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Website: https://catieinmeowmeowland.com/
Price: 10-15 USD
Blurb: “Catie in MeowmeowLand is a classical humorous point-and-click adventure game. Help little Catie get back home from the bizarre cat world of MeowmeowLand! “
I am all for Indie games, but I draw the line at moon-puzzle clickers. Especially when they are forced, and with really low value toilet humour. You will understand what I mean soon.
The game starts you out with an Alice in Wonderland rip-off, where a cat, wearing playing cards, runs along, holding a pocket watch and jumping down a rabbit hole. There is no voice acting, other than a few semi-words. Katie, our protagonist, runs after the cat to the hole, where she is kicked down, a lá Monty Python’s flying circus, by a foot that comes out of another hole and goes back whence it came. Hitting the bottom of the hole, she bounces off overgrown cats and is swallowed. Then she emerges from the cat’s butt-hole. There is a cut scene of the “meow-meow” going left-to-right, and you have to follow. You have a bird with a scroll as your hint. The puzzle is straightforward, you have to wake a jelly, so he will go in a hole for you to cross. Weird, but I’m still invested. Oh, I did not mention this, you don’t control Catie, you interact with the world, and once done, click Catie to move.
Second scene. Your path is blocked by a cartoon-y 0.16 ton block. After you have clicked on everything, you take a hint. There are another pair of spectacles in a 3D-glasses wearing cat’s lair, that you need to put on some koala creature on a lamp post that collapses behind the scenery when you touch it, which gives the creature lazer eyes, that melt an ice-cream cone a pink bug is holding, that the cat was licking. (I will include a picture for you to see). The cat now goes and licks a lever (why?). This leans the cat forward, for you to get a key, that opens a keyhole in the ground, to get a balloon, to put on a pipe, to fill with something, but it is not even indicated. You take the balloon and tie it to 0.16 ton block and it floats away. You now link said pipe (the one you filled the balloon with) with a piece of brass the 0.16 ton dropped, to make another bug move, to reveal a spring-loaded platform to shoot you into the background. (This bug is one-sixth your size, how is the spring platform held down by it?) .
There is no way, other than clicking the hint, to solve this one. I don’t know about you, but there is no sense of accomplishment in that. If I wanted participation prizes, I’d go to a modern school. The same holds true for the next scene, where you need to find a bell, tie it to the top snake’s tail (you find two snakes by clicking around in the top-right side of the screen) so it will go in a knot, so you can give it to the large cat on the sofa, so he can bat it away with his fan, so the fan will drop to make a smaller cat enter the scene. If any of this made any sense to you, please let me know at misc@fullcirclemagazine.org, and we will mention it as soon as we can.
The music, there is not much to mention either. It is that old-timey boop-boop-boop wind up organ from a carnival in the background, occasionally broken with oohs and aahs from Catie or “tick-tock, tick-tock” from the meow-meow.
I’m sorry, but games are supposed to be fun, this is not; not even the kids liked it. Don’t waste your money and I won’t waste my time any further on this.