Wallace Karraker

Bought the game on Xbox during a sale. Knew it had been well received but intentionally avoid spoilers and reviews that discussed the game play. The graphics are well done, the environments feel real and there is just enough tension in some of the areas that make you cautious as the feline you are playing. The audio is immersive, the echoes and dripping water in certain areas lend texture that many games have forgotten about. The Stray is very well animated, the motion is smooth and fluid between actions. Movement control is well refined and doesn’t let you accidentally plummet to your death from the dizzying heights that you can find yourself in. Some of the actions had me looking all over the place and jumping to locations that looped back to the original starting spot, but there is so much to see that I was still enjoying myself. Gameplay was excellent, I’ll definitely try another run through (missed a few ’memories’ so I need to find them all). Though not an ‘action’ game, the logic puzzles were fun and didn’t require scouring the internet for solutions. The game designers are a talented group, I’ll be looking forward to their next release.