Buy Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender

A decent game that is fun to play on your own or with your friends. Saving kittens have never been this fun. :)

What an odd little game. It doesn't take itself seriously, but in terms of being a pure shoot 'em up, it's really good. Graphics are crisp, the mechanics work well. It's not terribly difficult by the genre standards, but it's also probably a bit too hard for a casual gamer who might have seen "Aqua Kitty" and thought it might be easier. I enjoyed it. It does lack bosses, however, which makes the "levels" kind of anti-climatic (except for the last one and that can be cheesed easily).

It's good. It's kind of weird. It's good.

This is a hilarious arcade style 2D shooter, except with cats defending milk mines! It satisfies the need to button mash and laser your enemies to death but it also offers real strategy in how you use the items and upgrades given to you. Defend all your cats? Or sacrifice one? The choice is yours!

They're cats, and they're in submarines.






Why are you still reading this?

this is funny shooter for playing quick sessions.
couch coop included.

First Game Review -6/26/2016
I have been playing games on "Steam" since day one. The first few weeks were awful, and I uninstallled it immediatly! I then waited for weeks until they worked the bugs out and jumped back in glad that such a forum was in place. I have played many games on this platform since. I really Love this game. It speaks to me on many different levels. I would highly recommend this game to anyone who likes the type. If you like Side Scrollers and like Cats, you should not miss out. To all I say..."Meow-Meow!!".

• Update of / sequel to '80s arcade titan "Defender"
  
• Side-scrolling shooter with bullet hell elements

AKMMD isn't so much inspired by Williams' 1981 classic as it's an update of -- or perhaps a sequel to -- it. The gameplay, and even some of the enemy types, are clearly modeled after the originals; this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's just a description of the situation. For example, a friend once told me he was lukewarm on Bioshock II (although he loved the original) because it basically felt like an extended mission pack instead of a new game (an assessment I fully agree with, by the way); all I could say was, "and?". Saying a game recreates another game that you enjoyed is high praise, as far as I'm concerned. AKMMD isn't a carbon copy of its predecessor, though. For starters, while it's not a complete walk in the park, don't expect the spine-crushing punishment previously delivered by a game that's topped more "hardest video games of all time" lists than comparatively-easier titles like Dark Souls (that might sound like a joke, since the Dark Souls series is the gold standard of brutal difficulty these days, but I assure you it's not).

Let's talk about difficulty

Personally, I consider the turndown in difficulty to be a good thing; back then you almost had to make a game crazy hard just to keep it from being boring when you've only got a few kilobytes to hold all your game data...these days our computers have enough storage to hold better gameplay and *gasp* plot. I played through the full campaign on Easy, and I found it moderately challenging; I'm not very good at bullet hell games, as a general rule, so that's to be expected. I've played through 10 levels on Normal (1-11, skipping 7 because I was going for the "One Direction" achievement :)) and I have to say I'm surprised at how not-that-much-harder it seems; if the rest of the campaign has a similar difficulty curve, I could probably finish it without too many rage quits. If anything, I'd say the "Easy" mode should be "Normal" and they should make "Normal" a little harder and call it "Hard" (there is no "Hard" setting, although there is an "Arcade" mode I haven't tried yet which is probably harder judging by the name). But then, I'm one of those old curmudgeons who thinks that "Easy" should actually mean easy, and not "Well, it's easIER than the other setting". Be aware of my bias though; for the most part, I gravitate much more toward narrative/story games than action/twitch games.

The one thing that feels arbitrary about the difficulty is the gun: it's pathetic. I mean, it works consistently and without bugs, so it's "fair" in the sense that Dark Souls players like to use the word, but it just feels like a real jerk move to throw the player into an environment that can get so crowded with enemies (and their projectiles) you can barely see the level background and give them...that (I hope you can hear the word "that" in a disapproving-older-relative voice, 'cause that's what I'm going for). I can't count how many times I got stuck flying along the bottom of the screen because your guns only fire forward and you literally cannot engage in the activity of vertical movement because there's a traffic jam above you the likes of which would make a Fifth Element taxi driver cringe. You just have to fly along the bottom ('cause you sure can't stop with all the projectiles) and pray nothing's in the way before you can find a spot to peek up. The balancing factor is supposed to be your secondary gun (which does mow things down with impressive effectiveness for the 1.2 seconds you can fire it), but that doesn't help you in that situation because it only shoots straight forward as well.

So no, while the game's not 1981-quarter-eating hard, it's not a cakewalk. That said, Super Meat Boy addicts looking for an extreme challenge may feel like it comes up short.

Perhaps we should discuss something other than difficulty

The basic gameplay here is pretty arcade-simple, and looking at a screenshot will pretty much give you the idea. That said, a few things do bear discussion with this type of game. The controls are fluid and responsive, but the movement isn't razor-sharp; if this were a platformer, the word I'd use would be "floaty". Most of the time it's no big deal, but when you get into one of the aforementioned traffic james it can be frustrating to feel like you just want to get out and push, trying to avoid things (when you get going full speed, it's fine, but it's those little micro-movements when you're trying to dip and dodge that get all muddied up...and you'll be doing that a lot more often than flying across the map on a tear). As far as upgrades, don't get your hopes up; you'll be using the same gun and its standard power-ups for the whole game, along with the same secondary "power gun"...the only upgrades are minor increases in the charge meter for the secondary weapon.

