

A stand out feature has to be its music, which half the time sound more like house and electronic music than it does your typical spooky ambient music and soundtrack. The narrative although simple and cute is very effective and fun, all of the characters are memorable and well written, and there's plenty of great moments where the writing shines - it never overstays its welcome either which is nice, it doesn't try TOO hard to be funny unlike so many other indie games. This makes for some interesting combat encounters and spices up the movement and exploration of the game. The biggest defining mechanic is the ability to leave your mech, while out of the mech you die in one hit, can climb walls and can fit into tight spaces. All of these changes put an emphasis on speed and movement, and you end up getting a game which feels like Metroid with twice the speed and half the time to play. Instead of having limited missiles, your missiles run on a short cool-down timer keeping the game as fast as possible, you have a double jump which lets you bounce off enemies to perform additional jumps which makes for some great platforming moments and lets you absolutely cruise through some enemy-filled rooms once you’re proficient using it, and you can perform a dash on the ground or in the air to pass through dangerous obstacles and enemies. But instead of feeling like a copy-cat, Gato Roboto instead makes some clever little changes and additions to make itself feel like more a hyper-charged little homage to the Metroid series instead. Gato Roboto has many similarities to the Metroid games, I feel like I can say that without having to explain myself at this point, it's a pretty well-known type of game. What this game has however that Metroid doesn't, is cats. It's pretty much everything you'd expect from a Metroid game it’s got the alien planet, the open-world structure, the power ups, the in-depth It's pretty much everything you'd expect from a Metroid game it’s got the alien planet, the open-world structure, the power ups, the in-depth movement and so on.
