Qajary Cat Reviews

7 of 10

played this game and i found god

So I bought this game cuz I wanna support Iranian games and see what's out there. Also, I love cats ahahaha. Brief Review Art: 10/10!!! Soundtrack: 8/10 Sound Effects/VA: 6/10 Plot/Script: 7.5/10 Gameplay: 4/10 Pros: Game is absolutely beautiful (I ended up screenshotting nearly every new scene). It mixes traditional paisley, cartoony character design, Persian calligraphy linework, with stark B&W mixed with occasional splashes of bright colour. Whoever the artist is, they are a god and they made this game. The cat content didn't disappoint, either. And apparently Babri Khan (the cat protagonist) was a real cat in the Qajar palace! Anyway, the soundtrack is traditional Persian stringed instruments--good, but very repetitive cuz it was on a loop. I found the sense of humour really amazing: sometimes it was just childish picture book fun, other times it made subtle passing political commentaries on the Iranian economy or the Persian monarchy. These were blended almost seamlessly so it didn't seem at all jarring but a fun surprise. I can't comment on whether these political jokes are understandable to non-Iranians or not. Cons: The narrator speaks in Persian (which is good and I love the job she did on this) so you rely on subtitles, which are often mispelled or have grammatical/punctuation errors. And sometimes the sound was either too loud and harsh or too soft. I must have taken maybe 2 hours to complete, but that was because my first playthrough glitched out an hour in and I had to start over. I also have to state that maybe 50% of that two hours was spent being stuck ahahaha gameplay is terrible. The two good things about the gameplay that stop this game being totally unplayable are that (1) you can highlight objects easily (except the highlight symbols aren't aligned to the objects they correspond to, so you still end up hovering the cursor around a bit), and (2) if a minigame is terrible enough, you eventually get the option to skip it. I managed to skip all of them because they weren't worth it. Also, I feel like there's zero replay value. Anyway, well worth the $1 I spent on it. I may recommend watching an LP instead but. I would probably only replay this if I had Iranian family watching me from the sidelines lol.

This would be a lovely game if it wasn't full of glitches and vagueness. Wasted my money. Better listen to some classical Iranian music, instead lol

This game looks gorgeous, but the game play was clunky and I didn't enjoy it.

I like the overall style of this game. The art and music are really cool. I wanted to like everything else. But the game itself is only complicated because the directions are entirely vague. There's not enough information or hints as to what to do. So I'm stuck in the 2nd scene and it's just gotten to be annoying.