Chat Noir Review

Have a 5 minutes spare time and you feel like you want to play a game?
Enter Chat Noir.

This Japanese-made game is a simple puzzle with adequate animation. Any people can see what to do in this game straight away.

The objective is to trap the black cat by clicking on the light green circles. Any circle you click will turn into a wall (dark green) that the cat cannot pass. After your turn, the cat will take its turn by moving one step. When the cat escapes from the playing field, you lose. So, you must be careful in thinking about the steps to take next.

If you succeed in trapping the cat such that the cat cannot go anywhere, you win. You will see something that is both surprising and annoying.

Chat Noir is made using Flash and playable on the Web. It has no difficulty settings and there is only one stage. This is supposedly intended by the game creator, "GAME DESIGN Limited" (有限会社ゲームデザイン), as the name implies, to showcase different game ideas without putting attention to the length of the game or superfluous graphics and sound effects. Other games can be played from their site, http://gamedesign.co.jp/.