Stray's setup is beautifully minimal and lets you simply enjoy napping and wandering around with your cat crew (family? friends?). Even though where you can jump is scripted, it's still really fun to wander around and see the remains of the world. Then, of course you fall and become separated from your crew, and the game really has an opportunity to get great.

Unfortunately, I think with the addition of the robots (which in turn adds the story of the humans), you get very far away from a game that could have been a Milo and Otis style lost-and-found story, with no dialogue, text, or really any story at all needed. The world would have told it's own story, and it's obvious from the opening that they can get you to care about the cats without them doing quests for robots abandoned by humans.

The fact that the game never gets you back to your crew even after all the detours is borderline criminal. I thought for SURE I would find them at the end. That was the saddest part of the game.

I won't say I didn't have fun, but the promise outweighs the delivered product. In some other universe there is a Team Ico version of this game that is incredible.