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  • Pix the Cat review

    Pix the Cat, from French studio Pastagames, is like a cross between Snake and Pac-Man Championship Edition. Played out on a single screen, you control a cat that moves along grid lines collecting eggs, which hatch into a train of ducklings who follow you around. As the train grows longer the environment becomes more claustrophobic and you have to be careful to avoid boxing yourself in or risk losing your combo.
    The goal is to set a high score, which involves depositing the ducklings on target circles, and the longer you go between deposits - ideally you want to chain an entire screen of them before going near a circle - the better your combo. This is tricky because your speed increases as your combo grows, leaving you with less time to think about which direction you're going to turn next.
    Its origins may be borrowed, but Pix the Cat styles itself as the hip reinvention of a stuffy arcade original - apparently the developers even built an arcade cabinet version - and it's a trick that really works for it, because the whole thing oozes with cool. The retro chic visuals pulsate as you play, the cats and ducklings and little skull enemies suggest some sort of nerdy street art counterculture you want to be included in, and there are lots of neat ideas that create the effect of blending in seamlessly with a hoary old classic, like a speed boost when you time your turns to perfection - and in particular the way you move between puzzle screens.
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