{"id":4017,"date":"2022-07-25T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/25\/thanks-to-a-modder-the-cat-in-stray-now-hates-mondays-and-loves-lasagna\/"},"modified":"2022-07-25T22:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:15:08","slug":"thanks-to-a-modder-the-cat-in-stray-now-hates-mondays-and-loves-lasagna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/25\/thanks-to-a-modder-the-cat-in-stray-now-hates-mondays-and-loves-lasagna\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to a modder, the cat in Stray now hates Mondays and loves lasagna"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Moody cat adventure game’ should have been a genre for decades already, but somehow Stray<\/a>‘s housecat protagonist feels novel, and players already want more cat options. Modders have answered that call<\/a>, turning Stray’s orange tabby into all kinds of alternative cats: black cats, gray cats, calico cats, lasagna cats. Yes, you can now play Stray as Garfield.<\/p>\n

Modder Chris Rubino is responsible for putting the Jim Davis cartoon cat into Stray with the “Garfield – Cartoon Edition” mod, which can be downloaded at NexusMods<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mod Garfield looks somewhat like the 3D animated movie version of Garfield, but it’s not a perfect resemblance, and the movie version itself wasn’t a great take on Garfield’s classic cartoon look (two orange spheres with arms and legs). It’s enough to be recognizable as Garfield, though. A different Garfield mod<\/a> just puts a regular-looking striped orange cat into the game, which doesn’t cut it for me.<\/p>\n

Granted, I’m not sure why you’d want to play Stray as a convincing Garfield. He’s beloved for both real and ironic reasons, but imagining that your cat protagonist has opinions about Mondays, spiders, and bathroom scales would probably deflate Stray’s cyberpunk tension a bit.<\/p>\n

I legitimately loved Garfield growing up and still do, and not even ironically. Evidence: I own and recently wore a Garfield sweater (like, a couple days ago, on a date), and Garfield follows me on Twitter, I guess because the Garfield social media manager sensed that one day I might want to mention it as a way to establish my Garfield cred. And even I don’t want to play Stray as Garfield.<\/p>\n

I’ll be damned if I don’t respect Rubino for doing what had to be done, though. If a Garfield mod for Stray didn’t<\/em> exist, it’d be reasonable to wonder if you’d slid into a parallel dimension where things are just slightly different. Say, a universe where Garfield isn’t internet irony royalty and I believed that dogs are better than cats<\/a>. We should all be thankful for the sign of timeline continuity.<\/p>\n

If you like the idea of modifying Stray’s cat, but not into one that hates Nermal, there are a bunch of normal cat mods for Stray on Nexus<\/a>, too.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[#item_image]Thanks to a modder, the cat in Stray now hates Mondays and loves lasagna<\/p>\n

‘Moody cat adventure game’ should have been a genre for decades already, but somehow Stray<\/a>‘s housecat protagonist feels novel, and players already want more cat options. Modders have answered that call<\/a>, turning Stray’s orange tabby into all kinds of alternative cats: black cats, gray cats, calico cats, lasagna cats. Yes, you can now play Stray as Garfield.<\/p>\n

Modder Chris Rubino is responsible for putting the Jim Davis cartoon cat into Stray with the “Garfield – Cartoon Edition” mod, which can be downloaded at NexusMods<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mod Garfield looks somewhat like the 3D animated movie version of Garfield, but it’s not a perfect resemblance, and the movie version itself wasn’t a great take on Garfield’s classic cartoon look (two orange spheres with arms and legs). It’s enough to be recognizable as Garfield, though. A different Garfield mod<\/a> just puts a regular-looking striped orange cat into the game, which doesn’t cut it for me.<\/p>\n

Granted, I’m not sure why you’d want to play Stray as a convincing Garfield. He’s beloved for both real and ironic reasons, but imagining that your cat protagonist has opinions about Mondays, spiders, and bathroom scales would probably deflate Stray’s cyberpunk tension a bit.<\/p>\n

I legitimately loved Garfield growing up and still do, and not even ironically. Evidence: I own and recently wore a Garfield sweater (like, a couple days ago, on a date), and Garfield follows me on Twitter, I guess because the Garfield social media manager sensed that one day I might want to mention it as a way to establish my Garfield cred. And even I don’t want to play Stray as Garfield.<\/p>\n

I’ll be damned if I don’t respect Rubino for doing what had to be done, though. If a Garfield mod for Stray didn’t<\/em> exist, it’d be reasonable to wonder if you’d slid into a parallel dimension where things are just slightly different. Say, a universe where Garfield isn’t internet irony royalty and I believed that dogs are better than cats<\/a>. We should all be thankful for the sign of timeline continuity.<\/p>\n

If you like the idea of modifying Stray’s cat, but not into one that hates Nermal, there are a bunch of normal cat mods for Stray on Nexus<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

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