Catana: Red Flowers

Hey Ninjas, Our first post-launch update for Catana: Red Flowers is live! This update focuses on stability, bug fixes, balance adjustments, and quality-of-life improvements based on early player feedback. Thanks to everyone who shared reports and impressions, it really helped! You can find the…

Hey Ninjas, Catana: Red Flowers is out now on Meta Quest. ⚔️😼 Thank you to everyone who followed the project, tested early builds, and shared feedback along the way. If you jump in today, please let us know how it feels - clips, screenshots, feedback, chaos - we want it all. See you in the game…

A Frankenstein game

The game was born from the ashes of the Red Flowers demo, which serves as the foundation for this title. The demo is inspired by Ghostrunner, a ninja parkour game (you run here while shaking hands, jump, wall-run, use a grappling hook, dash, etc.). Therefore, I would advise against playing the game for people prone to motion sickness. Catana takes the basics and makes the game more colorful and features a cat as the main character. The game has no story and is contextualized by a cutscene. The majority of the game (80% ) focuses on two main closely linked activities which earn coins : - An Endless mode with a leaderboard (with adjustable difficulty/modifiers) reminiscent of a mobile game. Interesting because it uses the gameplay of Red Flowers, but it quickly becomes tedious and boring, therefore not very engaging. - A restaurant mini-game: fairly solid and basic, but quite uninteresting due to its virtually nonexistent difficulty combined with almost no constraints. The coins earned are used to unlock activities in the restaurant and cosmetic items. The core game design resembles a checklist that requires you to complete repetitive tasks with the sole incentive being to unlock everything. There are also achievements that reinforce this principle. The game is paradoxically saved by a bonus mode (Time Attack), which is a remake of the Red Flowers demo. It consists of ~10-11 hand-crafted linear levels where you have to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible while using parkour and eliminating designated targets. It plays very well, even if it's ultimately quite short. The mode's lifespan is extended if you're aiming for the gold medal (which demands flawless precision and speed) and the presence of a leaderboard might motivate the most competitive players. A major disappointment, then, despite initial curiosity: the game tries to appeal to a wider audience by mixing trendy elements , but this results in a product that blows hot and cold. A shame.

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Great to help out testing this game

Yep strange game playing as a cat in two modes a stride mode but some could love the cat mode to move to. you can play a infinity mode where you jump around islands to level up but for the real striders there also the real red flowers part as a time trial find the table and place your pawn on the table to go to a secret place of the older days

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Disappointing

Catana seems like it doesn't know what it's trying to be. The cutesy vibrant style clashes with the blood and gore of killing, but then you are unable to actually harm the characters in the village. Between the mobile endless runner gameplay and the food service prep it feels like two unrelated and unpolished janky games awkwardly combined. There are only about 10 actually curated levels most of which last a matter of seconds. Things often feel frustratingly glitchy and unreliable such as the dash attack, grappling, and wall running. This could have been a great game but it needs more work and to be taken in a better direction than just chasing trends.

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Great Action + Funny Cooking Experience!

Catana: Red Flowers is a wild Mix of 2 very different Games. First you got a Katana-Parkour-Speedrun-Game, very similiar to Flat-Games like Ghostrunner. Theres multiple Stages to beat. You also get an Endless Mode, with Leaderboards and all. This whole Ghostrunner-like Side of the Game is an absolute Blast. And don't be fooled by the cute Artstyle, as this Gamemode got endless Gore, as you can slice Enemies in Half and such, very much in Contrast to the other Game-Mode. The Movement is fun, fluid and engaging, the Visuals are sharp and Performance is smooth. I just wished there were more Levels, as you can beat them very quickly. Maybe a future DLC can add some more. Would be highly appreciated. On the other Side of the Game you get a Restaurant-Cooking-Game, where you prepare Meals and serve them to hungry Customers. Its well made, has good Animations and funny Interactions. But i gotta say, it's an odd Choice to put those two vastly different Games into One Package. Maybe the Dev should've released them seperated, but as the Price of this Game is so low, i can't complain at all. So whether you like Action Games like Stride or Ghostrunner, or are a Fan of Restaurant-Games that don't take themselves too serious, i'd highly recommend this little Gem, especiallyfor that amazing Price!

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Good game but

I like the game but can you add more combat things in it. There is only endless mode and 1 world which is quite short.

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