{"id":6377,"date":"2022-07-18T23:36:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T21:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/18\/stray-review-press-paws-for-adorable-life-as-a-post-apocalypse-pussycat\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T23:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T21:36:15","slug":"stray-review-press-paws-for-adorable-life-as-a-post-apocalypse-pussycat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/18\/stray-review-press-paws-for-adorable-life-as-a-post-apocalypse-pussycat\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray review \u2013 press paws for adorable life as a post-apocalypse pussycat"},"content":{"rendered":"

PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 (version tested); BlueTwelve Studio\/Annapurna Interactive
<\/strong>Pattering through a ruined city, being petted by robots and watched over by a friendly drone, cat lovers may regret finding the escape<\/p>\n

I have walked around decaying cyberpunk cities such as these many times before, with their omnipresent neon signage and filthy streets, their grimy verticality. Usually I am expected to shoot someone. But this time, I\u2019m slinking around the fluorescent-lit slums of the future as a skinny wee ginger cat, scaling rusty pipes, squeezing through barely-open windows and pattering across corrugated-iron roofs. The robots who have lived here on their own for untold decades have never seen anything like me before, but still, they feel compelled to pet me when I rub up against their spindly metal legs. I am a wild, mysterious, perfect thing in a broken world.<\/p>\n

Stray is an excellent example of how a change of perspective can enliven a fictional setting to which we\u2019ve become habituated. Post-apocalyptic narratives have been done to death lately, but this one feels interesting because we experience it from such an unusual point of view. Accompanied by a drone, which acts as a translator between the robots, the cat and the player, we make our way through a city sealed off from the world, trying to make it to the outside, where we belong. Stray sounds like a shallow meme \u2013 it\u2019s the cyberpunk cat game! \u2013 but the setting and the story have substance, and at the end I honestly found it quite moving. Perhaps the least credible aspect of the whole setup is that a cat would actually be so helpful.<\/p>\n

Stray is out 19 July; \u00a323.99, or included with some PlayStation Plus subscriptions.<\/p>\n

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\nPC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 (version tested); BlueTwelve Studio\/Annapurna InteractivePattering through a ruined city, being petted by robots and watched over by a friendly drone, cat lovers may regret finding the escape
\nI have walked around decaying cyberpunk cities such as these many times before, with their omnipresent neon signage and filthy streets, their grimy verticality. Usually I am expected to shoot someone. But this time, I\u2019m slinking around the fluorescent-lit slums of the future as a skinny wee ginger cat, scaling rusty pipes, squeezing through barely-open windows and pattering across corrugated-iron roofs. The robots who have lived here on their own for untold decades have never seen anything like me before, but still, they feel compelled to pet me when I rub up against their spindly metal legs. I am a wild, mysterious, perfect thing in a broken world.
\nStray is an excellent example of how a change of perspective can enliven a fictional setting to which we\u2019ve become habituated. Post-apocalyptic narratives have been done to death lately, but this one feels interesting because we experience it from such an unusual point of view. Accompanied by a drone, which acts as a translator between the robots, the cat and the player, we make our way through a city sealed off from the world, trying to make it to the outside, where we belong. Stray sounds like a shallow meme \u2013 it\u2019s the cyberpunk cat game! \u2013 but the setting and the story have substance, and at the end I honestly found it quite moving. Perhaps the least credible aspect of the whole setup is that a cat would actually be so helpful.
\nStray is out 19 July; \u00a323.99, or included with some PlayStation Plus subscriptions. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 (version tested); BlueTwelve Studio\/Annapurna InteractivePattering through a ruined city, being petted by robots and watched over by a friendly drone, cat lovers may regret finding the escape I have walked around decaying cyberpunk cities such as these many times before, with their omnipresent neon signage and filthy streets, their grimy …<\/p>\n

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