Joining the small army of puzzle games on the Switch eShop later this month is She Remembered Caterpillars, a quirky looking title that may be worth keeping an eye on.
Described as "a fungipunk fantasy about love, loss, and holding on", She Remembered Caterpillars has players exploring a mysterious world inhabited by similarly mysterious creatures. You'll need to lead these cute little critters through a collection of 40+ puzzles, presumably learning all about said love and loss along the way.
It seems to feature lovely hand-drawn art throughout, with puzzles being based on colours displayed on-screen. The game actually launched on Steam back in 2017, receiving a relatively small number of reviews which have averaged out as being "mostly positive".
Here's a list of game features taken from its Steam page:
Features:
- Gorgeous artwork from Symmetrain (IGF 2014 Student Showcase Award) creator Daniel Leander Goffin.
- 40 levels of brain-bending puzzles, with each new act presenting a fresh mechanic or a different color.
-A haunting soundtrack by Thomas Höhl, composer for Galaxy On Fire and the well-known Deponia (1–3) franchise.
- She Remembered Caterpillars can easily be played by the color-blind, thanks to its unique usage of shapes and symbols
It's scheduled to launch on Switch on 28th March, although no pricing details have yet been revealed.
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This looks cool. Love the hand drawn art style. It's a price-pending purchase for me.
reminds me of old point and click games from MS-DOS.
this looks cool. likely day 1.
This is totally copying "Crystal Castle" with Bentley Bear. Old arcade game from the 80's. I'll buy it though. Used to love that game. I'd play it at Chuck E Cheese
That's a good thing, I hate it when she forgets caterpillars.
(Btw the game actually looks pretty wonderful. That art style is great.)
Looks like a neat puzzle game!
A little bit of a Pikmin vibe at the end there. Nice!
"She Likes Cloth. That's a good band name."
I dig it’s art style. Purchase depends on price. Looks good.
Loving that hand-drawn look and animation. One to look out for.
@Bigbear1up It has an isometric camera view. That makes it as much like Crystal Castles as Zaxxon and Into the Breach. It's a puzzle game so totally different genre.
@Bigbear1up
I hate it when people copy games and market them as their own creation, so I looked up some videos of Crystal Castles, and the games have nothing in common. So no, seems like this Catterpillar is not a ripoff..
Or are you saying it is a copy simply because both games have an isometric view?
@gamekill oops, I posted that before I saw the actual video. I just saw this screenshot. Ok, completely different game
@aaronsullivan sorry, I posted that after seeing the screenshot before I watched the actual video. You're right about it being a completely different game, although I must say Zaxxon is waaaaaay off in comparison
Aw yis!
Been keeping up with this one on/off for a while!
I remember that game from some Japanese indie game jam or something similar. It grabbed my attention there and I am glad it's coming to Switch.
@Dr_Corndog - I had the same thought ("She likes cloth"); thought my hopes were too high before I searched the comments section. Bravo!
@Bigbear1up
The Crystal Castles game seems quite a feat for it's time btw. I remember playing some pretty unique stuff on early computer games emulators, but I had never seen that one.
@SgtQuint I'm all about the deep cuts.
@Bigbear1up I did go a bit extreme to make my point. Crystal Castles was such an interesting game. I always thought the trackball movement was a bit too sensitive and fast, and I was never great at it, but I liked the 3D feel to it.
In case you haven't seen this, here's a retrospective look at it by the programmer of the original himself: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1017714/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Crystal
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