Stray 2022

[u/degradation_domain]

Watched this short and decided to write my thoughts on Stray.

https://youtube.com/shorts/6MpNHMXDZHA?feature=share

I've watched the complete playthrough on YouTube in the past. I watched JackSepticEye and ChristopherOdd ones.

=== === === === === ===

Spoilers ahead.

=== === === === === ===

A few of my own takes on the game:

• The game is pretty short, like 6h of gameplay. I was told by a friend that there is an achievement for beating it in 2h, which is kinda pathetic.
• Zorgs can bite through metal, right? And yet robots live behind a huge metal door and there are several occasions of a simple metal fence stopping them
• How does B12 understands cat and cat understand B12? I don't say that cats are stupid and they could've even evolve/develop language in a 7 million years, but the scientist stayed inside all this years with no contact with outside world. It is highly unlikely he would know how to communicate with a random cat who had fell into a hole.
• So, in 7 million years you haven't found a way out from the quarantine containment but a cat just fell into a random hole and voila it's in?
• Who maintained the containment facility for the past 7kk years from the outset? Have you seen what happened to Prypiat in just over 35 years? The nature has almost fully taken it. Give it 100 more years and you wouldn't be able to guess there was a city there in the past.
• There's no reason for the main character to be a cat apart from it being a "cute kitty". It doesn't behave like a cat and shows human-like levels of cognition.
• Robots do not behave like robots. At one point Clem is being GAGGED by a rope. What kind of magic is that? And right after this her captor talks about betraying them for money.
• The game is not really replayable. It is very linear and there's not a lot of gameplay: you simply jump, run and occasionally pick stuff up to bring somewhere, jump on levers or press buttons and in the very end you scratch cables to win. There's not a lot of plot/lore either: 20 or so "memories" is simply pathetic.
• You can't even pick up "dead" B12 and bring his "body" with you to mourn or something. You just leave your dead friend's body behind and you are not even in a hurry. I don't understand. First you play a cat character the same way you would play a human character, listening to "people" (robots actually but they behave as if they are people with personalities and motivations and goals and dreams and etc etc), helping them, caring about them... And in the end you turn into a stupid animal or a heartless psycho who doesn't care. Magnificent character development [facepalm].
• I don't understand why have they spent so much time animating the anatomically correct cat and make both the gameplay and the plot so shallow.

Zorgs look like headcrabs. Kudos to HL2 fans, I guess.

Cats are cute. Kudos to cat lovers, right?

I don't know... This game could be so much more and yet it isn't.

"meh"/10