Review: Catlateral Damage
Catlateral Damage is not what I was expecting when I booted it up. In all honesty, I wasn’t sure what I was expecting. Their video was pretty funny and definitely grabbed my attention. Ever wanted to be a cat and knock junk off of… well everywhere before your humans get home? Well, now there’s a simulator for that! It’s not a plain cat simulator, but it’s a cat carnage simulator for sure.
![There are multiple events that can happen in Catlateral Damage and while most are just for funzies or give you power-ups, some can help you get achievements.](https://thevideogamebacklog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2015-06-07_00002-1024x640.jpg)
There is not much to Catlateral Damage. It’s simple premise of being a cat and knocking things off shelves pretty much describes the entirety of the game. There is an easy enough time-limit which does get a little hairy in the Museum (or Mewseum), but all things in time eh? That’s Objective Mode in a nutshell where as Litterbox Mode removes the time-limit on your destruction and lets you run rampant throughout the rooms knocking things over at your leisure. Remember to pick up the power-ups to help you knock things over with more ease!
![Like random pictures of other people's cats? You're in good company then.](https://thevideogamebacklog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2015-06-07_00003-1024x640.jpg)
There are also a lot of unlocks to … unlock (for lack of a better word there) if that’s your thing. You can get more cats to play as which basically gives you a different color paw to swat things with. There didn’t seem to be a stat difference so I guess it’s all up to color preference (I prefered Kratos I believe). Also, the pictures hanging off the walls are there for you to knock off and collect to keep in the out-of-game collection of funny cat pictures. It’s nice to be able to go back to and giggle at them.
![Maybe it's that it's too simple or that I just don't get it in it's totality. Maybe I'm just looking too deep for something that the game wasn't intended for, but I wasn't 100% sold on this. Did you want a cat simulator to knock things off the shelves? This game will deliver. It's not overly challanging so it could be pretty good for kids to better their hand/eye coordination. In the end, I would say this is more niche that I would have thought and I don't think I fit into that particular niche.](https://thevideogamebacklog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/New-Thin-Meh.jpg)
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