History VideoGame / GatoRoboto

* ADogNamedPerro: Does this in the title via GratuitousSpanish. To nobody's surprise, you play as a cat in a robot suit.

''Gato Roboto'' is a {{Retraux}} {{Metroidvania}} game, developed by Doinksoft, published by Creator/DevolverDigital and released on May 30th, 2019 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

** The palette names reference the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy, ''Film/TheMatrix'', Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}...

* AmbiguousEnding: In the end, [[spoiler:the final boss, Otto, having transferred his consciousness from a rat into Gary, and then fights you in this new body, first in a mech, and then just by shooting you with Gary's blasters. Afterwards, he ultimately defeats Kiki in a cutscene and is about to transfer her consciousness into his ill dog Barkley, and vice-versa. However, the computer asks for a password, and this gives Kiki the opportunity to say it instead of Otto. Barkley is lowered down, but then breaks out of the tube and goes for Otto!Gary's throat, and then he and Kiki go into the spaceship together and fly off. It's heavily implied that Kiki was able to transfer Gary's consciousness into Barkley when she gave commands, but since both of them could only communicate in meows and barks, it's not clear, and could just be that Barkley turned against Otto's plan on his own.]]
** TheStinger implies that [[spoiler: Barkley was always himself, but Gary's consciousness survived in Otto's old mouse body, and he snuck onto the ship in this form, and winks at the camera. If you find the mouse in the PlayableEpilogue he will even call Kiki "Good kitty!" before correcting himself and saying "I mean, Squeak."]]

* BittersweetEnding: Kiki defeats [[spoiler:Otto]] and escapes, but [[spoiler:her new friend Barkley is still terminally ill, and Gary is in the body of a mouse, which will probably not live very long.]] Not to mention poor Rebbi gets left behind!

* DramaticIrony: Gary seems to hate mice and rats much ''more'' than Kiki: the battles with unnamed rodent bosses often begin with them behaving rather affably at first, and while Kiki only meows in response, her expressions are also friendly or amused rather than aggressive, but then Gary invariably comes in through the comm link and gives the order to "exterminate"!
** Then, [[spoiler: TheStinger seems to imply that Gary survived...by being stuck in Otto's old rat body.]]
** One ApocalypticLog in the Vents hints that this happened to Dr. Heinrich's assistant: [[spoiler:he remarks that Dr. Rebecca Brown is both allergic to amphibians and, because of that, hesitant to continue helping his experiment involving swapping a rat's mind with a frog's; in the present, she is the sentient frog that keeps sneezing and offers to upgrade Kiki's guns, likely to get revenge on Dr. Heinrich.]].

* PlatformBattle: In the first part of the Heater Core boss, your space is limited to two platforms above a pit of lava, while the mouse's mech is half-submerged in the lava below and attacks with its robot arms.
** However, the lava is drained halfway through, but the platforms simultaneously collapse as well, forcing you to fight on the level's floor, as the mouse's mech extends legs and becomes a SpiderTank.

* AmbiguousEnding: In the end, [[spoiler:the final boss, Otto, transferred his consciousness from a rat into Gary, and then fights you in this new body, first in a mech, and then just by shooting you with Gary's blasters. Afterwards, he ultimately defeats Kiki in a cutscene and is about to transfer her consciousness into his ill dog Barkley, and vice-versa. However, the computer asks for a password, and this gives Kiki the opportunity to say it instead of Otto. Barkley is lowered down, but then breaks out of the tube and goes for Otto!Gary's throat, and then he and Kiki go into the spaceship together and fly off. It's heavily implied that Kiki was able to transfer Gary's consciousness into Barkley when she gave commands, but since both of them could only communicate in meows and barks, it's not clear, and could just be that Barkley turned against Otto's plan on his own.]]

* AmbiguousEnding: In the end, [[spoiler: The final boss, Otto, transferred his consciousness from a rat into Gary, and then fights you in this new body, first in a mech, and then just by shooting you with Gary's blasters. Afterwards, he ultimately defeats Kiki in a cutscene and is about to transfer her consciousness into his ill dog Barkley, and vice-versa. However, the computer asks for a password, and this gives Kiki the opportunity to say it instead of Otto. Barkley is lowered down, but then breaks out of the tube and goes for Otto!Gary's throat, and then he and Kiki go into the spaceship together and fly off. It's heavily implied that Kiki was able to transfer Gary's consciousness into Barkley when she gave commands, but since both of them could only communicate in meows and barks, it's not clear, and could just be that Barkley turned against Otto's plan on his own.]]