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Game: Naughty Kitties

  • Naughty Kitties Review
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    Naughty Kitties Review

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    Naughty Kitties is an adorable, energetic mash-up of two genres that excel on mobile: endless runner and tower defense.  It's a unique pairing that works surprisingly well.  The nonstop obstacles of the ever-scrolling runner have become targets that must be destroyed instead of dodged.  The strategic unit positioning and between-game level-ups of tower defense offer more activities than your standard jump, duck, dive.  The kitties are icing on the already delicious gameplay fishcake.Unfortunately, despite a strong base and charming theme, Naughty Kitties falls short of revolutionary.  Runs are often repetitive and unbalanced, crawling through boring spans of enemy-free territory until you hit an overly aggressive and indefensible attack.  Its freemium model forces frequent downtime on players through an easily-emptied energy meter.  Kitties are expensive and difficult to unlock, resulting in replaying levels with the same units again and again.  The result is a game that's great fun for the first dozen or so runs, but inevitably grind-heavy for players who don't wish to shell out real clams."Each run pits your crew of artillery-laden attack cats against a never-ending invasion of robot-piloting aliens.  These amorphous fiends are trying to take over the Cat's Planet, and only the kitty army and their rundown spaceship can stop them.  Luckily, the cats that inhabit this world have mastered the art of spray-and-pray, and have an unlimited arsenal of weaponry at their disposal. Naughty Kitties' endless runner heritage has your catship hurtling through space as the aliens come at you nonstop, shooting and slamming into your ship for damage.  Your run ends when the ship's health bar reaches zero, and your score is tied to the distance you managed to travel.  The tower defense portion comes from what you'll actually be doing as all this automatic action takes place: assigning and managing kitty defenders who man the ship and retaliate against the alien onslaught.
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    On the distant Cat's Planet, a war is waging.  An army of blobby alien invaders, cozy and confident in their heavily-armed spaceships, are attempting to invade.  While they've come equipped with lasers, mines, and missiles, the cats refuse to surrender.  In an attempt to protect their home world and everything they hold dear—naps and snacks—the cats take to the air and fight back.This fight is the basis for Coconut Island's upcoming strategic runner, Naughty Kitties.  One part tower defense, one part endless runner, and all parts adorable, Naughty Kitties successfully combines twitchy reaction gaming with a need for pre-planning and forethought.  Each play is a distance-scored run graded by how many kilometers your kitties' ship manages to fly before being destroyed.  On the destroying end of that equation are the alien attackers, flying at and into your ship with guns blazing and bombs exploding, continuously reducing your ship's health meter with each direct hit."The defense comes from your band of kitties, who are outnumbered but far from outgunned.  Kitty units are stationed on the ever-hurtling spaceship by dragging them from the deck at the bottom of the screen to one of the artillery posts on the ship's hull.  There are always three kitties available to choose from, so long as you didn't just assign a kitty—if so, you'll have to wait a few seconds for that unit to reload with a new, randomly selected feline.  You can also discard from the deck by swiping a kitty aside, but you'll still have to wait for his spot to refresh.Each type of kitty is a specific class, and you have to pick your available units before going into flight.  Kitties' specialties vary from firing missiles to ship repair, but all have a place in battle.  Michale, the Rambo-wannabe orange tabby, fires eggs from a machine gun at high speed.  Catzilla, usually half-asleep in his favorite pot, launches powerful-yet-slow fish-bone bombs.  Chou-chou, the always-essential mechanic, is actually an alpaca who believes he is a cat, but that's close enough for the nondiscriminatory cat army.