Karate Cat

押忍！！　カラテキャット、レビューさせていただきます！ 押忍！！　見たまんまネコが板割するだけです！ 押忍！！　キーボード操作だけのシンプル設計です！ 押忍！！　以上のバカゲーです！！ （プレイ中に、「神〇会の秘密兵器」「カラテを終わらせたネコ」「マッハ突き」等が頭をよぎりました。 　　あと、追加キャラにチーターマンみたいなのがいます。）　

[h1]Focus, timing, and cats[/h1] A small score-chaser, [i]Karate Cat[/i] is all about timing. Karateka(t) stands above a stand with wooden plank (or sometimes brick) and has to smash the plank by hitting it at the correct time (as shown by a bar moving up and down, showing a target) or, in case of a brick, sweep it aside. Hitting the brick or hitting the plank at the wrong time makes the cat cry (you monster!). Hitting the bar at the right time multiple times in a row as it's going up earns combo and associated bonus points. There's not much more to the game: - You can purchase (with in-game earned currency) more cat models to play. - You can switch the scenery. - You can adjust sound and music volume separately. - You can play windowed mode or fullscreen. I am not sure why some people call it a clicker because at least I could not use clicks; instead, spacebar is for hitting and left-or-right-arrow is for sweeping bricks. There are no key binding options. As a timing game, it's unfortunate that it is locked to 60 FPS. With a 144 Hz monitor, I would have appreciated (though not necessarily expected) support for that and this kind of game would certainly benefit from the added refresh speed. The brick has little point because there's no punishment for pressing left or right repeatedly all the time (aside from getting your fingers tired, haha). If sweeping the wooden plank away could happen and it would mess up combo, it would have been much more challenging. Maybe for a hard mode, this would have been a suitable bonus challenge. But there are no alternate game modes at the time of writing, so score chasing, just passing time (the music is pretty neat), and Steam achievements are the main attraction. Achievements require you to make a successful 50-hit-combo and grind enough money to purchase all cat models. Personally, I took 35 minutes to succeed in the combo and did not have to grind for more fame bucks. Inexpensive enough (personally I even got it on sale for mere €0.35), it's a nice short game to finish while taking a break from bigger games. [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/9997062/]~Twistorian Curator~[/url]