I honestly was expecting this to be a crappy wiiware game to tie-in with let's tap, seeing as the games have cross-save compatibility, but I was actually rather pleasantly surprised by this game. This game consists of you playing catch with various characters. That's it. The gameplay loop involves you flickin the wiimote to throw and timing an A and B press to catch properly. There's actually an amount of focus you have to put into the game to score well, as you only have a limited number of throws that can be expanded by perfectly timing your button press or perfectly throwing the ball to your partner, so it's not an entirely braindead game despite the extremely basic premise. However, the actual core gameplay loop is not at all whatsoever where the substance of this game lies. Catch is a social game played with another person, so each of the various characters has things to say to you about their life as you play, and each character has their own unique woes that I genuinely got invested in, and the game doesn't shy away from more heavy topics such as dealing with loss or heartbreak. Considering the fact that this is a wiiware title, there's not really any way to legitimately play this anymore, but if you know how to load it on your wii regardless, I'd definitely suggest giving this a try. I mostly played this due to the co-relation to its sister game, let's tap, and honestly this game has significantly more heart put into it than that to the point where I'd say it's personally completely overshadowed it, which is funny considering this is the budget wiiware game and not the retail physical game.

Reviewed on Mar 11, 2023


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