You can control both the main player and the cat at the same time with the same controller.
Yeah, when people play a normal platforming game they run through them – right? They wouldn’t see anything, but with our game we’re trying to make it more like theater, so we dictate the pacing. We’re trying to slow them down to let the acting and the voice work come through. And the way you do that is give them this secondary character where they can hunt around and find objects and touch on things. In single player that’s all you can do with that other character, in two player that character has a lot more stuff. Yeah you can hunt around and touch on things – but you can also stop enemies attacking you, you can get rid of objects that are going to hurt the main character, you can pull the heads of little enemies, and things like that. You can collect gems, but if you don’t give them back to the main character then they don’t get them; for instance, the cat just gets fatter and fatter. You can also get in the way of the main player and cause problems. You can click on things and make them pop up and throw player one in the air. So you can help them or hinder. You can pull the lead character’s head off as well [laughs].
But two player is really cool because, you know what I said about my son, he got up and left me in the middle of a two player game – that’s the end of my game. But what we do is even if you select one player or two player at the beginning of the game it doesn’t matter, because if you don’t touch the second controller, it will always switch back to one player, and if you select one player and pick up the second controller, it will turn in to two player. So it means you could be playing and then you might need some help, so then you pull over your friend, and they can pick up a controller and help you, and then put it down again and carry on what they were doing. That happens to me a lot in my household – my kids are like, “Dad, I need help”, and I say “I can’t, I’m writing.” And even if I do help, these are single player games, so I have to take the controller away from them, clear it and give it back, and they feel like they haven’t achieved anything. But with this, that doesn’t have to happen.
! Sony is awesome ! Why can't more devs take cue and make such superb gems instead of aping a singlw success story.
