I and Me (Nintendo Switch) Review

With no tutorials needed, the game kicks off with the two cats sitting on the stage. Learning how to navigate these two is pretty easy and simple. When one cat moves right, the other cat also moves right at the same time. When there's a gap, they both must jump over it at the same time, so timing is everything. Where it gets tricky is when the cats are placed on two different platforms, and one cat must make a specific jump while the other cat is beneath a set of spikes that lead to dying. The kicker is both cats must survive and make it to the stages end, which are two wooden holes for the cats to peek through.

While it all sounds really tricky and is something that can quickly spiral out control, the reality is that I and Me really never raises the gauge on the difficulty metre. It is a pretty easy game that throws up mild challenges that may take a few more minutes to solve. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing though, as this is a great-looking game with a nice and soothing orchestral backing track. However those looking for a challenging puzzler won’t find anything of value here. To make matters a little easier, the game provides ‘Hints’ that show how to complete two-thirds of the stage, which more often than not also solves the puzzle as well, save for reaching the final holes for the cats. These ‘Hints’ rarely need to be touched on, though, as again, the puzzles are quite easy to figure out without them - although for the younger generation of gamers, the Hints will be a handy tool to utilise.

There are 90 stages that are spread out into the four different seasons. Each season introduces a new game mechanic that the cats must use to solve the puzzles, and figuring out how to use them is entirely up to trial and error. These mechanics do add fun to the mix, and sometimes increase the challenges of the puzzles, such as the one magic wand which reverses the movements of the cat that touches it. Figuring out to control two cats, which move in the opposite direction at the same time, is as tricky as the game really gets, but again, it's nothing the Hints cannot easily solve.

Parchments are found in some of the stages, and finding them adds a little more narrative detail to the overarching theme of the story being told. However, to say that these help shed further light on what is actually going on is an overstatement. To further aggravate the narration aspect, is the style of font used. The cursive style makes reading them a nightmare sometimes, and considering that every single stage begins with a line of the narration, just hurts the story that is trying to be told.