Garfield: Escape From Monday is a 3D platformer romp that does for the furry feline, what The Smurfs: Dreams did for gaming in 2024, across three worlds and approx 40 levels.
There’s lots of pieces of cheese to collect on each level, as well as big pieces of lasagne – Garfield’s favourite food – which is the equivalent of the mini mushrooms from the aftermentioned Smurfs title.
While you get hassled by Chef Monday, Garfield is also visited by Jon – although neither sound like I remember them in the TV cartoons, though. Sure, voice artists will change over time, but it would’ve been better to get someone closer to him. Of course, Bill Murray would’ve been even better, but probably would be very expensive.
Garfield: Escape From Monday is very colourful and gorgeous to look at – and is a very enjoyable experience; and it’s a fun game but not a quick escapade. However, it is fun and not too difficult, so even though some levels do get quite twisty turny, you’re never too far from where you’re meant to go.
One major snag is that it can be confusing in the 3D space when you’re jumping from one floating/disappearing platform after another, and you can’t 100% judge where your destination is, especially as it’s several on the bounce.
Still, this is effectively Smurfs Dreams but with Garfield. I loved that 2024 game, and this has had the same care and love and attention spent on it.
Garfield: Escape From Monday is out now on PC/Steam, plus PS5 and Nintendo Switch, and digitally for Xbox.
Important info:
- Developer: Microids
- Publisher: Microids
- Players: Single-player
PC specs:
- CPU: AMD RYZEN 9 7950X3D
- Motherboard: MSI MPG X670E CARBON WIFI AMD X670 S AM5 DDR5 PCIe 5.0 4x M.2 2.5GbE AMD EXPO™ ATX
- RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair DDR5 Vengeance RGB PC5-44800 (5600Mhz)
- Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX NITRO+ 24GB GDDR6 Ray-Tracing RDNA3 6144 Streams
- 1st Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2 (2280) PCIe 4.0 (x4) NVMe SSD TLC V-NAND 7450MB/s Read 6900MB/s
- 2nd Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5” SSD SATA III 6Gb/s MJX MLC V-NAND 2GB Cache Read 560MB/s Write 530MB/s 98k/88k IOPS
- 3rd Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5” SSD SATA III 6Gb/s MJX MLC V-NAND 2GB Cache Read 560MB/s Write 530MB/s 98k/88k IOPS
- 4th Storage Drive: Seagate IronWolf Pro 14TB NAS 3.5″ SATA HDD/Hard Drive
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