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A brief review:  The Cat Lady

A high quality, award-winning adventure-horror game which has gone pretty 
much unmentioned except on adventure sites:  That's my summary.  I'm not an 
adventure gamer either, but picked it up when GOG added it to their catalog 
in April, and have come back to it more and more often since then.

I think this speaks to tcl's quality, that even after the initial shock of 
the primitive AGS engine, the stark color palette (one forum poster 
described it as 'chiascuro'), the blaring poorly-balanced music, and 
downbeat theme, I kept coming back to find out more of this 
suicidal-depressive old maid's story.

The writing and superb voice-acting for the two main characters are the real 
stars here, and going through the occasionally fairly deep dialogue trees 
was not tedious or disappointing.  It's great interactive story-telling, and 
I wanted to help this lady tell her story, and find out how it ended.  The 
gameplay is partitioned into short 1 or 2 hour-long chapters, with simple 
puzzles, that make it easy to progress through.

Be aware there are multiple endings (none of which are really 'bad'), 
depending on how caring and empathetic your character is to other 
characters.  Which is a great thing to see in a game!  The 'best' ending, 
which I didn't get, depends on multiple factors which you'll discover for 
yourself, but watch out for a 'green sanity meter' section.  You'll have to 
get a perfect score there to have a chance at the 'best' ending.

So:  A wonderful game that I think many would love to experience.  The Cat 
Lady is Highly recommended!