Little Kitty, Big City is a game about a kitten messing around in a city. You cause mischief, help other animals, catch (and release) birds, look for nap spots and boxes to lie in and and climb to weird places.

The whole game is a lot like A Short Hike altough with (even) less story and more platforming. The objective of the game is to climb to your own home balcony at the top of a very high building. Progress to the end of the game and a few other places is gated by climbing stamina that you need to increase by finding fish to eat. Sadly, the platforming in the game is a bit clumsy and starts to feel like a pain in the trickier section. Still, that didn't ruin the experience for me, far from it.

The 'A Short Hike formula' works here really well too, and it's fun to mess about in town and just do little quests here and there. It's just fun and heartwarming to see the naive little kitty interact and learn about the world as you go. The game also has good humour and fun, kooky animal characters. For instance, there's an inventor tanuki who messes with portals and bending time-space continuum. The game also has a little collectible hats for your cat as well as a quest log to help you have a sense of progression and direction.

The game also looks nice and bright with simplistic graphics a little like in Katamari games. The star of the show, kitty, is really expressive and well animated, a joy to watch throughout the game. As for audio, I didn't really notice anything remarkable aside from the final climbing sequence that had a relaxing and jazzy piece that kinda tickled my heartstrings in that context. And aside from the good meows and purrs.

When I reached the end of the game, I cried. Just something about the naive little kitty enjoying life to the fullest and having a loving home hit me hard. Then again, I'm a softie and a cat-person so... Reaching the end took me just 3-4 hours, so it's kind of a powerful testament of how the game goes for the feels in such a short time.

In short, Little Kitty, Big City is a fun, heartwarming experience. If you want a relaxing game where there is absolutely nothing sad or evil going on, this is a good pick.

Review for PC (Xbox Gamepass)

Guys, I currently live with a black cat that has been with me for 17 years, and I had another black cat that lived with me up until he was 20 years old! I tell you this, because I am obviously biased and I will not say anything bad about this game! (Just one, or two things...)

What a lovely and short experience. A much needed break from Battlefield and Bloodborne, for sure. I loved everything about this game: the length (no more too long games for now, please!), the music, the style, and the silly dialogue. Very silly, but heartwarming, for sure. The missions were short and very straight forward, thank you for that.

I know I said that I loved everything. Yes, there is a "but". But, the controls were a little clunky and made it hard to jump from spots sometimes. This is something that the game Stray did better than this one. Maybe I shouldn't compare these two games because they are very different, but they are cat games imitating cat movement. Stray did it better, because it was more flowy (is that a word?).

Also, I had a couple of bugs where I got stuck in places for a couple of seconds. There was an instance where I was randomly thrown away from a building. Thank goodness this game doesn't kill you from falling down high places. Was that a spoiler? Sorry...

In the end, this game made me very happy and nostalgic at the same time. It got me to share a teardrop when I finished it, in memory of my kitty. (This is not a spoiler, I just missed my cat).

Je suis tombée amoureuse du concept du jeu en regardant le Nintendo Indie World. Finalement, j'y ai joué sur pc (avec une manette) dans le cadre du game pass.

On y joue un chaton dans un petit open world, un quartier de Tokyo. Notre but, manger des poissons pour augmenter notre stamina pour pouvoir remonter à l'appartement duquel on est tombé. Sur notre route on va croiser d'autres animaux qui vont nous donner des missions annexes et débloquer des objectifs secondaires (faire la sieste dans des endroits insolites, ramener les baballes du chien...

Kitty est vraiment adorable et super bien animé. La ville est colorée même si il est parfois un peu compliqué de repérer les différents bâtiments. Je trouve ça chouette que les humains soient des grandes masses anonymes alors que les animaux ont tous leur chara design propre. C'est un peu comme La Belle et le clochard qui choisissait de représenter uniquement les jambes des humains. Je trouve que c'est une idée trop chouette.

Malheureusement le modèle en simili-open world touche vite ses limites, les quêtes n'étant qu'un ensemble de collectibles. On aurait aimé un peu plus de variété comme ce qu'avait proposé Here Comes Niko.

La technique est elle aussi un peu aux fraises: il est très facile de se coincer et de se softblock, les collisions sont un peu foireuses (ce qui est rapidement compliqué dans un jeu accès sur le saut de plateforme)...

ça reste un super petit jeu que je conseille pour passer un court moment de jeu cozy !