Little Kitty, Big City is a game by Double Dagger Studio. It was released on 9th May 2024 on consoles and PC.
Prerelease material includes the first teaser trailer
, Kinda Funny Games Showcase GDC Stream 2023, and the playable demo on Steam.
Little Tropes, Big Page:
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the demo, after giving the Tanuki the feathers to open the first Petwork portal, she will speak directly to the player to tell you that using this portal will end the demo.
- Cats Hate Water: Puddles are insurmountable obstacles, as the kitty will leap back with a hiss the moment they get their paws wet.
- Character in the Logo: The logo has the words "Big City" in 3D block letters with the kitty sitting on top of the "Y".
- Cute Kitten: The central selling point of the game as promoted in all the trailers is getting to play as a cute and curious little kitty lost in the big city, running around and being cute while you find your way back home.
- Falling into the Plot: The opening cutscene shows how the little kitty gets lost in the big city — it was napping on the roof outside its home, and slipped off the edge by accident.
- Fun with Acronyms: In the demo, the crow tells the kitty that "demo" stands for Definitely Exciting Media Opportunity.
- Holler Button: There's button to press to make the kitty meow, which can get attention from various NPCs.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: The kitty is an ordinary kitty who clearly has no containers on hand, yet it starts several Collection Sidequests. Lampshaded by the Tanuki, who says she smells that the kitty is carrying feathers — "Although goodness knows where you're keeping them."
- Insurmountable Waist-High Fence: Kitty cannot walk through puddles, jumping back with a hiss the moment their paws get wet.
- Invisible Wall: There are a few blocked-off passages in the demo that seem like they could be unlocked later, but getting the camera right up to them shows a barrier of 🚫 signs, indicating that they at least won't be unlocked during the demo.
- Match Cut: The first teaser trailer ends with the kitty glancing at the camera and a circular wipe to the game logo, which features the kitty in the exact same position and pose.
- No Name Given: The little kitty isn't named when the game starts. The player gets to decide the kitty's name after climbing back up home and getting the kitty's collar from their human, which is implied to have been their name all along.
- Not Zilla: Tanuki is a fan of an in-universe cartoon character named Gecku, who is very specifically a big gecko exposed to nuclear radiation, and not a weird sea monster. There are rare misprinted medallions that make it look like the latter, you see.
- Plot Detour: The first teaser trailer opens by saying that the kitty's "main" goal will be to find its way back home... the rest of the trailer makes it clear that the kitty will be spending most of the game doing anything but that.You're a little kitty, LOST in the big city, and you need to find your way home. URGENTLY. VERY URGENTLY. SUPER DUPER URGENTLY....Please? Oh, for the love of
You're a little kitty, LOST in the big city, and you need to find your way home. Eventually. - [Popular Saying], But...: A crow in the trailer declares that "Curiosity never hurt anyone. Especially not a cat!"
- Portal Network: The Tanuki has invented the "Petwork", a network of portals made by using feather magic on sewer access holes. The first portal only goes to the next room over, but after proving it works (and that you need a portal back) the Tanuki gets to work making some more of them.
- Rhyming Title: Little Kitty, Big City
- Shout-Out: The Turtle Hat's description is "Now, WHY do I suddenly want to race go-karts with a plumber in red overalls?!"
- Verbal Backspace: The first teaser trailer opens by saying that the kitty needs to get home "URGENTLY", only to repeatedly revise this statement as the kitty takes its sweet time with that objective. A cursor moves back and forth over the line "URGENTLY", adding and deleting text as needed.URGENTLY.
VERY URGENTLY.
SUPER DUPER URGENTLY.
URGENTLY....Please? - Video Game Cruelty Potential: The kitty is able to trip humans and steal their things. While there are gameplay reasons to do this (stolen bread can be used as bait for birds, and one quest requires stealing a phone), you can also just do it for funsies.
- Worm in an Apple: Referenced in the description of the Apple Hat, which says "Better to find a kitty in your apple than a worm".
