PIX the CAT is an intense arcade game designed to make your pads sore!Rescue forsaken ducklings from the nested levels of the infamous GRID of INFINITY. Perfect your skills to SPEED and COMBO UP until you reach the explosive FEVER TIME! Defeat your friends at home in the combat ARENA and compete online with the GHOST feature.

Pix the Cat is an intense arcade game that will challenge your reflexes and your wits, pitting you against your friends and the world in a race to the highest score!THE ARCADEThis is the game’s core! Its neon-disco look & feel will tease your optical taste buds. In a frantic race against the clock, rack up massive points to make the leaderboards! Each move is critical to skyrocket to the top of the ladder. So keep your reflexes razor-sharp and your eyes peeled to find the best way to perform PERFECTS in the levels as they come at you full throttle! Compete against the ghost of your best run, your friends’ best runs or even the devs’ to learn from their routes and gain valuable seconds along with boasting rights! Let alone becoming a Scoreboard Sensei and teach others how to master the game!Your goal is to rescue forsaken ducklings from nested levels of the infamous GRID of INFINITY.

To do so, you will make your way through flashy digital levels, pulsing to a galvanizing groove that won’t fail to make your heart skip a beat! Perfect your skills to SPEED and COMBO UP until you reach the explosive FEVER TIME!THE NOSTALGIAThe Nostalgia Mode plays like Snake but with a few twists. Collect the target number of ducklings to win. Make the best use of your environment to perfect each level and DO NOT run into a wall, get stuck inside your tail or collide with a baddie, or it’s Game Over!An old fashioned je-ne-sais-quoi gives this blast from the past a vibrant vibe.

With art that feels dug up from the golden era of black and white, experience an adventure oozing with surprises! Each of the 70 levels offers a new skill challenge and yet another blister under your thumb!THE LABORATORYThis game mode presents yet another atmosphere. Its mellow puzzles are a breath of microscopic fresh air and a big change of pace. Under the magnifying glass, fire up your brain cells to complete 100 experiments with no time limit. Your results are measured by your number of moves.

Keep them minimal while dodging dangers to collect the bonus stamp!THE ARENARule over the Arena by jousting against your friends in this local battle mode hosting up to four PixBots and blow your enemies to smithereens in epic battles.Collect ammo-eggs to use as missiles, to lay mines or to stun your enemies. Fallen foes will transform into ghosts that pursue survivors tirelessly. If a ghost smashes into a Pixbot, it will steal its life force and blast back into battle with a vengeance. This time, it’s personalThere are many winning strategies to be crowned Champion! Adapt to your opponents to best them or blow up trying! Each of the 14 Arenas offers a different environment and urges you to change your habits to become the last PixBot standing!See you soon in the Grid of Infinity!Show More. Submitted on 2/14/2017 Review title of PacarioPacMan Meets SnakePart maze runner, part puzzler, part psychedelic mind bender, Pix the Cat is essentially a frantic race against a heartless clock that requires sharp reflexes, timing, and a good sense of direction.

Indeed, this is probably a speed runner's dream come true, but the rest of us 'normal' gamers will still have fun navigating the game's stylish twists and turns. In other words, packed full of extra modes and challenges, Pix the Cat has something for everyone and provides a fine time. Besides, shouldn't more games have cats in them?

Retro gaming is always fun. It’s nostalgic, entertaining, and usually easy to play and excel at. There are few games nowadays that do a good job when it comes to replicating old school games, but I must say this one has by far taken the cake.Have you ever pictured a world where you had your own announcer who narrates your progress? Regardless of your answer, add this to that picture: a blue cat that collects eggs, hatches them, and drops the ducklings down portals that resemble manholes.

Now you’re picturing Pix the Cat.Pix the Cat is a wonderful tribute to classic, 8-bit gaming. If Pac-Man and Snake had a baby, somehow they’d have this vibrant blue feline. You play as Pix, a friendly wildcat that happens to collect and lead ducklings to their portal haven. The game has a similar leveling system to Pac-Man’s, where it’s vital to be able to think and move quickly and use the levels’ doors to avoid crashing into yourself. In reference to Snake, the ducklings you pick up act as a tail until you are able to drop them off.The less stalling you do, the faster you go, the more combos you obtain and boom! You’ve now reached Fever Time, which mimics Pac-Man when he eats his giant meth balls (terminology is courtesy of CollegeHumor’s Pac-Man Ghost skit).

