Mewgenics Gets Japanese Support As McMillen And Glaiel Bring Cats To Battle
Mewgenics arrives in Japanese with two names attached to The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy, and the piece frames the pitch as a counter to the long-running image of cats as fickle and aloof.
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Mewgenics, the cat breeding and combat strategy RPG from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel, now has official Japanese support and has begun distribution for overseas consoles. The game casts the player as a Cat Lady resurrected by a cat-possessed scientist, Thomas A. Beanees, in the rural town of Boon County, gathering, raising, and battling cats for his experiments. It opens by asking the player to pick two of three cats.
The opening asks the player to choose two cats out of three, then kills one off. That is the tone Mewgenics runs on: a strategy RPG set in Boon County, a desolate rural American town, where a mad scientist named Thomas A. Beanees, possessed by cats, resurrects the player as a Cat Lady to gather, breed, and battle cats for experiments.
Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel built it as a two-person project. McMillen's earlier work, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Super Meat Boy, carries a philosophy that the piece argues is visible throughout Mewgenics. Officially Japanese-supported, it has also started distribution for overseas consoles.
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