If you've never heard of Nyan Cat, don't worry you're not alone. This obscure mini game from solgryn.org is a confusing yet comedic at the same time. The point of Nyan Cat seems simple, which is to get past the flying dogs getting in your way. The main character of the game is supposedly (and we don't know this for sure) the Nyan Cat. Nyan, as far as we're concerned is either the name of the cat itself or a rare breed whose body grows into a large toast shaped tumor.
The design of the game Nyan Cat is psychedelic and futuristic. It's as if Star Wars threw up all over the Care Bears and had a baby by the name of Nyan Cat. It's that ridiculous. the environment is set somewhere in the Delta galaxy of the Omicron system where evil dogs rule the world. Okay fine, it's not that elaborate of a scheme but you have to have a story to every game right?
Anyway, the setting is pretty much in space. Not any particular galaxy or solar system, just plain old generic pixelated 80s Atari console type space. Nyan Cat starts with the view of previous scores and a rainbow flash effect illuminates the solyn.org emblem while Nyan Cat himself is seen flying across space leaving a rainbow trail along his path. I am not making this up.
As you start a new game, you're given the controls. Use the arrow keys to navigate around space and use the X key to shoot. As for the navigation, it's your typical 2-D shooter game Battlestar Galactica format...except with a cat as your hero and dogs as your opponent. As for the shooting, we can only guess what the Nyan Cat is shooting out of its mouth but from the best of our guesses it's hairballs. Why? Because when we shot at the incoming evil dogs, it took about 10 shots to kill a dog. So a hairball would be an accurate guess due to the nature of the main character being a cat and the weapon's effectiveness on the opponents.
Once we finally did shoot the dog down, a dead fish came up, which we assumed was a health up.. Thankfully it was, but unfortunately, there were about ten dogs nearing us. Because shooting was a useless option, we tried maneuvering while shooting but quickly found that that option soon proved fatal. We then thought that maybe the rainbow tail served some sort of purpose, maybe as a weapon that you could use to neutralize the dogs but alas, it was just an annoying graphic. After about ten tries, we concluded that the game was impossible to beat. But hey, by all means, if you're into toast shaped cats shooting rainbows out their butts while shooting hairballs in space to fend off evil flying dogs this just might be your cup of tea.
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