Catgirl Without Salad: Amuse-Bouche

Catgirl Without Salad: Amuse-Bouche is a multi genre 2D shooter video game about Kebako, a Catgirl in space. Accompanied by her robotic squid companion Squiddie serving as Mission Control, she progresses through several stages and faces off against their bosses at the end.

Catgirl Without Salad is a April Fools joke by Way Forward Technologies, with the concept first being realized into an actual game in June 2016 and released as a Humble Monthly Bundle. The game later saw a release for the Nintendo Switch. The game features a soundtrack by Jake Kaufman.

It can be bought on the Humble Bundle store here or from the Nintendo eShop here.

Tropes used in Catgirl Without Salad: Amuse-Bouche include:
  • Anime Hair: Kebako and Chefinoff have anime hair.
  • Arm Cannon: Kebako has one styled like a Gatling gun.
  • Catgirl: Kebako is the titular catgirl.
  • Expy: Chefinoff clearly draws a lot from Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII, while having his own culinary motifs.
  • Gameplay Roulette: The central gimmick is that the genre of gameplay mixed with the 2D shooter is variable depending on power ups.
  • Mission Control: Squiddie serves this role.
  • Space Opera: A story told in space where tech severs an aesthetic role for the story.
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: Chefinoff's theme is distinct from One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy VII, yet evokes it clearly.
  • Word Salad Title: The title is Catgirl Without Salad: Amuse-Bouche. While each bit is meaningful, Kebako being a catgirl that doesn’t like salad and the game just being a small project, it hardly is descriptive to someone unfamiliar with the game.
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Kebako has pink hair.
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