Cat Piano

Genre: Music Creation Application

Players: 1

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Review:

Cat Piano is a Music Creation Application released on Nintendo Switch in 2024. In this game, players use the Nintendo Switch’s touchscreen or assigned buttons on the gamepad to play notes on a piano, or switch to corresponding cat sounds.

Well, I say “cat sounds”, but really it’s more like a woman saying “meow” pitched to correspond to different music notes. But I suppose the young children this game is targeted at aren’t likely to care much about the difference. These sounds are joined by cartoony, simple representations of cats in various background images, along with the cartoony representation of the piano keys themselves.

Now, as I said in my review of the similar Piano application on Nintendo Switch, the Nintendo Switch isn’t really the best way to simulate playing an actual piano. There’s just no practical way to fit that many keys on one screen, and this game doesn’t try, instead giving you one scale to play, including both white and black keys (something that other Application didn’t include). So if you’re hoping your young one will learn how to play piano from this piece of software, you’ll be disappointed.

Unfortunately, there are other ways Cat Piano could have added value and content, that this application sadly fails to do. There’s no way to record your music, no simple fair use songs the game can play on the keyboard to teach young kids about music notes (Old Macdonald, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, This Old Man, you get the idea), no way to change the piano’s “voice” to more than just the two included (piano and cat).

I suppose, if you know what you’re getting into, Cat Piano may still interest you. Yes, this does let you play a simplified piano, and there’s plenty of cats. But this is such a bare-bones Application that there’s little depth or joy to discover here.

tl;dr – Cat Piano is an Application where you use the touchscreen or gamepad to play an on-screen piano, with cats in the background and you can even play the piano with “meows” instead of standard piano notes. Unfortunately, that’s all there is here, and there’s nothing else in the way of features or options. I suppose this does do the absolute minimum of what you’d expect from such an Application, but it doesn’t do anything more than that.

Grade: D

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