7/10 Tetramino with cats
TLDR: "Tetramino" is like Tetris but where shapes don't fall down and instead you just place them to fill a rectangular area. Here there are shapes of 4, 5, 6 and even more pieces, and the rectangular area may have some tiles blocked. There are funny cat 'meow' sounds, pleasant music and cute cats. The game's main difficulty comes from lack of tile highlights (see below) which would probably be easy to add and make the game much friendlier.
Good:
+ tetramino, pentamino, sextamino etc is a classic puzzle that would be most fun to kids maybe aged 8-12. The setting of funny cats is appropriate. Though as an adult, I enjoyed it, too.
+ funny "meow" sounds that seem to play randomly and just rarely enough to never get boring even after a long time playing
+ pleasant casual music
+ nice cats with some simple animations
+ 96 levels
So-so:
+/- the UI is strangely optimized for keyboards, and the buttons are sometimes hard to click with a mouse. Even the levels list is hard to navigate: you have to press Q or E keys, or click on the small buttons in the far corners of the screen. Instead the list should have been just draggable with a mouse. This game would obviously fit mobile phones, so I wonder why it doesn't use controls common for mobile where just a left click and left mouse drags would do everything
Bad:
- the main difficulty of the game comes not from the puzzles themselves but from unclear shapes of cats. Sometimes a cat's tail or head visually occupies something like 30% of a neighbor tile but that tile is still empty. Add to this small animations where the tail moves even more into a neighbor tile, and it gets all hard to see. Cats can even overlap each other slightly - yet tile-wise it's still fine. The simple fix here is a highlight of the tiles. I'd say, when you mouse over a cat, it should show an outline of the tiles this cat consists of. Also, when you move the cat over the board, the tiles that would be occupied by the dragged cat should get something like blue fills. And the already placed cat should show tile outlines e.g. in red so that you could clearly see which tiles are still free and which are already occupied
- sometimes you just can't put a cat away from the board. You click a cat, drag outside the board - and it just gets put back on the board, yet in a different spot. In about 30% of cases the cat does land outside but in 70% it gets back to the board. I guess it's some bug that needs to be fixed
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