Разработчик: Kucing Rembes
Описание
Особенности игры:
- Ретро-эффект ручной работы, ностальгическая музыка и игровой процесс классического платформера, смешанного с современными элементами.
- Карта мира с множеством секретов.
- 63 уровня которые распространены по 7ми мирам, каждый со своим уникальным боссом.
- Великолепный дизайн уровней, который удовлетворит даже самых хардкорных игроков.
- Различные навыки и цветовые схемы для главного героя.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, japanese, russian, simplified chinese, portuguese - brazil, italian
Системные требования
Windows
- ОС *: Windows 7 Service Pack 1
- Процессор: Dual Core 1.6 GHz
- Оперативная память: 1 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: OpenGL 2 enabled, 512 MB
- DirectX: версии 9.0
- Место на диске: 200 MB
Mac
- ОС: 10.7
- Процессор: Dual Core 1.6 GHz
- Оперативная память: 1 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: 512 MB display memory
- Место на диске: 200 MB
Отзывы пользователей
Oh my goodness! This game! Firstly, it is ADORABLE. Magicat has a good balance of fun and challenge, with plenty of gameplay to keep you occupied for hours. I absolutely love it. And the music! What a soundtrack! I was so happy to see the soundtrack was also available! I highly recommend it!
Pretty fun platformer with precise controls, upgradable abilities and decent enough level design. Has some puzzle elements as well.
Meow.
It looks like a simple, cutesy platformer but there are certain aspects of it that are nightmarishly hard. There's not really much of a story, you play as a magical cat who goes from stage to stage collecting gems and defeating bosses. Each area can be run through in a minute, but if you want to 100% complete the game and buy some of the necessary special abilities you have to collect the red gems. They are sometimes easy to find, but often really horribly tucked away somewhere in some cruel joke that can take up to an hour to figure out. Magicat can jump, throw a projectile and dash. Every level has some "gimmick" and the developers were really creative with the coding here. For example, on one stage you are hiding behind barriers while a timed laser shoots at you. Another has a sunflower you can launch to use as a platform to climb higher.
At the end of every stage is a boss that is usually just a bigger version of the normal slime or bat enemy that stalks the stages. They would be difficult to kill if not for the ridiculously forgiving life system. As you play you collect blue bottles that let you replenish your life if you buy a certain powerup. If you die, you can revive using "paw" items that are gifted to you just for completing levels. I finished the game with 1,200 of these so there's no shortage of them. I would've liked it if the game was just generally harder in terms of combat, but the game is frustrating enough with the gem collection. There's a gem in each of the three rooms on the stage, some can be collected just by hitting a switch but others require you to kill a certain number of enemies within a time limit or do something really obtuse like go out of bounds. The most ridiculous one has you moving between enemies that alternate between color and black and white, but they only move if you are looking at them (Like the ghosts in Super Mario World). It seems simple, but when you consider the fact that you need to move pixel perfect and occasionally go outside of what looks like the boundaries it becomes almost impossible.
The overworld is like Super Mario World but you can do things like lay tiles as a bridge or destroy trees or other obstacles obstructing the path. The shops have items and some of the upgrades actually make the gem collection a little easier, assuming you didn't ragequit by the time you get them. There are no secret areas but I like that the map is out of order and broken up as it never feels monotonous. When you finish the game you get a new game plus but by then I had already had 20 hours in this thing so I was just about done. Overall I actually really enjoyed this game and consider it a bit of a hidden gem. While not as technically well-designed as a game like Super Mario World, the constant innovation with the mechanics combined with the fact that the game requires genuine creativity to figure out the ridiculous puzzle elements means that I was pretty addicted to it for the time I was playing it, even if I'm now entirely sick of it.
This game truly brings back the fury of the 90's when I played platformers as a kid. It's worth the price - especially on sale.
If you get frustrated or stuck - you can always load another file and replay for the joy of it. It is VERY challenging...but it makes me want to beat it that much more, despite the frustration.
Cute, magical, nonsensical (in a good way), and simple fun.
10/10 - fully recommend to anyone who misses a good challenge, and loves old school side-scrolling platformers. Despite how many times I wanted to throw my controller....I find myself going back to the pain.
What a hidden gem!
MagiCat is a surprisingly great platformer that is so much more than meets the eye! The game is a 16-bit platformer that brings us back to the era of Super Mario World.
Disclaimer: I just started the second-to-last world as I write this review. The game has a total of 63 levels, 9 in each of the 7 worlds.
