... in sheep's clothing

Sushi Cat, via @jayisgames

I didn’t really read the description of this game before I clicked on it, all I saw was “cute” and “pachinko” - which, if you aren’t familiar with that particular term, please recall, “One of the best things on “The Price is Right” was the game Plinko, a strange game that involved dropping large tokens down a field of pegs, watching them bounce around and fall into areas at the bottom that involved money.”

I love plinko/pachinko (I lost hours and hours to Peggle), so I figured it would be somewhat entertaining to me.  I didn’t expect to find the following:

• Cutest load screen ever.  Round jiggly cat eating cute sushi.
• The sushi has EYES.  Cute!
• The music is great (I just wish there were more of it, it gets a little repetitive.)
• An adorable, round, blorbally cat that gets fatter the more sushi it eats!
• Really cute, detailed artwork.
• Creative, challenging boards (I’m a board-clearer type of person…)
• Appropriately gratuitous use of the terms: nom, num, burp, yum, om, mmm.
• A gradient of cat sizes (the largest I got was “Enormous,” not sure if there is something bigger)
• When the cat gets to the bottom of the board, it can fall into 5 different buckets.  After it falls in, sushi shoots up from the bucket (well in a cute way), as if the cat was barfing it up.  Just like a real cat.
• If the cat doesn’t eat any sushi, when it falls in the bucket, it says “Meow.”  Just like a real cat.
• The ending is super weird.

I love it.