Game: Mimi the Cat – Meow Together
Genre: Sokoban, Puzzle
System: Steam (Windows)
Developer|Publisher: Wise Box Studios
Controller Support: Partial
Price: UK £2.49 | US $2.99 | EU € 2,99
Release Date: December 15th, 2023
Review code provided with many thanks to Wise Box Studios.
I have reviewed and liked both of the previous Mimi games, Mimi the Cat – New Friends and Cats and Sokoban – Mimi’s Scratcher, so I was pretty excited to dive into a new one of these. So, let’s see how this Sokoban game stacks up against the others.
Mimi the Cat – Meow Together’s Look and Feel
Mimi the Cat – Meow Together is a Sokoban game, just like the previous two. If you don’t know, Sokoban is a genre of puzzle games that require you to move boxes along paths to solve them. The first sokoban game was made in the 1980s in Japan; it’s called Sokoban or Warehouse Keeper in English. It’s a fairly diverse genre of games with a whole lot of different skins, looks, and unique puzzles.
Mimi games are just a cat-themed version of Sokoban; you need to move boxes and cats around in order to get the cats into their beds. The first Mimi was very simple, using mostly just boxes and cats. The second added a background space and additional challenges. And the third is adding even more to the formula to make the puzzles even more challenging.
Mimi the Cat – Meow Together adds a second cat, trains, outfits, and co-op. The trains are a new item that forces the two cats in the puzzle to work together to both get to their beds. You can play either solo or two-player on the same keyboard. In solo play, you use the directionals or WASD to move around, switching between the cats with C. In co-op, one cat uses WASD while the other uses the directional arrows.
It’s Just Not the Same
I really enjoyed the addition of costumes co-op, and I was super excited to dive into the Sokoban. However, it feels unfinished. The cats have to pause a long time before jumping into their beds to make sure you no longer need them before they become unavailable, which feels like weird lag. Also, the solo play, using C to switch between cats, feels incredibly unintuitive.
If you turn the effects volume down, it doesn’t seem to do much. So I turned the effects volume all the way down, and it muted some of the effects but not everything. Then I turned the music volume all the way down, and it was still making noises. After turning the whole game off and turning it back on, it finally muted all the sound.
Sometimes, Mimi the Cat – Meow Together is really frustrating. For example, in the main menu, when you are trying to choose between co-op and solo, you have to select the one you want with the arrow keys, then click on it with the mouse to ensure you actually get the selection you want. Sometimes, Mimi the Cat – Meow Together just eats your inputs on the keyboard or mouse, so you don’t actually select the thing you thought you were.
I Feel Like a Dummy
I have tried everything, and I cannot get past level 12. I have tried everything I can think of, and I just cannot get past it. I have no idea if this game is that much harder than its predecessors or what, but I can’t really give an opinion on most of the gameplay because I haven’t seen it. Mimi the Cat – Meow Together does have a hint system, but it wasn’t helpful at all. It just showed me something I had already tried, and I just ended up giving up after puzzling over it for almost 30 minutes.
Conclusion
Mimi the Cat – Meow Together is not the best Sokoban cat game I’ve played for LadiesGamers. I was kind of disappointed with this one; I feel like it wasn’t playtested at all. Or perhaps all the problems were on my end. Either way, I’m not sure I can formulate an opinion on it.
Final Verdict: I’m Not Sure.
