Stray Should Have Went With Legitimate Platforming Rather Than Button Inputs

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This month, BlueTwelve Studio and Annapurna are set to release Stray, an adorable-looking adventure game featuring a playable cat in a dystopian cyber city. In third-person, players control the cat with animations and interactions that perfectly resemble how cats ordinarily behave, making for a unique perspective in an unfamiliar, neon-lit landscape. Interestingly, aside from the stray cat, only droids and other drones seem to remain in Stray's world with no indication of human life.

Much of Stray’s gameplay seems to involve interacting with B-12, a drone whose name seemingly references the developer, and finding key items for different characters. Moment-to-moment gameplay involves exploration through shanty, dilapidated environments while platforming along dumpsters and awnings in order to reach new areas or rooftops.Stray allows players to embody the agile stealthiness as well as the annoying silliness of this cat, which will likely make for interesting exploration. However, how Stray’s platforming works may not be what players have in mind.

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Previous gameplay showings for Stray lacked any sort of UI or HUD to indicate any button prompts that may appear on-screen while players meander about. There are gameplay presentations that do show UI, which include button prompts for interacting with droids. Fans will notice in these particular showcases that when the cat is near a ledge, perch, or other environment that can be jumped to, a tiny button prompt to do so will appear there. This means that instead of players having a button that lets them leap around whenever and however they would like, the cat can only leap to predetermined points at the behest of a prompt.

Therefore,