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Scram Kitty DX is the new version of critical hit shooter-platformer Scram Kitty and his Buddy on Rails, updated by Dakko Dakko for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita! Take control of a rail-riding, laser-shooting young hero on a perilous quest to rescue his pet cat, Scram Kitty, kidnapped and imprisoned in the depths of the World's biggest orbiting space laboratory, along with all of Earth's.

Scram Kitty DX, the enhanced version of last year's Wii U-exclusive platformer/shooter Scram Kitty and his Buddy on Rails, is out this week in Europe on PS4 and Vita.

Developed by Dakko Dakko (of The 2D Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character and Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims fame), Scram Kitty DX merges platforming with top-down shooting as your character scrolls around various rails and uses magnets to propel themselves around various stages in an effort to rescue cats. Warzone 2100 research tree.

Our Simon Parkin called it 'a wonderfully idiosyncratic creation that, despite its smorgasbord of influences, feels like nothing else' in his glowing Scram Kitty review. 'It's a game built with admirable craft and singular focus, and it richly rewards your investment,' he added.

The Playstation version of Scram Kitty will cost £7.99 / €9.99 and offers Cross-Buy support. It will also be 20 per cent off for PlayStation Plus members for its first two weeks on sale.

Scram Kitty DX, the deluxe version of last years Wii U indie game Scram Kitty and His Buddy on Rails from Dakko Dakko, is now available for Vita. Is it meow-nificent, or just what the cat dragged in?While from the screenshots you may be expecting the game to be predominantly a 2D shooter, and fundamentally it is at heart, the game is equally as much of a platformer. The objective of the game is to rescue four cats from each level from space mice; the first is always at the exit, one requires you to defeat the level boss, another is obtained by collecting 100 scattered coins, and the final kitty requires you to chase after it – effectively a timed checkpoint race across the level. There is plenty of cat-titudeYour character is on rails – literally – and these rails must be strongly magnetised, as you will be returned to them as if by a bit of elastic unless you’re able to reach another platform. Not all rails are the same, and you will encounter some which propel you in one direction, prevent you from jumping, slide you around, or result in injury. Pressing jump again before landing gives you a higher jump and turns you into a fireball, enabling you to destroy enemies and certain parts of the environment. Also, rather strangely, the more heath you have, the higher you can jump, which does make some longer jumps trickier when on low heath.

The game can get its claws into youThe game is not one to hold your hand – demonstrating the requirements to capture the four cats, there is effectively no guidance at all, and particularly at the start of the game, you’ll find yourself approaching something of a learning cliff rather than a learning curve. The controls, particularly combining the double jump with the orbit effect of the magnetisation pull, take a lot of getting used to.

At times you are required to either have great speed or exacting precision, but you never feel that you are able to do either reliably.As a result of the above, the first hour or so is incredibly frustrating, and will inevitably turn people away from the game. While faced with this battle against the controls, a stream of new gameplay mechanics are thrown at you, which you are left to solve for yourself. If you can persevere beyond that, the game comes alive as you start to get a feel for what you can do, and deaths become predominantly as a result of your own incompetence or impatience rather than a battle with the controls. It is paw-sitively hectic at timesObtaining all the cats becomes an addictive obsession, and at points you start to develop a feeling of a risk/reward ratio, in deciding whether to gamble as and try and bringing back an additional kitty, or banking the ones you have already.Your default weapon can only fire at a 90 degree angle to the side, which can cause a few awkward moments while you look for the right angle of wall or just for the enemy to move to somewhere you can shoot at it. There are three alternate weapon pickups which can really change the feel of combat, they more powerful and are required to break through into new areas or activate switches, but are more limited by range or rate of fire.