STRAY is at it's best when you're just being a cat roving through the world

STRAY is at it's best when you're just being a cat roving through the world

Author: SIFTER August 5, 2022 Duration: 25:29

STRAY is a new perspective on a post-apocalyptic science fiction, and playing as a cat through this story is a blast. Heavily drawing from cyberpunk aesthetics and some of the anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist themes common in the genre it does however fall into some of the same pitfalls.

Heavily influenced by the neon streets of Hong Kong and Kowloon walled city, the game doesn't meaningfully engage with the orientalist imagery in a deep level, as Sisi Jiang from Kotaku succinctly identifies, it can feel a bit uncomfortable.

Read our written review on the SIFTER website: STRAY is at it's best when you're just being a cat roving through the world

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