{"id":13959,"date":"2022-02-22T22:39:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13959"},"modified":"2022-02-22T22:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:46:39","slug":"cat-burglar-on-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13959","title":{"rendered":"Cat Burglar on Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New interactive cartoon thing from top Gilles De Coster lookalike Charlie Brooker hot off the heels of originally doing this sort of thing with <em>Bandersnatch<\/em> a few years ago. We said the trailer for this looked interesting last week. Well now it&#8217;s out, what&#8217;s it like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O0eOTV_tYug?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s fun! If you grew up watching old Looney Tunes\/Hanna Barbera style cartoons you&#8217;ll immediately feel right at home here &#8211; it nails the aesthetic (not just in the nicely granular looks but in the use of music and sound as well), weirdness and frequently violent slapstick gags excellently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your job as Rowdy the cat burglar is to steal a painting from a museum whilst the guard dog tries to stop you. The interactive bit comes during each scene where whilst they&#8217;re tussling you get about fifteen seconds to answer three A or B questions where you need to pick the answer that fits the statement &#8211; most of these are quite easy with a fairly obvious gag answer, but occasionally they&#8217;ll swap it round with a fairly funny question and slightly harder options to catch you off guard. To move the cartoon on you have to get three out of three correct or you &#8220;die&#8221;, get shouted at by your ghost, then redo (you only get three lives before losing, yes he explains why he doesn&#8217;t have nine). To win you have about six scenes to get through and a game takes about ten minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is apparently around 90 minutes worth of material. Each &#8220;cartoon&#8221; has the same story beats to it, but the situations between those beats change each time &#8211; so without spoiling too much, the first bit is always the cat trying to get over the wall, but each time you play he&#8217;ll have a different method of doing so. It *looks* like there are six different winning endings (again not going to spoil the reasoning) but there may be more. There may be some sort of Super Ending once you&#8217;ve seen them all I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know if it remembers what you&#8217;ve seen and only shows you new material (it does remember your winning endings) or whether there are about 40 scenes but thousands of potential combinations. And of course if you&#8217;re correctly progressing through, you&#8217;re missing out on the death sequences which is another reason to go back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a really interesting use of the tech &#8211; effectively Quizzy <em>Dragon&#8217;s Lair<\/em>. Or Hanna Barbera-y <em>Weird Dreams On The Amiga Off Of Early Series of Motormouth With Neil Buchanananan<\/em>. It&#8217;s definitely worth a look, and it&#8217;ll be interesting to see what if anything they do with the idea next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New interactive cartoon thing from top Gilles De Coster lookalike Charlie Brooker hot off the heels of originally doing this sort of thing with Bandersnatch a few years ago. We said the trailer for this looked interesting last week. Well now it&#8217;s out, what&#8217;s it like? It&#8217;s fun! If you grew up watching old Looney\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13959\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[803,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-show-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3D9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}