There's also an "endless" mode which will provide a challenge for anybody eventually (for me, pretty quickly) and an arcade mode which looks like it has slightly different gameplay objectives than the regular campaign and is probably more challenging.

At the end of the day, this isn't what you'd call a deep game...but then, it's not trying to be and it doesn't need to be. It's a fun action shooter that stops short of being frustratingly-hard, and it's got some cat meow sound effects (note: this is _not_ a lolcat meme game, don't misunderstand...the sound effects are appropriate). The graphics are exactly what they look like in the screenshots and video; cute and cartoony. It's relatively rare for me to stick with a bullet hell shooter long enough to be able to even write a reasonable review, much less finish the campaign, so I guess for me personally that's a recommendation right there.

• Steredenn
  
• Ikaruga
  
• Tag: Shoot 'Em Up

Date of update	Time played	How far in base game (estimate)?	Cost	Cost per hour	Notes
2016-06-20 23:21	5.7 hours	100% campaign complete on Easy, about 1/4 through on Normal	$6.99 USD	$1.23 USD	Decided to try out Normal difficulty to see the difference
2016-06-20 18:00	5.0 hours	100% campaign complete on Easy	$6.99 USD	$1.40 USD	Initial review

Qui aurait pu croire que de mélanger chats et jeu de tir ferait un si bon mélange? La musique est superbe, le style artistique utilisé est réussi, les mécaniques de jeu sont simples et intuitives, et on nous permet de jouer à deux. Cependant, certains modes de jeu sont très (trop) difficiles et on offre un niveau de rejouabilité assez bas. Certes, on ne révolutionne pas le monde du jeu vidéo avec Aqua Kitty… mais on arrive tout de même à passer un bon moment, ne serait-ce que pour quelques heures. Si vous cherchiez à mettre la main sur un petit jeu d’action pour un weekend pluvieux à jouer avec votre conjoint(e), un ami ou vos enfants, je vous le suggère.

ON AIME :
- Le style artistique rétro bien réussi;
- La musique chiptune magnifiquement réalisée;
- Les contrôles simples et intuitifs;
- Les mécaniques de jeu simples à comprendre;
- Disponible sur PS, PS Vita, PS4 et Xbox 360;
- Présence d’un mode multijoueurs.

ON AIME MOINS :
- Le peu de rejouabilité;
- Le mode arcade TRÈS difficile;
- La difficulté qui ne s’adapte pas au mode multijoueurs;
- La version la plus récente du jeu (Aqua Kitty DX) disponible sur PS4 and PS Vita seulement;
- La présence d’une seule boss-fight dans tout le jeu.

SCORE FINAL : 7.4 (Meowtastique!)
Critique complète : http://www.lantredugeek.com/critique-aqua-kitty-a-la-defense-de-mines-de-lait/

This game is an excellent arcade style shootier that borrows concepts from Defender. You have to protect little kitties that are mining milk from the bottom of the sea (it makes a ton of sense that milk is found in the sea, but whatever....video games). If you let the enemies capture them, the mines are destroyed and the level ends. Certain enemies go after the milk miners whereas others just get in the way and make it harder to target the attackers. The game is fast paced and challenging at times. It has an easy and normal difficulty setting to appeal to gamers of different skill levels. The graphics are awesome wit a throwback to the 16 bit era. The sound track also consists of some of the best chip tunes I have heard in a while. There is two player co-op to add more fun to the mix. HIGHLY recommend this game. It is well worth the price!

This is a very good game.

Maybe even one of the best Defender clones I ever played. And I played a sh*tload of 'em by now.

"What's Defender?" you may ask by now ...

Well, Defender is a type of shoot'em'up where you keep flying horizontally over a landscape trying to defend your bases from being stolen of their inhabitants by the ever emerging alien forces coming from all sides. And because they keep coming from all sides, one of the first things you've got to learn what makes Defender different from other games is that YOU CAN FLY IN BOTH directions just as it's needed by circumstances at any time during the game.

Now here with Aqua Kitty we have a a new implementation of the classic Defender type game and it introduces a new aspect to the game and that is the battle takes place under water this time. This alone wouldn't make the game any different except from the graphics style, but it also changes the level of the water in nearly each level. So there are levels where you have plenty of room to maneuver around the place whereas in other levels you can be lucke if there is enough space around you to stay away from predators and their bullets striking at you.

Except from that it's an ordinary clone of what you would expect from such a classic ripoff in terms of gameplay. Only this game adds A TON of replayability into it by giving you two different difficulties, many different enemy types, a variety of enemy ai, various boni to collect and after all even an arcade mode with special rules applying which I won't tell you now so you won't be spoilered and feel the reward by finding out yourself.

So if you'd always liked Defender than this is the game for you to get.

But beware you achievemnt wh*res: This is undoubtetly one of the hardest game here on steam and one of the hardest games I played in my life. And I say this by having let you know I played A LOT of Defender games in my life already (and I know that Nintendo-Hard is child's play - it really is).

Now you're out for a challenge? Grab a copy of Aqua Kitty and try it out yourself.

(Or fail at this game and respect yourself for being a Pacman P*ss ... :)

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Oh ♥♥♥♥ ... now I want to grow myself a mullet and play Pacman ... :D

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Have fun and enjoy the music.

@ngel