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Or something like that, base꧋d on what Cronos co-director Wojciech Piejko told GamesRadar+ during a recent interview at GDC 2025.

"We've got cats in the game; you can pet them," Piejko said ab𝄹out Cronos, what so far seems to be a retrofuturist Dead Space starring a masked time traveler. "They are serving as collectibles."

I'd say that collectible, fluffy cats are a tonal contrast to the pale, writhing, tentacled alien skin 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a new gameplay trailer reveals you'll need to keep f🉐rom merging into one, big, multi-limbed enemy sack… but, you know, I bet cats at the end of time would eat anything.

And here's another cute detail: "all the cats are based on the real cats that belong to our cr꧟ew," Piejko said. "There was like a casting for cats – people were sendi൩ng photos and names."

I'm sure the opportunity to be featured in Cronos spread like sandy kitty litter among the cat community; our feline friends have likely been looking for a PR reset ever since 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the Cats movie suggested them 🌼to be unfeeling, g𝓡luttonous space creatures in 2019.

Obviously, they're actually unfeeling, Eastern European angels – a categorization I, since my mother's from Bulgaria, can empathize with. It's a tough job, being an angel on Earth. It ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrequires a lot of lounging in the sun and running after laser pointers, and sometimes, there just aren't enough hours in the day.

But someone's got𒀰ta do it🔴. And it sounds like Cronos' cats do it with a smile – or, uh, a meow – as Piejko said they "add something like a mild comedy, let's say, and the human touch to our character."

Can you ima♋gine it? Cats humanizing people, and people popping bullets into monster torsos. It's practically paradise.

Cronos: The New Dawn co-directors talk merging abominations, Resident Evil, Dark Souls, and Netflix's Dark of all things: "We've got a deep psychological story to tell."