Kaz

PC My cursor keys are weeping. They’ve taken such a hammering over the last week, as I’ve blasted my way through splendid little arcade game Kaz (from Kalinarm, the team that brought us the incredible Linkito). The deceptively simple-sounding concept of moving a character around a small field of tiles with your cursors (or WASD) to hit monsters and avoid traps unfurls into an incredibly tactical sprawl of dozens of characters, special moves, upgrades and even cursor-cast spells. The frenetic action is always about chasing a high score, while hitting goals to unlock coins to buy yet more ways to play. And every aspect of this is gorgeously, explosively presented with so much variety in art, sound and music. Things of course begin reasonably simply. You have one character, Kaz herself, and a grid of four tiles in which to rapidly fling yourself around. Enemies appear in three different forms – regular, shielded, and fugitives – and are “attacked” by moving into their tile. Regular and…