Little Kitty, Big City review

Test conditions: We completed the entire game (main and secondary quests as well as all the challenges) on Xbox Series X in just over five hours.

Where is my house?

Having fallen from the window sill of his apartment, at the top of the largest building in the city, our four-legged hero will have to explore the city in order to find a way back home. There are many ivy plants that one could climb, but the feline lacks energy.

Fortunately, a crow on his perched bicycle offers to offer us a fish in exchange for some shiny trinkets. Neither one nor two, we are then free to explore the city to find these precious resources. The loot in your pocket, then after exchange, the fish tasted, you must then set out in search of three other fish allowing you to benefit from enough energy gauges to climb the building.

Focusing solely on this main quest won't keep you busy for more than an evening. In two or three hours it is, in fact, possible to go home and finish the game, but that would be missing out on the rest of the activities that the title offers.

My skin cat is beautiful

Indeed, while traveling through the city, you can come across several animals (cats, raccoons, ducks, chameleons or even beetles) in need of help. There are around fifteen secondary quests offered with various objectives. As a reward, our furry companion obtains different hats that we can then equip. There are more than forty, ranging from banana hats to Shiba Inu hats, which will be perfect for posing in the four corners of the city using the available photo mode.

Note that some of these hats can also be found in the city, hidden behind a fence or a bush for example. The rest is obtained from dispensers for a few shiny trinkets.

In addition to the hats, other objects will be collected as well as certain specific tasks (which we will leave you the pleasure of discovering) to complete a small list of challenges. Allow between five and six hours this time to complete the game in its entirety. It's a little short unfortunately, we would have liked to have more to sink our teeth into, both in terms of the main objective and the additional content.

In addition, with such a lack of narration in both the main quest and the secondary quests, you should not expect a thrilling storyline in this Little Kitty, Big City. But is this really where we expect it?

When the cat is not there the geese cackle

Little Kitty, Big City is above all a little hassle-free adventure, with a simplistic visual style, a bit cartoony and offering freedom of action in the city. LikeUntitled Goose Game, it is possible to be a real demon for these poor humans. What would a cat be if it didn't knock everything off a table or edge? With the ability to kick, you can destroy certain objects by dropping them. Even more fun, it is also possible to trip passers-by and steal anything they have dropped (cell phone, sandwich, etc.).

Even more sneaky, you can for example pick up a pair of scissors or other dangerous objects and chase them with them, let yourself be petted then attack them or even place a banana in front of them to make them fall. The options are quite numerous and allow for some rather amusing situations.

The gameplay remains basic, but effective. In addition to kicking and grabbing objects in its mouth, it is possible to sprint, crawl to discreetly approach birds and pounce on them (to then release them) and especially jump. Ultimately a very important mechanism for a cat, it allows us to explore both roofs and streets. However, we may struggle a few times with imprecise controls during certain jumps and ivy climbs despite the possibility of aiming to target the place where we want to jump.