag-xbox-game-pass","tag-xbox-series-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9245,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions\/9245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}