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Caterpillar Review (PS Mini)



Posted by Christophor Rick (TheSuperGuido), 69 days ago
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Caterpillar from TIK Games has you removing multiple colored blocks to keep the caterpillar from reaching the goal. It’s got a sort of classic match-three mechanic where you remove matching blocks from the screen. When I say it is a cross with Snake it’s because the caterpillar continues to drop block and move on its way trying to fill up the board sort like the tail of the Snake continually grew. Your removal of blocks keeps pulling the Caterpillar back down and keeps him from reaching the goal until time runs out. The closer to the bottom of the screen the higher your end level bonus will be.

There are four modes:

  • Classic - as described above.
  • Race - 12 Caterpillars are racing for the top in vertical lines, which will win? Who cares, it doesn’t affect your score either way.
  • Conundrum - It’s essentially puzzle mode.
  • Pair - Two caterpillars moving in opposite directions from the center of the screen toward goals.


The game offers a bit of enjoyment but nothing extremely interesting. Puzzle mode seems far too easy and you can even manage to play  the other modes in the game by just pressing one direction on the thumbstick and button mashing to remove blocks randomly and still be successful. Sort of takes all the fun out of it really and makes one lose interest when you can use that little thought and action to get by in a game.

Race mode has no apparent real goal. No matter if any worm wins, you lose. It’s just a quicker addition of blocks. And yet you can still use that same mindless method of playing I described above and be successful.

The graphics on the game are decent. It is, after all, a simple matching game with some extra gameplay elements so it doesn’t need eye-popping visuals or ear-blasting sound effects.

Overall, the game is somewhat entertaining but being able to play it mindlessly shows the low level of challenge. In Puzzle mode I blew through 15 levels in a matter of a few minutes which was really disappointing. There’s very little challenge in the game on the whole.

 Our Rating for Caterpillar Review (PS Mini)
6.5
Overall
It’s nothing special, the challenge level is low and mindless button mashing can be successful. More thought really should have gone into this game it seems. Still, it’s not terrible, just not fantastic.

Rating: 0.0, votes: 0

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