#CALICO GAME PATCH#

NPC interactions are almost always quests.Unpolished dialogue with typos and bad grammar.Quite a few bugs, even after two patches.The potions are very fun to play around with.

#CALICO GAME PATCH#

There's a lot of love in this game, but it doesn't quite outweigh the issues – and given that we've already seen more than one patch issued since launch, we're not convinced the developer can pull this one back from the brink. It's fun to ride a huge cat off a cliff in an ice cream sundae outfit, but less fun when you get stuck in said cliff and your face turns inside-out. ConclusionĬalico is still a little too buggy for us to recommend. It's hard to wholeheartedly recommend a game with such a wide array of glitches, but we haven't had this much fun with unexpected bugs in a while. It's quite something.Ĭalico's world might be an unchallenging, pastel-coloured paradise where everyone is always pleasant and the animals sometimes turn into eldritch errors, but it's a welcome respite from games that take themselves more seriously, if that's what you're looking for. One of the potions that you can buy makes an animal 'float', which makes it follow you around the map, contorting and twisting into awful shapes and getting stuck on trees.

Holding a cat and 'wiggling' it dislocates the player avatar's shoulders, so you can hold the cat at angles that shouldn't be possible. The baking minigame is occasionally interrupted by a giant cat or bird climbing on the counters, kicking the eggs around while you try desperately to regain control. Animals ping-pong around the place, spawning in mid-air only to fall down like ragdolls. There's still a lot to like about Calico, and some of that is directly because of the janky stuff.

A lot of it just doesn't make sense, and not in a fun 'solve the puzzle' way. Characters will talk about places that they aren't currently in, and people that are standing right next to them, which is a bit awkward.Ī few of the quests are so vaguely worded that they're a nightmare to solve – like the one that tasks you with 'finding a way into the city', which apparently means talking to a hard hat-wearing cat down a side road, then talking to a bunch of different people across the map to get 'Owl Club' back together. The dialogue has a fair few typos and grammar mistakes, so it all seems rushed and messy. The controls and the quests take up a huge area of the screen, making the view feel quite cramped. A lot of the in-game text is tiny, making the game quite difficult to play in handheld mode, but even when docked, the menus and dialogue are quite hard to read. The character gets stuck on the scenery and the animals a lot, and graphical glitches are quite common, even if they aren't game-breaking. The developers, Peachy Keen Games, have released two big patches for the game since then, but unfortunately, despite these patches, Calico still has a lot of issues. When we played Calico on release back in December, we found that the Switch version had too many bugs and glitches to be enjoyable to play. For a game that's billed as a cat café simulator, it's disappointing how little time you actually spend there. People will come by the café and buy these baked goods while you're out in the world, depositing money into your account automatically.

The main way of interacting with the café is baking, in a minigame which turns you tiny so you can run around on the kitchen counter, throwing huge bags of flour and sugar into a bowl, where it magically turns into bagels, cupcakes, or coffee. You can kidnap whichever animals in the world take your fancy and bring them back to the café, filling the small room and the fenced-in garden with an assortment of polar bears, red pandas, and birds.

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