Haru Cat Slide - Spooky Season

Haru Cat Slide put out a cute Halloween theme.  What's funny is that if you get good at it, the games almost take TOO long.  I want to do some 5 minute puzzles, but to get to 30K takes about 25 minutes.  Also, the high scores get warped by power-ups and whether you want to watch a video to continue.  It has so many ads, it's only really playable if I put the device into Airplane mode.

I almost uninstalled this, but Anne likes to poke at it for a while before bed, and it's pretty hilarious when we both crank up the volume and let 'em meow together.  On the sad side, my cat died about a month ago, and back when he was around, he could not stand random meowing sounds -- he would get up and start patrolling, looking for real cats -- he was a good buddy.  Now we can let the sound go, but I miss him.

After playing for a while I noticed that you get a glimpse of the next row in that tiny slit at the bottom of the play area, so you can setup cats to fill that cat to buy yourself time if needed.

The power ups are not that exciting.  The side effects of the specially marked cats lead to some unpredictable messes, especially the cat that freezes other cats -- he has that countdown, after which he disappears and freezes the other guys, and I would count that as the biggest hassle in the game.  And those extra moving and dropping effects do make it hard to plan moves more than a turn in advance.  The purple one that removes all cats that it touches if the biggest positive target in the grid.



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