Stray's got us feline nostalgic for one of video game's great cats
This piece originally went out to Eurogamer Supporters as part of the weekly Eurogamer Essentials newsletter which goes out every Friday to all members -Almost as many years have passed since The Last Guardian's release as there were in the wait for Fumito Ueda's much-delayed masterpiece following its 2009 reveal, and the biggest surprise after all that time is how quickly it was forgotten.
What The Last Guardian gave us above and beyond its predecessors was Trico - or catweagle, as it was once known around these parts - the tentative, insouciant half cat/half bat who captured everybody's hearts. It's that insouciance that made development so difficult, I gather, and I've always found it fascinating how the similarly-delayed BioShock Infinite also suffered from a hard to tame partner AI.
Stray's path to release seems to have been a bit smoother than The Last Guardian's, though it's another game whose appeal rests on the blithe behaviours we all adore in cats. It helps that it's an inversion of Fumito Ueda's tricky adventure, placing you in the poised paws of its feline protagonist, though it still channels the same attributes that make The Last Guardian so relatable for anyone who's shared a house with a cat friend.
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