Elaborate contraptions, usually manned moused by a… eh… talking mouse, regularly pop up along the path, and they’re always an utter delight. Gato Roboto excels, and challenges you, in its boss fights, though.
Every now and again you’ll be caught out by a fish with a propeller for a tail, but most of the underground creatures are cannon fodder. Typical enemies don’t pose that much of a threat. Apart from when I came up against that bastard rodent. I did end up with almost impenetrable armour, I guess. I wanted to be rewarded with something special for going the extra mile, like a unique attachment, and that rarely happened. Extra health points are handy, and modification cartridges can turn up the rate-of-fire in your standard gun, but I was hoping for more. It is effective, yes, but the sheen from those items behind the once locked doors dulls pretty quickly. The rocket launcher, as well as being more powerful than your standard shooter, is able to break up certain walls blocking your path while the spin jump lets you bounce on enemy heads, and reach those high platforms that you couldn’t before. Apart from killing the baddies and nabbing the upgrades, there isn’t much to wrap your head around, anyway.Ībout 10 minutes in, once you enhance your suit for the first time, you understand that the weapons at your disposal also act as keys to previously unavailable areas of the map. Gary regularly questions whether Kiki’s meowing means they understand the objective: it’s cutesy, but it works. Through garbled N64 voices and on-screen text, the blonde-haired spaceman guides you over radio, whilst also acting as Gato Roboto’s voice of reason. Someone has to protect Gary, and if it’s you – his pet cat – so be it.Īfter crash landing his spaceship near an abandoned research facility and then finding himself trapped in the wreckage, bum-chinned pilot Gary must call upon his kitty to investigate a suspicious signal coming from somewhere on the planet. It’s the necessary equaliser in Gato Roboto’s 2D, monochromatic, nasty-filled underworld. This pussy doesn’t care, though aside from the occasional wry smile or furrowed brow, Kiki’s as unflappable as a ‘90s action hero, when they’ve got the added protection of a kick-ass mech suit that can shoot projectiles at airborne irritants and obliterate certain parts of the scenery. One shot from an aggressive armadillo or a determined pufferfish and the four-legged Kiki is a goner.
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