For once, I'm hoping they'd do the same here and pick up The Cat and the Coup's aesthetically pleasing frankness and make it common place. " - Matt Reed Reviews on the Run (click link on right) "8 out of 10" - Steve Tilley and Raju Mudhar Gamezone "The way in which The Cat and the Coup presents its historical tale is riveting." - David Sanchez Gamasutra "The video game industry is, right now, inunduated by trends and developers who find the unceasing need to be exactly like everyone else. The Cat and the Coup tells the story in a personal way. " - John Downder Pixelitis "The game’s strongest asset is the narrow sense of tragedy it evokes. I do, however, remember the images and Mossadegh himself.the mood and the tone, the oil dripping, and the confused way Mossadegh stumbled through his fall." - Emily Bembeneck Indie Games "It's really lovely stuff, with gorgeous art and a very fitting soundtrack." - Michael Rose Whatculture! "The Cat The The Coup is easily one of the most creative games I have played. Things, perhaps, that cats know best." - Holly Willis PC Gamer “.free, fun and beautiful documentary game about a CIA-funded coup" - Graham Smith Play The Past ".days after playing it, I may not remember all the exact dates and names. Ep #2 "Is this a game? Is it a documentary about the first Prime Minister of Iran? Is it an acid trip? Or is it just a story about a cat?" Radio Free Europe " only complaint? 'The fact that when it finally pulls you in, it ends.' Rather like Mossadegh's career." - Kristin Deasy The Best Computer Games Magazine (Russian) DIYgamer "The look, based on 13th-16th century Persian miniatures, is stunning." - Erik Johnson KCET “On one level, the game is about a historical moment but it is also about something far more complex, namely perspective, impossible spaces, and manipulation. It knows you’re a grown-up and it knows you’re a gamer, and it treats both those things equally seriously." - Alec Meer GEE Magazine (German) ".like Monthy Python being dropped in a bowl full of persian kitsch." - Jan Fischer ARTillery Magazine "Naughty Kitty!" - Scarlet Cheng Penny Arcade - Games You Might Not Have Tried. " - Brian Howe Rock, Paper, Shotgun "It’s beautiful, it’s moving, it’s frightening, it’s metaphysical, it’s allegorical, it’s mechanically as well as intellectually clever. Mahdi Fanaei Technologies of History ".a metaphor for the uncertainty of historical outcomes, but as a cat, the player is assured of landing on his or her feet, unlike Mossadegh." - Steve Anderson Newsgames "A harbinger of some future symbolic political game-perhaps the truest conversion of the political cartoon to game form." - Brian Hertler Indie Game Reviewer "Despite the imagery’s perspectival flatness, the actual experience of the visual scope is labyrinthine." - Tanya Kan Killscreen "One has to wonder whose idea of a documentary it is, outside of Luis Buñuel. English below.) "There is a question here How does a country allow its researchers to create such a game to criticize its own policy. THE CAT AND THE COUP main sources credits Reviews GameemaG.ir (Persian version.
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