It's a CHALLENGING platformer (I might say slightly harder than Donkey Kong Country 2) where you can run, jump, dash, shoot fireballs and do tons of other stuff. It might make you rage-quit, but definitely won't bore you! The progression is also really balanced, starting off easy, but becoming really, really hard later on. The story is way too simple to the point that I even forgot what MagiCat was supposed to do, but that is not detrimental to the fun at all. The dialogues are literally just meowing, barking, chirping, buzzing, etc. But let's be honest, Mario never had a great story and we never cared.
But it's not just 63 levels that feel the same. Each and every level adds a new, specific mechanic. Yes, every one of them! That's a lot of mechanics, and they all feel well thought-out, not something they did just to brag about it (I don't think they even mention it on Steam page). Because of that, each stage feels very unique and provide new types of challenges. Of course you'll enjoy some mechanics more than others, but they all feel like they belong in the game, like they've been masterfully woven together into this perfect carpet that will take you on a magic ride.
Not only that, at the end of each stage you'll face a unique boss that matches the mechanic introduced in that level. Yes, that means there are 63 different bosses! That's a lot! And they're fun to fight, reminscent of the era when you had to face the boss a few times until you've memorized its attack patterns. There are checkpoints before each boss, and no lives, so you can reload the checkpoint to your heart's content.
Like games from that era, you can collect coins and points during the stage so they get converted into pawprints. This is like a currency that can be used for a few things, like reviving MagiCat if you die. Also, you have MP, which is a limited resource you collect throughout each stage (it does not carry between levels) and can be used to dash, heal, and activate checkpoints (shooting fireballs is free, though!). It all feels really balanced, and I never feel like I'm lacking resources or that I have way too much to spare.
MagiCat also has optional features that provide extra challenge and/or replayability. For example, each level has 3 areas before the boss, each containing a collectible gem (so 3 per level). On top of that, you can get the gems without dashing for a special marker on the collected gem, just for bragging rights (not important for achievements). Regardless of how you got them, the gems can be used at the shops to buy items which can help you in many ways, like reducing checkpoint cost, making pits take 1 HP instead of insta-killing you, etc.
You can also get special gems/markers if you beat the stage's boss without reviving, and an even better one for not taking damage during the boss fight (fyi, I gave up on the latter shortly after starting world 4, some bosses are just too hard for me to perfect them). None of this stuff affects achievements either.
Last but not least, after you beat a stage, you will unlock the time attack for it (does not include the boss fight), which consists of beating the stage in under 100 seconds. I'm usually not a big fan of time trials, but these are much easier to achieve than getting most collectible gems.
Another aspect where this game shines is the world map. It resembles a lot those from SMW or even SM3, as in "you beat levels to open paths", and it's really beautiful (although not as lively as SMW's), but there are twists! Remember those pawprints I mentioned? After you purchase the necessary items from the shop, you can use those pawprints to break obstacles or create pathways in case you want to take different routes, play levels in a different order, access a shop earlier etc.
ON TOP OF IT ALL, MAGICAT IS SUPER CHEAP!
Seriously, if you're into retro platformers, don't be fooled by its simplistic yet cute look, this game is just amazing in its genre.
Still not convinced? Here's a list of a few other pros I didn't mention:
- You get to play as a cat.
- MagiCat can change colors for extra cuteness if you find the special springs.
- The game was released in Aug 22nd, 2017, and the devs still update the game (last update as of now was Sep 20th, 2024) more than 7 years after the release. Throughout the many updates, they've added v-sync, CRT and other nice features, and they make sure the game still runs smoothly (it does!).
- Plays really well with a controller, and the controls are really tight and responsive, but I haven't tried with m&kb.
[*] Great variety of level themes (forest, snow, graveyard, castle, factory...). Also, thank god for no slippery ice (so far).
But don't you have anything bad to say about it?
Well, as I mentioned, the story is all but non-existent, and also I can't say the music is memorable, although it's not annoying either.
That's it, go play MagiCat!
I finished the game and OMG, it was very hard for me.
I don’t think this type of games are suitable for me, but anyway it is a good game for someone who loves this type of platform games.
the game is good, the art style is cute, the pixel art its good looking the level design is decent, the only things that its not so good is the music. overhaul is a good game.
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A wonderful puzzle platformer with unique mechanics in every level. Easy to control, but WAY tougher than it looks. If you want a cute challenge I highly recommend this!
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Kucing Rembes |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 31.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 93% положительных (156) |