After 17 years of writing reviews on this website, I find that it's starting to get harder to write reviews in a way that doesn't sound like one of my old ones. But this game has given me an opportunity to write a review in a way that I haven't before. This game is actually a sequel to an arcade game called "Mappy". This game focuses on a mouse, who has to go through eight stages four times to collect some kind of present, either for his girlfriend/wife Mapico, or his son, Mappy Jr. During the stages, you have to avoid the small cats, and the big red boss cat. What's interesting about this game, is that most of the time, Mappy doesn't attack the cats directly. He usually distracts them either with a catnip plant, red meat, fish, or a coin that oddly only distracts the big red cat. While it sounds easy in principle to avoid the cats simply by jumping over them as they run towards you, it's not that simple. This game is a firm believer in gradually making the cats faster (and somehow smarter) the farther you get through the game! While the graphics, sound, music, and controls are pretty good for just an 8-bit game, I think the game would've been slightly better if there had been more variety than just the eight stages, each re-arranged slightly different four times. But as it is, this game will provide you with plenty of challenge...at least, unless you manage to hit 51 lives, than the game randomly freezes when you get to the graveyard stage, and you try to exit like normal. It would be interesting to see this game get a re-make or a sequel sometime in the future, because this franchise has a lot of potential, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good platform puzzle challenge! Enough said, true believers!
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