Cat and the Ghostly Highway is a point-and-click journey/puzzle recreation wherein you play as a reasonably, white cat. Whereas on the verge of giving up throughout a tough journey, you’re saved by a painter. The painter’s soul is later stolen by a demon, nevertheless, leaving the cat to journey on as soon as once more. Exploring totally different dimensions, speaking to demons and spirits, and utilizing your cat-like curiosity, it’s as much as you to search out your grasp’s soul and save his life.
Cat and the Ghostly Highway is an excellent enjoyable recreation wherein you get to discover and expertise rather a lot. The primary a part of your journey includes you getting into certainly one of your grasp’s work and interacting with the characters inside. The entire recreation just about follows that format—discuss with totally different creatures, use their hints to unravel puzzles, and transfer on to the following setting. For instance, one of many first creatures you come throughout is a spirit who tells you enter the religious dimension. He tells you of a secret door for which you want a key, however explains that it might be something—not only a typical key. You need to discuss to and commerce with one other spirit to accumulate that key after which discover the door.
On this recreation, nevertheless, you possibly can solely see and discuss to spirits whereas in “spirit mode.” As a result of you’re a cat, you’ve gotten the power to see what the human eye can’t. So as to entry this mode, you simply click on the Y button. That is tremendous useful, as some puzzles can’t be solved from the human eye. Later within the recreation, you additionally achieve the power to alter right into a “human cat” which lets you seem much less susceptible to sure spirits. You entry this mode with ZL.
You even have a list, accessible with X, which lets you maintain gadgets it’s possible you’ll want for puzzles. Sure gadgets could be mixed to create a brand new merchandise, which is just achieved by holding one merchandise and urgent A over one other merchandise. To make use of an merchandise within the recreation, you double click on A in your stock, after which transfer it onto no matter you need it to work together with, and press A once more.
The controls for this recreation are pretty easy, and are displayed always so that you don’t overlook. Transfer your character with the L stick, transfer your cursor with the R stick.
The graphics for this recreation are additionally very nicely achieved. The artwork is very nice to have a look at, because the surroundings and animals are all tremendous fairly and stress-free. Even the scary demons have nice designs.
The music additionally helps add to this recreation’s stress-free however ominous vibe, permitting it to be absolutely appreciated as a creepy and mysterious, but additionally calm and touching, expertise.
Cat and the Ghostly Highway does an incredible job at taking a candy story, certainly one of a cat making an attempt to save lots of its proprietor, and making it thrilling, suspenseful, and laborious to place down.