Join the Duck Line! | Pix the Cat Review

<p>Take the lovable arcade games <em>Pac-Man<&sol;em> and <em>Snake<&sol;em>&comma; and then add in a cat and ducklings&colon; the result of your experiment is <em>Pix the Cat<&sol;em>&excl; The developers from Pastagames brings Steam and PSN users a trip to the past with this indie title&period; Pix must hatch numerous eggs and set the ducklings free by leading them to target circles only to be sent off to another level to repeat the process&period; It sounds like a simple concept but what happens when you play the game is something entirely different&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The more you progress in <em>Pix the Cat<&sol;em> the more challenging the levels become&period; The factors that work against you are time&comma; walls and obstacles&period; You have a small amount of time to complete multiple levels while going for the maximum amount of points&period; Hitting a wall or an obstacle with your line of little ducklings behind you will result in a catastrophic loss of both points and baby ducks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trying to hatch every egg and lead all the ducklings in a single file to their home circles is a trying task when using your computer’s arrow keys&period; You want to make sure to hatch ALL the eggs before sending the ducks home to earn the most points for that particular level&period; Pix moves extremely slow in the first couple of levels but once you move onto the third and forth ones&comma; it becomes almost impossible to move Pix gracefully without hitting the wall at least once&period; You will soon find that your key strokes are not fast enough to keep up with Pix&period; Plus Pix’s speed increases even more when you create combos&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;join-duck-line-pix-cat-review&sol;pix-the-cat-3&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-72238"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-72238" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;02&sol;pix-the-cat1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"-pix-the-cat" width&equals;"793" height&equals;"446" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em> Pix the Cat<&sol;em> falls under the arcade genre and it’s nostalgic all right&period; The childhood memories of standing in an arcade playing games until I ran out of quarters flooded back to me as I tried to rescue this motherless ducks&period; Every inch of this top-down maze game overflows with mechanics from old-school games&period; Even the blue bubbles from <em>Legend of Zelda<&sol;em> have even wiggled their way into this game&period; Eventually you will find those floating skulls that are more than happy to stop Pix from sending the ducklings home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The set-up of creating the longest train without boxing yourself in is not new&comma; but the four game modes is what makes this game fresh&period; Each mode after the arcade mode needs to be unlocked by reaching a certain score&period; The Nostalgia Mode is the best one because the game gets a 1930’s black and white Oswald makeover&period; &lpar;Oswald is the first cartoon character Walt Disney create cartoon shorts for and is Mickey Mouse’s predecessor&period;&rpar; As colorful as the other levels are&comma; the nostalgia mode is a nice variety and change of pallete when playing <em>Pix<&sol;em> for an hour in one sitting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;join-duck-line-pix-cat-review&sol;pix-the-cat-nostalgia-mode&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-72237"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72237" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;02&sol;pix-the-cat-nostalgia-mode-&period;jpg" alt&equals;"pix-the-cat-nostalgia-mode" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"349" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The major flaw with this <em>Pac-Man&sol; Snake<&sol;em> mash-up is most of the soundtrack&period; Quite frankly the music is absolutely annoying and distracting&period; Thankfully the developers added a feature to change the volume of the music and sound affects&period; The sound affects are bountiful enough to compensate for the music being turned off and you can concentrate on reaching your score goal in peace&period; The only mode that offers an enjoyable music experience is the nostalgia mode&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The cartoon style of the nostalgia mode really makes <em>Pix the Cat<&sol;em> worth plaything through till the end and even makes up for the early mode’s distracting music&period; Even though it is frustrating to get through the early modes to unlock it&comma; the black and white animation makes all the effort worth while&period; <em>Pix the Cat<&sol;em> does offers enough content to justify the &dollar;9&period;99 price tag on <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;app&sol;330180&sol;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;800080&semi;"><strong>Steam<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;a>&period; The cuteness of sending the duckies home will bring you back to this game again and again&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;