I wanna be The Cat

I took a very brief look at I wanna be The Cat today. It's a really, really difficult platformer game with sadly not much variety or fun in it.

The game boasts both randomly generated levels as well as "2000+ levels made by the community", and while I don't know which is correct, it doesn't seem like it matters from a gameplay perspective, since unless you're going to be playing this game for countless hours, 2000 levels is plenty to not repeat nigh any. The levels are quite short, generally simple, but just very difficult. If they really are randomly generated, then it would seem pretty impressive for me that the generator is able to make levels that are so difficult, yet not impossible.

While the extreme difficulty is part of the problem, it is not my main grief with the game. The problem is that I wanna be The Cat is just too plain. Move, jump, and occasionally shoot forward, and that's all you can do. The items and powerups advertised are not "crazy", and are mostly insignificant or a source of frustration if you use them up, fail anyways, and then have to complete a level you couldn't even complete with the powerup. Levels come down to your platforming skill - your capability to press the right buttons in the right order, with timings that are accurate to a tenth of a second. And for me, that just seems like a whole lot of work for not much fun, much like a rhythm game with no music, and where the track resets if your score dips below 99% the maximum possible. It's just repetitive and tedious.

A short review for a short attempt. Unless you've been looking for a featureless ultra-difficult platformer, I wouldn't recommend it. There's a also a multiplayer mode available if you want to get your mates together and race to the finish line, but I also feel like there's better platformers for that kind of stuff.