i don't know if anybody else has played this, so i'm putting this story out just to share my own experience.
i'm a big fan of the catto boi series. i played the classics and had a lot of fun, but that was on my old computer.
and knowing that the downloads of said classics are now taken down by the creator, it left me pretty stumped.
the remakes cost money, you can probably see how that could become a problem for me.
so i resorted to trying to pirate the game or get a free download somehow. yeah, i know, piracy is a crime, but i was desperate.
i did eventually find a download, but it was really sketchy. but, again, i was desperate. so i downloaded it.
it seemed pretty legit when i opened it after it finished downloading, but then i opened the game.
there was no mango-ki logo, no tamago-ki logo, instead it was this weird font with the text: "a original startup"
was this a bait-and-switch? some sort of fangame that the destributor thought was a real catto boi game?
neithertheless, it wouldn't hurt to try it out.
the game loads up the title screen, and before i can even process what i'm seeing, a terrible midi adaptation of what
i assume to be checker dance blasts in my headphones. i hastily turn down my headphones.
after that audio jumpscare, i examine the screen. a ms-paint looking catto boi to the left, and to the right, the title:
"cato boye and the cato templ"
whoever made this game must of been a child, or spelt it wrong on purpose. if on purpose, it did give me a bit of a chuckle.
i press space to start, or "spaec" as the writing said, not even checking the info. i knew it was there, i guess i didn't really give a shit.
the game switches to a red room with a door and catto boi. music plays as he starts speaking:
"hello" "im cato" "i have no bed"
i chuckled again, as it was pretty evident that he did not have a bed.
i won't bore you with the details, but afterwards he tells the controls and instructs me to move to the door.
so, i hold right to move him. the background instantly shifts to a green landscape with a blue sky.
cato stands to the left, while a blue round cat stands to the right. cato starts talking again.
"hello beeg boi"
beeg boi then responds. "hello cato"
again, i will not bore you with the details. i'd rather i get to the point than bore you with the dumb dialouge
these rip offs spout out.
they have a little conversation, with beeg boi wanting cato to get biscuits. after this, beeg boi disappears, a sign now in his place.
cato instructs me to go to the sign to continue. so i do so, holding right.
the music switches. the sign has changed to a biscuit. cato points this out, and instructs me to move to the biscuit.
this felt like it was going to get repetitive real quick. i hold right to collect the biscuit.
background changes again, now to a more desert-like landscape. same thing, but with a pearl. i move him to the pearl.
background changes once more, now to an inside of a temple, with a green gem shaped like the head of a cat.
cato seems excited by this, once again instructing to move towards the gem. i do so.
the game glitches out, and in a split-second, flashes onto an anti-piracy screen.
i groaned. mostly because how stupid it would be for a game like this to have anti-piracy measures.
i look down in anger, pretty pissed that i, y'know, wouldn't get my free copy of catto boi after all...
then i look up. the text and faint red cat shaped head in the back was gone. in it's place...
catto boi. but, he had a ripped tail, eyes that were wide open, red pupils, and said eyes were bleeding.
i was surprised. my anger and sadness now gone.
"foolish of you to think that you are safe"
the game then closed.
i was now confused, but also now a bit scared.
but i shaked that feeling off quickly. ain't no game gonna make me scared lol
i reboot the game. the logo shows up, but garbled. but i don't question it...
until the title screen shows up. the blue background is now a bright pink,
the logo and cato are now jumbled messes.
the fear comes back, but i try to focus. i press space to start again.
red room, door, cato starts talking.
they seem to think whatever happened was a dream, but then instructs me,
yet again, to move to the objective. i do so, and the background switches to the landscape.
the conversation between the two starts again, but after beeg boi asks cato to give his biscuits,
the game glitches out once again. i jump a bit. it then switches to the catto boi-like figure again.
"stop trying to play"
"are you purposefully ignoring me"
"that's not nice fredrick"
fredrick? was this game meant for someone? if so, the shit they put in here is weird. it continues talking.
"all i want to do is talk"
"don't make it hard for us"
the game then switches back to the title screen, now back to normal.
i really didn't know what to think. but curiosity got the best of me. i press space once more.
red room, cato starts talking.
"i've done this before and i know it"
"entity" "i kno ur here"
"i will find u"
entity? was that it's name? but, before i could think about it more, it appeared once again.
"i see how we're playing this game of yours"
"i bet you think it's real funny to ignore me"
"but we're playing my game"
"i've already given you your chances to listen"
but like the annoying shit you are you wasted them all"
"i'm not letting you go without a punishment"
"i hope this teaches you a lesson"
he then jumps off the screen. i back into my chair, bracing for whatever was about to come.
then i hear the loudest thing i've ever heard in my fucking life. he slides in from the bottom of the screen
and screams so loud that i swore it punctured at least one, if not both of my eardrums.
then everything went black.
the rest was a haze. but i woke up on the floor of my room, with a bit of blood around my head.
i slowly get up, looking at the computer screen. the game was completely gone. the files in the folder had
deleted itself. not to mention, i was also deaf in one ear, so my prediction was right.
i won't say too much but i went to the hospital to get my ear fixed and whatever and all was good.
if you come across this game, i advise you to not play it, unless you wanna fuck up your ears for the fun of it.
you obviously don't want to pay hospital bills.