A stray cat's Showa summer, seen only in stills
Manekineco Games previews a cat's-eye open world of bin bags, snack-box disguises and rooftop leaps, all judged from screenshots alone.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
A stray cat's Showa summer, seen only in stills The screenshots for A Wonderful Cat Life show a kitten called Kedama trotting across a zebra crossing towards what looks like a corner shop done up in the orange and blue of a Japanese convenience store, power lines sagging overhead against a blue sky. It is a small, ordinary composition, and that is rather the point. Manekineco Games, working solo and by the developer's own account on a dream thirty years in the making, wants you to feel the size of a town from somewhere around knee height, and the low, close camera in every image does exactl...