Catana Reviews

S'allright. I know that's not particularly helpful, but then again, this isn't a particularly deep game. It is more or less a Match-3 game (in broad terms), where you must move your protagonist (a cat samurai) across a grid, surrounded by enemies and as you pass by or end up concluding your move sequence adjacent to a sufficient number of enemies, you will destroy them and remove them from the board. Some enemies will randomly become "angry" and if you end your turn adjacent to them, they will injure you (and you only have a certain number of hit-points/hearts per level). Obviously, as the dozens of levels go on, you will receive some special powers (e.g. a potion to quell all the angry enemies on the game board) that are each usable once per level, and some enemies will require two hits to destroy, etc. There's even a few boss-fights with a variety of special conditions that you must contrive to bring about with your movement and attack patterns in order to beat. It's not a terribly difficult game (on average difficulty.....there is a harder difficulty with less health), and I only died a handful of time over dozens of levels, and almost always on a boss fight. The achievements are more-or-less easy to get and you will ultimately get almost all of them just through a normal playthrough (although there is one for killing a huge number of opponents where you will just have to avoid beating the level even when it's in your sights and deliberately stick around killing non-specified opponents rather than the ones the level wants you to slay, just so your can rack up a high enough number of kills). So, it's certainly not anything special, but it's a fun way to kill ~8 hours if you're in the mood for a palate cleanser between harder, more intellectually demanding games. Recommended.