During this period, you can head butt skulls that would normally decimate your ducklings. Fever Time won’t stop until you break the combo. And that’s just the beginning.What’s next? Three other different game modes! So, no, you shouldn’t just play this for a couple of minutes and be able to Alt-Tab to your browser in order to Google that random thought you just had. There’s a lot more to Pix the Cat than Snake tendencies and Pac-Man-esque levels, even though that is nearly the entire premise of this game.In total, Pix the Cat has four different modes you can play: Arcade, Nostalgia, Laboratory, and Arena.

Prove it, and you’ll be rated out of three stars for your efforts. A simple upgrade system lets you boost either your turbo, acceleration, handling or speed attributes as you progress after each career race, but their effects are minor at best.While track layouts, locations and visual presentation leave you wanting more from a pure design perspective, some originality does at least rear its head in a unique risk/reward star system found in the game’s novel, if a little brief, career mode.You see, prior to each race, survival challenge or time attack trial, you’re given the option to gamble on how well you’re going to do. Think you can reach first place on a particular track, or fancy your chances at beating out your AI opponents in survival? Moto racer 4 nintendo switch gameplay. Bikes feel little more than carbon copies of each other; at best they may feel a little lighter or heavier than the previous one you took to the tracks, but the only real tactile change comes from the difference between racing a dirt bike or on-road motorcycle.

Each mode has its own rules. Arcade and Nostalgia feature the Pix. Both modes follow a similar concept of picking up the ducklings. However, Nostalgia switches things up a bit.

The mode doesn’t have that swift, upbeat tune that I mentioned before, and it doesn’t have the vivid colors, either.Instead, Nostalgia is in black and white with early 1900s jingles (think Steamboat Willie). Furthermore, you are still picking up eggs and hatching them, but you are not dropping them off.

The point of this mode is to carrying all the ducklings without getting trapped in a maze created by your tail, and to avoid the skulls and mean sea urchins. You must do this quickly in order to save the flower from being eaten by a goat at the top of your scene, which is how you attain a bonus for the level.The other two modes are Arena and Laboratory.

The former is a multiplayer mode. The latter features a petri dish specimen that must pick up bubble-like eggs which web together. In this mode, you can’t drop the bubbles off before collecting all of them on the board. There is also a minimum amount of moves you can make in the levels in order to be granted a bonus. The Arena mode can play up to four people, all of which play as cat robots. The purpose of this mode is to collect eggs, shoot them at friends, and use them to have the ultimate standoff with another player before one of you explodes.

Unfortunately, as awesome as Arena mode is, it is only local, so you’ll only be playing with your friends— in the same building.The game focuses on high scores. Whichever mode you are playing, your main objective is to beat the score you achieved during the last playthrough.

This is to be expected, since it does have an arcade game format, but Pix somehow instills you with the inspiration to do better than you would ever expect yourself to do.The game has what I’d like to call motivators. In Arcade, for example, you have the option to use shadows that will show you the best of another playthrough.

So, while you play you have the option to show yourself the shadow of your most accomplished playthrough, which gives you the chance to manipulate your movements in order to finish the levels more efficiently.This game has a very suitable ambience for its entire setting. There’s amazing coloring, mixing bright and neon colors that accentuates each level Pix enters. During Fever Time the colors switch to a flashing negative display, which can disorient someone with sensitive eyes. I was fine, but it did throw me off quite a few times (and that was probably the point of it). Besides the visuals, the score was spot on! Whichever mode you are playing, the music flatters each situation, from deep thinking in Laboratory to 8-bit techno music to keep Fever Time going.Notably, Pix didn’t make his debut on the PC, but on the PS Vita and PS4 instead, which is the first system I played the game on.

Comparing the two, nothing really changed. The PC version even supports controllers, so feel free to hook a PlayStation controller up to it. The game has simple up, down, left, right controls—nothing more and nothing less. That being said, WASD, arrow keys and a d-pad (if you decide to use a controller) makes moving in all modes easier and quicker. This is nice to keep in mind when playing the Arena and Nostalgia since your racing against time.Sounds like fun, right? Well, Pix the Cat does have a few sticking points. The game has the tendency to be repetitive, which is expected due to its arcade setup.

There is also the bothersome element that you’ll have to jump through hoops to unlock the other modes. I wouldn’t necessarily label these as letdowns, as they are kinks that could be changed, but they don’t ruin the experience.The game has some trivial shortcomings, but overall it is fun and exciting to play. On top of that, it presents you with enough challenges and ways to make the game that more interesting. Plus, the main star is a blue cat, and you can’t get anything better than cats!